Aung Zaw Win, a former Rohingya MP has been arrested in Myanmar, in a move that has been condemned as a further escalation of the attacks on the Rohingya community.

The former MP was arrested at Yangon international airport on Wednesday as he was about to depart to Bangkok on a business trip.

He currently remains in custody in Mingaladon police station, and despite being held for five days has not undergone any questioning.

A historic first has seen a woman from Pakistan’s marginalised Hindu minority elected to the senate in an election over the weekend.

Krishna Kumari, a member of the Pakistan People’s Party, is from the so-called untouchables, the lowest rung of the caste system that still prevails in Pakistan.

Kumari, who was raised in a remote district and often worked in fields alongside her parents, will take the oath of office later this month.

National Children’s Commissioner Megan Mitchell’s 2017 Children’s Rights Report has reported young parents are at risk of poor health and have limited access to education.

While the report found teenage pregnancy has declined in recent years, Commissioner Mitchell’s eight-month report found 64 percent of young parents had stopped attending school and only 30 percent of the participant’s schools supported their attendance.

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has spoken positively of gas and renewable energy, when queried about the Adani coal mine on her first day back from a trade visit to the United States.

The premier touched on recent investments from the gas and renewable energy industries in Queensland, and spoke of her hopes to see many resource projects plans go ahead.

Consecutive state governments have been scolded by disability groups and senior law firms as Queensland’s new trains failed to meet international disability access standards.

The Human Rights Commission refused an application made by the Palaszczuk government for a three-year exemption for failing to include disabled toilets on board, despite the $4.4 billion price tag on the trains.

Australia is predicted to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer due to the effectiveness of a vaccine created by a Queensland researcher.

University of Queensland professor Ian Frazer created Gardasil, the vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus which causes 99.9% of cervical cancers.

Research recently published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases shows the Human Papillomavirus rate has dropped from 22.7% to 1.1% during the past decade, meaning the cancer could soon be eliminated.

Thousands of people have marched through London in efforts to call for gender equality, and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.

Politicians from different parties joined groups representing all regions as they marched together along the same historic route taken by the suffragettes.

Described as uplifting and inspiring, the event takes place each year in the days leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8.

Authorities in Honduras have arrested an energy company executive who allegedly orchestrated the 2016 murder of prominent environmental activist Berta Cáceres.

Police detained Roberto David Castillo as the perpetrator, who had previously served as CEO of a company with plans to construct a hydroelectric dam which Cáceres had actively campaigned against before her murder.

Two masked gunmen fatally shot the activist at her home in La Esperanza in March 2016.

Australian motorists attended the Federal Court today against the global carmaker Volkswagen, as it has been three years since their cars were revealed to have been fitted with software that could detect test conditions and reduce emissions in order to improve results.

The scandal led to the resignation of Volkswagen executives, saw others sentenced to jail and resulted in billions of dollars in fines.