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

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.

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 ...

"[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.

"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?" ...

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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 ...

In response to the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles, Amnesty International USA Executive Director, Paul O’Brien, made the following statement: “President Trump ...

Fake news is also old news – 350 years ago, it brought down the Dutch Republic in a frenzy of political violence distinctly similar to more contemporary events.

Humans are inescapably moral animals. Yet it is rare for most of us to reflect on how well our moral compasses are working.