By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Relatives of a person who went missing after a migrant boat sank on February 26 on the beach near where the shipwreck took place off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, near Crotone, in Calabria in southern Italy. March 7, 2023. © 2023 Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan, January 27, 2026) – The trial, due to start this week, of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is an important opportunity for justice for deaths of migrants and asylum seekers at sea, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial, following…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
A week out from the resumption of parliament, the federal opposition is in a state of paralysis.
The Liberals have a full-blown leadership crisis. A majority of the party believe Sussan Ley can’t survive for long.
But leadership contenders Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie, both from the right of the party, don’t want to run against each other, dividing their factional support. They’re in a wrestle, each wanting the other to pull back.
Taylor trails his coat while keeping formally within the rules. He won’t confirm he is after Ley’s job, pleading shadow cabinet…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People protest against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in downtown Minneapolis, January 25, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo/Adam Gray (Washington, DC) – Federal immigration enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend, marking the second killing by immigration enforcement agents in the city this month. Federal officials reportedly blocked state officials from accessing the scene, raising concerns that the federal government is not acting in good faith to ensure an independent and comprehensive investigation, Human Rights Watch said…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the withdrawal of the United States of America from the Paris Climate Agreement, Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Programme Director for Climate, ESJ and Corporate Accountability, said: “The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement sets a disturbing precedent that seeks to instigate a race to the bottom, and, along with its withdrawal from other […] The post Global: US withdrawal from landmark Paris Climate Agreement threatens “a race to the bottom” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […] The post Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
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By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University
Nicholas Farrelly, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
Five years ago, on February 1 2021, Myanmar’s top generals decapitated the elected government. Democratic leaders were arrested, pushed underground or forced into exile.
Since then, the economy has spluttered and foreign investors have headed for the exit. The only growth industries – mostly scam…
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By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
Klaus Lunau, Professor, Institute of Sensory Ecology, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Birds and bees see the world in different ways – and some flowers have evolved to take advantage of the gap in their perspectives.
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By Andrea Katz, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enforce federal law.
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By Sue Turnbull, Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong
Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.
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