By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov detained in Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024. © 2024 RFE/RL (Berlin, April 10, 2026) – Georgian authorities forcibly returned an exiled Azerbaijani journalist, Afgan Sadigov, to Azerbaijan, exposing him to a credible risk of politically motivated prosecution and ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities deported him without a meaningful assessment of these risks in proceedings that raise serious due process concerns. Their actions call into question the good faith of both governments with respect to their…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An activist with a rainbow flag at a protest against the results of the presidential elections, Minsk, Belarus, September 6, 2020. © 2020 STRINGER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Belarus’s parliament adopted a new law on April 2 banning “propaganda” of same-sex relationships, of “gender reassignment,” and even of “childlessness.” This furthers the legal and political alignment between Belarus and Russia,which both seek to stigmatize minority groups, control public discourse, and suppress dissent.“Propaganda” is vaguely defined in the law as the dissemination of “appealing”…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Kamonsak Leewamoh, a Muslim member of parliament and human rights lawyer, Thailand, December 2025. © 2025 Private (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should urgently, thoroughly, and impartially investigate the assassination attempt on Kamonsak Leewamoh, a Muslim member of parliament and prominent human rights lawyer, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 20, 2026, at about 1 a.m., gunmen in a pickup truck opened fire with M-16 assault rifles at Kamonsak’s minivan as he was arriving at his house in Narathiwat province’s Bacho district. Kamonsak was not hit, but…
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By Amnesty International
A draft United Nations (UN) resolution on climate change is seeking to turn the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on states’ obligations concerning the “urgent and existential threat” posed by climate change, into a roadmap for concrete action and accountability. Although non-binding, the landmark opinion issued by the world’s highest court in 2025 […] The post How Vanautu’s proposed UN climate change resolution may shift climate accountability for decades appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A picture taken on April 9, 2026 shows the aftermath of the previous day's Israeli airstrike that struck Qasmieh bridge, located on a main highway linking villages in the Tyre district of Lebanon with others farther north. © 2026 Kawnat HAJU / AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – More than 100 Israeli strikes across Lebanon on April 8, 2026, including in densely populated neighborhoods in Beirut, killed over 300 people and damaged the last main bridge linking southern Lebanon with the rest of the country, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli strikes making bridge…
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By Priyanka Dhopade, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
NASA’s Artemis II mission has revived lunar ambition – and a potential new race between nations. Very different visions now complicate the human future of space.
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By Mara Davis Johnson, Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts, University of Wollongong
The Deb is an enjoyable Australian comedy with characteristically crude humour. It’s a shame it’s not as good a musical as it is a comedy.
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By Bruce Buchan, Professor of History, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
In the midst of a war of his own choosing, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, recently tried to threaten his way out of it. On April 7, he posted on Truth Social that unless Iran buckled to his will, “a whole civilization will die tonight”.
He presumably meant to amplify his earlier claim that he intended to bomb Iran back to “the stone age”.
Trump’s words are rarely to be taken at face value. Yet his recent…
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By David Eager, Professor of Risk Management and Injury Prevention, University of Technology Sydney
An engineer who’s helped set the standards for Australian rides explains what tests are done each day on roller coasters – and why he let his own kids ride them.
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By Brendan Paul Burns, Associate Professor, School of Biotech & Biomolecular Science, UNSW Sydney
Kymberley Oakley, Indigenous language expert, Indigenous Knowledge
Stromatolites might look like rocks. But they are living relics of ancient systems that thrived on Earth billions of years ago.
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