Humanity
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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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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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‘Time to rethink our museums and return stolen goods’, says high-profile lawyer
’The British Museum is in possession of stolen goods. The Parthenon Marbles were stolen by Lord Elgin – they never…
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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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Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the…
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The U.K. Doesn’t Want to Return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece
Despite the fact that the UNESCO intergovernmental commission recently unanimously voted for the return of Grecian Parthenon sculptures from the…
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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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The United Nations, synergies and the Classics
Three words characterizing the symptoms of the asthenic ecumenical system. Alexandros P. Mallias ekathimerini The “Pentarchy” of the permanent members…
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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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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 Afghan children hiding under moving lorries
They’re hiding under lorries to cross national borders in the hope they’ll be able to get money for their families…
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#4 For Aboriginal justice, we need more than words – with VALS (Lee-Anne and Andreea)
Andreea and Lee-Anne educate us on the lived experience of law, justice and injustice for Aboriginal people in Victoria. Our…
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Wealthy nations must share more resources or risk crisis for billions, warns UN chief
The head of the UN has called on rich countries to step up efforts to protect workers hit by the Covid-19 pandemic…
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