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ICRC President: "We can no longer pretend that what we are witnessing across war zones is in accordance with the law"

Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict – 20 May 2026, New York

Synergy in Action: IHL and Islamic Law for Humanitarian Outcomes

Synergy in Action: IHL and Islamic Law for Humanitarian Outcomes, a high-level event co-organized by the ICRC and the University for Peace and with the support of the League of the Arab States, Organization of the Islami...

Stop All Illegal and Criminal Threats Against Cuba!

The U.S. Peace Council sharply condemns the Trump administration for repeatedly threatening to militarily invade Cuba, bomb and destroy schools and hospitals — as the U.S. did to Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Iran and many other...

Xi holds talks with Putin in Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to further extend the China-Russia Treaty of Goo...

South Korea and Pakistan condemn Israel’s abduction of flotilla activists

South Korea and several other countries expressed outrage over Israel’s attacks on the Global Sumud Flotilla earlier this week and alleged torture of the kidnapped participants in custody.

Flotilla activists deported after days of abuse in Israeli detention

Over 400 flotilla activists are expected to be transferred to their countries after days of abuse in Israeli imprisonment.

Bangladesh: Authorities must immediately drop ICT charges against journalists for carrying out their work

Responding to the charges brought against detained Ekattor Television journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Haque by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), reportedly in relation to a ‘misleading’ report on the deadly...

RootsAction Blasts Official DNC Autopsy; ‘Disgrace’ Would Be ‘Understatement’

RootsAction is releasing the following statement:After months of intense pressure, Chair Ken Martin and the DNC finally caved and released their 2024 autopsy report. To call the report a disgrace would be an understateme...

Iran Releasing Strait of Hormuz Boundaries a ‘Bargaining Chip’

“Failures of ‘America First Global Health’”: U.S. Global Health Cuts and DRC Conflict Fuel Ebola Crisis

Sweeping U.S. cuts to critical global health programs, including funding and staffing reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (...

‘My only “crime” was being a doctor’: Dr. Ahmad Mhanna on his 22 months in Israeli detention

In the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian healthcare workers have been facing unprecedented dangers, with many detained under conditions that violate international humanitarian law. Amnesty International continues to docum...

Paraguay Jails Ex-Senator Over Ties to Drug Kingpin Marset

The former lawmaker was stripped of his immunity and jailed to serve a 13-year sentence for criminal association and money laundering.

Introducing WISEN: The wartime incidents to environment database

We believe that a more systematic and comprehensive approach to monitoring environmental change in areas affected by conflicts could radically improve how damage is understood, perceived and addressed. Here we introduce...

UN agencies step up Ebola response in eastern DR Congo

United Nations agencies have moved swiftly to support efforts to contain the latest Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), delivering emergency medical supplies, protective equipment and logist...

War is becoming a death sentence for women and girls

Thirteen-year-old Mona still remembers the moment the second airstrike hit.

Building the smart city: Promise, pitfalls and the people at its heart

From AI-powered transit systems to digital twins and flood-proof parks, cities are embracing technology at an unprecedented scale. But as innovation accelerates, experts warn that inclusion, trust and security will deter...

Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors debate future of Gaza amid stalled progress on lasting peace

The Security Council is discussing the stalled progress in Gaza as the fragile ceasefire there limps on, and deteriorating conditions across the West Bank amid continued civilian casualties and mounting humanitarian need...

Syrian Authorities Seize 25 Million Captagon Pills in Major Port Bust

Netherlands: Amnesty International supports strategic lawsuit against alleged illegal tracking software in games and apps

Amnesty International supports a class action lawsuit filed today by The Privacy Collective on behalf of Dutch internet users against the American tech company AppLovin.  The case focuses on the alleged unlawful collecti...

Welfare not Warfare | Rally In Brussels on 14 June & Month Of Decentralized Action Across Europe!

Organized and coordinated by the Stop Militarization Platform and StopRearmEurope campaign, of which IPB is a member. If you haven’t already, sign our call to action here and join the European movement against ReArm Euro...

Burgers, Brats, and Busted Budgets: Summer Staples Up 13%, Travel Prices Surging Ahead of Memorial Day

New data released today by Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation shows how President Trump’s reckless economic policies and war in Iran are driving up the costs of summer cookouts and travel season. Prices...

The growth of dual-use by design research in Europe: Export control risks and challenges

This topical backgrounder examines how the increase in dual-use by design research blurs the traditional distinction between publicly funded civilian and military research in Europe.

Trump seeks redemption in Cuba after his regime-change failure in Iran

President Donald Trump is chasing the kind of regime-altering triumph in Cuba that has eluded him in Iran. But any move toward yet more action by the stretched US armed forces would come with high political and military...

15% of Journalists Face Harassment in Bangladesh, Female Journalists at Highest Risk 

BBC Media Action Survey By Rita Bhowmick (Dhaka Bureau) A significant portion of journalists working in Bangladesh’s media industry are experiencing severe professional and social insecurity. A recent survey by BBC Media...

Women’s Safety in Bangladesh’s Public Transport: Humane System Needed, Not Just Isolated Buses

by Zahida Parvez Chhanda (Dhaka Bureau) Although the economic participation of women in Bangladesh- a rapidly developing South Asian nation- is globally acclaimed, their primary mode of daily commute, ‘public transport,’...

Call for $710.5 Million in International Humanitarian Aid to Support 1.5 Million Rohingya and Host Communities in BD

By Sabrina Khan (Dhaka Bureau) Amid growing global political instability and emerging humanitarian crises worldwide, deep concerns have arisen over the future of Rohingya refugees and their local host communities in Bang...

The San Diego Mosque Hate Crime and the Political Leaders Who Lit the Fuse

A hate crime had struck close to home. On the TV screen, more than four dozen police cars, blue lights swirling in a cold, mechanical rhythm. The news ticker crawled across the bottom of the TV screen, sanitizing horror...

How the Yellow Vests Attempted to Rebuild the Urban Periphery of Paris

In June 2019, a group of Yellow Vests, the diverse protest movement that broke out a year earlier, and their families set to work constructing a cabin on a holiday Saints Day. It was a Thursday, a welcome break during th...

Sanctions Kill. I Have Watched Them Do It.

Last month, I operated on an elderly man with a perforated peptic ulcer. The surgery was textbook. I closed his abdomen cleanly, without complication. We had antibiotics available that time. What we did not have was intr...

How National Infrastructure Can Defeat Trumpism

How did we get here? How can we get out of this mess? From Nixon to Reagan to George W. Bush to Trump, Republican presidents have been getting worse and worse. We can no longer afford to hope that we will be lucky enough...

In Defiance of Peru’s Colonial Legacy, Cholas Reclaim Identity

Scholar Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa argues that dominant narratives in Peruvian academia have made it difficult to think of subversives as peers. Olga Rodriguez-Ulloa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Amer...

How Propaganda and False Information Are Undermining Humanitarian Work

In today’s post-truth era, where “objective truth” has lost influence in the public sphere, it is becoming increasingly difficult for humanitarians, who seek to preserve human life, to carry out their work. “The post-tru...

Mirrors of Greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the Tech Brat Battle

They are a disagreeable bunch, with disagreeable ideas to match.  The querulous brats behind the drive for technological servility and plugged in stupidity were always going to scrap over which dystopian vision they most...

How Earth-Centered Education Helps Children Learn Through Nature, Play, and Relationship

A group of children gathers in a forest clearing. Before anything else begins, they check in—with themselves, with one another, and with the world around them. Each child is invited, but never required, to share how they...

One Racist Batshit Christo-Fascist Homeland Under God

In retrospect, Sunday's taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to "rededicate" America as a Christian nation though it's not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime's mounting crimes and abuses. Its sectari...

Waiting for the AI Bubble to Burst: Great Collapses of the Past

As we all wait for reality, and/or China, to catch up with the Silicon Valley AI boys, it might be a good time to go back in time a bit and see what it looked like in the past when our bubbles burst, specifically the tec...

Choosing a President, Peruvians Familiar With Oppression and Exclusion Find Hope

As the second round of presidential voting in Peru approaches on June 7, the progressive Roberto Sánchez of the United for Justice Party is confronting Keiko Fujimori, the right-wing candidate who has finished second in...

Pioneering the Net-Zero Transition: Higher Education Leadership in Climate Action and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance)

By Genevieve B. Kupang and Korsiney N. Cabasis Taiwan, May 6, 2026. This is the sixth installment in our dedicated series covering the 6th HLU Annual Conference. Turning Waste into Purpose through St. Michael’s College o...

Cuba condemns US indictment of Raúl Castro as pretext for aggression

The US Department of Justice has indicted the historic leader of the Revolution for an event that took place nearly 30 years ago. Havana maintains that this is a ploy to justify military aggression against Cuba.

Crisis, coup, and social conflict: the Peruvian electoral situation

Peru's electoral challenges reflect a much deeper political crisis in the Andean country.

At the World Health Assembly, Cuba denounced the US energy blockade’s impact on health

First Deputy Minister of Health, Tania Cruz, said that causing shortages and hardship to millions of people is genocide.

China and Russia to intensify their quest for multipolarity and a rules-based world order

During Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to Beijing, both countries also agreed to deepen their economic, trade, and military cooperation under the now extended Treaty of Good Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation signed...

Global: New UN climate accountability resolution an important step in advancing climate justice

Responding to the adoption of the climate accountability resolution at the United Nations General Assembly by overwhelming consensus today, Camile Cortez, Senior Campaigner on Climate Justice at Amnesty International, sa...

What’s the significance of the Russian president’s visit to China?

UK Eases Sanctions on Russian Oil and LNG Imports

Aussie shares up despite mixed signals from Iran talks

Strong mining stocks are leading the ASX higher, as ongoing Middle East peace talks buoy investor sentiment and temper fears for the global economy.

'Melania': A documentary in search of a subject

Widely criticised as little more than a propaganda piece, ‘Melania’ is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Avalanche of criticism over premier’s fracking ‘threat’

A premier's comments that renewable sources won't be able to replace the gas needed to meet demands from households have been slammed by environmental groups.

Greens demand tougher tax changes but support likely

Labor is reportedly open to backing down on a proposed "death tax" on trusts but faces a fight with the Greens over grandfathering investor tax breaks.

CARTOONS: Mark David doesn't like brown bread

He likes ALL things orange, though. His credibility is toast.

Second ‘ISIS bride’ group leaves Syrian refugee camp

Women and children with ties to Islamic State have left a refugee camp in Syria ahead of their expected return home to Australia.

Our intelligence services need to break free from excessive US influence

Australia is part of the white man's intelligence network, Five Eyes. That means too much CIA input into anti-China perceptions in recent years. It also helped bring down the Whitlam government.

New China-US rules, region’s Taiwan anxiety, Sri Lankan scam hub – Asian Media Report

Xi’s latest terms for the American relationship, Trump’s post-summit verbal meandering, cybercrime operations’ new base, the west’s dominance is an historical ‘aberration’, and the Modi government’s all-veg banquets.

Taunting and degrading civilians in armed conflict is a clear violation of international law

The public humiliation and mistreatment of Gaza flotilla activists violated core protections under international humanitarian law governing the treatment of civilians and detainees during armed conflict.

Adios! Aussie fast food chain suddenly exits US

An Australian-born, Mexican-themed fast-food chain has suddenly exited the United States market after years of trumpeting its expansion plans.

Will T20 cricket kill the Test game?

Cricket is now managed by business interests, making the lucrative T20 game a more attractive investment than the traditional centrepiece of the game, the Test.

Could China, Russia and the United States work together?

Observers in China detect the possibility of 'trilateral coordination' between China, Russia and the United States, with the US the biggest variable.

Allowing loved ones to rest

A formal apology in Tasmania's parliament for the past practice of taking human specimens from autopsies and displaying them highlights the importance of repatriation.

Aussie activists detained by Israel arrive in Turkey

Australians who were arrested by Israeli forces after being part of a global flotilla have arrived in Istanbul after being released from custody.

The great Treasury fiction: Why public investment is rigged to fail

Treasury’s reliance on flawed market benchmarks is undermining long-term public investment.

The Royal Commission, Palestine and the clampdown on free speech

An inquiry into antisemitism and social cohesion is going far beyond racism and discrimination, Australia is confronting larger questions about free speech and who gets heard in democratic debate.

Feeding the rich, poor fed to wolves. Well done Angus!

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Opposition Leader Angus Taylor would seek to jump on the orange bandwagon by cosying up to One Nation, and emulating Trump, given the PHONies’ recent surge in popularity and the Libs’ ever-p...

Concerns, doubts over Tasmania budget cuts

Rating agency S&P Global says Tasmania's budget repair carries "high execution risk," doubting the government will follow through on $1.47 billion in cuts.

Bowen to back electrification at UN climate summit

Australia and Turkey have revealed that the global oil crisis will prompt a major focus on electrification at the United Nations climate talks in November.

Budget: whopping subsidies, private health profiteering as waiting lists rise

The health component of the Budget focused on NDIS. Not much else changed, leaving flaws in the private health insurance industry unresolved.

Hanson lashes gas tax ‘vandalism’, reveals energy plan

Australia should look to Norway to shore up sovereign wealth through gas, One Nation says, as the coalition urges the resources industry to "fight like hell".

The making of America's first dictator

As legal immunity expands and institutional safeguards erode, America edges ever closer to a presidency untethered from accountability, writes.

Facts in, garbage out: Why the RBA needs functional finance

As cost-of-living pressures mount, critics argue Australia’s inflation response is worsening the pain rather than solving the problem.

Angus Taylor may have just created half a million new Labor voters

The Coalition’s plan to strip welfare access from non-citizens could accelerate a surge in citizenship and voter enrolment across migrant-heavy suburban seats critical to the Liberal Party’s electoral future.

Government CGT changes structurally sound

Paul Keating says the Howard-Costello capital gains tax discount distorted the tax system, inflated housing prices and entrenched inequality between wage earners and wealth holders.

US condemns Israel’s Ben-Gvir while sanctioning Gaza flotilla organisers

A rare public rebuke of Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir by US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has highlighted growing international condemnation over the treatment of Gaza flotilla activists, even as Washington continues sanct...

Catch 22? A problematic definition of antisemitism

The greatest single cause of the recent rise of antisemitism in Australia is the behaviour of Israel, which the Australian Government has not condemned.

Best online stores to buy Apple gift cards cheaper than the official Apple price

Apple doesn’t discount its own gift cards — ever. Whether you walk into a Sydney Apple Store or use the App Store online, you pay full face value. But a quiet market of authorised resellers offers the same digital curren...

Mirrors of greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the tech brat battle

The legal clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI exposes the profit-driven scramble shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

Trump now placed to end U.S. democracy

Bit by bit, Trump’s efforts to undermine, steal or even cancel the mid-term elections are taking shape.

The Royal Commission into Zionist Absolution and Palestinian Erasure

Commencing days after its interim report release, the hearings of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion began on 4 May 2026 on Gadigal land in Sydney, and ever since, tales have emerged regarding the...

Before the marches: They were already here

Muslim men who stopped to pray five times a day in the red dust of the Australian interior did the work that made modern Australia possible.

Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth dead at 91

Former governor-general Peter Hollingworth, whose handling of child sexual abuse in the Anglican church prompted his resignation, has died aged 91.

The Commonwealth Offence of Slavery in Australia

Four ISIS-connected Australian women and nine children returned to Australia on 7 May 2026, after years of languishing in a Syrian refugee camp. And as authorities had promised, Australian federal police officers arreste...

Deadly disease outbreak linked to waning vaccinations

One of Australia's worst diphtheria outbreaks has spread across the nation with fears the respiratory disease has claimed a life in an outback community.

Cricket Australia’s cloud deal at centre of ‘contracts-for-mates’ imbroglio

Cricket Australia remains bunkered down in the wake of revelations of a whistleblower report detailing 'contracts-for-mates'. Joel Jenkins follows the money.

Why political diversity lags as ethnic diversity rises in Australia

An examination of immigration, demographics, media influence and electoral systems asks whether Australia’s political landscape is becoming less representative as diversity grows. read now...

Nature on life support: Budget cuts fuel biodiversity crisis

Labor’s Budget priorities are under fire as conservation groups warn biodiversity funding cuts, weakened protections and fast-tracked approvals could deepen Australia’s environmental crisis. read now...

Houses, town water supply sold in mining mega‑deal

A $5.8 billion mega-coal mining deal has all but put a town up for sale, handing the new owner the mines, hundreds of homes and crucial community services.

Murdoch’s Tax Whinge, Exxon’s Gas Heist and Labor’s Budget Panic | The West Report

Check it out: https://taxdata.michaelwest.com.au/data_analytics Australia’s media has gone into full budget meltdown mode, with screaming front pages about death taxes, trust limbo and Labor betrayal. But while the Mur...

No bears: software firm shrugs off AI ‘apocalypse’ fear

Software group Technology One has shrugged off worries about its exposure to an industry apocalypse, with its boss arguing it can emerge stronger than ever.

The long drive from Esperance to Broome: What regional Australia looks like when the network drops

A field report from the Esperance-Karijini-Broome corridor, where small operators, single-lane highways and an inconsistent infrastructure layer set the daily terms of trade, as Mariam Suleman reports. read now.....

Double death tax? The GST accord rises from the grave

The "death tax" introduced by the Government's proposed tax reform, the 1999 GST accord with the States may mean a double whammy for those living in Queensland, WA or NT.

Palestine, protest and free speech: The real crisis behind the Royal Commission

The Royal Commission on antisemitism is rapidly becoming a mechanism to police dissent, shield Israel from criticism, and redefine the limits of political speech in Australia.

Australia secures more jet fuel shipments from China

An extra 100,000 litres of jet fuel will come through in three shipments from June, following negotiations with Beijing.

Caroline Graham’s enduring legacy of resistance and activism

The life and legacy of activist Caroline Graham reflects decades of struggle across feminism, environmentalism and Palestinian solidarity. read now...

‘Not acceptable’: Liberal breaks ranks on immigration

A moderate Liberal has taken aim at his leader's language around "mass migration", warning it risks alienating communities around Australia.

Asia shares mixed, oil eases on Trump’s Iran comments

Donald Trump has paused a planned attack on Iran, and says there's a "good chance" of a nuclear deal as US futures reverse early gains.

The American mis-imagination of China

In a speech to a colloquium on John Hay’s Open Door Policy, former US diplomat Chas Freeman argues that America’s current approach to China is strategically self-defeating and increasingly detached from geopolitical real...

Cutting tobacco tax will not stop Australia’s illegal cigarette trade

Proposals to slash Australia’s tobacco excise ignore the basic economics of the illegal cigarette market, where untaxed products would remain dramatically cheaper even if tobacco taxes were heavily reduced.