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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By Kiriloi M. Ingram, Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Queensland
The issue of returning Australian citizens connected to Islamic State has become a vexed issue. There are better ways to handle it.
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By Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Trump’s foreign policy approach is fast-paced and intensely personal. The true test of its success won’t be Gaza, but geostrategic conflicts with China and Russia.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Jim Chalmers has watered down from Labor’s changes to superannuation, and fully dumped the plan to tax unrealised capital gains
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