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  • 18 Jun 2025
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • United States

    Why DEI won't DIE: 80 years of protecting rights and fighting for equality

    Fiona McGaughey
    The protection of human rights and principles of equality are fundamental to international law and can’t be dismantled overnight by one state alone.
  • 23 May 2025
    • Malaysia
    • Human rights

    Tackling forced labour in Malaysia begins with re-examining its migration model

    Yvonne Tan
    A zero-cost migration model can break the cycle of debt and exploitation.
  • 12 May 2025
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • Human rights

    Time for a consistent approach to North Korean human rights

    Jiwon Kim
    South Korea’s upcoming election offers a crucial chance for a policy reset.
  • 7 May 2025
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Promoting human rights makes Australia stronger

    Daniela Gavshon
    Quiet diplomacy only engenders bullying. It’s time to speak up.
  • 14 Mar 2025
    • Philippines
    • Human rights
    • International law

    Duterte’s ICC arrest: A day of reckoning

    Andrea Chloe Wong
    Duterte’s legal battle puts the spotlight on the International Criminal Court and the future of Philippine politics.
  • 7 Mar 2025
    • Diplomacy
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Sustainability

    The realists and their limits in the world today

    'Alopi Latukefu
    A belief in “might is right” is not set in stone – rules in global affairs are shaped by the choices we make.
  • 4 Mar 2025
    • China
    • Hong Kong
    • Human rights
    • Sex and Gender
    • China's Government

    Feminism is still a dirty word in China

    Ciara Morris
    Organised feminist activism is nearly impossible in China in 2025, but Chinese women are still talking.
  • 23 Jan 2025
    • Al Qaeda
    • Islamic State
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • United Nations
    • United States

    What does the Trump presidency mean for Women, Peace and Security?

    Susan Hutchinson
    International peace and security requires due consideration of the world’s women. This is no radical social theory.
  • 16 Jan 2025
    • Human rights
    • United Nations
    • United States

    Melting ice caps reveals the scourge of colonialism

    'Alopi Latukefu
    Donald Trump shows no regard for the rights and autonomy of the Indigenous Inuit population who make up the majority of Greenland’s residents.
  • 16 Dec 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia and the Death Penalty
    • Malaysia
    • Singapore
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • United Nations

    Southeast Asia’s death penalty laws: The ultimate political game

    Kirsten Han
    The region’s diverse policies on executions are about more than the war on crime.
  • 4 Dec 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    Australia’s chance to align global efforts against “hostage diplomacy”

    Sean Turnell
    A new senate report has set out sensible recommendations for a fresh approach on wrongful detention of Australians overseas.
  • 13 Nov 2024
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Middle East

    The declining fortunes of Afghanistan’s women

    Stéphanie Fillion
    Is the International Court of Justice a toothless tiger, or can a new legal battle truly turn the tide for women and girls?
  • 14 Oct 2024
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights

    Succumbing to the parochialism of the present

    Daniel Flitton
    The world always looks dangerous, depending on your vantage point.
  • 6 Sep 2024
    • Bangladesh
    • Human rights

    The rights-based priority in relations with Bangladesh

    Mubashar Hasan
    Sheikh Hasina’s downfall holds a lesson for the international community to ensure support for political freedoms.
  • 28 Aug 2024
    • Australia
    • Diplomacy
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration

    Maid in Australia: When international relations and industrial law collide

    Daniel Flitton
    Two recent court cases have raised uncomfortable questions about diplomatic immunity.
  • 27 Aug 2024
    • Diplomacy
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges

    Hostage diplomacy: Fresh ideas to end a modern blight

    Sean Turnell
    A new Australian senate inquiry into the practice of imprisonment for leverage offer a chance to learn from international experience.
  • 16 Aug 2024
    • Bangladesh
    • Human rights

    Bangladesh: Finding justice and reconciliation

    Roshni Kapur
    International experience holds lessons for the interim government to deliver on the change demanded.
  • 7 Aug 2024
    • Human rights
    • International law

    The dehumanisation danger

    Terry Hackett
    Language matters and the protections of international law are crucial for persons deprived of liberty.
  • 31 Jul 2024
    • China
    • China's Government
    • Hong Kong
    • Human rights
    • International law

    Long arm of the law: China’s extraterritorial reach

    Danielle Ireland-Piper
    Political as much as legal considerations dictate the way Beijing exercises its laws – from Hong Kong to beyond.
  • 25 Jul 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    Child marriage in Southeast Asia: When a harmful practice becomes an international crime

    Leisha Lister , Indira Rosenthal
    ASEAN can lead the way in tackling a practice that regularly results in the trafficking of persons.
  • 19 Jul 2024
    • China
    • Diplomacy
    • Russia
    • BRICS
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Does democracy still matter in the ‘New Cold War’ between the US and China?

    Sushil Aaron
    Contradictions between the two models of governance make coexistence among superpowers difficult.
  • 2 Jul 2024
    • North Korea
    • France
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Human rights
    • Iran
    • Israel

    Pariah states and the Olympic Games

    Gabriela Bernal
    With the Paris Games only weeks away, the controversy around athletes from “rogue” countries is set to intensify.
  • 17 May 2024
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Human rights

    Time to recognise the Crimean Tatar genocide

    Jon Richardson
    Acknowledging the crimes in the 1940s would underline the attachment to Ukraine and rebuff changing borders by force.
  • 30 Apr 2024
    • Human rights
    • International law

    The need for a convention on crimes against humanity

    Priya Pillai
    Closing a legal gap would ensure the spirit of the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals is established in international law.
  • 17 Apr 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Transnational Challenges

    Invisible victims: How counter-trafficking efforts leave people with disability behind

    Elisabeth Jackson
    It is often those who should be responsible for protecting people with disabilities who exploit them.
  • 13 Mar 2024
    • Bangladesh
    • Myanmar
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    A ring-fence around the Rohingya can’t last – Australia’s policy needs to change

    Arunn Jegan
    Seven years on, a temporary aid agenda is only extenuating the problem.
  • 22 Feb 2024
    • Myanmar
    • Human rights
    • International law

    In defence of Aung San Suu Kyi

    Derek Tonkin
    Many in Myanmar have condemned what they perceive as seriously flawed Western criticism of the Burmese ex-leader.
  • 15 Feb 2024
    • Nepal
    • Human rights
    • Migration

    Dying to work abroad: Why Nepalese migrants are fighting other people’s wars

    Harris Amjad
    In Russia and beyond, those desperate for work are sacrificing their lives and livelihoods.
  • 11 Jan 2024
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • Migration
    • United Nations

    By default not design: the end of the asylum consensus

    Khalid Koser
    Ever since Australia adopted the “Pacific Solution”, norm busting has become the norm.
  • 3 Jan 2024
    • North Korea
    • Global Issues
    • Human rights
    • Review

    Why do we travel to unsettling places?

    Melissa Conley Tyler
    Whether the DMZ or sites of historic atrocities, place carries a connection to remind us of the precariousness of life.
  • 21 Dec 2023
    • Philippines
    • Human rights
    • Review

    Manila’s killing fields: Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on the poor

    Richard Javad Heydarian
    It’s best to not only take populists seriously, but also literally, especially when they threaten mass murder.
  • 15 Nov 2023
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Human trafficking: Harnessing technology to help those most vulnerable

    Cate Sumner
    Delivering legal services to victims often means overcoming barriers in language, information and distance.
  • 8 Nov 2023
    • Bangladesh
    • Myanmar
    • Australia and Asia
    • Human rights

    Australia’s chance to show global leadership on Rohingya displacement

    Jessica Marsh
    Honouring a pledge to be tough on borders without being “weak on humanity” will bolster Canberra’s aim of regional stability.
  • 10 Oct 2023
    • Southeast Asia
    • Human rights
    • Transnational Challenges
    • United Nations

    Online scams in Southeast Asia create double victims: those targeted and those forced to carry them out

    Jitsiree Thongnoi
    There are those deceived by scams, and those coerced into crime.
  • 27 Sep 2023
    • Afghanistan
    • China
    • Pakistan
    • Human rights

    The Kalash are under threat from Pakistani Taliban

    Adnan Aamir
    A remote and persecuted religious minority is an easy target for militants set on gaining territory by any means.
  • 21 Sep 2023
    • Pakistan
    • Human rights

    Pakistan at a crossroads on blasphemy

    Syed Fazl-e-Haider
    Draconian interpretations of Islamabad’s laws violate human rights and are stoking violent religious extremism.
  • 19 Sep 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Human rights
    • Technology

    The future of gig work

    Hilman Palaon
    The new world of on-call, contract and temporary work is only sustainable if it is fair and safe for those who power it.
  • 18 Sep 2023
    • Cambodia
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • War Crimes

    Testimonial therapy: Buddhism’s influence in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge tribunal

    Andre Kwok
    Faith-based interventions and criminal prosecutions can innovatively meet.
  • 31 Aug 2023
    • Climate change
    • Human rights
    • Pacific Islands

    Cultural security in the Pacific: Why it matters for regional security

    Anna Naupa
    Of all the complex and evolving threats to the region’s cultural heritage, climate change remains the most calamitous.
  • 13 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Human rights
    • Review

    For Indonesia’s haunting past, Jokowi’s resolution is non-judicial

    Warief Djajanto Basorie
    A new book throws light on the 1965 massacres – but the government’s redress for victims is yet to extend to justice for the perpetrators.
  • 1 Jun 2023
    • India
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    How Australia can speak up on human rights in India

    Hugh Piper
    Modi won’t be prime minister for ever, so finding ways to air concerns now will actually strengthen relations long term.
  • 22 May 2023
    • India
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Albanese should raise human rights concerns with Modi

    Elaine Pearson
    Australia must not to repeat the mistake of allowing the promise of trade to override a need to stand up for values.
  • 5 Apr 2023
    • Myanmar
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Human rights
    • International law
    • War Crimes

    What of the Rohingya? The ICC, Ukraine, and limits of “international” justice

    Aakash Chandran , Jennifer Keene-McCann , Emma Palmer
    The International Criminal Court will always be seen as a selective tool unless states agree to decide cases on need.
  • 8 Mar 2023
    • China
    • China's Government
    • Human rights
    • Sex and Gender

    Beijing and the birth rate: a question of human rights for women

    Yun Jiang
    Despite the government's gender positive rhetoric, Chinese women are still viewed as resources of the party state.
  • 1 Feb 2023
    • Myanmar
    • Australia
    • Human rights

    Australia’s Myanmar sanctions: now for the real decisions

    Susannah Patton
    Two years after the coup, there are still many reasons why Canberra is stepping cautiously with its punitive measures.
  • 15 Nov 2022
    • Malaysia
    • Myanmar
    • Human rights
    • Migration
    • United Nations

    Refugees may become victims of Malaysia’s electoral politics

    Max Walden
    The plight of Myanmar Rohingyas exposes Southeast Asia’s disjointed policies and fragile human rights protections.
  • 14 Oct 2022
    • Afghanistan
    • Pakistan
    • Terrorism
    • Human rights

    Enemies of education are back in Malala’s hometown? 

    Syed Fazl-e-Haider
    Fresh attacks by the Pakistani Taliban mark an alarming regression in the decade-long progress made in the region.
  • 29 Sep 2022
    • Human rights
    • Papua New Guinea

    Ending capital punishment for good in Papua New Guinea

    Moses Sakai
    In PNG’s history, the death penalty has now been abolished twice. The country can take a step to see it never returns.
  • 20 Sep 2022
    • Bangladesh
    • Myanmar
    • Human rights
    • International law

    The Rohingya issue requires a regional solution

    David Brewster
    Leaving close to a million people in limbo poses a danger not only for the refugees but to regional peace.
  • 9 Sep 2022
    • China
    • Human rights
    • United Nations

    Beijing three-step: China denies, deflects and dissembles on Xinjiang

    Michael Clarke
    The UN human rights report has exposed China’s hollow propaganda claims – but won’t stop them.
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