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A European body condemns Turkey's sentencing of an activist for links to 2013 protests

A European governmental body has condemned the decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court to confirm the aggravated life sentence for activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala

The Independent UK

Rejected by US courts, Onondaga Nation take centuries-old land rights case to international panel

The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrunk their territory from a 2.5 million acre expanse in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse

The Independent UK

Regulating media briefings by the police | Explained

With the Union Ministry of Home Affairs being ordered to prepare revised guidelines on media briefings by police personnel, we look at what the existing guidelines are and their shortcomings

The Hindu

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Key US lawmaker calls to pause millions of dollars in aid to Egypt

Top Democrat on House foreign policy panel calls for withholding US assistance over Cairo’s human rights record.

Al Jazeera

Leo Varadkar: I am prepared to take legal action against UK over legacy laws

The Taoiseach acknowledged taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights would have political implications.

The Independent UK

'Harrowing' disability report reveals need for change

A royal commission has made 222 recommendations, including new laws to enshrine rights for those with disabilities.

AAP

US aid to Egypt under new scrutiny after Menendez indictment - Roll Call

An indictment accuses Sen. Bob Menendez of receiving bribes and using his position from 2018 to 2022 to benefit the Egyptian government.

Roll Call

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Putin’s shameless UN charm offensive - with stolen grain from Ukraine

Russia is on a mission to grab a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council - and to add insult to injury it’s using crops plundered from its illegal war to curry favour with potential backers, writes Arpan Rai

The Independent UK

First Thing: Trump’s rivals accuse him of being ‘missing in action’ at Republican debate

Seven candidates faced off at Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, with frontrunner Trump again choosing to skip. Plus, how New York is breaking free of Airbnb’s clutches

The Guardian - UK

Tory MPs criticise Suella Braverman’s ‘alarmist’ speech on migration

Two MPs distance themselves from home secretary’s talk of ‘existential challenge’ as she called for human rights reform

The Guardian - UK

4 environmental, human rights activists awarded 'Alternative Nobel' prizes

The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been awarded to two environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

The Independent UK

Why you will never hear an Australian leader call out Indonesia on West Papua

Australia is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in West Papua because alienating Indonesia is not worth the risk as China jostles for regional influence

The Guardian - AU

UN criticises France’s ban on its Olympic athletes wearing headscarves

Dress codes should not be imposed on women, spokesperson says, after Paris Games ban affecting French athletes

The Guardian - UK

Egypt presidential election: Opponents under pressure ahead of December vote

The ballot hadn't been expected until spring next year. But Egypt's National Election Authority announced this week that the country would be holding its presidential vote in December, amid its worst-ever economic crisis. The vote is already fraught with accusations of repression. Human rights groups say at least 35 opposition…

France 24

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Hearing over climate inaction against 32 countries opens in Europe

Six young people from Portugal will take on 32 countries in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday for not doing enough to stop global warming. The unprecedented hearing is the world’s largest climate legal action to date.

The Guardian - UK

Girl, 11, among six young people taking on 32 nations in historic climate case

Claimants say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heating

The Conversation

Portuguese youths sue 33 European governments at EU court in largest climate case ever

A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately tackle global heating. Now, the Strasbourg court will be hearing them on 27 September,…

Al Jazeera

Pakistan’s Ahmadis living in fear as graves, religious sites attacked

Human Rights Commission says at least 34 attacks on religious sites of minority Ahmadis have taken place so far in 2023.

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The Independent UK

In landmark court case, 6 young activists take on 32 European nations over climate action

Six Portuguese young adults and children between 11 and 24 years of age are at the European Court of Human Rights where they are accusing 32 European governments of violating their human rights for what they say is a failure to adequately address climate change

The Hindu

In Manipur, efforts on to bring back sense of normalcy: EAM Jaishankar

Gov'ts in India & Manipur seek to restore normalcy & enforce law & order. UN experts raised alarm on human rights violations & abuses in Manipur. India rejected comments, calling them "unwarranted, presumptive & misleading".

The Independent UK

Covid bereaved must not be ‘brushed aside’, says son ahead of High Court case

Relatives say the state failed to protect people under the Human Rights Act and have issued legal claims for damages for loss of life.

The Guardian - UK

UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention

UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’

The Guardian - UK

Smirking Suella trashes 70 years of human rights in 30 minutes

Time to ditch the UN convention, said Braverman, we’d all been far too nice to people fleeing persecution

The Times of India

NHRC takes cognizance of TOI report about Mahadalit woman being urinated upon, sends notice to Bihar govt

PATNA: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of a TOI report about a Mahadalit woman being brutally assaulted, stripped and urinated upon for failing to pay interest on a loan at a village in Patna district and issued a notice to the Bihar government.

The National (Scotland)

UN refugee agency and charities blast Braverman's extreme asylum comments

The UK could be seen to be turning its back those in need in a “direct affront” to human rights, charities said after the Home Secretary…

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