Category: 4. World

New York City – “Focus, focus, focus on affordability”.

It is a simple message, but one that Robert Wood, a 47-year-old writer and a lead volunteer for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, believes is the key to turning out voters in the final…

When is a thing that is definitely a thing, not a thing? When you’re a thinktank trying to convince Coalition MPs they shouldn’t be backing policies to help Australia reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

As reported by Guardian Australia,…

Across the continent, human rights defenders play a vital role in achieving justice and a dignified life for everyone – whether they stand up for freedom of expression and association, keep governments accountable or fight for gender…

Despite concerted efforts to tackle impunity, the lack of meaningful improvement in accountability for journalist killings in the past decades indicates more must be done to deliver justice. Amid…

On 23 October 2025, as part of the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), ISHR delivered an oral statement on the human rights situation in Africa. 

On the Sahel, ISHR highlighted the…

We’ve been working over the last few days to authenticate footage of killings carried out by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after…

Last weekend, Ireland elected as its next president a leftwing pacifist in the latest example of how Ireland has bucked the global trends of rightwing populism.

This was not a parliamentary election – although Catherine Connolly, an independent…