Human Rights
Beyond suffering: Reclaiming the Palestinian story

It’s time to move beyond narratives of suffering and imagine Palestinian joy.  
Trump scores an own goal for FIFA

FIFA invents a “Peace Prize” to flatter Donald Trump, proving once again that football’s ...  
From Ja’mie to Jerusalem: Redefining racism in the Israel debate

If the Middle East conflict is a race war between Arabs and Jews, does it mean supporters of ...  
UN endorses Trump-backed Gaza plan, drawing condemnation from Palestinians

Palestinians and human rights advocates have slammed the UN’s new Gaza resolution as a neo-co ...  
Trump cancels World AIDS Day in fresh blow to LGBTIQA+ rights

In a cruel policy move, the Trump Administration cancelled funding for World AIDS Day commemora ...  
Unseeing genocide: How the West lost Its moral compass in Gaza

A brutal reckoning with the West’s complicity, as Gaza shatters the illusion of morality and ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: The boy with no eyes — the dangers of a new nuclear arms race

Trump’s reckless nuclear testing threats risk reigniting an arms race and repeating the horrors ...  
The Union remembers its dead

From Gaza to Yemen, the world’s frontlines have become execution grounds for truth-tellers.  
Chris Hedges gives the Edward Said memorial lecture: 'Requiem for Gaza'

Chris Hedges recently gave the Edward Said memorial lecture to a sold-out audience at the Unive ...  
Empire rebranded: The new architecture of violence

Colonial power may have changed its language, but it still decides who lives, who dies and who is ...  
Australia’s silence on Armenian genocide reveals shameful political cowardice

Despite eyewitness accounts from Anzacs and repeated calls from MPs, successive governments have ...  
Israel expands attacks across Middle East amid muted Western response

Israel’s latest bombing campaign – spanning Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and now U.S. ally ...  
Australia’s “mass migration” myth: The real story is mass deportation

Australia isn’t facing mass migration — it’s enforcing mass deportations, allowing Section ...  
Gaza’s children bear the hidden cost of war

While the bombs fall on Gaza, the deepest wounds are carved into the minds of its children — ...  
Palestinian women bear brunt of Gaza war while leading community resilience

Women in Gaza are enduring displacement, loss and hunger, yet continue to lead resilience efforts ...  
Solitary confinement as a sentence isn't justice, it's torture

Erin Patterson’s crimes shocked Australia, but decades of near-total isolation defy human ...  
UN intervention essential to stop Gaza genocide and establish peace

Calls are mounting for the UN General Assembly to bypass Security Council vetoes and urgently ...  
Suicide risk grows as prison overcrowding continues to be ignored

Overcrowded cells break people — prison suicides linked to worsening mental illness and disr ...  

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