By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Protesters gather in Place de la Nation square during a demonstration called by high-school students, joined by unions and teachers, who have been demanding better learning conditions, in Paris, France, on October 6, 2026. © 2026 Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP via Getty Images (Paris, November 12, 2026) – A draft law that passed in its first reading by the French Senate on October 27, 2026, contains measures that would severely undermine the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, and are incompatible with France’s human rights treaty obligations,…
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By Luis Carlos Diaz
Despite government shifts, a UN report confirms Venezuela's repressive system remains active, documenting how medical neglect in state custody led to the death of regional leader and politician Alfredo Díaz.
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By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
Victoria Sullivan, Health Promotion Practitioner | PhD Candidate, Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
The advice might be to spend 20 minutes a day noticing the natural world – whether that’s walking through a park, listening to birds or wildlife gardening.
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By Belinda O'Sullivan, Professor and Director of Research, Monash Rural Health, Monash University
Despite promising more hospital beds, faster surgery and extra health workers, major parties are missing the chance to tackle deeper problems in rural health care.
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By Matt McDonald, Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
One phrase has been glaringly absent from this year’s COP31 climate summit.
Fossil fuels are not mentioned in the COP31 priority areas. Key speeches from the leaders of Australia and Turkey (Türkiye), co-hosts of the conference, have largely failed…
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By Shane Clifton, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney
Judy Heumann and her crip comrades changed the world in 1977. Siân Heder’s film is a beautiful ode to that effort.
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By Simon Copland, Honorary Fellow in Sociology, Australian National University
The letters in Julia Baird’s book, co-edited with her son, contains some beautiful pieces. But it’s a pity the book isn’t called ‘Becoming a Human’.
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By Miki Perkins, Environment & Energy Editor, The Conversation
Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen spoke to The Conversation at COP31 in Turkey – as the conference hits the halfway mark.
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By Jackie O'Sullivan, Research Scientist, Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems, CSIRO
Claire Foster, Research Fellow, Ecology and Conservation, Australian National University
Damian R. Michael, Senior Research Fellow, Ecology and Herpetology, Charles Sturt University
David Lindenmayer, Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
Ask any reptile lover where to find a cold-blooded creature and chances are they will point to a rocky outcrop.
Look closely and you might find a snake or lizard basking on a sun-warmed boulder, sheltering in a narrow crevice or even living under a loose surface rock.
For reptiles, these rocks are not simply somewhere to hang out.
Rocky habitats help reptiles control their body temperature, escape…
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By Mahmoud Elkhodr, Senior Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia
This outage shows why we must urgently prepare for digital outages in a similar way we do for natural disasters.
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