By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
the Nauru parliament announced a deal between the Home Affairs Minister and Nauru for that country to accept up to 280 former immigration detainees from Australia.
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By Stig Jarle Hansen, Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
More than 100 civilians have perished in a spate of attacks by Islamic State-backed rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in mid-2025. The Islamic State’s Central African Province – known locally as Allied Democratic Forces – claimed an attack on Christian worshippers in late July which killed at least 49. Other attacks in August killed 52 villagers. By mid-2025 the group had…
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By Tracy-Lynn Field, Director of the Mandela Institute, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
Angela van der Berg, Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape, University of the Western Cape
Chiedza Machaka, Lecturer and Post-doctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
The most catastrophic natural disaster ever recorded in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province – also the worst flood in South Africa for more than a century – has sparked two major lawsuits by insurance companies whose business clients suffered massive flood damage.
The April 2022 floods in eThekwini municipality, South Africa claimed…
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By Manu Lekunze, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Paul Biya’s 42-year reign provided political stability. A new term of office or possible transition risks instability, including more armed conflict.
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By Aniello Iannone, Indonesianists | Research Fellow at the research centre Geopolitica.info | Lecturer, Universitas Diponegoro
Large-scale protests occur few times in Indonesia aimed at parliament. But police use excessive force to disperse mass, killing a civilian.
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By Abhinash Das
Pani puri, India’s iconic street food, now delights beyond South Asia. It has been showcased at festivals worldwide, celebrated by global influencers with memes and songs, showcasing its vibrant, irresistible flavours.
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Friday, August 29, 2025
In Iran, the increase in executions carried out this year indicates that the death penalty is being used as a tool of State intimidation, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday.
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Friday, August 29, 2025
In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, *Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from the olive trees that have sustained his family for generations.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A rally in support of the Belarusian independence movement in Warsaw, Poland, August 9, 2025. © 2025 Jaap Arriens/Sipa USA via AP Photo Last week, Belarusian authorities declared the Belarusian Association of Human Rights Lawyers (BAHRL) an “extremist formation.” The action against the group, which works to protect the rights to a defense and a fair trial, is the latest attack on the country’s legal profession.Since its formation by exiled Belarusian lawyers arbitrarily deprived of their right to practice law, BAHRL has been promoting the independence of the legal…
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Friday, August 29, 2025
Despite the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, more than 90 per cent of Afghan adults support girls’ right to be in class, according to a new alert from the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women.
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