By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman walks in front of charred agricultural equipment, at the site of an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Msayleh, on October 11, 2025. © Mahmoud Zayyat /AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – The Lebanese government should take immediate, concrete steps to help secure access to justice, truth, and reparations for thousands of civilian victims of abuses stemming from the armed conflict with Israel, five Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today in a letter to Lebanon’s justice minister and deputy prime minister,…
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By Elena Moore, Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town
Dolly Mogomotsi Ntseane, Associate Professor, University of Botswana
Gwen Lesetedi, Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana
Vayda Megannon, Doctoral candidate, University of Cape Town
Zeenat Samodien, Researcher and Data Manager at Family Caregiving Programme for Older Persons in Southern Africa, University of Cape Town
The government of Botswana in southern Africa dramatically increased the universal old age pension for all citizens aged 65 and above from P830 (about US$63) to P1,400 (about US$106) per month in 2025. Headlines celebrated the near 70% rise in value. For many older citizens struggling with rising food and transport costs, it appeared to signal a new era of state recognition of elder care.
But if you look closer, the story is less straightforward.
A cash increase is something you can measure, and you…
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By Vivienne Milligan, Honorary Professor of Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Megan Moskos, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University
New national research shows unmet housing need among First Nations households is double the rate of other Australians. But there are solutions.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The anti-corruption expert says Victoria’s Labor government was willing to ‘deal with the devil’ on its Big Build projects – at the cost of ‘bad governing’.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
In a speech on Wednesday to the McKell Institute Julian Hill says progressives shouldn’t fail to acknowledge that concerns over migration are real.
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By Haiqing Yu, Professor, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
Shen Yun is one of Falun Gong’s culture outreach organisations. It markets its dance performances as a revival of ‘traditional Chinese culture’.
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By Amnesty International
A Nigerian police unit set up to tackle kidnapping and armed robbery in Imo state has instead been unlawfully killing suspects, torturing and ill-treating detainees to coerce them into confessing to bogus crimes, and arresting people for the sole purpose of extracting lucrative bribes for their release, Amnesty International said today. Based in Owerri, the […] The post Nigeria: Tiger Base police unit involved in rampant violations including extrajudicial executions, torture and extortion appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Abdulrosheed Fadipe
Security experts and human rights organizations have linked the cause of the attacks to porous borders, reactive security approach, and spillover of extremist groups.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops on 24 February 2022 shattered the peaceful aspirations of an entire continent, but war must never be the new normal, UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday.
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By Andrew Starner, Lecturer in Drama, Australian Catholic University
Melbourne’s Red Stitch is reviving Summer and the Seventeenth Doll and its two prequels, together for the first time since 1985.
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