By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Libyan Coast Guard patrol boat Ras Jadir intercepts a wooden boat in the Mediterranean Sea, July 30, 2021. © 2021 David Lohmüller/Sea-Watch (Milan, October 13, 2025) – Italy should revoke its damaging migrant cooperation agreement with Libya, Human Rights Watch said today. The Italy-Libya Memorandum of Understanding on migration cooperation will renew automatically for three years on November 2, 2025, if neither party revokes it or makes any revisions by that date.The agreement, signed in 2017, includes significant material and technical support from Italy to the…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Sussan Ley has reshuffled her frontbench team again after Liberal Andrew Haste resigned as Shadow Minister of Home Affairs over immigration concerns .
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign takes place annually around 10 December – Human Rights Day, in celebration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The campaign mobilizes millions of people worldwide to support individuals and communities facing human rights violations. During last year’s Write for Rights campaign, more than […] The post Human Rights Education toolkits for Write for Rights 2025 appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Every year, Amnesty witnesses the power of human rights activism, despite the atrocities the world is facing. With authoritarian practices on the rise, and the genocide in Gaza, climate collapse and the erosion of civil rights dominating the headlines, Amnesty International’s annual Write for Rights campaign proves that hope can prevail, even in the darkest […] The post Write for Rights – why hope and humanity deserve to win appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Reuters' journalist Issam Abdallah films an interview amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, April 17, 2022. © 2022 Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters (Beirut) – Lebanon’s announcement on October 9, 2025, that it has tasked the Justice Ministry with assessing the legal measures that may be taken following Israeli attacks on journalists during the last war offers a fresh opportunity to achieve justice for the victims, Human Rights Watch said today.Two years since Israel’s apparently deliberate attack on journalists in south Lebanon, which killed a Reuters…
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By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney
The classic 1955 D’Arcy Niland novel has been dapted by Kate Mulvany and directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company
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By Alexandra A Phillips, Assistant Teaching Professor in Environmental Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at growing risk. But, what does that actually mean?
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By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University
With both parties agreeing to terms, the first stages of a peace plan in Gaza are in motion. US President Donald Trump is credited (especially in Israel and the US) with having played a vital role in this development.
But why have banners appeared in Israel depicting Trump with the caption “Cyrus the Great is alive”?
Who was Cyrus and what is he renowned for?
Founder of the Achaemenid Persian empire
Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenid Persian empire (550 BCE to 330 BCE).
Under Cyrus and his successors, the Persian empire…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A protester holds up an EU flag with "help" written on it, during a demonstration in Budapest on May 18, 2025 against a bill empowering the government to sanction civil society organizations and media it deems threats to the country's sovereignty. © 2025 FERENC ISZA/AFP via Getty Images (Brussels, October 13, 2025) – European Union member states meeting on October 21 to discuss Hungary’s erosion of the rule of law should vote on whether Hungary is at risk of a serious breach of EU treaty values, Human Rights Watch said today.As the Hungarian government…
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By Hasya Nindita
Critics warn that though Indonesia is viewed as a booming EV market and a source of raw materials, it is not reaping the benefits as an equal partner.
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