By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Shelters at the Wendou 2 displaced persons camp in Dori, Burkina Faso, May 29, 2024. © 2024 FANNY NOARO-KABRE/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The military junta in Burkina Faso is wrongfully detaining eight aid workers who had been helping to address the humanitarian emergency in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately drop the baseless charges against them and release them.In late July 2025, the Burkinabè intelligence services in Ouagadougou, the capital, detained the French national Jean-Christophe Pégon, director…
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By Philipa Margaret Rothfield, Honorary Staff Member, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University; University of Southern Denmark
The Lyon Dance Biennale is Europe’s largest dance festival, bringing together dancers – and audiences – from across the world.
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By Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
Amy Clair, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
Chris Leishman, Professor of Property and Housing Economics, University of South Australia
Governments have been pushing the construction of apartment towers for years to help housing affordability and availability, but people don’t want to live in them.
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By Catherine E. Wood, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
Farting, while universal, can also be taboo. It is this conflict that makes it a source of laughter as children learn what is socially acceptable.
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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
A Victorian Resolve poll has Labor sliding back after a surge in August. Federal Labor had a 55–45 lead in Resolve and a 54–46 lead in Redbridge, with One Nation recording its highest vote in any poll since 1998.
A Victorian state Resolve poll for The Age, conducted with the federal September and October Resolve polls from a sample of over 1,000, gave the Coalition 33% of the primary vote (steady since August), Labor 30% (down…
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By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia
To make your muscles grow, you need to keep increasing their load. But there are different ways to do this.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image State teachers and school principals hold placards during a protest demanding relief from the upcoming budget, in front of the Ministry of Education in Colombo, Sri Lanka, February 14, 2025. © 2025 CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and contribute to chronic underfunding of education and other public services.The government should consider eliminating corporate tax exemptions given their high cost, questionable effectiveness, and vulnerability to abuse, and adopt…
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By Gilles E. Gignac, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Western Australia
As your youth fades further into the past, you may start to fear growing older.
But research my colleague and I have recently published in the journal Intelligence shows there’s also very good reason to be excited: for many of us, overall psychological functioning actually peaks between ages 55 and 60.
And knowing this highlights why people in…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
While the Liberals have been performing reasonbly well in Parliament lately, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley still…
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By Jerome Lorenz, Biology Researcher, Florida International University
The gradual return of flamingos to Florida coincides with long-term efforts to restore the Everglades and the state’s coastal ecosystems.
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