By Diana Bossio, Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University
The government has been playing ‘four-dimensional chess’ to work out how to drag big tech back to the bargaining table with news publishers. So, will this new scheme work?
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By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
Ben Livings, Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Evidence, University of South Australia
A Federal Court judge ruled in favour of the Victorian MP, who sued the state’s Opposition Leader, John Pesutto, for comments he made about her appearance at a rally.
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By Zunaida Moosa Wadiwala, Assistant lecturer - University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
The International Court of Justice is hearing testimony from climate crisis-affected nations and will issue the first ever legal advice on governments’ legal obligations to prevent climate change.
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By Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Care work forms the often invisible infrastructure of all life. It is largely carried out by women and other marginalised groups, and it holds up communities and societies. It can be work in relation to production, such as in farms or forests, as well as the work of reproduction and care in the home and community spaces.
Yet it is seldom recognised as “work” in policies or environmental and climate practice. It goes unacknowledged in formal statistics. For example, since in almost all countries men are predominantly listed as the landowners, the work done by others on farms, including…
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By Adem K Abebe, Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has congratulated the military-led government of Gabon on a successful constitutional referendum. General Brice Oligui Nguema came to power through a coup d’etat in 2023.
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By Aluwani Maiwashe-Tagwi, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of South Africa
Unity Chipfupa, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South Africa
Burning sugarcane trash is common in South Africa. With support small-scale sugarcane farmers could turn this plant waste into bioenergy.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Screenshot of a video posted on social media on November 9, 2024 that Human Rights Watch analyzed and geolocated to the village of Allaye-Kokolo, located on the National Road 15 between Mopti and Bandiagara. The video shows armed men, some on motorbikes, on the road while buildings are burning around. A men can be heard speaking in Fulfulde, saying “God is great, Allaye-Kokolo is burning.” Mali’s armed forces, supported by the Russia-backed Wagner Group, and Islamist armed groups have committed serious abuses against civilians since the UN peacekeeping mission withdrew…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Children at the Khone Phapheng Falls, Laos, December 3, 2019. © 2019 Sergi Reboredo/VWPics via AP Photo At the end of each year, Human Rights Watch likes to take stock of human rights progress for children around the globe. From strengthening children’s access to education to better protecting kids during wartime, here are some of our favorite examples from 2024.Tajikistan and Laos banned all corporal punishment of children, joining 65 other countries with such bans. Five countries—Burundi, the Czech Republic, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, and Uganda—pledged to…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Artwork by the Ukrainian artist Julia Tveritina to raise awareness for the victims of sexual violence, at an art center in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 19, 2024. © 2024 Derek Gatopoulos/AP Photo Ukraine’s parliament has taken a critically important step towards providing survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) with interim reparations, by adopting a law to codify the definition of CRSV in national legislation.The new law addresses acts of sexual violence—such as rape, forced pregnancy, and sexual exploitation—committed after February 20, 2014. It recognizes…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lies on the ground as a Syrian opposition fighter stands nearby, inside the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. © 2024 AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki (Beirut) – The ousting of Bashar al-Assad’s government by armed opposition groups has created a momentous opportunity for Syria to break with decades of repression and turn the page on human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. A better future for Syria requires addressing decades of abuse by the former government and other warring parties during the country’s…
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