Talking Rights and Mobilisation With India’s Durbar Sex Worker Collective
Sex work is said to be the oldest profession on Earth. However, unlike jurisdictions such as NSW, where laws are in place that serve to uphold the rights of sex workers, often in other regions around the globe, sex workers are...
Witch-Hunting Is Gender-Based Violence: Talking Women’s Rights With India’s North East Network
Witch-hunting is a form of communal violence that continues in some parts of the world, including the state of Assam in Northeast India. It almost always targets women, can act as punishment for tragedies with no direct relation to the...
Tibetans Storm Delhi’s Chinese Embassy Over COVID Abuses: An Interview With TYC’s Tenzin Dhonden
Seventy three members of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) stormed the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital of Delhi on 1 October to demand that Beijing stop using its Zero COVID policy as a means to further repress those living in occupied...
Dr Tim Anderson on His Intellectual Freedom Court Victory and “Slow Genocide” in Palestine
Dr Tim Anderson was victorious on 27 October, after having raised multiple court challenges, which appealed the decision to dismiss him from his position of Sydney University senior lecturer in political economy on the basis of a series of intellectual points...
Talking Queer Feminist Rights With Delhi’s Nazariya Foundation
After the parents of California resident Shivy Bhat learnt that their 19-year-old teenager was a trans man, they flew him to their hometown of Agra in India, confiscated his documents and electronic devices, and kept him under house arrest in...
Humanising Delhi’s Homeless: An Interview With Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan’s Param Jeet Kaur
As Gagan approaches, she proudly announces that she’s currently doing a Bachelor of Arts at Delhi University. It’s not what one would necessarily expect to hear from a 19-year-old homeless woman living in a shelter for women in Delhi’s Karol...
“A Case of Cultural Genocide”: Kathmandu Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office’s Karma Gyaltsen
These days, there are around 20,000 Tibetan refugees living in Nepal. This is a nation that shares a common border with the country Tibet, which is now referred to as the Tibetan Autonomous Region: a province of China. Although, the use...
ACT Decriminalises Drug Possession: Labor MP Michael Pettersson on Forging Reform
That the century-old system of drug prohibition is a failure is well-established in legal circles, amongst medical experts, those who partake in illicit substances, families who’ve lost loved ones to the use of them, and a growing cross section of...
In Going Green, Australian Companies to Destroy PNG: Interview With PNG Trust’s Joseph Ka’au
The PNG government approved the Papua LNG project in 2019, which is set to be located at the Elk-Antelope gas field. Situated in the Gulf Province, the gas field is located inland from the Gulf of Papua and not far upstream...
Dr Alison Broinowski on the War Powers Inquiry Succeeding Despite Marles’ Intervention
For people born over recent decades, global wars and the use of nuclear weapons are aspects of a fading black and white past, despite their having become very real prospects for the near future. Right now, world leaders have been...
