By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The head of the Gendarmerie’s Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity, Genocides and War Crimes (OCLCH), displays documents with a wanted poster of Félicien Kabuga, May 19, 2020, in Paris. © 2020 Benoit Tessler/Reuters The death of accused Rwandan genocide financier Félicien Kabuga closes an important chapter of the country’s 1994 genocide. Unfortunately, it also robs survivors of a chance for justice many had waited decades to see.Kabuga, long alleged to have financed the extremist militia that carried out the genocide and helped fuel genocidal…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Omar Ahmod risked his safety to return to Hoyyar Siri a few months after the massacre, located the sites where he had seen civilians gunned down, and took videos and photographs of human remains. These images were analyzed by forensics experts who, in some cases, identified gunshot injuries to the skulls of victims. “There, I saw heaps of skeletons and skulls scattered everywhere, clothes still intact though the flesh had decayed. Some bodies were in water-filled ditches, others on dry ground. I remembered exactly where these people had been gathered,” Omar Ahmod…
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By Brian Tang, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
A hurricane scientist explains the technology forecasters rely on to keep people safe and help communities all along the Atlantic coast know when to evacuate.
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By Jason Nassios, Deputy Director and Associate Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
Beth Webster, Director, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne
Is Australia finally getting serious about tax reform, or just testing the waters?
The 2026 federal budget makes some long-debated changes to capital gains tax, family trusts and negative gearing. This has sparked fresh debate about whether the tax system is pulling its weight, especially when it comes to housing.
The reality is these changes are small. Taken together, they are expected to improve the budget position by just 0.2%…
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By Gorana Grgić, Head of Global Security, Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; University of Sydney
As NATO counts down to its annual summit in Turkey in July, the alliance is facing perhaps the biggest challenge in its history – what a potential future without the United States, or US security guarantees, would look like.
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has taken a series of steps widely interpreted in European capitals as retaliation for allies’ reluctance to more strongly support the US position in the Iran war. It has announced
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By Narendar Manohar, Research Fellow in Workplace Mental Health, Black Dog Institute
Hiroko Fujimoto, Research Officer in Workplace Mental Health, Black Dog Institute
Peter Baldwin, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology; UNSW Sydney
Long-term data shows children are more likely to develop mental health issues when their parents experience financial stress and housing instability.
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By Daniel Binns, Senior Lecturer, Media & Communication, RMIT University
Meg Thomas, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
The Academy has decided to ban AI actors and scripts from the Oscars. But machine learning systems are actually used in cinema more often than most people realise.
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By Vitomir Kovanovic, Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, Adelaide University
AI infractions could result in a year-long ban from the arXiv system, which is an essential communication channel in many fields of research.
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By Fiona Boylan, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
Amelia Ruscoe, Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
Just when one child is ready, another can’t find a shoe, someone remembers homework and someone else starts crying because they want more breakfast.
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By Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
Periodic Bitch tells what it’s like to live with PMDD: an extreme, chronically understudied and widely misunderstood form of premenstrual illness.
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