The Australian’s family has lost hope that the Chinese legal system can deliver justice to the pro-democracy writer.
The court was first asked to consider Israel’s activities in Palestinian territories more than 20 years ago. It’s now been asked to declare occupation illegal.
The new detention laws pushed through parliament before Christmas have been branded unacceptable by a committee chaired by a Labor MP.
Francesca Albanese,the special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories,discusses the “unprecedented tragedy” there.
A charity has reported a sevenfold increase in attacks globally on Christian churches,schools and hospitals in the past year – but it gets little attention in the West.
Oxfam has for years been trying to highlight the growing disparities between the super-rich and the bulk of the global population. That gap has been “supercharged”.
Easy to smuggle and sell virtually anywhere,gold continues to fund armed conflict in Africa and child labour in Australia’s region.
UNHCR’s outgoing Assistant High Commissioner for Protection says the UK’s failure to send asylum seekers offshore has demonstrated to the rest of Europe that hardline methods don’t work.
Australia is probably importing illegal,unreported and unregulated seafood linked to slavery and overfishing amid a lack of regulation,the agriculture minister said.
With hospitals across Gaza closed,hundreds of health workers killed,and communications hampered,it’s becoming increasingly difficult to compile casualty figures.
A new report has revealed more than half a million people in Gaza - a quarter of the population - are staving,highlighting the current humanitarian crisis.