By Human Rights Watch
Two women are currently in custody in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public. The pair, whom Ugandan police arrested on February 18, are detained under the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, one of the most draconian anti-LGBT legislations in the world.Uganda criminalizes consensual same-sex relations under its British colonial-era Penal Code Act. Over the last decade, the Ugandan government has increasingly further restricted the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, culminating in the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act.The Act criminalizes consensual same-sex conduct with penalties…
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
From BNP stalwart to expelled independent, Rumeen Farhana rode the ‘duck’ symbol to a 38,000-vote victory in Brahmanbaria-2, defying harassment, party betrayal, and Bangladesh’s bruising gendered political battlefield.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Logo of the National Cyber Defense Council (Conseil national de cyberdéfense) at the entrance to the National Transport Office in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. © 2025 Human Rights Watch Congolese security forces have been responsible for numerous enforced disappearances in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since March 2025.The Congolese government is using the National Cyber Defense Council (CNC) as a proxy to carry out arrests and detentions of political opponents on dubious grounds.The authorities should ensure that…
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By Sophie Andrews, Associate Professor and Lead, Healthy Brain Ageing Research Program, Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast
Your mind goes blank in the supermarket. What was it you meant to buy? Here’s what’s going on in your brain and when you need to see your GP.
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By John Cook, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Alex Farnsworth, Senior Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Bristol
Dan Lunt, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol
Dann Mitchell, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol
When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws.
For a world to be truly immersive and believable, readers apply what is known as the “principle of minimal departure”. This assumes anything not explicitly magical, such as a planet’s weather or gravity, must adhere to the laws of the real world.
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By Anna Marie Brennan, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato
A new treaty on military space operations is highly unlikely, leaving private companies and militaries to define the boundaries of acceptable conduct in war.
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By Michelle Hamadache, Director of Creative Writing, Macquarie University
The flaw of child heroes is their vulnerability, their trust in the adults in their lives, their tendency to look to them for guidance.
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By Jacob Keech, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Griffith University
Karina Rune, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
Mass panic buying creates new problems for everyone that otherwise wouldn’t exist. To get people to stop, we need to give them a smarter message.
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By Mike Calver, Associate Professor in Biological Sciences, Murdoch University
Heather M. Crawford, Assistant researcher, Murdoch University
Trish Fleming, Professor, Murdoch University
It’s not just wildlife that gets killed. Cats come off worse in road traffic accidents and fights when they roam.
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By Mike Armour, Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University
Having your period can be a painful experience.
Period pain, also known as dysmenorrhea, is a very common condition with around nine in ten young women aged 13 to 25 in Australia having regular period pain.
For many women, period pain can make exercise seem like an impossible task.
So should you avoid exercise if you have period pain? Or could exercising actually help?
What causes period pain?
There are two main types of period pain.
The most…
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