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Warning over Indigenous custody deaths after voice fail

An Indigenous senator says the government shouldn't treat Aboriginal deaths in custody as a "side dish", urging them to fulfil royal commission recommendations.

AAP

Melbourne council dumps 'unlawful' prayer

A decades-old tradition of reciting a prayer before getting down to business has been scrapped by a Melbourne council over concerns it breaches human rights.

AAP

Pupils punished for having too shiny shoes at ‘one of Britain’s strictest schools’

Parents say their children’s human rights are being breached at King Edward VI Academy

The Independent UK

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Checking in on Human Rights Watch and Gaza/Israel

Long-time readers will recall that I am a vociferous critic of Human Rights Watch. HRW purports to be a neutral human rights organization, but consistently hires staffers with a history of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activism to write and report on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. So how did HRW do after the Oct.…

Reason

Indonesia top court rejects presidential age limit, clearing legal path for 72-year-old frontrunner

Indonesia’s top court rejected an effort to block presidential candidates who are over 70 or implicated in human rights abuses, clearing the legal path for a septuagenarian former general’s ultra-nationalist campaign

The Independent UK

TNUEF to organise National Dalit Agenda Conference in Chennai on Nov. 18

TNUEF to host Nat'l Dalit Agenda Conf. on Nov 18, launch signature campaign from Oct 25 to support demands of Dalit & human rights orgs. 12 demands incl. law to ensure part of public resources set aside for Dalits, 5 acres of land for rural landless Dalits. Core demands: reservations…

The Hindu

The Court’s ‘no fundamental right to marry’ is wrong

Not recognising marriage for same sex couples is discriminatory against them

The Hindu

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Senior UK politicians 'failing to hold Israel to account' for human rights violations

RISHI Sunak and senior Labour figures have been accused of “failing” to hold Israel to account for “clear” breaches of international law…

The National (Scotland)

Commission seeks steps to address falling conviction rates in POCSO cases

Kerala State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) has written to the High Court & Home Dept. to address the falling rate of conviction in child abuse cases. KSHRC's report, submitted by the ADGP, lists factors such as altered statements, settlements, delays, evidence lapses, etc. as reasons. Recommendations include recording statements under…

The Hindu

Samiti to lodge complaint with KSHRC against Kalaburagi police, Priyank Kharge

The Koli-Kabbaliga Samanvaya Samiti would lodge a complaint with the State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) against the police inaction against the culprits who harassed Devanand Koraba of Madbool and forced him to die by suicide.

The Hindu

The petition challenging Rohingya refugees’ ‘illegal detention’ in India | Explained

The Hindu explains the writ petition in the Supreme Court alleging that India’s arrest and detention of the Rohingya refugees is illegal and unconstitutional.

The Hindu

My father, the war criminal: Children of Argentina's dictatorship grapple with dark past

Some Argentinians carry a heavy family secret. Under the country’s military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, their fathers were police or military officers. As such, they were responsible for the disappearance of up to 30,000 people, according to human rights groups. These men have since been accused – and sometimes…

France 24

What is a war crime, and who gets held accountable? Here's what you need to know

The conflict between Israel and Hamas has led to accusations of war crimes on both sides, as combatants are bound by international humanitarian law to minimize the impact on civilians.

WEKU

Same-sex marriage and the fundamental right to marry | Explained

In the wake of the same-sex marriage verdict, The Hindu decodes what the top court has previously said about the fundamental right to marry and whether international human rights covenants recognise such a right.

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Al Jazeera

‘Silent annexation’: Settlers dispossess West Bank Bedouins amid Israel war

As the world looks towards Israel’s war on Gaza, occupied West Bank settlers attack Palestinians, take their homes.

The Guardian - UK

Joe Biden’s warning to Israel is a nod to US failures in the ‘war on terror’

The US response to 9/11 was dogged by a threat posed by an ill-defined enemy, which led to human rights abuses associated with Guantánamo

The Hindu

TDP MP writes to NHRC seeking an inquiry into human rights violations in Andhra Pradesh

TDP MP writes to NHRC seeking an inquiry into human rights violations in Andhra Pradesh. The violations are sponsored, aided and abetted by the State government and fundamental rights are being curtailed and voices of dissent suppressed, alleges Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar in his letter to NHRC Chairman Justice Arun Mishra.

Al Jazeera

Mahsa Amini honoured with EU’s top human rights prize

The Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody became a symbol for the women’s rights movement in Iran.

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The Independent UK

European court says Italy violated rights of residents near Naples over garbage crisis

The European Court of Human Rights has found Italy violated the human rights of residents living in and around Naples by failing to manage a 15-year garbage and pollution crisis

The Independent UK

Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize

France 24

Mahsa Amini and Iran's 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement win Sakharov human rights prize

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize on Thursday.

The Guardian - US

‘Very disturbing’: crackdown on oil pipeline protests in Uganda concerns UN rights expert

Students in Kampala have been beaten and arrested for marching against a 900-mile pipeline co-owned by a French company

The Guardian - AU

‘Not proportionate’: Australian government urged to axe extraordinary terror powers amid low threat level

Australian Human Rights Commission says preventive detention regime is now harder to justify

The Independent UK

Activists turn backs on US officials as UN-backed human rights review of United States wraps up

Dozens of activists who champion LGBTQ, indigenous peoples’ and reproductive rights or campaign against discrimination have turned their backs in a silent protest in Geneva

Fortune

These CEOs are rising to the occasion–and condemning the brutal Hamas attack on Israel. The rest of civil society is MIA

More than 75 multinational companies have issued statements with strong condemnation of Hamas’s terrorism, write Yale's Sonnenfeld and Tian.

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