By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wazed at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, November 9, 2021. © 2021 Michel Euler/AP Photo The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh on November 17, 2025, found Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister, and Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, the former home minister, guilty of crimes against humanity during the violent suppression of student-led protests in 2024, Human Rights Watch said today.Both were prosecuted in absentia, not represented by counsel of their choosing, and sentenced to death, raising serious human…
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By Lucinda Grummitt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney
Being exposed to trauma in childhood is linked to serious mental and physical health issues later in life. These findings show trauma is not rare.
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By Sophie Smit, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sydney
Tijl Grootswagers, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Within a fraction of a second of seeing another person being touched, our brains figure out who is involved and how it might feel.
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By Danilo Urzedo, Research fellow, The University of Western Australia
Oliver Tester, Indigenous Liaison Manager, Curtin University
Stephen van Leeuwen, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia
The UN climate conference in the Brazilian Amazon marks an unprecedented effort to elevate Indigenous concerns in negotiating rooms and on the streets.
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By Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.”
The law’s creators promised it would protect law-abiding citizens from prosecution if they used force in self-defense. Then-Florida state Rep. Dennis Baxley, who cosponsored the bill, claimed – in the wake of George…
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By Nicolas Chartier-Edwards, PhD student, Politics, Science and Technology, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
François-Olivier Picard, PhD student, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Promoting AI as an economic driver within an unregulated environment risks disrupting key sectors and services that sustain Canadian democracy.
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By Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
More than half of respondents in a new survey said they were concerned about US interference in Australia, a jump of nearly 20 points since 2021.
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By Stan Karanasios, Professor in Information Systems, The University of Queensland
We’ve been warned of a looming AI ‘jobpocalypse’ for years. But many Australian businesses are still figuring out how to make the technology useful.
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By Asma Aziz, Senior Lecturer in Power Engineering, Edith Cowan University
The main way we show energy use is through “primary energy”. But this metric conceals the truly enormous waste of the energy in fossil fuels.
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By Raymond Evans, Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Griffith University
Australian history has often been written from a southern perspective. But a history of the tropical North sheds light on ‘truth telling’ and questions of race.
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