By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cambodia’s opposition leader Kem Sokha talks to the media at his home before leaving for a court hearing in Phnom Penh, January 16, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Heng Sinith (Bangkok) – On April 30, 2026, the Phnom Penh Court of Appeal upheld the politically motivated conviction of the Cambodian political opposition leader Kem Sokha, Human Rights Watch said today. The court extended Sokha’s de-facto house arrest and 27-year sentence that had been imposed in March 2023 and added an additional five-year ban on international travel. Cambodian authorities should immediately…
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By Amnesty International
Ugandan security forces targeted members and supporters of the opposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) with lethal force, arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment before, during and after the 15 January general elections, Amnesty International said today. The organization received multiple reports indicating that between 15 and 18 January, the Ugandan People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) […] The post Uganda: Authorities must investigate election-related killings, arbitrary arrests and torture of opposition members, supporters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
The Nigerian authorities must conduct a prompt, thorough, independent, impartial, transparent and effective investigation into the reported deaths of least 150 members of the Fulani community, most of them children, who have been arbitrarily detained by the Nigerian military in the north-central state of Kwara, Amnesty International said today. An investigation by the human rights […] The post Nigeria: Authorities must investigate deaths of at least 150 Fulani people in military camp appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Rob Brooks, Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW Sydney
What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date?
We might be about to find out.
According to a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we are entering the era of “evolvable AI” – AI systems that can undergo evolution. In turn, that might give rise to a major transition in evolution.
How major is “major”? Well,…
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By Amber Gwynne, Lecturer in Writing, The University of Queensland
The Ruiners is an unsettling literary eco-thriller set on a Greek island, which could be a bohemian utopia – if it wasn’t the site of illegal dumping.
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By Julie Old, Associate Professor in Biology, Zoology and Animal Science, Western Sydney University
Brian Dixon, Professor of Biology, University of Waterloo
Each animal species has an optimal temperature at which it can metabolise food and its immune system can best fight off pathogens.
As our recent research shows, temperature directly affects the immune systems of vertebrates – regardless of how they moderate their own body temperatures. At first, slightly hotter temperatures actually give many animal immune systems a boost. But when temperatures get still hotter, conditions favour pathogens…
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By Kate Griffiths, Democracy Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute
A formal government response to a federal inquiry into online gambling harm may be tabled while the parliament is looking elsewhere.
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By Christopher Hastas, PhD Researcher, Western Sydney University
Irena Veljanova, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Western Sydney University
Julia Kantek, Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
Mick Houlbrook, Lecturer, Western Sydney University
You are more empowered because you get to be seen for who you are.
These are the words of Link*, an online gamer with disability – one of a group of 15 gamers with disability we interviewed as part of our new study, published in the Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Our study aimed to better understand what online gaming offers people with a disability. And Link’s experience highlights one of its key findings: online gaming acts as a powerful space of…
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By Human Rights Watch
Nepali authorities have stopped processing applications for transgender people to change their legal gender on identity documents.The authorities’ actions are regressing on years of progress and undermining the fundamental right of recognition before the law.The Nepal government should immediately process pending applications and create a clear policy for legal gender recognition aligned with international human rights law.(Berlin, April 30, 2026) – Nepali authorities have stopped processing applications for transgender people to change their legal gender on identity documents, regressing…
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By Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
Geofencing warrants round up the location data of everyone in a specific place and time, whether or not they had any connection to a crime – a test of the Fourth Amendment in the digital age.
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