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How Immigration Law Magnifies the Injustice Inflicted by the War on Drugs

Every year, thousands of U.S. residents are deported for drug-related activity, including minor offenses and conduct that states have legalized.

Reason

Repression in Venezuela ramp up as 2024 July election approaches, HRW says

Legal aid organization Foro Penal reported that there have been around 15,700 politically motivated arbitrary arrests in Venezuela during the past decade

Latin Times

Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says

Human Rights Watch found links to 190 photos of kids that were scraped off internet without families’ consent

The Guardian - AU

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Honduras Far From Dismantling Ex-president's 'Narco-state': Experts

Honduras still has a long way to go to dismantle the "narco-state" that grew under ex-president Juan Orlando Hernandez, jailed this week for smuggling a deluge of cocaine into the United States, experts told AFP. Hernandez, 55, spent years in positions of power cozying up to kingpins from some of…

International Business Times

AI tools are illegally training on real children, including for explicit material

170 photos of Brazilian children have been scraped without parental consent, Human Rights Watch said.

Fortune

Ugandan environmental activist freed after five days in detention

An environmental activist in Uganda who is opposed to a huge oil project led by French giant TotalEnergies has been freed after five days in detention, his employer said Monday.

Radio France Internationale

Israel white phosphorous attacks on Lebanon harming people and ecosystem

More than 92,600 people have been displaced from their villages in south Lebanon by the attacks, according to the IOM.

Al Jazeera

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Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision

Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations

The Guardian - UK

Rights group claims Israel has hit residential buildings with white phosphorous in Lebanon

A global human rights group claimed that Israel has used white phosphorus incendiary shells on residential buildings in at least five towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon, possibly harming civilians and violating international law, in a report published Wednesday

The Independent UK

The ABC made the stick it beats itself with

Antoinette Lattouf was sacked from the ABC for breaching a social media policy nobody at the broadcaster seems to be able to articulate.

Crikey

Report says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans

An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate them through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture

The Independent UK

Greek Court Drops Charges In Migrant Shipwreck Case

A Greek court on Tuesday dropped charges against nine Egyptians over one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant shipwrecks in which rights groups said they had been made scapegoats for the failures of the Greek coastguard in the deaths of more than 600 people.

International Business Times

Rwanda denies entry to senior human rights researcher

Human Rights Watch says Clementine De Montjoye’s case raises fresh questions about UK’s asylum seeker scheme

The Guardian - UK

Child migration through Darien Gap has increased by 40% so far this year, UN says

As many as 160,000 children could make the treacherous journey on their way up north, according to a new report

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles

Increased levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to worsen trade tensions with Beijing. Plus, chaos on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

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Israeli Forces Accused Of Targeting Aid Workers In Gaza

Israeli forces targeted aid workers in Gaza, hindering humanitarian efforts and potentially committing war crimes, as reported by HRW.

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces attacked ‘known aid worker locations’ in Gaza: Rights group

Human Rights Watch says aid workers’ convoys and facilities have been targeted at least eight times since last October.

The Guardian - UK

At least eight Israeli strikes on Gaza aid groups since October, says report

Human Rights Watch says warnings were not issued before attacks, which have killed or injured dozens

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Al Jazeera

Israelis killing Palestinians ‘in cold blood’ in occupied West Bank

The number of Palestinians killed there by Israeli soldiers and settlers has reached unprecedented levels.

The Guardian - UK

Parliament urged to look at sportswashing clause in football bill

A human rights group has urged parliament to revoke a clause in the football governance that could enable sportswashing by authoritarian states

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore

Ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Darfur have left 25 million people in urgent need, yet the west’s attention is elsewhere

Radio France Internationale

Call for sanctions amid claims of ethnic cleansing in Sudan's West Darfur

Militias in Sudan killed thousands of people – including children – during a wave of violence last year in West Darfur, the NGO Human Rights Watch said as it accused armed groups of crimes against humanity and genocide.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur

Human Rights Watch says ‘thousands’ killed in attacks last year targeting Masalit tribe and other non-Arab groups.

The Guardian - UK

Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur

As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan

The Guardian - AU

No sign of breakthrough in hostage and ceasefire talks, Israeli official says; Kerem Shalom aid crossing reopens – as it happened

Israel to keep ‘mid-level’ negotiators in Cairo; key crossing for humanitarian aid closed on Sunday after Hamas shelling attack

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