By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Makeshift shelters for communities displaced from Nagero County to Bazia, Wau County, South Sudan, November 18, 2025. © 2025 Joe Falzetta South Sudan’s army, opposition forces, and their respective allied militias abused residents and caused much of the population to flee during fighting in 2025 in Nagero County, Western Equatoria.Civilians have returned to Nagero town and environs, but continue to live in fear, and the government has continued to limit aid access into Nagero County as in other conflict-affected areas in the country. The government should suspend…
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By Remy Veness, Lecturer in Glaciology, Sheffield Hallam University
Built from stones weighing between 2 and 25 tonnes, the structure of Stonehenge demonstrates a scale of construction hard to imagine before the invention of the wheel. The mystery deepens when you consider that the stones are not from the local bedrock. So why these stones, and how did they get there?
Recent work I carried out with geochemist Anthony Clarke from the University of Curtin, Australia, might have an answer to these two questions for the most far travelled stone of Stonehenge – the Altar Stone.
The…
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By Amnesty International
Shell must answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta after internal company documents revealed broken rules, failing infrastructure and unresolved clean-up costs that risk leaving affected communities to pay the price, a coalition of human rights and environmental organisations, including Amnesty International, said today in a new report. The report, Nigeria: Lifting the […] The post Nigeria: Shell documents expose ‘basket’ pipeline, ‘missing’ wells and US$10.9bn decommissioning costs as pollution scandal grows appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Carl Woods, Associate Professor of Skill Acquisition, The University of Queensland
Georgia Black, Associate Lecturer, Sport and Exercise Science, The University of Queensland
Picture this: your sports-loving 12-year-old has started showing some promise at Australian rules football.
Not only are they now pleading to stay up later on Thursday and Friday evenings to watch games, but your weekends are fast becoming filled with car trips, the packing and unpacking of footy bags and cold mornings spent supporting from the sidelines.
Then one day, a state-based talent development academy invites them to attend a pre-season training camp in summer.
What was once a winter passion may soon become a year-round sport, leaving you pondering…
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By Anthony Clarke, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
Nearly four centuries after the Batavia wrecked, a new study about its precious cargo shows that stories can indeed be written in stone.
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By Holly Seale, Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW
Md Saiful Islam, Senior Lecturer, School of Population Health, UNSW
If an older person believes dodgy health advice on social media, it’s easy to blame their age. But we’re all susceptible.
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By Stella Huangfu, Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
The RBA has warned it’s prepared to raise rates again to tame inflation. But these latest figures give it time to pause until November.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image An Indigenous Dayak villager shows pictures of her rubber plantation destroyed by an industrial logging company during a media interview in Sei Gawing village, Kapuas regency in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan Province, February 12, 2026. © 2026 BAY ISMOYO / AFP via Getty Images Indonesian authorities are wrongfully prosecuting environmental defenders who protest deforestation and pollution as well as Indigenous leaders who defend their land rights.The Prabowo administration has intensified the crackdown on free expression by expanding the military’s role in state-owned…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Bangladesh military personnel guard the International Criminal Tribunal in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 17, 2025. © 2025 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) – Bangladesh authorities are failing to uphold international legal standards at the country’s International Crimes Tribunal, Human Rights Watch said today. The failures risk denying justice to victims, undermining the rule of law, falsely imprisoning political opponents, and repeating the rights violations of the past.On July 27, prosecutors submitted charges against 41 people for crimes against…
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By Daljit Singh Bedi, PhD Candidate, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
In the world of media, newsroom reporters and public relations practitioners have long been cast as natural adversaries.
One plays the nosy newshound, always sniffing around for a story. The other is often portrayed as the gatekeeping spin doctor, carefully controlling the flow of information.
When journalists move into communications or PR – as many do in search of better pay and more stable employment – it’s jokingly…
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