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(USA/Reparative Justice) H.R. 40: Exploring the Path to Reparative Justice in America (HRW)

Dreisen Heath On behalf of Human Rights Watch, I thank Chairman Nadler and Ranking Member Jordan of the US House Committee on the Judiciary and...

(Gaza) Gaza Authorities Issue Travel Restrictions for Unmarried Women (HRW)

Rothna Begum In a terrible backwards step, Gaza’s Supreme Judicial Council, a body run by Hamas authorities, issued a notice on February 14 allowing male guardians to...

(India) India’s Koo plots a digital coup (The Interpreter)

AARTI BETIGERI Facebook might be a social media behemoth, its reach and power made apparent when Australian users saw local news rubbed off their screens from Thursday...

(Russia) Palaces and protests: Where to next for Russia? (The Interpreter)

IAN HILL Large street protests swept more than a hundred Russian cities in late January. The rallies were sparked by the arrest and jailing of...

(Australia/Australian Army) Australian Army’s new attack helicopters must be based and sustained in Darwin (The Strategist)

Luke Gosling Now that the government has made the decision to purchase 29 of Boeing’s AH-64E Apache helicopters by 2025 to replace the Australian Army’s 22 Airbus...

(Australia/China) Businesses changing tune on Australia–China relations (The Strategist)

Andrew Forrest Like a Jim’s Mowing franchise owner watching a neighbour lay synthetic grass, many Australian business leaders with multiple lines of dependency on Chinese...

(Global Food System/Biodiversity) Plant-based diets will be essential to the planet’s future, report says (WEF)

Johnny Wood Switching en masse to a plant-based diet is essential to protect wildlife habitats and prevent the loss of numerous species currently facing extinction,...

(Digital Risks/Resilience) 4 ways to build resilience to digital risks in the COVID-19 era (WEF)

Robert Muggah, Rafal Rohozinski The COVID-19 pandemic is generating monumental challenges for most governments, corporations and societies, both online and off. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/converting-digital-risk-into-opportunity-in-the-covid-19-era/

(Illegal Fishing) The seafood sector and governments must join forces to combat illegal fishing (WEF)

Jim Leape Around the world, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is putting fish stocks, human rights and marine ecosystems in peril. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/the-seafood-sector-and-governments-must-join-forces-to-combat-illegal-fishing/

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