By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human rights defender, Naji Fateel. © Private (Beirut) – Bahraini authorities have rearrested at least nine men who had previously been released from prison by royal pardon, the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Human Rights Watch said today. The men, who were previously detained on politically motivated charges, were arrested in July and August 2026 for allegedly failing to pay fines dating back a decade. Bahraini authorities should immediately release them and cease all efforts to collect the dubious unpaid fines.“King Hamad bin Isa…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image “An ICE agent told me to sign for deportation to Chad. I refused . . . The ICE agent said, ‘I don’t care, I’m going to sign it myself.’ . . . I said, ‘I’m going to talk to my lawyer,’ but he said, ‘It’s too late.’ . . . I don’t know what happened, maybe later they changed their minds, because we ended up in Cameroon. . . . Even before we got on the plane, we asked where we were going, and they told us, ‘You’ll find out when you arrive.’” – Tesfay T., 35, an Ethiopian man deported to Cameroon. © 2026 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch The United States has sent more…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A teacher conducting a lesson at the private Parents' Hope Nursery and Primary School in Namayingo district. © 2022 ISER The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on Uganda to significantly expand government support for early childhood education and provide free, state-run pre-primary education to all children.In its latest review of Uganda’s record on children’s rights, issued October 1, the Committee expressed concern about high numbers of children out of school due to financial barriers, and highlighted “very limited access to early…
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By Amnesty International
How did your husband end up a faith leader? Before becoming a pastor, Wang Lin worked as a lawyer. In 2006, after he became a Christian, he left the legal profession, enrolled in seminary, and spent several years in the US pursuing theological studies. We returned to China at the end of 2017 and Wang […] The post China’s crackdown on house churches: An interview with Su Ziming, wife of detained Chinese pastor Wang Lin appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By David Lees, Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick
The student demonstrations that have spread across France in recent weeks are not unprecedented. Indeed, commentators have been quick to point to comparisons with the events of May and June 1968, where, at their peak, more than 10 million students and workers took to the streets.
In 1968, as now, there were legitimate reasons for protest. The unrest began at the Nanterre campus of the University…
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By Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Catherine Chidgey’s novel The Starving Bride is a disturbing and bleakly funny portrait of a society attempting to distract itself from mounting disasters.
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By Doug Cowen, Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State
IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Premier Ben Carroll, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson, One Nation’s Colleen Harkin and pollster Tony Barry preview November 28’s closely watched election.
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By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
Cheneal Puljević, UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Not a week goes by without a news story about illicit tobacco in Australia, which is now a serious problem across the country.
This week, the federal government announced an additional A$2.7…
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By Toby Murray, Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
As Pornhub embraces Apple’s new age verification in Australia, this could be the start of a broader shift in the tech industry.
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