Blockades may be used in wartime, but only if they meet 5 legal conditions. Have Israel’s actions complied with the law?

Kodikara/AFP via Both Sri Lanka and Germany have newly elected leaders, but key human rights concerns that Chancellor Friedrich Merz should raise with visiting President Anura Kumar Dissanayake in ...

"Have these employers lost all sense of compassion, kindness, and basic human decency? Have they become so consumed by greed that they have abandoned even common sense?" ...

Amelia Wenger, Research Fellow in Conservation, The University of Queensland James Watson, Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Ahead of this week ...

Australia argues these are generic names and we should keep them.

"[It was] like a microcosm of the world’s problems between people of the southern and the northern hemisphere, between the poor and the rich," the judge in this case said.

A wealth tax on billionaires would require global cooperation and get us into the tricky territory of taxing unrealised gains. But we already do that in some circumstances.

As our domesticated herds grow, wildlife is becoming rarer and rarer. Rethinking our responsibilities to animals will be hard – but essential.

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Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of extraordinary.

On 5 June 2025, the UN Human Rights Committee issued a ruling against the State of Guatemala for violating the human rights of Fátima, a girl who survived repeated sexual violence by a teacher, and ...

Click to expand Image Thousands of protesters gather to demand an immediate end to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ramped-up raids at worksites, schools, stores and courthouses in California ...