By Rebecca Brown, Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford
Parents frequently lie to their children. “No, you can’t have any chocolate – it’s all gone,” when there’s a jumbo bar of Dairy Milk in the cupboard. “No, you can’t have my phone to watch YouTube – the battery’s flat,” when it’s at a solid 65%.
Lies like these make parents’ lives easier, particularly so when the children are small. Lying might also be thought to be in kids’ own interests. For instance, young children get told that eating carrots will help them to see in the…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
On this podcast we are talking with Special Minister of State Don Farrell about the changes to political donation laws and the criticisms.
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By Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide
Two Australian teenagers have become severely ill after a suspected methanol poisoning in Laos. A pharmacologist explains what to know about this chemical compound.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center) heads a meeting of the Council of Economic Affairs and Development in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on May 29, 2018. The council is responsible for oversight of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF). © 2018 Balkis Press/ABACA/Shutterstock Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has facilitated and benefited from human rights abuses.The crown prince has used the fund’s economic power to commit serious…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, July 26, 2023. © 2023 Jasmine Leung/SOPA Images/Sipa via AP Photo On November 15, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a new law targeting “undesirable” foreign citizens and stateless people whose speech or actions are found by Uzbekistan officials to “discredit” the people of Uzbekistan.The law stipulates that if foreigners or stateless people make “public calls or actions contradicting the state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and also provoke interstate, social,…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image (The Hague) – Syria has failed to comply with an International Court of Justice (ICJ) order a year ago directing it to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of torture in the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The World Court issued provisional measures on November 16, 2023, in a case brought by the Netherlands and Canada alleging that Syria is violating the international Convention against Torture.Human Rights Watch research shows that Syrians remain at risk of enforced disappearance, death from torture, and horrific detention conditions.…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Dilmurod Ergashev at a demonstration in Berlin on December 23, 2022 in support of Abdullohi Shamsiddin who was detained and ultimately deported to Tajikistan in January 2023. © 2022 Sharofiddin Gadoev (Berlin, November 20, 2024) Dilmurod Ergashev, a Tajik opposition activist deported from Germany on November 6, 2024, after being refused asylum, is reported to have been provisionally detained for two months by a city court in Dushanbe on unclear charges, Human Rights Watch, Freedom for Eurasia, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and Abschiebungsreporting…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A demonstration on the anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Jina Amini with signs calling to stop the executions in Iran, September 14, 2024. © 2024 Georg Wendt/picture alliance via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iranian authorities have issued a flurry of new death sentences in recent weeks, sentencing political prisoners, ethnic minorities, and foreign nationals to capital punishment, Human Rights Watch said today. Among the latest cases is a Kurdish political prisoner, Warisha Moradi, a member of the Free Women’s Society of Eastern Kurdistan. Iran’s revolutionary…
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By Amnesty International
A throng of chants and loud affirmations that ‘trans rights are human rights’ and ‘not one more trans life will be lost’ set the scene for a demonstration on trans rights that I recently attended. In a never-ending escalation of attacks against the rights of transgender people to autonomy and dignity, it felt jubilant to […] The post Stop the hate before its too late: Thoughts on Transgender Day of Remembrance from Amnesty researcher Shreshtha Das appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Elsa Wu, foster mother of activist Hendrick Lui, was taken into a police van outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building after the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, November 19, 2024. © Photo by David Chan / SOPA Images/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Taipei) – A Hong Kong court harshly sentenced 45 prominent pro-democracy figures on November 19, 2024, on baseless national security charges that underscored Hong Kong’s abysmal human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today. The Hong Kong government should quash the convictions…
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