By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman with her two daughters walks down a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 2024. © 2024 Nathalye Cotrino Villarreal/Human Rights Watch Sexual violence by criminal groups is not new in Haiti: Human Rights Watch has documented how criminal groups have used widespread sexual violence in recent years to terrorize communities and assert control. However, the intensity and brutality of these attacks are worsening and, for those who survive, resources are increasingly scarce according to a new report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).Since 2015, MSF has…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Villagers extinguish a fire that engulfed a house after a Myanmar military airstrike, Tabayin, Myanmar, November 13, 2025. © 2025 Swe Lin Tun/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo (Tokyo) – Myanmar’s military junta has committed widespread repression and abuse in every facet of life in the country since seizing power on February 1, 2021, Amnesty International, Fortify Rights, and Human Rights Watch said today. The military’s atrocities since the coup, which include war crimes and crimes against humanity, escalated over the past year as the junta sought to entrench…
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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
Five federal polls have been released in the last week, with three of them having some fieldwork after the Coalition split on January 22. One Nation is in second place on primary votes in the YouGov and DemosAU polls, leading the Coalition by five points in YouGov and three points in DemosAU.
In Morgan, the Coalition and One Nation are tied at 22.5% each, while Essential gives the Coalition a three-point lead. The Freshwater poll was conducted before the Coalition…
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By Erica De Bruin, Associate Professor of Government, Hamilton College
ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.
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By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato
From ancient Rome to Napoleon’s Paris, the triumphal arch has long memorialised imperial dreams. Is Donald Trump on track to realise his own in Washington?
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By Jessica Kolbusz, Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia
The deep ocean is not a silent, static place – it’s active, connected to the oceans above and always changing.
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By Bradley P. Smith, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
Kylie M. Cairns, Research Fellow in Canid and Wildlife Genomics, UNSW Sydney
Following the death of a young backpacker, the Queensland government has killed dingoes seen near her body. But will this cull protect tourists?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Musician and opposition candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine during a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, October 1, 2019. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images (Nairobi) – Ugandan authorities have intensified attacks on the country’s main opposition party since presidential elections took place on January 15, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.Authorities have conducted mass arrests of National Unity Platform supporters and forcibly disappeared two senior leaders, who remain missing. Since January 15, the military has laid siege to the home of the party president,…
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By Jordan Foster, Assistant Professor, Sociology, MacEwan University
From viral skincare videos to hyper-muscular influencer bodies online, men are facing increasing societal pressure to look good — just have women have for generations.
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By Christophe Premat, Professor, Canadian and Cultural Studies, Stockholm University
As global tensions rise, Canada and Sweden are shifting from defence procurement to long-term strategic alignment across security, industry and Arctic governance.
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