By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Murray Hunter, Thailand, November 20, 2025. © 2025 Thai Lawyers for Human Rights (Bangkok) – Thai authorities should drop criminal defamation charges against the Australian journalist Murray Hunter, who is being prosecuted for reporting on Malaysia’s media regulating agency, Human Rights Watch said today.Thai authorities arrested Hunter on September 29, 2025, at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport while he was awaiting to board a flight to Hong Kong. He was charged with four counts of “defamation by publication,” section 328 of Thailand’s criminal code, for defaming the…
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By Alexander Plum, Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
People of Māori descent account for just a fifth of Aotearoa’s population, but are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system. They comprise 37% of people prosecuted by police, 45% of those convicted and 52% of the prison population.
Such statistics, however,…
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By Luke Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails society at large.
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By Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne
Dogs don’t stockpile food due to anxiety about impending disaster – they’re revealing how their evolutionary past still shapes modern behaviours.
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By Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University
Two teenagers are taking the federal government to the High Court. They argue the ban on social media accounts for under-16s is unconstitutional because it interferes with free political communication.
The ban is due to take effect on December 10.
Will the High Court challenge make any difference?
What does the law do?
Due…
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By Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
It is that time of the year again – Black Friday is almost upon us. What used to be just an American event has now taken over the calendar in many other countries as one of the key shopping events of the year.
However, market research by investment platform Aegon, conducted on 2024’s Black Friday shoppers, found that almost 60% of participants would spend their money differently, if they could go back in time.
Regret…
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By Jonathan Lord, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Law, University of Salford
Evelyn Oginni, Lecturer in People Management, University of Salford
Guoxin Ma, Senior Lecturer in Business, Royal Agricultural University
Women in the UK face a “motherhood penalty” in the workplace when they have a child. New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that mothers in England lose, on average, more than £65,000 in earnings across the five years after a first child. This gap is driven by reduced hours, stalled progression and job moves to fit around caring for a child.
These…
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By Stephen Hibbs, HARP Doctoral Research Fellow and Haematology Registrar, Queen Mary University of London
Christina Barriteau, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation), Pathology, Northwestern University
Kari Lancaster, Professor in Social Studies of Science and Health, in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences,, University of Bath
Over 20% of people with the Duffy null variant are wrongly labelled ‘abnormal’, by current blood test ranges, leading to needless biopsies and lower chemo doses.
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By Ezgi Unsal, Lecturer in Development Economics, SOAS, University of London
Can a country so key to the global oil and gas trade help broker a deal that accelerates the end of fossil fuels?
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By Michael Kendall, Professor of Geophysics, University of Oxford
Caitlin McElroy, Departmental Research Lecturer, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
Jon Blundy, Royal Society Research Professor, Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
You’re probably reading this article on a phone or laptop containing more than 30 different metals. Some will be common: aluminium casing, copper wires. But other metals are less familiar and much more scarce. Each iPhone contains less than a gram of lithium, for instance, but would not function without it.
We are in the midst of a geopolitically charged race for lithium and other so-called critical minerals. These materials are crucial for renewable energy, transport, data centres, aerospace and…
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