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Yemeni Official to Asharq Al-Awsat: Prisoner Swap Will Be Held on April 11

Yemeni deputy minister for human rights Majed Fadail revealed that a planned prisoner swap between the legitimate government and Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militias will take place in April. The official, who is also a member of the government negotiations delegation that took part in the talks with the Houthis over…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lessons from Australia: UK’s migration law set to repeat mistakes

Activists, lawyers and refugees see the UK repeating the mistakes and abuses of Australia’s draconian asylum seeker law.

Al Jazeera

Ukrainian athletes' human rights ignored by IOC, says legal expert

Paris (AFP) - Ukrainian athletes' human rights have been ignored by IOC president Thomas Bach and a UN expert in weighing Russia and Belarus's readmission into global sports events, a leading authority on human rights says.

AFP

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Necho lost her job because she is trans. Now she's studying to become a human rights lawyer

Necho Brocchi was in the early stages of medically transitioning when she said she was fired for being trans.

ABC News

Giant puppet Little Amal leads walk in Brighton to raise awareness of refugees

The 3.5m puppet became an international symbol of human rights after she journeyed 8,000km from the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester in 2021.

The Independent UK

What Premier League ownership changes mean for Sheikh Jassim's world record Man Utd bid

Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani is hoping to become the new owner of Manchester United and is free to push on with his offer despite changes to the Premier League owner's rules

Daily Mirror

Premier League overhaul owners’ and directors’ test to include human rights abuses

Newcastle United's Saudi-backed takeover came under intense scrutiny from human rights organisations such as Amnesty International

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In Turkey, women are feeling the worst aftershocks of the earthquake disaster – this disparity may lead to dwindling trust in government

When natural disasters strike, women and girls tend to experience disproportionate challenges and heightened risks.

The Conversation

Premier League toughen rules on club ownership and directors ahead of Man Utd takeover

Manchester United are in the midst of a club sale as the Premier League has decided to crackdown on club owners and directors with a new ban

Daily Mirror

3 ways Ottawa can rebuild trust following changes to the Safe Third Country Agreement

The recent announcement to amend the Canada-United States Safe Third Country Agreement has drawn criticism from human rights groups, refugee advocates, lawyers, researchers and the federal NDP.

The Conversation

Israel is on 'rampage' against human rights, new HRW chief says

Israel's government is "on a rampage" against human rights, the new head of Human Rights Watch said on Thursday and urged the United States and other allies to do more to hold it accountable for alleged abuses and persuade it to change course.

Reuters

New rules bar human rights abusers from owning Premier League clubs

London (AFP) - An individual who has committed human rights abuses will be unable to be an owner or director of a Premier League football club under new rules approved on Thursday.

AFP

Premier League strengthen new owners test to block human rights abusers from buying clubs

Clubs agree to new requirements in Owners and Directors’ Test

Evening Standard

New rules stop anyone guilty of human rights abuses owning Premier League clubs

The league’s clubs have voted to strengthen the owners’ and directors’ test.

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Premier League announces changes to owners and directors test amid bids to buy Manchester United

The Premier League's announcement comes after Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani and Sir Jim Ratcliffe have submitted bids to buy Man United.

The Independent UK

Premier League owners’ test to include disqualification for ‘human rights abuses’

Amnesty International said the Premier League were setting a ‘very low bar’ and warned that the rules could make ‘little difference’

Evening Standard

How to see Little Amal as she returns to London

Little Amal has become an international symbol of compassion and human rights

France 24

Situation in Palestinian Territories 'is completely hopeless if you’re young'

Palestinian human rights lawyer and former diplomat Ghaith al-Omari, a prominent advocate of the two-state solution and negotiations with Israel, gave FRANCE 24 a lengthy interview on a recent visit to Paris. In this first of a two-part series, he lamented the lack of hope and prospects for Palestinian youth.

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Explainer-Can ICC's Philippines drugs war probe make progress if Manila cuts contact?

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said this week he would cut off contact with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it rejected his government's request to suspend a probe into thousands of killings during his predecessor's "war on drugs".

The Guardian - UK

Refugees subject to widespread physical ill-treatment, Council of Europe finds

Human rights body says European states are increasingly resorting to illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers

Reuters

North Korea executes people for South Korean videos, drugs - report

North Korea executes people for drugs, sharing South Korean media, and religious activities as it stifles its citizens' human rights and freedom, its rival, South Korea, said in a report on Thursday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Morocco Denies Amnesty International Claims on Gdeim Izik Prisoner Case

Morocco’s General Delegation for Prison Administration denied on Tuesday recent claims by Amnesty International regarding torture and human rights violations against a prisoner detained in connection with the Gdim Izik Incidents. The country’s prison authority said in a statement that the prisoner, detained at the local prison of Tiflet 2…

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Defends Its Libya Migrant Work as UN Points the Finger

The European Union defended on Tuesday its work with migrants in Libya after UN-backed investigators accused the 27-nation bloc of abetting human rights abuses and other crimes in the largely lawless north African country. Libya is a major departure point for people from northern Africa and elsewhere desperate enough to…

The Guardian - AU

Human rights commissioner’s view of Indigenous voice ‘likely to mislead voters’, five predecessors say

Exclusive: In joint statement former Australian human rights commissioners say opinion piece by Lorraine Finlay made ‘serious error’

The Independent UK

Kentucky Republicans strike down governor’s veto of sweeping anti-trans law

A state lawmaker whose trans son died by suicide last year pleaded with Republicans to reject the law, derided by LGBT+ advocates as a ‘desperate and cruel effort by extremist politicians’

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