By Human Rights Watch
(Washington, DC) – The United States government on March 2, 2026, announced sanctions on Rwanda’s military and four senior commanders because of their support for the abusive M23 armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. The sanctions have wide-reaching implications for business, financial, arms, equipment, and other transactions with the Rwandan army, the Rwanda Defence Force.The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control stated that Rwanda’s military “is actively supporting, training, and fighting alongside the [M23],” an “armed group responsible…
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By Carolyn Nickson, Principal Research Fellow, Cancer Elimination Collaboration, University of Sydney; The University of Melbourne
Bruce Mann, Professor of Surgery, Specialist Breast Surgeon, The University of Melbourne
At least 20,000 Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year. And more than 3,300 die from the disease.
To save women’s lives, we need to detect breast cancer early. Breast screening, which halves women’s risk of dying from breast cancer, is key…
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By Kyllie Cripps, Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, CI ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW), School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Marlene Longbottom, Associate Professor, Indigenous Education & Research Centre, James Cook University
This article contains references to and the names of people who are now deceased.
Australia’s latest homicide data lay bare a grim reality for Indigenous women: lethal domestic violence is not abating.
The Australian Institute of Criminology’s report confirms what communities have long known – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are killed at rates up to six times higher than non-Indigenous women, overwhelmingly by intimate partners…
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By Claudia Young, PhD Candidate in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
No longer confined to social media feeds, the misogynistic ‘red pill’ worldview is now being amplified on Australian broadcast television.
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By Jean Spinks, Associate Professor, Centre for the Business and Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
Amanda Wheeler, Professor of Mental Health, Griffith University
Daniel Williamson, Manager, Performance Team, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Branch, Queensland Health, Indigenous Knowledge
Kerry Hall, Coordinator Learning and Teaching (Indigenous), Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Indigenous), Griffith University
Warren Jennings, Lecturer, Medical School, The University of Queensland
First Nations people were more likely to feel confident about their medication – and to take it – when they had advice tailored to them. And their health improved.
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By Shelly Butcher, PhD candidate in Wildlife Disease, The University of Queensland
Laura Grogan, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Science, The University of Queensland
When a coastal carpet python was brought into a wildlife hospital in South East Queensland in August 2024, vets were confronted with something they didn’t recognise. The python had damaged scales, crusted lesions across its body and a mysterious fungal infection that defied explanation.
When the results from skin tests came back, they revealed snake fungal disease, caused by Ophidiomyces ophidiicola, an emerging fungal pathogen linked to snake declines overseas. This was the first confirmed report in free-ranging…
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By Ali Mamouri, Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
Hero and martyr to some, villain and oppressor to others, reactions to Ali Khamenei’s death mirror deeper fault lines within the Muslim world.
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By Abby Mellick Lopes, Professor, Social Design, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
Cameron Tonkinwise, Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
Louise McKenzie, Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
On a hot or smoky day, a shopping centre or library can offer refuge. We need to design climate havens with the warming future in mind.
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By Mark Edele, Hansen Professor in History, The University of Melbourne
Four years ago, Vladimir Putin escalated his war against Ukraine to an all-out assault. The plan was for a quick and lively campaign and a speedy takeover of a country the Russian president thought shouldn’t exist.
Victory would reassert Russia’s status and hasten a shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world; instead of one great power (the United States), we’d have several. Russia…
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By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
By appealing to international law and a ‘rules-based’ order, but not opposing the US-Israeli action, the government appears caught in the diplomatic crossfire.
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