By Amnesty International
“On 15th April, the day fighting erupted in Khartoum, I was in Nairobi. I was supposed to travel to Khartoum, Sudan, on a Tuesday, but the war started on Saturday morning. Most of the Sudanese I know were expecting something to happen. There were a lot of indicators of war, but nobody thought that it […] The post Arif: “We want to give Sudanese people the information they need to build a better life.” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
“On the day the conflict began in Khartoum, 15 April 2023, I was at home. It was a weekend, and I had an appointment with a doctor downtown. When I left the apartment, I heard the shooting. I stopped everything, and I contacted my colleagues in other embassies and international organizations. They told me it’s […] The post Elaf: “We didn’t see this coming, we lost everything.” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Holod Media
For two years now, Alexander Gronsky has been documenting what Moscow looks like and how it lives during the war and how the war intrudes into the urban space.
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By Krystal Tolley, Principal Scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute
Graham Alexander, Professor of Herpetology, Environmental Physiology and Physiology, Ecology and Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand
Media reports about the biodiversity crisis and what researchers have argued qualifies as a mass extinction event tend to focus on the big ecological effects. Melting ice sheets, severe weather events, droughts, habitat loss and wildfires dominate headlines. So too do the plights of large iconic animals – orangutans, gorillas, polar bears, rhinos, elephants,…
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By Amnesty International
Memories of life before war in Sudan Its been one year of conflict in Sudan. The people of Sudan feel forgotten as their country falls into a rampant spiral of violence and suffering. Life for many people in the country is no longer the same. The post My Sudan appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters supporting marijuana reform at the 15th Marijuana March, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on June 17, 2023. © 2023 Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil (São Paulo) – Brazil’s Congress should reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would entrench the criminalization of drug possession for personal use. The Senate is expected to vote in the coming days on an amendment to article 5 of Brazil’s Constitution, which guarantees the right to privacy, that would restrict that right by criminalizing the possession of illegal drugs regardless of quantity. If approved,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Prisoners stand next to the tents in which they are housed at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad, Iraq, July 15, 2004. © 2004 Joe Raedle/Getty Images Twenty years have passed since the media broke the story that US forces and the CIA were torturing “war on terror” detainees at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq. But for the men who were tortured, it feels like only yesterday. The physical and mental scars they carry serve as daily reminders of the abuse they suffered. Still, several of these men told me they hold out hope that the US government will apologize…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, November 4, 2022. © 2022 Kay Nietfeld/AP Photo (Berlin) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz should stress the importance of human rights in the Sino-German relationship during his visit to China and meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Human Rights Watch said today. Scholz arrived in Beijing on April 13, 2024, and is expected to meet with Xi on April 16. “Chancellor Scholz should not play second fiddle to Germany’s narrow business interests, but should…
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By James Ogloff, University Distinguished Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science & Dean, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
The vast majority of people with mental illness pose no risk of violence to others. But is there a link between mental illness and violent crime?
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By Brendan Clift, Lecturer of law, The University of Melbourne
In one of the biggest legal sagas of recent times, Justice Michael Lee has delivered his verdict. What did he say?
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