By Mong Palatino
Thailand MP Rangsiman Rome questioned the motive for filing defamation charges: “Is this really about damage to reputation or is it an attempt to silence criticism and protect something bigger?”
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By Human Rights Watch
Play Video Read a text description of this video SOUNDBITESToto AraraEvery year, the invaders clear more land for cattle. Then they burn it. SOUNDBITESGivanildo dos Santos LimaToday, the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon region is cattle ranching.DATE/PLACEFebruary 2025Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory, Brazil Powdem AraraI don't know why the government doesn't remove the invaders from our land. Pyjaka AraraWe, the Arara people, are very afraid of ranchers. Maria Márcia de MeloThe landgrabbers made me lose 17 years of work in a matter of minutes. Look! It's…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Security forces use water cannons to disperse youth protesters calling for healthcare and education reforms, in Salé, Morocco, October 1, 2025. © 2025 Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo (Beirut) – Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should heed protesters’ calls and fulfil the rights to health care and education, respect the right to peaceful protest, and investigate the use of lethal force by the Royal Gendarmerie…
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By Evangeline Gardiner, PhD Candidate in Public Health, The University of Queensland
Lily O'Hara, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Griffith University
“You look so great! Have you lost weight?”
“Wow, you’re looking so healthy now! Good for you.”
As fat people, we’ve heard comments like this for most of our lives. At the times when our bodies were smaller, these comments made us feel proud and accepted. We felt like we were finally “good enough”.
But when we regained the weight, as happens for most people, we felt like our bodies were no longer “good enough” and that these well-intentioned comments were in fact harmful.
Through our…
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By Amnesty International
Africans and people of African descent whose lives continue to be shaped by the discriminatory legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism must receive reparatory justice, Amnesty International said ahead of the Wakati Wetu Festival, due to take place from 22-23 October in Nairobi, Kenya. The festival, for which Amnesty International is a partner, […] The post Kenya: Pioneering arts festival to demand reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Marie Inger Dam, Researcher, Biotechnology, Lund University
A single “sexy” gene could help us combat one of the world’s most destructive fruit pests. By deleting the gene that lets female moths produce their mating scent, colleagues and I created an “unsexy” moth – and showed one way to turn insect attraction into a powerful pest control tool.
You’ve probably seen moths flittering around a bright lamppost on a balmy summer night. Those same insects, in their larval form, are the worms that burrow into your apples and peaches, making them serious…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Shelters at the Wendou 2 displaced persons camp in Dori, Burkina Faso, May 29, 2024. © 2024 FANNY NOARO-KABRE/AFP via Getty Images (Nairobi) – The military junta in Burkina Faso is wrongfully detaining eight aid workers who had been helping to address the humanitarian emergency in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately drop the baseless charges against them and release them.In late July 2025, the Burkinabè intelligence services in Ouagadougou, the capital, detained the French national Jean-Christophe Pégon, director…
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By Philipa Margaret Rothfield, Honorary Staff Member, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University; University of Southern Denmark
The Lyon Dance Biennale is Europe’s largest dance festival, bringing together dancers – and audiences – from across the world.
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By Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
Amy Clair, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
Chris Leishman, Professor of Property and Housing Economics, University of South Australia
Governments have been pushing the construction of apartment towers for years to help housing affordability and availability, but people don’t want to live in them.
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By Catherine E. Wood, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology
Farting, while universal, can also be taboo. It is this conflict that makes it a source of laughter as children learn what is socially acceptable.
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