By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Refugees at the Mae La refugee camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, March 5, 2025. © 2025 Valeria Mongelli/Anadolu via Getty Images On August 26, Thailand’s cabinet approved measures allowing Myanmar refugees living in camps along the border to work legally. For many, it will be the first formal employment of their lives. About 108,000 refugees live in the nine camps that have sheltered people fleeing Myanmar military abuses since the 1980s. Nearly half were born there. The new work permits will only be available to about 80,000 refugees registered with the Thai government,…
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By Danita Catherine Burke, Senior Research Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark
The EU has failed to engage Greenlandic people in public consultations that are part of its review of its seal trade regulations.
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By Martin Brueckner, Pro Vice Chancellor, Sustainability, Murdoch University
Charles Roche, Lecturer in Sustainability and Development, Murdoch University
Tauel Harper, Associate Professor in Communications and Media, Murdoch University
Solar on rooftops and EVs on the roads can give a false sense of progress. But it will take much more to actually end reliance on fossil fuels.
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By Drew Terasaki Hart, Ecologist, CSIRO
The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple.
We present an unprecedented and intimate portrait of the seasonal cycles of Earth’s land-based ecosystems. This reveals “hotspots” of seasonal asynchrony around the world – regions where the timing of seasonal cycles can be out of sync between nearby locations.
We…
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By Jacqui Yoxall, Associate Professor & Chair of Discipline - Psychological and Social Health, Southern Cross University
Queensland woman Amanda Maree Power has recently been jailed after faking cancer and fraudulently raising about A$24,000 from friends, family and strangers over several years – including to pay for holidays and fake medical bills.
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By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University
“I’ve had Japanese people crying when I tell them I’m not Diana,” British woman Christina Hance, who sometimes earned thousands of pounds a day as a Diana impersonator, told the BBC in 1996. A few months later, she announced she was stepping back from her duties as a Diana lookalike, saying the job had sent her mad and made her ill.
“I ended up a zombie just like her […] the strain of public life has been too much for both of us,” she said. Probably the best known of countless professional Diana impersonators, she “didn’t really look very much like Diana at all”, according to Edward…
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By Benjamin Nickl, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Culture, Literature and Translation, University of Sydney
Why do so many of the funniest things on social media make no sense at all?
How about Ashby’s stunt scenes for a back brace infomercial on a white swivel chair, overlaid with Chopin’s Nocturne in E Flat Major – or her improvisations as The Lorax; a sequence of HOW…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Members of the media protest a police raid on the office of a news portal and homes of journalists and writers linked to it, at the Press Club in New Delhi, India, October 4, 2023. © 2023 Anushree Fadnavis/Reuters This month the Indian government banned 25 books on the Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, saying they “excite secessionism.”The action by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led administration of Prime Minister Narendra Modi reflects a wider attempt to silence dissent in response to unusually sharp criticisms over its policies. After the…
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By Jean-Christophe Brunet
An interview with Togolese author Sami Tchak, exploring how he defines and shapes his francophone writing in the context of the growing visibility of francophone African literatures.
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By Pardis Mahdavi, Professor of Anthropology, University of La Verne
Several religious groups have historically used psychedelics for healing. Now, a growing number are pushing for their use as a way to mystical experiences.
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