By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Displaced women and girls walk through the vast IDP site in Tawila, Sudan, February 23rd, 2026. © 2026 Giles Clarke/Avaaz via Getty Images “It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October 2025 takeover.For 18 months, the RSF laid siege to the city, digging a trench around it in its final months, forcing starving residents to survive on animal fodder, until even that ran out. In the siege’s final weeks, the RSF increasingly…
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By Laura
Young people are deemed mature enough to elect their leaders, yet not to replace them. They drive political movements forward by voting, advocating, campaigning, and protesting, yet cannot run for office themselves.
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By Paola A. Magni, Associate Professor of Forensic Science, Murdoch University
Pia Interlandi, Associate Professor of Creative Practice, School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University
What should happen to your body after you die? It’s hardly a topic you’d bring up over dinner, but it’s a decision that will eventually need to be made, either by you or by those you leave behind.
In Australia, the choice has traditionally been between burial and cremation. However, concerns about environmental impact, limited cemetery space and the desire for more…
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By Heather Blakey, Literary Studies Scholar, The University of Western Australia
Memory, desire, and who gets to be human: there are many interesting overlaps between Blade Runner and Love and Deepspace.
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By Claire Yorke, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Future Defence and National Security, Deakin University
If you watch Question Time or scroll on social media, you’ll see how politics can be gladiatorial. Many politicians accept they need to do more to calm things.
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By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
Democrats have a three in four chance of gaining control of the Senate, and remain overwhelming favourites to gain control of the House of Representatives.
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By Elspeth McLennan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group, University of Sydney
Carolyn Hogg, Professor of Biodiversity & Conservation and Co-Lead, Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group, University of Sydney
Scat may be a waste product, but it holds crucial clues about an animal’s diet, disease risk and genetic health.
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By Guilherme Casarões, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Florida International University
Three weeks ago, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s political obituaries had all been written.
The far-right presidential candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, had come out of the first round of the presidential election with…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva voting in the second round of the 2022 presidential election, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. © 2022 Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil (São Paulo, October 25, 2026) – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been reelected as Brazil’s president, should use his new term to tackle chronic human rights problems, Human Rights Watch said today.President Lula defeated the Liberal Party candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, in a runoff election on October 25, 2026, official results from the Superior Electoral Court show. Lula received 51.7 percent of the…
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By Karla Canuto, Professor, Indigenous Health Promotion, James Cook University
Kootsy Canuto, Associate Professor, Indigenous Men's Health Promotion, James Cook University
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have a life expectancy of 71.9 years – 8.8 years less than non-Indigenous men.
Rates of potentially avoidable deaths in men under the age of 75 is almost three times higher for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men.
The reasons for these health…
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