Human Rights
South Africa is on a knife edge as xenophobia escalates

Xenophobia is a global crisis, but in South Africa, it takes a particularly violent form.  
Albanese's Voice to Parliament referendum should be a no-brainer

Is a Voice to Parliament really such a difficult thing or is it a simple change?  
Australia is capable of taking more refugee action

The worldwide refugee crisis needs wealthy countries such as Australia to assist the UN and take ...  
Penal assassination: The gradual effort to kill Julian Assange

Time is running out to save the life of Julian Assange, who doctors warn only has months left to ...  
JOHN PILGER: U.S. close to getting its hands on Julian Assange

John Pilger explains the latest manoeuvres by the U.S. and UK to extradite Julian Assange to the ...  
Biased reporters should lose status as 'journalists'

Quality journalism is crucial to a healthy democracy because it holds power to account and informs ...  
Fighting for women's rights and autonomy in Cambodia

Women's rights in Cambodia still need to be realised despite improved legal frameworks, writes ...  
Get Gota: Holding a war criminal accountable

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled his country in the wake of protests ...  
Locking people up in prisons is not the answer

Imprisonment and punishment do not lead to more harmonious and prosperous societies, writes Gerry ...  
Peter Dutton's legacy is a refugee processing nightmare

The Coalition Government left behind a cruel and complicated processing system for asylum seeke ...  
Labor's Mark Dreyfus undoes unjust prosecution of Bernard Collaery

By the Government rightly dropping the charges against Witness K's lawyer Bernard Collaery, ...  
Johnson Government normalised culture of abuse and toxicity

Boris Johnson presided over a culture of toxic masculinity, in part because of his own hypermas ...  
Dreyfus drops charges against Bernard Collaery

The Albanese Government has acted quickly to abandon the prosecution of Bernard Collaery, who was ...  
U.S. under a judicial 'coup' after Roe v Wade overturned

'The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over,' warned Naomi Klein ...  
Australia is a leader on suicide awareness, laggard on prevention

Australia must do more for victims to ensure that they can heal, writes Gerry Georgatos.   
Questions remain over Assange's stroke, as he is sent to likely death

The details surrounding Julian Assange's mini-stroke in October 2021 remain unclear, as he is to ...  
FLASHBACK 2021: Morrison Government sends Australia backward in women's rights

The overturning of Roe v Wade in the U.S. has reminded us all of the importance of women's rights ...  
Roe v Wade decision is a blow to the rights of all women

The overturning of Roe v Wade isn't just an American issue, but an indication of the oppression of ...  

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