By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, July 2025. © 2025 Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via AP Photo (The Hague) – Libyan authorities should urgently surrender Osama Elmasry Njeem to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is wanted for serious crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should also ensure full cooperation with the court for other ICC suspects believed to be in Libya.Njeem is a senior member of the Deterrence Apparatus for Countering Terrorism and Organized Crime, a Tripoli-based militia affiliated with the Presidential…
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By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University
The Robodebt saga has highlighted serious concerns about corruption, as well as about the body charged with stamping it out.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Matt Canavan was once Barnaby Joyce’s staffer, and later his closest ally and most vociferous spruiker. Not to mention his best political friend.
Now, in selecting Canavan as their new leader, the Nationals have chosen him to spearhead the party’s life-and-death fight against One Nation. Its latest weapon is Joyce, who defected from the Nationals late last year.
Canavan can perhaps thank the surge in One Nation’s vote in recent months for his leadership victory. It’s a direct response to this threat. After the 2025 election, Canavan only received seven votes when he ran…
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By Melissa Phillips, Lecturer, Western Sydney University
The past 48 hours in Australia has showcased the dramatic complexities of the country’s migration and asylum landscape, and the power of ministerial intervention in this federal portfolio.
On the one hand, the federal government pulled out all stops to safeguard members of the Iranian women’s soccer team from returning to Iran – after competing in Australia at the Asian Women’s Cup – by providing them with refugee status.
On the other hand, as this…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A former bus station hosts internally displaced people who arrived in Gedarefduring during a wave of mass displacement from the Sinjar/Sannar region south of Khartoum, Sudan, July 2024. © 2024 Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images On February 26, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Norway announced the formation of a coalition to prevent atrocities and promote justice in Sudan. As atrocities continue unabated the coalition has its work cut out.The announcement—by the countries that make up Sudan Core Group at the Human Rights’ Council—follows…
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By Hussein Dia, Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
Diesel powers most freight trucks. As oil prices spike, electric trucks are looking more attractive – if upfront cost and charging barriers can be overcome
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By Amnesty International
What were some of Hind’s last words to you, and do you hold the world responsible for her terrible death? I’m scared… come and get me. She said a sentence that tore my heart apart: ‘Mum, they’re lying. Stay with me!’ At that moment, I realized the betrayal. An ambulance was sent to her. It […] The post Wesam Hamada: “I want to keep Hind’s voice alive, because hers is the voice of all the children of Gaza” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Two women are currently in custody in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public. The pair, whom Ugandan police arrested on February 18, are detained under the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, one of the most draconian anti-LGBT legislations in the world.Uganda criminalizes consensual same-sex relations under its British colonial-era Penal Code Act. Over the last decade, the Ugandan government has increasingly further restricted the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, culminating in the 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act.The Act criminalizes consensual same-sex conduct with penalties…
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
From BNP stalwart to expelled independent, Rumeen Farhana rode the ‘duck’ symbol to a 38,000-vote victory in Brahmanbaria-2, defying harassment, party betrayal, and Bangladesh’s bruising gendered political battlefield.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Logo of the National Cyber Defense Council (Conseil national de cyberdéfense) at the entrance to the National Transport Office in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. © 2025 Human Rights Watch Congolese security forces have been responsible for numerous enforced disappearances in and around Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, since March 2025.The Congolese government is using the National Cyber Defense Council (CNC) as a proxy to carry out arrests and detentions of political opponents on dubious grounds.The authorities should ensure that…
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