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Qatar security guards trapped in 'forced labour': Amnesty

Doha (AFP) - The UN labour agency joined Amnesty International Thursday in calling on World Cup hosts Qatar to protect thousands of security guards who a report said were victims of "forced labour".

AFP

Proof of Russian war crimes exposed in damning report - including mum raped as son hid

Amnesty International has obtained evidence that civilians were killed in indiscriminate attacks in Kharkiv and Sumy Oblast, and documented an airstrike that killed civilians queueing for food in Chernihiv

Daily Mirror

Qatar World Cup: Security workers subject to ‘forced labour’ reveals damning report from Amnesty International

Amnesty International have criticised Fifa for “failing to put in place adequate processes” to prevent the abuse

Evening Standard

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FIFA urged to do more to end abusive practices in Qatari private security sector

Interviewees reported being made to work 84-hour weeks in the notoriously perilous sector.

The Independent UK

Qatar World Cup organizers admit workers were exploited

Qatar World Cup organizers have admitted that workers were exploited while contracted for FIFA preparation tournaments

The Independent UK

Fifa criticised after damning new report of labour abuses in Qatar ahead of World Cup

A new Amnesty International report has hit out at Fifa for failing ‘to put in place adequate processes’ to prevent the problems

The Independent UK

Rights defenders slam Spain’s deportation of Algerian dissident

Spain rejects Algerian whistleblower’s asylum application and hastily deports him despite concerns raised for his life.

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Aakar Patel: Amnesty official barred from leaving India

Aakar Patel says immigration authorities stopped him from flying to the US after he was placed on a ‘look-out circular’.

Al Jazeera

Rights groups charge 'ethnic cleansing' in Ethiopia's Tigray

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International charge in a new report that widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Independent UK

Former Amnesty India chief stopped from leaving country

New Delhi (AFP) - Amnesty International's former India chief said Wednesday he was stopped from flying to the United States because of government legal action against the human rights watchdog.

AFP

Tigray has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups

Human Rights Watch-Amnesty report accuses Ethiopian paramilitaries of war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Guardian - UK

Victim’s iPhone hacked by Pegasus spyware weeks after Apple sued NSO

Quartet targeted by clients – thought to be Jordanian government agencies – of Israeli company even after Apple sued in November

The Guardian - US

Stay and be killed or leave and be killed? One family’s impossible decision to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv

Exclusive: Since the war began, Russia has bombarded the city of Chernihiv, leaving thousands of civilians with no way to escape and supplies dwindling. One mother whose family survived their home being bombed and then fled to safety shares their story with Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

US unions condemn ‘unacceptable’ Oregon pension fund link with NSO

AFL-CIO in Oregon calls for urgent divestment from fund that owns Israeli spyware company alleged to have targeted union members

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The Independent UK

Qatar 2022 is here – a tainted World Cup barely worthy of the name

We’re here for Friday’s group stage draw but we’re here because of off-field decisions with far-reaching consequences. So as the draw makes Qatar 2022 ‘real’, is this a real World Cup?

The Independent UK

Stay and be killed or leave and be killed? One family’s impossible decision to escape the besieged city of Chernihiv

Daily Mirror

Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk under fire over hosting fight in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is the frontrunner to host Joshua's rematch with Usyk, but the decision to hold the fight in the country has come under fire by human rights organisation Amnesty International

The Independent UK

Anthony Joshua’s rematch against Oleksandr Usyk should not be held in Saudi Arabia, say Amnesty International

The Ukrainian’s promoter has revealed discussions over the fight being staged in June

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War in Ukraine: Amnesty chief slams 'failure to reform' UN institutions

As the global rights watchdog Amnesty International unveils its annual report, the group's Secretary General Agnès Callamard joined us for Perspective. In the report, she accused Russia of turning humanitarian corridors in Ukraine into "death traps" – a tactic she says was used in Syria and Chechnya. Callamard also hit…

Radio France Internationale

Amnesty criticises France for alleged rights failings and 'double standard' on refugees

In its annual report on the status of human rights in the world, rights group Amnesty International criticised France’s rights record, in particular its refugee policy. The report claims that French rights failings and 'double standard(s)' leave many living in squalid and humiliating circumstances while Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion are…

Axios

Premier League grapples with human rights questions after Abramovich sanctions

A human rights test would likely upend the structure of soccer's most popular league.

The Guardian - UK

UK’s draft refugee and police laws are ‘human rights vandalism’, says Amnesty

Rights group’s annual report accuses Britain of setting ‘worrying reverse course’ in bills on refugees, policing, protest and welfare

The Independent UK

Amnesty's leader accuses Russia of war crimes in Mariupol

Amnesty International is accusing Russia of committing war crimes in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine latest updates: Biden cautious over Russia promise

Ukraine news from March 29: Joe Biden urges caution over Russia’s pledge to reduce military activity near Kyiv.

The Guardian - AU

Australia-New Zealand refugee deal: what we know so far

Nine years after it was first made, Australia has finally taken up New Zealand’s offer to accept refugees held in Nauru and other facilities

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