AUKUS鈥檚 next phase, or 鈥渟econd pillar鈥,聽focuses on technology sharing of聽鈥渁dvanced capabilities鈥,聽a major aspect being artificial intelligence. Matilda Byrne investigates the development of聽autonomous weapons聽technologies.
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The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has again had to pull out of a planned inspection after聽NSW聽and Queensland refused it access to facilities. Paul Gregoire reports.
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet's visit to China last month was seized on by the United States to ramp up its anti-Chinese rhetoric, writes William Briggs.
The United Nations has designated Australia as having done the least out of 193 countries to combat climate change. Patrick McDonald reports.
The federal government insists that the Murugappan family do not meet the refugee criteria and can be safely returned to Sri Lanka. Janet Parker takes a look at the adverse security situation for Tamils.
Unions, peace聽and aid groups are condemning聽Israel's air strikes and聽calling on the Australian government to demand Israel cease fire. Isaac Nellist reports.
It may seem a surprise to learn that Australia鈥檚 sustainable development is currently ranked very low compared to other OECD countries, writes Patrick McDonald.
The Australian Tamil Congress has expressed its 鈥渄isappointment鈥 with a March 21 United Nations Human Rights Council resolution because 鈥渧ery little justice has reached victims and survivors鈥 it said.
When Tuvaluan Prime Minister Enele Sosene Sopoaga used his United Nations address on September 27 to warn that, for the Pacific, 鈥渃limate change is a weapon of mass destruction鈥, most of the seats were vacant.聽
A United Nations report has called for an investigation of human rights violations in the divided South Asian territory of Kashmir.
United Nations human rights official Andrew Gilmour said on March 7 that it was impossible to safely send Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh back to their homes in Myanmar as documents released under freedom of information laws show that the Australian defence department plans to spend almost $400,000 on training members of the聽Myanma military in 2017-18.
Israel鈥檚 fight against the global boycott, divestments and sanctions campaign (BDS) has taken another turn with its attempt to prevent the publication of a database of companies operating in its illegal West Bank settlements.
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