By Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
Despite warnings of a climate catastrophe, a slew of polluting gas projects are either poised to begin or lie firmly in industry’s sights.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Criminal Court of Appeal building in Yerevan, Armenia, July 12, 2018. © 2018 Asatur Yesayants/Sputnik via AP Photo Vahagn Petrosyan was 36 years old when a court stripped him of his legal capacity in September 2015, claiming his psychosocial disability prevented him from being able to make his own decisions. For years he endured neglect and violence in institutions, without the right to control his life or access justice.Armenian law obligates the state to ensure people with disabilities are fully included in public life, but the country lacks community-based…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image People protesting against the abuse of girls, Durban, South Africa, April 1, 2025. © 2025 Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images As South Africa commemorates Child Protection Week, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the safety and wellbeing of children, a recent spate of violent attacks highlights how children in the country are still often left unprotected.Despite legislation that protects the rights of children, including the constitution, the Children’s Act and the National Plan of Action for Children, reported cases of violence against children in South…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to the announcement of a third phase of cooperation between the partnership agreement made earlier today between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to advance decent work reforms, Iain Byrne, Amnesty International’s Head of Economic and Social Justice, said: “While today’s announcement recognizes the need for labour reforms for […] The post SAUDI ARABIA/UN: Labour agreement must lead to comprehensive reforms to be a game-changer for migrant workers appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Dozens of bodies have been discovered at official and unofficial detention sites in Libya. The grim findings confirm deep concerns about abuse and torture at the facilities, according to the UN human rights chief Volker Türk.
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By Solomon Gebrechorkos, Reserach Fellow in Climate Change Attribution, University of Oxford
A new study shows that rising ‘atmospheric thirst’ is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the last four decades.
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By Masaya Llavaneras Blanco, Assistant Professor of Development Studies, Huron University College, Western University
The government of the Dominican Republic is raiding maternity wards and deporting Haitian women before or after they’ve given birth. More than 3,000 have been deported since April 10.
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By Laurence D. Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement.
For example, humans have an exceptionally high proportion of fertilised eggs that have the wrong number of chromosomes and one of the highest rates of harmful genetic mutation.
In my new book The Evolution of Imperfection…
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By Maria Papageorgiou, Leverhulme Early Career Researcher, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University
The US president, Donald Trump, claimed he was able to secure deals totalling more than US$2 trillion (£1.5 trillion) for the US on his tour of the Gulf states in May. Trump said “there has never been anything like” the amount of jobs and money these agreements will bring to the US.
However, providing a lift for the US economy wasn’t the only thing on Trump’s mind. China’s influence in the wider Middle East region is growing fast – so much so that it was even able to mediate a detente between bitter regional…
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By Paul Brindley, Senior Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield
Michael Martin, Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning, University of Sheffield
Outside of the home, public playgrounds are the most common places for children to play and the fundamental right of every child to play is even recognised in a UN convention. Despite this, there has been very limited research exploring inequality in the provision of playgrounds.
To help address this, we have analysed data from almost 34,000…
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