Human Rights
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Kurdish refugee sues federal government after spending 14 months in hotel detention
A refugee who claims he was unlawfully detained in two Melbourne hotels is suing the Australian government. SBS News If…
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Taking liberties: French fume at Macron’s vaccination push
MARSEILLE, France — As France rushes to vaccinate its population amid a surge in infections, President Emmanuel Macron is getting…
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This is what happens to child migrants found alone at the border, from the moment they cross into the US until age 18
As of June 30, 2021, with three months remaining in the U.S. government’s fiscal year, 95,079 children left their countries…
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Myanmar doctors in hiding and hunted by the junta as Covid crisis ravages the country
Images from the biggest city, Yangon, show families of the sick waiting at oxygen plants in the hopes of refilling…
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A Hindu married a Muslim for love. Her parents called the police
A Sikh by birth, Bali converted to Islam to marry a Muslim man, Shahid Nazir Bhat. Sameer Yasir, Emily Schmall…
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For eight years, Australia has been taking refugees as hostages. It’s time to ask: who has benefited?
Eight years have passed since the Australian government mandated offshore detention for all asylum seekers who arrive by boat, which…
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Israel threatens legal action over Ben & Jerry’s boycott
Israel warned the consumer goods giant Unilever on Tuesday that it was considering a legal response against one of its…
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Majority of women in Victoria’s prisons have not been found guilty
Ava often feared for her safety when they argued, but kept the police out of it. Megan Pearce The Age…
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Behrouz Boochani: ‘Human beings don’t have a place to go but to other human beings.’
You’ve described yourself as a child of war. Benjamin Law Good Weekend Magazine in The Age What did your childhood…
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Three countries, eight years: one refugee’s nightmare odyssey through Australia’s detention system
Loghman Sawari was a child when they sent him to what he calls the “prison island”. Ben Doherty The Guardian…
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Federal Government faces criticism after telling UN raising the age is the duty of states and territories
Currently, children as young as 10-years-old can be held criminally responsible and face incarceration in Australia. This is four years…
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‘It will be a catastrophe’: fate of Syria’s last aid channel rests in Russia’s hands
Just over half a mile away from the Bab al-Hawa border crossing connecting Syria and Turkey a 6th-century triumphal arch…
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MEPs condemn Poland’s near-total abortion ban
MEPs on Tuesday condemned Poland’s almost total ban on abortion and called on the European Union to step up its fight against…
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UK offshore asylum plan is just another way of imposing forced movement on vulnerable people
This is part of the UK government’s proposed UK Nationality and Borders Bill. Leonie Ansems de Vries The Conversation Though…
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‘Politics aside, we’ve abandoned children in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
I have witnessed a lot in my career, heading up humanitarian responses in the world’s most violent, dangerous, and impoverished…
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Vicky Hernández: Court says Honduras to blame for trans woman’s murder
In its landmark ruling, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the government to pay reparations to the family of…
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