By Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender, Dublin City University
Digital Storytelling Team, The Conversation
It starts with one innocuous video. It ends in misogyny, anger and nihilism. Welcome to this online rabbit-hole of toxic masculinity.
(Full Story)
|
By Fiona Hurd, Associate Professor, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology
Suzette Dyer, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, University of Waikato
What happened to Tokoroa in 2025 underscored the fragility of NZ’s manufacturing base – and the consequences for local communities when decisions are made elsewhere.
(Full Story)
|
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive care units or struggle to survive as they endure acute malnutrition, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
(Full Story)
|
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
UN human rights chief Volker Türk has voiced concern over reports that “draconian security laws” in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China are being used to clampdown on people calling for a probe into the deadly fire at an apartment complex last month.
(Full Story)
|
By Rezwan
Global Voices spoke with the Gender Interactive Alliance (GIA) about their work and how it connects with COP30’s focus on justice, human rights, and a circular economy.
(Full Story)
|
By Sara Wilson, PhD Candidate, Communications, Simon Fraser University
In Canada, emergency communication is issued only in English and French, even in regions where Indigenous languages are widely spoken and recognized — an exclusion that compromises safety.
(Full Story)
|
By Joel Scanlan, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity and Privacy, University of Tasmania
The ban may keep some children out, but it does nothing to fix the harmful architecture awaiting them when they return.
(Full Story)
|
By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
Only time will tell whether Australia’s bold, world-first experiment will succeed. Despite this, it has set off a global reaction.
(Full Story)
|
By Vivian Gerrand, Associate Lecturer, Australian National University; Deakin University
Debbie Ging, Professor of Digital Media and Gender, Dublin City University
Josh Roose, Associate Professor of Politics, Deakin University
Michael Flood, Professor of Sociology, Queensland University of Technology
No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.
(Full Story)
|
By Jordana Hunter, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
Amy Haywood, Deputy Director, Education Program, Grattan Institute
Molly Chapman, Associate, Education Program, Grattan Institute
A new report details how student absences are changing post-pandemic. It also shows how Australia can look to England for ideas on what to do.
(Full Story)
|