By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Iklass Ahmed, projected on screen, Founder and Coordinator of the Darfur Advocacy Group, addresses the Security Council during a meeting on Women, Peace and Security focused on conflict-related sexual violence, August 19, 2025. © 2025 Bianca Otero/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters This month sees the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. Adopted in October 2000, Resolution 1325 established that women should be full, safe, equal, and meaningful participants in all discussions about their country’s future, including…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon during their meeting in Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025. © 2025 Sergei Bobylev/Sputnik via AP Photo (Brussels) – Tajikistan should deny entry to Russian President Vladimir Putin or arrest him if he enters the country, based on an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for him, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kremlin announced that Putin is planning to travel to Tajikistan on October 9, 2025, to attend a Russia-Central Asia summit and a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The multiculturalism expert says increased tensions since the October 7 attacks have raised ‘the tideline of hate speech’ in Australia.
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By Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter
Most of the UK’s commercial fish stocks are not in a healthy state, according to a new landmark report.
Marine conservation charity Oceana UK’s Deep Decline report – one of the most comprehensive analyses of fish stocks since Brexit – finds that half of the UK’s top ten commercial fish stocks are either critically low, overexploited, or both. These include icons of our seas…
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By Amnesty International
Tanzanian authorities must immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of a former Tanzanian ambassador to Cuba, Humphrey Polepole, who may have been forcibly disappeared. They must also ensure his safety and bring those responsible for his abduction and possible assault to justice through fair and transparent legal processes, Amnesty International said today. Humphrey Polepole’s family […] The post Tanzania: Fears mount over disappearance of government critic Humphery Pole Pole appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Leocadia Bongben
Local Collaborative Management Committees (LCMCs), give voice to marginalized groups (women, youth, and ethnic minorities) and ensure that their concerns are included in government conservation plans.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ismail al-Iskandrani. © Private (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities detained prominent independent journalist Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts, Human Rights Watch said today. They should immediately and unconditionally release Iskandarani and establish an independent committee to review the detention of thousands of peaceful critics and release all those detained for peaceful speech, assembly, or association.According to his lawyers, security forces arrested Iskandarani on September 24, 2025, at a checkpoint in Matrouh governorate only two days after President…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports of an aerial attack by the Myanmar military that is said to have killed upwards of 20 civilians, including children, when multiple bombs were dropped from motorized paragliders, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “The sickening reports emerging from the ground in central Myanmar following a nighttime attack late on Monday […] The post Myanmar: ‘Deadly attack’ on festival highlights paraglider threat to civilians appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Mark Gatto, Assistant Professor in Critical Organisation Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Warning: this article contains spoilers.
In One Battle After Another, three characters (Bob Ferguson, Colonel Steven Lockjaw and Sergio St Carlos) represent three different models of fatherhood.
Fatherhood is a timely theme. The place of men in society is being debated and challenged by polarising figures from both sides of the political spectrum.
One side promotes a regressive vision of the patriarchal…
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By William Partlett, Associate Professor of Public Law, The University of Melbourne
Paul Brereton’s ongoing conflict of interest woes threaten public trust in the National Anti-Corruption Commission. He urgently needs to change tack.
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