By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks outside the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change, July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. © 2025 AP Photo/Peter Dejong The world’s highest court has spoken: tackling climate change is not a choice: it’s a legal obligation. Now it’s up to the United Nations General Assembly to speak up and urge its 193 member countries to take action.Millions of people around the world have already lost their homes, livelihoods,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Ministry of Petroleum and Mining in Juba, South Sudan, November 7, 2012. © 2012 Reuters/Adriane Ohanesian In a wave of arrests that began on February 24, South Sudanese authorities have detained at least six current and former officials linked to the country’s oil and financial sectors.While authorities have yet to publicly clarify if charges have been brought, Minister for Information Ateny Wek Ateny told media that the arrests were not political and that a committee was investigating “financial malpractices.”However, previous high-profile detentions…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Human Rights Watch Director of the Disability Rights Division, Elizabeth Kamundia (left), and Marco Bristo Fellow for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights, Hilda Macheso (center), interview people in Malawi, October 2025. © 2025 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch It is a hot afternoon in a rural district in Malawi. People gather around a tent set up at the Local Trading Center, eager to witness a community outreach program that aims to combat rising violence against people with albinism.The organizers passionately encourage greater understanding of albinism and…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Waorani Indigenous leaders protest in front of the Constitutional Court in Quito, Ecuador on August 20, 2025, two years after an Indigenous-led referendum to halt exploitation of an oil block in Yasuni National Park, the ancestral home of the Waorani people. © 2025 RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images Ecuador is failing to comply with key provisions of an Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling to protect the Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous peoples from nearby oil facilities in Yasuní National Park.The court ruled that oil extraction generated environmental…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Tarique Rahman takes the oath of office as Prime Minister of Bangladesh at the National Parliament in Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 17, 2026. © AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu (London) – Bangladesh’s recently elected prime minister, Tarique Rahman, and his Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government face many urgent challenges but can use this opportunity to bring lasting protections of human rights, nine rights groups wrote in a letter to Rahman published today.Prime Minister Rahman came to office following a landslide election victory in February 2026. The election…
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By Mark Beeson, Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
When it comes to the most important policy decisions any nation can make, Australia is still coming to terms with its geography.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International has today warned that Bangladesh could face more incidents of serious human rights abuses unless Meta takes timely and effective action to address harmful online content on its Facebook platform. In the lead-up to the country’s 12 February parliamentary elections, Amnesty International and others observed a rise in harmful online content, some of which came from outside Bangladesh. This included the spread of misleading and inflammatory content in relation to political parties and minority communities, and the amplification of sectarian narratives or beliefs that […]…
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By Suleman Lazarus, Visiting Fellow, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
For a young man growing up in Ghana or Nigeria, few dreams burn brighter than becoming a professional footballer. Icons like Michael Essien (Ghana), Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria) and Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria) didn’t just win trophies. They escaped poverty, provided for their families,…
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By Uri Gal, Professor in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
Amazon, Block and Atlassian have announced AI-driven job cuts, and Meta is reportedly planning its own – but all may not be as it seems.
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By Donovan Castelyn, Senior Industry Fellow - Taxation and Director of the UTAS Tax Clinic, University of Tasmania
Newly elected Nationals leader Matt Canavan has proposed allowing couples with dependent children to split their income for tax purposes.
In simple terms, the total income of a couple could be divided between both parents before calculating tax. Similar structures already exist internationally, such as in France…
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