By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (left) and Vietnamese President To Lam before a meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 2, 2026. © 2026 Kyodo News via AP Photo (Tokyo) – Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi should urge Vietnamese President To Lam to make concrete progress on human rights during his official visit to Japan from November 8 to 11, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.Human Rights Watch wrote to Prime Minister Takaichi expressing concerns about Vietnam’s intensifying crackdown on human rights. The repression violates obligations…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police immigration detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should not forcibly return two Uyghur men to China, where they face grave risks of torture and other serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The two men, whose names are not public for security reasons, were transferred from prison to immigration detention in Bangkok after receiving a royal pardon, apparently in preparation for deportation.“Previous Thai governments have kept…
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By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
Nick Wilson, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
A new report identifies 17 threats to human health through to the year 2100. Many are preventable, but tackling them demands governments think long-term.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International condemns the decision by Peru’s Public Prosecutor’s Office to close the investigation into the forced sterilisation of 4,172 Peruvian women during the 1990s. This decision was taken pursuant to Law 32107, passed in 2024, which allows statutes of limitations to be applied to war crimes and crimes against humanity committed before 1 July […] The post Peru: Closing the investigation into forced sterilisations perpetuates impunity appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People watch the ICJ hearing at a restaurant in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on January 23, 2020. © 2020 Allison Joyce/Getty Images (The Hague) – The International Court of Justice has announced that it will deliver its judgment on November 19, 2026, in the case brought by Gambia against Myanmar for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question-and-answer document on key issues in the case.In August 2017, Myanmar’s security forces began a sweeping campaign of massacres, rape,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A man reads the Ethiopian Reporter in Addis Ababa on December 11, 2019. © 2019 Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images In what has become the new normal, the Ethiopian government has silenced yet another independent media outlet.The Ethiopian Media Authority announced in a November 2 Facebook post that it is indefinitely suspending the print and online license of the Reporter, one of Ethiopia’s oldest media institutions. Publishing in English and Amharic, the Reporter is also the country’s last privately owned Amharic newspaper.Stating that the suspension would…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Chile's President Jose Antonio Kast waves on his inauguration day at Congress in Valparaiso, Chile, March 11, 2026. © 2026 Esteban Felix/AP Photo Chilean President José Antonio Kast introduced in Congress on October 19 a proposal to change the country’s National Human Rights Institute.Founded in 2009 as an autonomous state body, the institute has worked to promote and protect human rights in Chile, including by taking legal action on behalf of human rights abuse victims.If passed, the legislation would weaken some of the tools the institute uses to protect…
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By Anna Hargreaves, Professor of Conservation Ecology & Evolution, McGill University
Jennifer Sunday, Canada Research Chair, Global Change BIology, McGill University
Jory Griffith, Doctoral Student, Environmental Policy, ETH Zurich
Tropical ecosystems are famous for their teeming, exuberant diversity. In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from the poles to the tropics — known as the latitudinal diversity gradient — is pervasive across branches of the tree of life, and fossil evidence suggests it has existed for millennia.
It might seem that if anything could be immune to human disruption, it would be the latitudinal diversity gradient. But human impacts on nature are also global, pervasive…
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By Ceilidh McConnell, PhD Candidate in Psychology, University of Calgary
Deinera Exner-Cortens, Associate Professor of Psychology and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (Childhood Health Promotion), University of Calgary
Elizabeth (Liz) Baker, Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary
Intervening to interrupt acts of violence begins with noticing the event, interpreting it as an emergency where help is needed and assuming responsibility for helping.
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By Shaun Bond, Professor of Finance, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland
If you’re starting to wonder how you’ll afford higher repayments, here’s when to start talking to your bank to ask for help.
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