By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A classroom at St. Mary's Catholic School in Papiri, Agwarra local government, Niger state, on November 23, 2025. © 2025 Ifeanyi Immanuel Bakwenye / AFP via Getty Images (Abuja) – Nigerian authorities should act urgently to secure the safe release of students and teachers recently kidnapped in the country’s northwest and take concrete steps to protect schools and communities from further attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. The groups responsible for the kidnappings should immediately release the students and teachers they are holding captive.On November 18,…
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By Amnesty International
Egyptian authorities should amend the associations law to lift tight restrictions over independent civil society organizations, hindering the right to freedom of association and other rights and putting the future of the country’s civic space at risk, Amnesty International said in a new briefing published today. The briefing, ‘Whatever security says must be done’: Independent NGOs’ […] The post Egypt: Reverse sweeping controls over independent civil society organizations appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Qian Sun
While profits and prestige flow upward, the environmental and social costs often settle quietly in the valleys where the limestone is mined and the dust never fully clears.
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By Amnesty International
Survivors who escaped El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State have detailed to Amnesty International how fighters with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed scores of unarmed men and raped dozens of women and girls as they captured the city. Amnesty International researchers interviewed survivors who described witnessing groups of men shot or beaten, and […] The post Sudan: El Fasher survivors tell of deliberate RSF killings and sexual violence – new testimony appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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Monday, November 24, 2025
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, says major companies and fast-moving technologies are creating new challenges for tackling rights abuses – and that governments and businesses need to step up.
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By Katherine Y. Ko, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroscience, Monash University
This debilitating brain disease is rare. But its early symptoms are often mistaken for anxiety, depression, chronic fatigue or dementia.
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By Sara Tolbert, Professor of Science Education, Monash University
Ben Kennedy, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Canterbury
Sibel Erduran, Professor of Science Education, University of Oxford
Troy D Sadler, Professor of Science Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Critical thinking is an essential skill students should be encouraged to develop as part of their science learning. NZ’s draft science curriculum fails the test.
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By Cheng Cheng, Senior Research Officer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
Australia’s renewable boom has created a new bottleneck: grid access. As new transmission line costs blow out amid protests, we need to optimise the build.
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By Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
AI slop was the clear winner of Macquarie’s Word of the Year – it also won the People’s Choice Award. Honourable mentions included another AI-related word: clanker.
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By Laura Walls, PhD Candidate in Screenwriting, Queensland University of Technology
Much of The Beast in me is sensitive, sophisticated storytelling. So why is this sacrificed for a gratuitous depiction of violence against women?
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