Another refugee died after months of being denied access to Australian medical care. The refugee was imprisoned by Australia on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

The refugees that die are a small fraction, but they are all subject to grave mistreatment every day.

As more children in the UK fall into poverty, the Tories handled it by eliminating the special government program meant to reduce the causes of poverty.

Perhaps the government want to reduce them — since the main cause of poverty in the UK today is the Tory party.

The troll's plan to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be an explicit endorsement of Netanyahu's intention for a permanent occupation of Palestine.

Thailand's new "computer crime act" includes punishment for violating vague censorship rules.

Thailand is one of the countries that I won't visit, because of the repression there. I encourage everyone to boycott Thailand.

Kamala Harris is trying again to prosecute Backpage and its owners for publishing ads for escorts, who are probably prostitutes, because some of them may in fact be minors.

Prostitution should be lawful. Prohibiting the advertising of prostitution does no good for prostitutes, and tends to force them to work on the street, which hurts them plenty.

The principal way to prevent women and girls from being forced into prostitution is to reduce poverty.

Some women are forced into prostitution by violent threats by pimps. It is hard to prevent that — banning advertising won't do it. Maybe targeted surveillance could be made to work.