By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People pass through a destroyed section of Omdurman, Sudan on May 25, 2025. © 2025 Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images (Berlin) – Leaders meeting in Berlin on April 15, 2026, the three-year mark of ongoing conflict in Sudan, should commit to concrete, time-bound measures to protect civilians and to hold those responsible for serious international crimes to account, Human Rights Watch said today.Germany, the African Union, France, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States will meet in Berlin to address the conflict between…
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By Amnesty International
Nearly two months after the approval of the amnesty law intended to grant freedom to people prosecuted and detained for political reasons in Venezuela, Amnesty International reminds the Venezuelan authorities that its implementation must not rely on discretionary criteria that perpetuate the political repression the law is, in theory, intended to remedy. In this regard, […] The post Venezuela: Amnesty law must not become a mechanism of repression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University
Pope Leo XIV does not claim to direct political outcomes. He claims the right, and the duty, to judge them.
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By Warlpa Thompson, Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owner of Mutawintji National Park, Indigenous Knowledge
Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney
Thomas Parkin, Research Officer, Herpetology, Australian Museum
Hidden among the red sandstone escarpments of Mutawintji National Park in western New South Wales lives a rare lizard, long isolated in this arid landscape.
Known to Wiimpatja Aboriginal Owners as kungaka – “the hidden one” – we have now scientifically described it as a new species: Liopholis mutawintji.
For decades, this little lizard was thought to be an isolated population of a widespread skink. However, through a research collaboration between Wiimpatja…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A Taylor government would make conformity with Australian values legally binding for immigrants, and make non-citizens wait longer for access to the social security system.
Outlining the first instalment of the Coalition’s long-awaited tougher approach to immigration, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor on Tuesday also said the 1700 who came to Australia from Gaza after the outbreak of the Middle East conflict presented a high risk and “must be re-assessed entirely with far greater scrutiny”.
Taylor said in a Tuesday speech to the Menzies Research Centre that was attended by…
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By Allison Harell, Professor of Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Daniel Rubenson, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Laura Stephenson, Professor of Political Science, Western University
Lewis Krashinsky, Postdoctoral fellow, Political Science, University of Toronto
Instead of assessing parties along familiar ideological lines, many Canadian voters approached the 2025 election based on who could best protect the country from the U.S. That’s seemingly still the case.
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By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University
Viktor Orbán had consolidated his power and taken over state institutions, but Magyar found his Achilles’ heel – growing public anger over corrupt elites.
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By Maddison Sideris, Associate Teaching Fellow, Sociology, Deakin University
Being a single woman isn’t the social taboo it once was. Singlehood seems to be on the rise, with more single person households, and more women choosing to marry later in life, or not at all.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility following Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran, March 7, 2026. © 2026 Alireza Sotakbar/ISNA via AP Israeli attacks on four oil depots around Tehran on March 7, 2026, may cause long-term health and environmental harm for civilians.Strikes on primarily civilian infrastructure causing foreseeable civilian harm are violations of international humanitarian law and are likely war crimes. Israeli forces don’t appear to have factored in the foreseeable long-term harm in the Tehran vicinity, for which they should…
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By Tim Ziegler, Collection Manager, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Museums Victoria Research Institute
More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.
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