By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Guezouma Sanogo (L) and Boukari Ouoba. © Private Earlier in July 2025, Burkina Faso authorities released five journalists and a human rights activist who had been unlawfully conscripted into the military after criticizing the country’s military junta. While a positive development, their release is also a stark reminder of others still missing, some since 2024, with no hint as to their whereabouts.On March 24, 2024, authorities in the capital, Ouagadougou, detained Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Phil Roland Zongo, members of the country’s Journalists…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus (3rd L) visits three secret detention facilities known as "Ayna Ghor," which had been used as torture cells during the Awami League government's rule, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 12, 2025. © 2025 Nayem Shaan/Drik/Getty Images (New York) – The interim Bangladesh government of Mohammed Yunus is falling short in implementing its challenging human rights agenda a year since tens of thousands of people took to the street to successfully depose their authoritarian government, Human Rights Watch said today.Some of the fear and repression that…
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By Kasey Symons, Lecturer of Communication, Sports Media, Deakin University
Sports fans might love their teams, cheer or curse each game’s result and admire their favourite athletes, but we rarely associate sports with romance.
However, that may be slowly changing thanks to the recent spike in the popularity of romance fiction, which has created an unlikely sub-genre.
A genre on the rise
Romance fiction sales in Australia are up, with an average growth rate of 49% over three years.
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By Anna Clark, Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
John Hirst’s body of work is an implicit but powerful defence of evidence-based history at a time when the truth is under attack.
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By Magnus Söderberg, Professor and Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University
Ideally, Australia’s emerging green grid would have plenty of solar, storage and wind. But rising costs are stalling many wind projects.
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By Huw Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
A new adaptation of Max Porter’s novella brings the story of devastation and tentative renewal to the stage at Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The influential crossbench MP warns young working people are going backwards financially. She also backs the government’s proposed YouTube ban for kids – for now.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Pollution rises from the stacks of the Miami Fort Power Plant, which is situated along the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio, July 11, 2025 © 2025 Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via AP Photo The Trump administration proposed on July 29 to revoke the 2009 finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gases endanger public health, a move that would gut the government’s ability to regulate fossil fuels and reject decades of scientific evidence.A cornerstone of US climate policy, the declaration known as the “endangerment finding” has provided a legal…
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By Lori Leigh, Research Fellow in Public Health, University of Otago
Brodie Fraser, Senior Research Fellow in Housing and Health, University of Otago
Research shows rainbow communities experience violence, family rejection and social exclusion. But a lack of population data means they are systematically under-recognised.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Caption: Turkmen activists Alisher Sakhatov (left) and Abdulla Orusov (right). © 2025 THF (Berlin) – Two Turkmen dissident bloggers have been missing since July 24, 2025, when they were reportedly released from a Turkish deportation center, Human Rights Watch said today. Turkish authorities should ensure that the bloggers, Alisher Sakhatov and Abdulla Orusov, are not returned to Turkmenistan, where they would be at grave risk of torture and arbitrary imprisonment.Sakhatov and Orusov had been held in deportation centers since police arrested them on…
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