By Amnesty International
Iranian authorities are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The deepening crisis underscores the urgent need for the international community to pursue concrete criminal accountability measures. Since 13 June, Iranian authorities have arrested over 20,000 people, including dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, […] The post Iran: Authorities unleash wave of oppression after hostilities with Israel appeared first on Amnesty International.…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet attend a news conference after a bilateral talk at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo, May 30, 2025. © 2025 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Photo Cambodian authorities are harassing Cambodians living in Japan who are publicly critical of Cambodia’s government and also harassing their relatives in Cambodia.The Cambodian government’s expansion of repression to include activists in Japan and other countries is an example of transnational repression.The Japanese government should rebuke Cambodia’s…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru, September 3, 2018. © 2018 Jason Oxenham/AP Photo Last week, the Australian government struck a A$400 million (US$260 million) deal with Nauru to deport 280 people to the small Pacific island nation. It is also proposing new legislation to strip those facing deportation of their basic procedural rights.The government is targeting refugees and migrants whom it had previously been forced to release from its onshore immigration detention system following a landmark 2023 high court ruling. The court ruled that Australia’s…
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By Human Rights Watch
(Beirut) – Iranian authorities are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The deepening crisis underscores the urgent need for the international community to pursue concrete criminal accountability measures.Since June 13, 2025, Iranian authorities have arrested over 20,000 people, including dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists, social media users, families of victims unlawfully killed in nationwide protests, and foreign nationals.…
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By Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Japan surrendered to the Chinese nationalist army in September 1945. But since then, Beijing has played up the role of communist fighters.
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By Karin Hammarberg, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women's Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Australia’s fertility sector has been rocked by yet more reports of serious errors, this time involving sperm donors from overseas.
On Monday, an ABC investigation revealed a Brisbane couple had signed a non-disclosure agreement after discovering that sperm from the wrong overseas donor had been used to conceive their child, who was born in 2014.
The same fertility clinic had keep secret an…
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By Melissa Parris, Senior Lecturer, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
Maggie McAlinden, Senior lecturer, Edith Cowan University
Uma Jogulu, Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
Pathways to resolving Australia’s skills shortage were a key discussion point at the government’s recent economic reform roundtable. One of those discussions specifically focused on the need to streamline skills recognition for qualified migrants.
The Productivity Commission has highlighted the continuing mismatch for…
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By Alice Brown, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
Students in Adelaide have been protesting to keep face-to-face lectures. But many students today work or live far from campus – making old-school lectures tricky.
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By Timothy Koskie, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
YouTube was found to have used AI to edit videos without creators’ consent. And it’s not the first time a media company has done this.
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By Rohan Lloyd, Lecturer in Science and Society, James Cook University
In the late 1960s, oil and gas companies began exploring the Great Barrier Reef for oil. It took campaigners, unionists and a royal commission to protect the reef.
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