By Amnesty International
Thousands of people who recently escaped or were released from scamming compounds in Cambodia where they were subjected to grave abuses including rape and torture are now stranded and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after gathering harrowing testimony from survivors. Interviews with recently enslaved people – almost all foreign nationals – […] The post Cambodia: Growing humanitarian crisis as escaped scamming compound survivors tell of murder, rape and torture appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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Monday, January 26, 2026
On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the global community to “not only to look at our past, but to reflect on our present, and to safeguard our future.”
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By Pankhuri Agarwal, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Bath; King's College London
A new trade agreement between India and the UK is due to come into force this year. The deal is expected to completely remove tariffs from nearly 99% of Indian goods, including clothing and footwear, that are headed for the UK.
In both countries, this has been widely celebrated as a win for economic growth and competitiveness. And for Indian garment workers in particular, the trade agreement carries real promise.
This is because in recent years, clothing exports from India have declined…
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By Timothy Hearn, Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin University
An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent bell. By night that beat drops from roughly 36 pulses a minute to nearer 30, and the animal slips into a state that, despite its lack of a brain, resembles sleep.
Field cameras show it even takes a brief siesta around noon, to “catch up” after a disturbed night.
A new Nature Communications study has tracked these lulls in cassiopea…
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By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
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By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University
Nicholas Farrelly, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
Five years ago, on February 1 2021, Myanmar’s top generals decapitated the elected government. Democratic leaders were arrested, pushed underground or forced into exile.
Since then, the economy has spluttered and foreign investors have headed for the exit. The only growth industries – mostly scam…
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By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Monash University
Klaus Lunau, Professor, Institute of Sensory Ecology, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Birds and bees see the world in different ways – and some flowers have evolved to take advantage of the gap in their perspectives.
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By Andrea Katz, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within the executive’s power to enforce federal law.
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By Sue Turnbull, Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong
Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.
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By Jonathan Barrett, Professor of Taxation and Commercial Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
As Australia reforms laws that can inadvertently trap financial abuse victims, New Zealand must ask what protections – and risks – exist here.
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