By Human Rights Watch
.paragraph--id--11756 .pb-video { padding-bottom: 73.25%; } Click to expand Image People look out at a street in the Simon-Pele neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 22, 2025. © 2025 Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo (Washington, DC) – Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes, Human Rights Watch said today. The strikes, at least some of which appear to be deliberate extrajudicial killings, have been carried out with quadcopter drones armed with explosives in densely populated urban…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video shared online on January 29 and geolocated by Human Rights Watch showing at least 11 tank trucks burnt or still in flames on the road about seven kilometers south of Ambidédi village. Source: https://x.com/SalahMo73628462/status/2016965739027017797 (Nairobi) – An Al-Qaeda-linked armed group summarily executed ten long-haul truck drivers and two teenage apprentices in late January 2026 in southwestern Mali, Human Rights Watch said today. The killings, in an attack on a fuel convoy, are apparent war crimes.On January 29, the Group for the…
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By Human Rights Watch
Lawmakers in Ghana have reintroduced a draconian bill that jeopardizes the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. On February 17, the Ghanaian parliament formally received the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, also known as the anti-LGBT bill, marking the latest chapter in a prolonged legal and legislative process that started in 2021. Click to expand Image Queer rights activist Angel Maxine opposing the anti-LGBT bill in Accra, Ghana. © Angel Maxine Ghana’s parliament first passed a version of the bill in February 2024, but it expired without…
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By Amnesty International
Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink, said Amnesty International today. Amid Israel’s deliberate imposition of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinian women face compounded and […] The post Israel’s genocide in Gaza inflicts compounded harms on women and girls appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Cécile Yougbare, activist in Côte d’Ivoire: “I refuse to let women die from clandestine abortions when solutions exist” I am a human rights defender. I specialize in challenges related to women’s health because several factors, such as unsafe abortions, continue to cause preventable deaths among girls and women. For 20 years, both through my community and professional […] The post Three abortion rights defenders share their stories of hope appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Farah N. Jan, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
More than 20 years after the US military success in Iraq, the outcome of the US effort at regime change wasn’t as expected, and authoritarians with close ties to Iran now rule the country.
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By Misha Ketchell, Editor-in-chief & Executive Director, The Conversation
Professor Merlin Crossley AM has been appointed chair of The Conversation Media Group Board. Professor Crossley is a molecular biologist and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) Academic Quality at UNSW Sydney, having previously served as DVC Education, and as Dean of Science.
Professor Crossley replaces outgoing Chair, Professor Mark Scott AO, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
Professor Crossley has served on the Trust of the Australian Museum and the Board of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science. He has also held roles as Chair of UNSW Press, Deputy Chair of…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
News of the defections came as the government announced the deployment, in response to requests from the region, of an E-7A Wedgetail to the gulf.
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By Misia Temler, Research Affiliate, Psychology, University of Sydney
With so many artificial intelligence (AI) products on offer now, it’s increasingly tempting to offload difficult thinking tasks to chatbots, agents and other tools.
As we chart this new technological terrain, more and more we’re exposed to vast amounts of information and highly sophisticated software that offers to do the thinking for us. In just a few seconds, tools such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini can draft your emails, generate a caring birthday message for a friend, or even summarise the plot…
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By Grant Duncan, Research Associate, Public Policy Institute, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
The report will inevitably be politicised. But it serves a useful function by airing grievances that will reemerge during any future public-health emergency.
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