Letter to Bahrain's Ministry of Human Rights and Social Development Regarding Travel Restrictions

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, would like to thank you for your 28 February 2012 letters and your offer of assistance with arranging our upcoming visits to the Kingdom of Bahrain. At the same time, we must object to the conditions placed on our visits, in particular the extremely short timeframe. The five-business-day limit appears to be arbitrary and will greatly impede our ability to monitor and research human rights developments. * Note: On February 28, 2012, Bahrain's Ministry of Human Rights and Social Development informed Human Rights…

Read complete article

~	Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’

~	Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms

~	Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?

~	What Honda’s big electric vehicle announcement in Ontario really means

~	Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?

~	What is allyship? A brief history, present and future

~	Postcolonial prophet or advocate of ‘barbaric justice’? A new take on the life and times of influential revolutionary writer Frantz Fanon

~	Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system

~	Why cheap renewables are stalling

~	The brain might also have a microbiome – what you need to know