By Amnesty International
A hallway lit by opera When I was very little, we lived in an apartment building on the campus of Minzu University in Beijing. The hallway lights were sound-activated, so you had to clap or make noise to turn them on. Our home was at the very end, and instead of clapping or stomping, my […] The post Opera, ice cream, activism – daughter of jailed Uyghur scholar shares Father’s Day memories appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the publication of a Citizen Lab report identifying Italian journalist Ciro Pellegrino and another who has chosen to remain anonymous, as the latest targets of Paragon’s spyware in Europe, Elina Castillo Jiménez, Advocacy and Policy Advisor on targeted surveillance at Amnesty International, said: “The discovery that Paragon’s highly invasive Graphite spyware has been […] The post Italy: New case of journalist targeted with Graphite spyware confirms widespread use of unlawful surveillance appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fellow, Victoria University
Trump had good reason to try to constrain Netanyahu while nuclear talks with Iran proceeded, but Israel decided instead to try to behead the ‘octopus’.
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By Erin Smith, Associate Professor and Discipline Lead (Paramedicine), La Trobe University
Viswashkumar Ramesh, a British citizen returning from a trip to India, has been confirmed as the only survivor of Thursday’s deadly Air India crash.
“I don’t know how I am alive,” Ramesh told family, according to his brother Nayan, in a video call moments after emerging from the wreckage. Another brother Ajay, seated elswhere on the plane, was killed.
The Boeing 787-7…
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By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
When a plane crashes, it’s natural to question just how safe flying really is. Here’s what the data shows – and why we often perceive the risk to be greater than it is.
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By Akwe Amosu
“I consider my birth home to be the Netherlands. ... But my chosen home in many ways used to be Hong Kong for many years until I no longer could be there.”
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025. The analysis underscores the urgent need to investigate the Israeli military for the war crimes of […] The post Satellite imagery reveals total razing of Khuza’a in May 2025 in further evidence of Israel’s wanton destruction and genocide in Gaza appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An Afghan woman walks among Taliban soldiers at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 6, 2023. © 2023 Ali Khara/Reuters The United Nations special rapporteur on Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, reiterated in his latest report his call for states to establish a comprehensive mechanism to advance accountability in Afghanistan for grave past and ongoing rights abuses, particularly against women and girls.Bennett documents the many forms of discrimination that women and girls in Afghanistan face and their difficulty accessing justice and protection. He also…
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By Guido Carim Junior, Senior Lecturer in Aviation, Griffith University
An Air India flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad in northwest India on Thursday afternoon local time, killing more than 260 people.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, Flight AI171, was carrying 242 people bound for London. Only one passenger, a British man, survived.
The plane crashed less than a minute after takeoff, coming down…
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By Natasha Heap, Program Director for the Bachelor of Aviation, University of Southern Queensland
As history has shown, publicly speculating about a disaster when there is so little evidence available is more than just unhelpful.
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