By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Tel Abyad border crossing in northern Raqqa, Syria, pictured on October 6, 2022. © 2022 Bakr Alkasm/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Turkish authorities are deporting or otherwise pressuring thousands of Syrians to leave the country to Tel Abyad, a remote Turkish-occupied district of northern Syria where humanitarian conditions are dire, Human Rights Watch said today. Between January and June 2023, the Tel Abyad border crossing administration published monthly or daily numbers of Syrian returnees on its Facebook page, labeling all as voluntary. An analysis of…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image © 2024 Rebecca Hendin for Human Rights Watch A Michigan law that requires a young person to obtain parental consent to have an abortion threatens the health and safety of youth in the state and violates their human rights. In some cases, disclosing a pregnancy to a parent will result in abuse or being forced to leave home or continue the pregnancy, and judicial bypass can be subjective and cause delays. Michigan’s forced parental consent for abortion law should be immediately repealed to ensure young people’s safety and dignity. (New York) – A Michigan law that requires…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mali’s Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a joint press conference following talks in Moscow, February 28, 2024. © 2024 MAXIM SHIPENKOV/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Malian armed forces and Wagner Group foreign fighters unlawfully killed and summarily executed several dozen civilians in counterinsurgency operations in Mali’s central and northern regions since December. Mali’s Russia-backed transitional military government is committing horrific abuses and is leaving the regional group that could provide scrutiny into…
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By Arosha Weerakoon, Senior Lecturer and General Dentist, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland
People once used tooth powders made from crushed bone or shells to whiten their teeth. Others rinsed their mouth out with pee. Yuck!
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By Amelia Dale, Lecturer in English, Australian National University
Writers have long rhapsodised about real estate – or the difficulty acquiring it – but contemporary authors are asking awkward questions about the inequities of our property obsession.
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By Mark John Costello, Professor, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University
Marine protection represents our best strategy to reverse declining biodiversity. But protected areas also provide a low-tech and cost-effective way for the fishing industry to safeguard stocks.
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By Robyn J. Whitaker, Director of the Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy & Associate Professor, New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity
Like a lot of things that happen at this time of year, the Stations of the Cross is a ritual – and an important one to many.
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By Panizza Allmark, Professor Visual & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University
You’d be surprised by how many of your favourite hits are about God or Jesus in one way or another.
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By Clare Dix, Research Fellow in Nutrition & Dietetics, The University of Queensland Helen Truby, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland Stella Boyd-Ford, Research Fellow with the Grow&Go Toolbox, The University of Queensland
Easter is the time for chocolate. This can also make it very tricky for parents to manage their kids’ chocolate intake.
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By Brett Hallam, Associate professor, UNSW Sydney Fiacre Rougieux, Senior Lecturer, Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney
Solar SunShot is well named. The Australian government announced today it would plough A$1 billion into bringing back solar manufacturing to Australia, boosting energy security, swapping coal and gas jobs for those in the solar industry, and guarding against supply chain shocks and geopolitical tension. The announcement is big. At a stroke, the federal government is proposing to directly invest in manufacturing the main technology Australia will rely on to make its power. By 2050, solar should provide…
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