By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (C) during a ceremony to commemorate the 16th anniversary of National War Heroes Day, marking the end of the country’s civil war, in Colombo, May 19, 2025. © 2025 Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images Both Sri Lanka and Germany have newly elected leaders, but key human rights concerns that Chancellor Friedrich Merz should raise with visiting President Anura Kumar Dissanayake in Berlin on June 11 have lingered for decades. The Sri Lankan government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought…
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By The Irrawaddy
"Have these employers lost all sense of compassion, kindness, and basic human decency? Have they become so consumed by greed that they have abandoned even common sense?"
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By Climate Home News
"[It was] like a microcosm of the world’s problems between people of the southern and the northern hemisphere, between the poor and the rich," the judge in this case said.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Thousands of protesters gather to demand an immediate end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramped-up raids at worksites, schools, stores and courthouses in California, Los Angeles, US, June 8, 2025. © 2025 Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images On Saturday, US President Donald Trump wrested control of 2,000 California National Guard forces from the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom and deployed them in Los Angeles where police and protestors clashed in the streets.President Trump claims that the move is necessary to protect federal workers and buildings, but…
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By Amnesty International
Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria are still being neglected by the country’s authorities, one year after Amnesty International’s landmark report and launch of the #EmpowerOurGirls campaign. In June 2024, Amnesty International published ‘Help us build our lives’: Girl survivors of Boko Haram and military abuses in north-east Nigeria, […] The post Nigeria: Girl survivors of Boko Haram still being failed by government inaction – new testimony appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Thousands of protesters gather to demand an immediate end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramped-up raids at worksites, schools, stores and courthouses in California, Los Angeles, US, June 8, 2025. © 2025 Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images On Saturday, US President Donald Trump wrested control of 2,000 California National Guard forces from the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom and deployed them in Los Angeles where police and protestors clashed in the streets.President Trump claims that the move is necessary to protect federal workers and buildings, but…
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By Christian Bretter, Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Psychology, The University of Queensland
Matthew Hornsey, Professor, University of Queensland Business School, The University of Queensland
Samuel Pearson, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles than disagree with it and even EV owners tend to believe the myths, our new research shows.
We investigated the prevalence of misinformation about EVs in four countries – Australia, the United States, Germany and Austria. Unfortunately, we found substantial agreement with misinformation across all countries.
People who endorsed false claims about EVs were, not surprisingly, significantly less likely to consider buying one.
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By Ashlynne McGhee, Digital Storytelling Editor
Your Say on Australia’s relationship with the US, the great spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk and the children missing school because of violence at home.
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By Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Dominic Amerena’s debut novel explores the selfish side of literary life: the desire to have a real story, no matter who it belongs to – or what it may cost.
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By William C. Banks, Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University
American troops may be used inside the country, but it is an extraordinary exercise of authority to deploy them domestically, says an expert on the domestic role of the military.
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