By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Sudanese refugee children from Darfur fly a handmade kite inside the Touloum refugee camp in Wadi Fira province, eastern Chad, November 30, 2025. © 2025 Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters Murder, rape, torture, slavery: children are targeted for these and other crimes against humanity that occur in widespread or systematic attacks on civilian populations. Crimes against humanity may damage children’s physical and psychosocial development even more severely than adults’ and cause harm throughout their lives. Unlike for war crimes and genocide, there is no dedicated international…
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By Beth Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
TV shows can be misleading when it comes to educating viewers on hands-only CPR, along with who experiences cardiac arrest and where.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An activist holds a computer keyboard and makeshift handcuffs in downtown Beirut on July 24, 2018, during a protest against a recent wave of prosecutions for peaceful speech. © 2018 ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Lebanon’s government should hold to account officials responsible for the January 2025 unlawful extradition of the Egyptian-Turkish poet Abdulrahman Youssef al-Qaradawi to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Human Rights Watch and MENA Rights Group said today. Al-Qaradawi remains arbitrarily detained there in near-incommunicado conditions. Lebanese…
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By Exile Hub
"We decided to present the resilience of female journalists across Myanmar who are working in war-torn areas, rather than focusing solely on our own story."
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A patient receives a reduced supply of medication for HIV treatment, following the cut of USAID funds for treatment programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, July 31, 2025. © 2025 Arlette Bashizi/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Conflict-related sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has escalated, while support to survivors has significantly dropped.The Rwanda-backed M23 and other armed groups and military forces are using sexual violence as a weapon of war, while survivors experience a climate of impunity that protects those responsible…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Climate activists hold signs during a press conference with House Democrats on COP30 and climate issues outside the US Capitol November 13, 2025. © 2025 Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images The Trump administration this week announced its intention to withdraw the United States from over 60 international organizations, conventions, and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN’s leading climate science body. The move comes amid a broader retreat…
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By Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
The interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, is consolidating her power and has signalled a willingness to work with the Trump administration.
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By Guangyi Pan, Lecturer in International Political Studies at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
Edward Sing Yue Chan, Postdoctoral Fellow in China Studies, Australian National University
Some Chinese scholars say a stable relationship does not necessarily mean a friendly one. Yet, most agree Australia is viewing ties with China more pragmatically.
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By Caitlin Macdonald, Doctor of Philosophy (English) / PhD graduate / Researcher, University of Sydney
Bri Lee’s Seed and Rose Michael’s Else approach our uncertain future from opposite directions – one considers refusing care, while the other is guided by it.
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By Penny Bailey, Lecturer in Japanese Studies, The University of Queensland
On January 10 1926, Yanagi Sōetsu and the potters Hamada Shōji and Kawai Kanjirō sat talking excitedly late into the night at a temple on Mt Kōya, in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture.
They were debating how best to honour the beauty of simple, everyday Japanese crafts. Out of that conversation came a new word, mingei, and a plan to found The Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo. Later, Yanagi would describe what emerged that night as “a new standard of beauty”.
A century on, Yanagi’s ideas feel strikingly…
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