By Magali Nehemy, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of British Columbia
Researchers explain how trees in the rainforest efficiently recycle water through rain to keep themselves hydrated in the dry season.
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Monday, September 1st 2025
After a magnitude six earthquake struck remote areas of eastern Afghanistan overnight reportedly killing hundreds and wiping out villages, UN chief UN António Guterres on Monday pledged to “spare no effort” in helping those affected.
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By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a key institution when it comes to public health in the US, but it’s also instrumental in global health.
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By Mary Anne Kenny, Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
Lisa van Toor, Lecturer, School of Law & Criminology, Murdoch University
The non-citizens in the NZYQ group cannot be returned to their country of origin. But sending them to Nauru just pushes the issue onto a poorer country.
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By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
The Australian government today released a long-awaited report on a trial of automated tools for determining a person’s age.
So-called age assurance technology is expected to play a key role in enforcing the ban on social media accounts…
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By Human Rights Watch
Headquarters of the Ombudsman’s Office in Bogotá, Colombia, June 15, 2020. © Defensoría del Pueblo 2020 (Bogotá) – Proposed budget cuts to Colombia’s Ombudsperson’s Office would be a blow to the protection of human rights in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.The Ombudsperson’s Office requested a very modest budget increase for 2026, partly to keep pace with the roughly 5 percent annual inflation rate and partly to allow for an expansion of work that is sorely needed in light of Colombia’s evolving human rights concerns. Instead, the budget proposed by the government of Gustavo…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Federal court workers in Mexico City protest against a proposal that would remove and replace all judges in the country in popular elections, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. © 2024 Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo (Washington, DC) – A constitutional change replacing half of the federal judiciary with judges elected by popular vote has undermined judicial independence in Mexico, Human Rights Watch said today as the new judges take office. The new judges, including six of the Supreme Court’s nine members, are set to take office on September 1, 2025, following a popular election…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Police officers outside the Magistrates Court in Harare, Zimbabwe, April 6, 2021. © 2021 Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images (Johannesburg) – A Zimbabwe court’s acquittal of three human rights activists on disorderly conduct charges more than a year after their arrest highlights the authorities’ misuse of the criminal justice system against dissidents, Human Rights Watch said today. Zimbabwean authorities should end politically motivated arrests and prosecutions of human rights defenders, activists, and journalists.On August 21, 2025, a Harare Magistrates Court acquitted…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Front side of the National Assembly of Cambodia in Phnom Penh, May 7, 2019. © Daniel Kalker/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images (Bangkok) – Cambodia’s National Assembly passed amendments to its citizenship law on August 25, 2025, that allow the government to silence dissent by reworking Cambodian citizenship, Human Rights Watch said today. The amended citizenship law strips nationals, naturalized citizens, and dual citizens of the most basic protections of nationality if convicted by ruling Cambodia People’s Party-controlled courts of treason or “collusion with foreign…
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By Zhaoyin Feng
While China used to be the world's largest waste importer, Southeast Asia is now taking a significant portion of wealthy countries solid waste, leading to negative health outcomes and environmental pollution.
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