By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Migrant workers at a construction site near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2, 2024. © 2024 Jaap Arriens/Sipa via AP Photo (Beirut) – At least 600 migrant workers employed by Saudi Arabian Baytur Construction Company have not received their salaries for at least eight months, Human Rights Watch said today. The actual figure of unpaid workers could be significantly higher. The workers at the US$26 billion Mecca-based Masar redevelopment project, funded by the nearly trillion-dollar Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), resorted to work stoppages and strikes…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Turkiye’s parliament established the cross-party National Solidarity, Sisterhood/Brotherhood and Democracy Commission in August 2025. © 2025 TBMM HRW TLSP ICJ Parliamentary Commission Briefing 05112025_1.pdf (Istanbul, November 6, 2025) – A cross-party parliamentary commission in Türkiye should use its mandate to recommend concrete legal and institutional reforms that protect human rights, justice, and the rule of law for Kurds and all other communities in the country, Human Rights Watch, the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project, and the…
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By Sumit Kumar Singh
A recent Supreme Court ruling exemplifies judicial efforts to ensure accountability in digital spaces where stand-up comedy and influencer content often blur humor and harm.
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By Amnesty International
European governments must act to ensure equal and universal access to abortion care in the face of ongoing restrictions and intensifying efforts to further limit access to abortion across the region, said Amnesty International in a report published today. When rights aren’t real for all: The struggle for abortion access in Europe reveals how – despite hard won progress – harmful and dangerous […] The post Europe: Existing barriers to abortion access compounded by alarming attempts to roll back reproductive rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
The Tunisian authorities have over the past three years increasingly dismantled protections for refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, particularly Black people, with a dangerous shift towards racist policing and widespread human rights violations that endanger their lives, safety and dignity, Amnesty International said today. The European Union risks complicity by maintaining cooperation on migration control […] The post Tunisia: Rampant violations against refugees and migrants expose EU’s complicity risk appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Alexa Scarlata, Lecturer, Digital Communication, RMIT University
This week the Labor government announced it is poised to introduce a bill to parliament that will impose regulatory obligations on major subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services operating in Australia.
The legislation will require services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video (any with at least one million Australian subscribers) to support the production of new local drama, as well as children’s, documentary, arts and educational programming.…
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By Catherine Gascoigne, Macquarie Research Fellow in International Economic Law, Macquarie University
The US Supreme Court has heard arguments overnight on the legality of President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs on most countries around the world.
The number of sceptical questions posed by the justices in the hearings was striking for a court that is dominated by conservative appointees by six to three.
At stake is not only whether the sweeping tariffs will be upheld, but the extent to which the Supreme Court is willing to extend the limits of presidential…
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By Marta Andhov, Associate Professor, Law School & Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Government procurement has social, economic and environmental impacts. AI could help produce more sustainable outcomes, but only with strong rules and oversight.
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By Denise Moerel, Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Manuel Varlet, Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
Tijl Grootswagers, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience, Western Sydney University
There’s an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible. Don’t pay attention to what happened in the last round.
However, that’s easier said than done.
To find out how brains make decisions in a competitive setting, we asked people to play 15,000 games of rock, paper, scissors while recording their brain activity.
Our results, now published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, found that those who were influenced by…
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By Wenzhong Huang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Shandy (Shanshan) Li, Professor and Deputy Head, Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, and Group Leader of Children’s Environmental Health Research, Monash University
Yuming Guo, Distinguished Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics, and Head of the Monash Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, Monash University
Tropical cyclones can be even more deadly – and for a wider range of reasons – than we ever thought.
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