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Families seek UN help over Australia’s notorious refugee policies

Families forced apart by offshore scheme argue Australia has breached its international humanitarian obligations.

Al Jazeera

Chinese premier in Germany as Western mistrust mounts

BERLIN - Germany's president Monday urged Beijing and Washington to boost dialogue, as he hosted Premier Li Qiang at a time when China's policies on Russia, trade and human rights are receiving an increasingly hostile reception in the West.

Bangkok Post

Samithi alleges human rights violation in using manual labour to clear culvert in Kozhikode

As the blocks in the culvert at Stadium Junction in the city were painstakingly removed over the last week, activists see a clear violation of human rights in using manual labour for the activity.

The Hindu

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UN calls for 'gender apartheid' to be criminalised as Taliban denounced for abuse of Afghan women

The UN's top expert on human rights in Afghanistan has urged countries to consider making "gender apartheid" an international crime, in a bid to hold the Taliban accountable for grave and systematic abuses against Afghan women.

Radio France Internationale

Watch live: UN unveils report into situation for women and girls in Taliban-led Afghanistan

Watch live as Richard Bennett, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, presents a joint report on the situation of women and girls in the country.

The Independent UK

Towards a global summit of the future?

If international plans are on course, there will be a global Summit of the Future (SOF) in 2024 at the UN General Assembly. Given that 2023 is already witnessing various global activities for the 30-year milestone of the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights, as well as a summit…

Bangkok Post

10 questions about the Voice to Parliament - answered by the experts

As we start to see the campaign for the Voice referendum gather momentum, there are a lot of Australian voters with genuine questions, trying to understand the proposal and wade through the information – including misinformation and active (that is, intentional) disinformation – that is out there in this public…

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Written constitution will underpin an independent Scotland, says Yousaf

The First Minister said the proposed document would include recognition of the NHS in Scotland and provide stronger protections for human rights.

The Independent UK

Fears of ethnic cleansing mount in Sudan’s West Darfur

Multiple ceasefires and international mediation efforts have failed to stop the conflict from escalating.

Al Jazeera

Humza Yousaf urges Rishi Sunak to ask for immediate release of Scots man imprisoned in India

Jagtar Singh Johal's family say he has been tortured, including through electric shocks, and faces the death penalty over his activism and campaigning for Sikh human rights.

Daily Record

India’s Modi is a right-wing despot — not a rock star like Springsteen

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving in the United States for his first official state visit this week. While some Indian Americans will be cheering Modi on, others will be protesting the far-right leader’s appearance, hoping to draw attention to India’s dismal human rights track…

Chicago Sun-Times

Telangana Govt to ‘drop’ UAPA cases against Prof. Haragopal after KCR’s intervention

After an uproar over slapping noted Human Rights activist, Prof. Haragopal and others with the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the Telangana Government is said to have decided not to pursue the case and drop it.

The Hindu

Exhibition by Chinese dissident artist opens in Warsaw despite pressure from China

An exhibition by a provocative Chinese artist that criticizes the country's human rights record is opening at a Polish state-run contemporary art museum despite pressure from the Chinese embassy to cancel it

The Independent UK

'Democratic backsliding has accelerated': Council of Europe chief Pejcinovic Buric

Talking Europe interviews the head of the Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog. A former Croatian minister of foreign and European affairs, Marija Pejcinovic Buric was elected to lead the Council of Europe in 2019. The organisation started out with just 10 nations in 1949, and now numbers…

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Salon

Medical debt is a human rights violation

Hospitals are trapping patients in medical debt and cycles of abusive billing and debt collection practices

The Hindu

Odisha Human Rights Commission takes it upon itself to defend victims in civil court

In a rare move to protect human rights of people subjected to hereditary bondage, Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has decided to become an intervener in a civil court case.

Radio France Internationale

UN experts call on France to review police tactics at protests

Human rights experts mandated by the UN say France should thoroughly review its policing practices, expressing concern at the "reported excessive use of force" against protesters.

The New Daily

Japan’s new gay-rights bill slammed for being too little, too late and far too vague

Japan has enacted a law meant to promote understanding of the LGBTQI community that critics say provides no human rights guarantees

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Rebranded Saudi crown prince meets Macron as rights groups decry ‘hypocrisy’

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday at the start of a visit aimed at boosting bilateral ties and the oil kingdom’s standing in the international community. But human rights groups warn that the Saudi's gain is France’s loss on an increasingly…

Tribune News Service

International rights group calls out US for allowing hospitals to push millions into debt

Human Rights Watch, the nonprofit that for decades has called attention to the victims of war, famine, and political repression around the world, is taking aim at U.S. hospitals for pushing millions of American patients into debt.

The National (Scotland)

Consultation opens on plan to enshrine human rights into Scots law

VIEWS are being sought on plans to enshrine international human rights – including the right to health and an adequate standard of living - into…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: LGBTQ+ ‘state of emergency’ is no PR stunt

For the first time in its 40-year history, the Human Rights Campaign has declared a “state of emergency” for LGBTQ+ Americans. Some may respond to the announcement with cynicism or indifference. What does it really do anyway? Well, the answer is not “nothing.” And those who fixate on whether the…

Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s NUG negotiates ethnic differences as crisis deepens

Administration set up after 2021 coup is also battling international indifference as conflict fades from headlines.

The Independent UK

Qatar World Cup workers suffered ‘human rights abuses’, new Amnesty report finds

The investigation showed a “pattern of abuses against migrant workers” and accused Fifa of failing to investigate the issue, writes Miguel Delaney

WEKU

A court in Guatemala has sentenced a prominent journalist to 6 years in jail

Human rights groups have called the trial of journalist José Rubén Zamora a politically motivated sham after his newspaper uncovered corruption in the Central American country.

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