By Amnesty International
Big Tech or big technology companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple influence how we access and interact on the internet. They control key sectors such as search, social media, cloud computing, e-commerce and mobile phone production systems. Access to these services is almost as important to our rights and livelihoods as daily utilities […] The post Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights? appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Liam Anderson
Ten years after its first edition and its author’s arrest, a book which adapts philosopher Gene Sharp’s work has a new edition. GV spoke with the author, Domingos da Cruz.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Rohingya woman carries drinking water in Madanpur Khadar refugee camp, India, January 14, 2024. © 2024 Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them.In May, states in India governed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) initiated a campaign to expel Rohingya and Bengali-speaking…
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By Sally Mackay, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Jane Martin, Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Only about a third of infant foods in NZ, and a quarter in Australia, meet WHO nutritional recommendations. But many are packaged to create a ‘halo’ of health.
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By Jessica Geraghty, Senior Associate, Economic Prosperity and Democracy program, Grattan Institute
Australia’s workforce is almost evenly split between men and women. Yet fewer than one in four Australians work in a gender-balanced occupation.
This has improved over time, but at a glacial rate. In 1990, more than half of men (52%) worked in occupations that were more than 80% male. Thirty-five…
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By Clare Littleton, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia
Louise Townsin, Director, Research Management Services, Torrens University Australia
Zelinna Pablo, Professor, Centre for Healthy Sustainable Development, Torrens University Australia
New research looks at a unique model in South Australia where an aged-care facility is co-located with a childcare centre. Here’s what the researchers found.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Rohingya woman carries drinking water in Madanpur Khadar refugee camp, India, January 14, 2024. © 2024 Pradeep Gaur/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo Indian authorities have expelled scores of ethnic Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh and Myanmar without rights protections since May 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities have arbitrarily detained several hundred more, mistreating some of them.In May, states in India governed by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) initiated a campaign to expel Rohingya and Bengali-speaking…
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By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts and Education, Charles Sturt University
In sports such as wrestling, boxing, rowing, weight lifting and the martial arts, athletes are grouped by weight to make things fairer.
It wouldn’t make sense for someone who weighs 60 kilograms to fight someone who weighs 100kg, because the bigger person usually has more power.
That’s why weight divisions exist, so the result depends more on skill than just size…
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By Kylie Message, Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
United States President Donald Trump first signalled his intention to target the Smithsonian Institution in March, when he signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.
This executive order – one of several targeting the cultural sector – vowed to remove…
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By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney
Gavin Newsom has energised fellow Democrats with his ‘fight fire with fire’ approach to the president – if he wins, he may be a strong candidate for the White House.
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