Responding to the resolution on Afghanistan adopted yesterday at the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), which extended the vital mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on ...

Responding to the resolution on Sri Lanka adopted yesterday at the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which extends the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human ...

Click to expand Image COP29 banners in Baku, Azerbaijan, September 17, 2024. © 2024 Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via AP Photo In a case that is disappointing but not surprising, the agreement between the ...

After a 20-year ban, Indonesia is allowing companies to extract sea sand from its coastal waters. Activists say this will have devastating environmental consequences and could negatively impact ...

Click to expand Image Activists protest in Sao Paulo against racism, police violence, and against a police operation that took place in Jacarezinho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13, 2021. The ...

Angry, accusatory partisan exchanges over the Middle East war have dominated federal politics this week. But for most ordinary voters the issue remains “over there”.

The bill aims to set a new “floor” for how much the federal government contributes towards public school funding in Australia. But key states remain unhappy.

It is vital to work with an understanding that there are factors beyond diagnosis and symptoms that contribute to people being in crisis, like poverty, lack of housing, underemployment, racism, and ...

Girls and young women in north-east Nigeria suffered horrific abuses in Boko Haram captivity, with many survivors then arbitrarily detained and subsequently neglected by the Nigerian authorities. Now, ...

Myanmar’s military authorities must immediately account for the whereabouts and wellbeing of two pro-democracy activists arrested in Yangon on Wednesday, Amnesty International said today. Paing Phyo ...

A new TikTok trend claims adding a teaspoon of cinnamon to your daily coffee for one week can help you burn fat. Is there any truth to this?

Marg Rogers, Senior Lecturer, Early Childhood Education; Post Doctoral Fellow, Manna Institute, University of New England Australia’s child support system can not only increase women’s poverty, but ...