By Amnesty International
Reacting to the life sentences given by Quetta’s Anti-Terrorism court to Baloch activists Mahrang Baloch and Sibghat Ullah Shah Jee on 22 June over their involvement in a 2024 protest during which a security officer was killed, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said: “This verdict, which is an affront to […] The post Pakistan: Authorities must immediately release Baloch activists handed life sentences following secret trial appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Gina Romero
Digital surveillance does much more than steal data. It inflicts deep human wounds; it stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations, and fractures the human mind.
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By Gerard Di Trolio, PhD candidate, Labour Studies, McMaster University
Canada supports the first international treaty protecting platform workers. The same government is weighing a proposal that could make it difficult to legally strike in the rail and marine sectors.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
More than 10,000 attorneys who worked for the US government have left their jobs during the second Trump administration; a former federal judge analyzes the impact of that exodus.
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By Liz Minchin, Executive Editor + Business Editor, The Conversation
Victoria Thieberger, Business and Economics Editor, The Conversation
Modest tax cuts, changes to the way superannuation is paid and a whole lot more – this is what’s changing from next week.
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By David Kilcullen, Professor of International and Political Studies, UNSW Sydney
Iran has emerged undefeated after nearly four months of war against a nuclear-armed regional rival (Israel) and the world’s most powerful military (the United States).
The regime is still in control of its population and territory. Though its economy is suffering, Iran’s industrial base is still churning out missiles, drones and rockets.
Many of Tehran’s top…
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By Meena Jha, Associate Professor, College of Information & Communication Technology, CQUniversity Australia
Earlier this month the University of Sydney launched an investigation into allegations miniature spy cameras were used to record and distribute exam content online.
At the same time, the UK’s national examinations regulator warned…
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By Melissa de Zwart, Professor, Adelaide University
It can be easy to lose sight of the fact that the US isn’t the only major actor in space.
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By James Ley, Deputy Books + Ideas Editor, The Conversation
There is a particular pleasure in a new reading discovery, so we asked 7 literary experts to unearth some lost treasures for us.
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By Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and Founder of Popsicule, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub, Australian National University
For centuries, clowns occupied an ambiguous cultural position. They were comic figures, but also disruptive ones: tricksters who mocked authority and social conventions, picaresque mischief-makers who challenged canons of elegant appearance through their own distinctive, subversive style.
The 19th century French mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau transformed the melancholic white-faced Pierrot into a modern icon of theatrical artifice and fashionable alienation.…
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