Human Rights
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Viewpoint: Why Ethiopia’s Tigray region is starving, but no famine declared
A report from Ayder Referral hospital in Tigray’s capital city, Mekelle, this week described children dying of starvation. Alex de…
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How Humane Wars are Inhumane
Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War argues that efforts to make war more ethical have…
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Despite promises, Taliban begin evicting Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazaras from their land
WARNING: This story contains one picture containing graphic content. “Everyone was horrified — men, women and children … we were in…
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Friday essay: invisible no more – putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map
In our Pacific Matildas research project, we are recovering the hidden traces of the first female archaeologists in the Pacific. Authors…
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Royal commission told of ‘heartbreaking’ abuse faced by women with disability
The disability royal commission was told 90 per cent of women with intellectual disability have experienced sexual abuse. By disability…
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Why a proposed law to use secret evidence to deport migrants has rights groups concerned
There are widespread fears a proposed law allowing visas to be cancelled based on secret evidence could deny migrants their…
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The global music community must help Afghan musicians resist a Taliban music ban
However, the Taliban’s violation of cultural rights is not being adequately prioritized, including its stance on music. Shumaila Hemani The…
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An inquiry exposed sexual abuse within French Catholic Church — now what?
The inquiry that unearthed the scale of the abuse could also lead the way to reforms within the church. Lisa…
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More than 100,000 Afghans apply for Australian humanitarian visas
More than 100,000 Afghans are estimated to have applied for a humanitarian visa to come to Australia since the fall…
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Australian of the Year Grace Tame praises ACT Government for moving to raise the age of criminal responsibility
But the Tasmanian Government will not follow the territory government, saying it wants to be part of a nationally consistent…
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Algeria: Effort to Dissolve Prominent Civic Association
(Beirut) – Algerian authorities should drop their effort to dissolve a prominent civil society group over alleged violation of the law on…
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Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Activists at Risk
(New York) – Bangladesh authorities and United Nations officials should take urgent measures to protect Rohingya refugees facing threats and violence in the…
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Horror as French reveal more than 200,000 clergy abuse victims within Catholic Church
Report The landmark report says about 3,000 child abusers, two-thirds of whom were priests, operated within the church since the…
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Vaccination status – when your medical information is private and when it’s not
In Australia, discussion of vaccine passports has also highlighted this issue. Megan Prictor The Conversation We value the idea that…
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War crimes likely committed since 2016, UN probe finds
War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including…
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The Australian ‘police state’ is nothing new
Recent lockdowns have not signalled that Australia is a police state, though other civil rights abuses raise such questions, writes…
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