By Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel, Lecturer in Environment and Development, University of Manchester
Birhan Mezgbo, Academic Researcher, Tufts University
Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises of recent years.
Despite the enormous scale of suffering…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Once again, the Nationals have got out in front of the Liberals on a key issue, this time net zero, announcing on Sunday they were dumping their commitment to it.
This is not unexpected, but more than awkward for their Coalition partner. It makes it trickier for the Liberals to retain the target – which is politically important in city seats – albeit in some watered-down form. It raises the question: if the Liberals stick with net zero what does that mean for the Coalition relationship?
And it puts the Liberals under greater pressure to get a policy out quickly. The party…
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By Kanav Narayan Sahgal
At a time when global backlash against transgender rights is surging, the Supreme Court of India is moving towards the “full realization" of equality for transgender people under the law.
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By Dr. Zach Boakes, Postdoctoral research fellow, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
Tries Blandine Razak, Researcher, School of Coral Reef Restoration, IPB University
Most restoration programmes focus their efforts on increasing coral growth, but rarely ask whether the reef is actually functioning as a living ecosystem.
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By Dan Paget, Assistant professor, University of Sussex
In Tanzania, something snapped this year. Protests followed the 29 October 2025 elections. They are unprecedented in their scale, national breadth and political content since the country’s independence in 1961.
But the repression unleashed by newly…
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By Hong Kong Free Press
The self-taught artist draws everyday Hong Kong cuisine to share his passion for food and capture fading flavors, which are often being lost as the city develops and changes.
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Friday, October 31, 2025
The Independent UN Fact-Finding Mission investigating alleged rights abuses in Iran says there has been a “surge in repression and extraordinary spike in executions” there since Israeli hit the country with airstrikes in June.
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Friday, October 31, 2025
The UN is calling for restraint in Tanzania, amid deadly protests following the 29 October general election, as the country remains under curfew and faces widespread internet restrictions.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Penha favela residents protest in front of the Guanabara Palace against a deadly police operation that resulted in at least 121 killings, in Rio de Janeiro, October 29, 2025. © 2025 Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo (São Paulo) – Police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including 4 police officers, during a raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 28, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The raid affected low-income, primarily Black neighborhoods. Police did not preserve crime…
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By Joel Gray, Associate Dean, Sheffield Hallam University
There can be no doubt that any conversation about British girlbands of the last 30 years would be dominated by Spice Girls.
In whichever corner of the globe you are, they were the defacto pop force of the late 1990s – and their impact has been long-lasting. From Adele…
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