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Good Friday Agreement: 25 years on, the British government is seeking to undo key terms of the peace deal

The Good Friday Agreement ended a conflict that claimed more than 3,500 lives between 1968 and 1998. It is estimated that one-third of the adult population in Northern Ireland has been directly affected by bereavement, physical injury or trauma.

The Conversation

VIEWPOINT 2: Masters spotlights human rights abuses

Saudi Arabia — in the news for cutting oil production and pushing up the price of gas — is also making headlines for perhaps a more unusual reason: golf.

Tribune News Service

VIEWPOINT 1: Saudi ‘golfwashing’ isn’t working, and Americans should be proud of that

Two worlds collide in professional golf’s biggest event this week as top players from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, the Saudi-backed upstart league, compete in the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Tensions are running high after a group of elite players defected from the PGA to LIV, reaping generous…

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‘Brink of nuclear war’: North Korea warning on military drills

Pyongyang’s state media publishes warning as United States and South Korea continue joint military exercises.

Al Jazeera

Business faulted on rights stand

Businesses must do more to uphold human rights, a seminar was told.

Bangkok Post

Live facial recognition labelled ‘Orwellian’ as Met police push ahead with use

Human rights groups say cameras are form of mass surveillance, as report finds ‘substantial improvement’ in accuracy

The Guardian - UK

U.S. sanctions former Haitian official under human rights program

The United States imposed sanctions on the former president of Haiti's Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday under a program focused on human rights abuse and corruption, the Treasury Department said on its website.

Reuters

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Vanuatu scores a big climate win

It convinced the UN to urge the highest court to rule on whether polluting nations must address climate change

Salon

Opposition feels police heat ahead of voting in Zimbabwe

With a presidential election expected in July, government critics report clampdown on freedom of association, movement.

Al Jazeera

Kevin Baxter: Gianni Infantino's FIFA growth strategy has no time for human rights issues

LOS ANGELES — Gianni Infantino was reelected to another four-year term as FIFA president last month, running unopposed and winning by acclaim. That means no formal vote was taken, saving Infantino the embarrassment of failing to win unanimously in a race no one else was contesting.

Los Angeles Times

Trans women could be banned from single-sex spaces under proposal to define sex as 'biological'

The recommendation comes from crossbench peer Baroness Kishwer Falkner, who chairs the Equality and Human Rights Commission and was asked to carry out a review

Daily Mirror

UN Human Rights Council Extends Mandate of Iran Rapporteur on Human Rights

The United Nations Human Rights Council extended Tuesday the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, for an additional year. The extension was passed with 23 of the council's 47 members, as 16 members abstained from voting, and eight were against, including…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Family of Australian man jailed in Vietnam calls on governor-general to raise his case during visit marking 50 years of diplomatic ties

The governor-general is in Vietnam at the invitation of President Vo Van Thuong to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Australia and Vietnam, and human rights groups are calling on him to raise the plight of political prisoners in the communist South-East Asian nation.

ABC News

Greater human rights protection sought in government procurement

A clause requiring efforts to respect human rights will be included in the bidding instructions and contracts used when the government purchases products and services from businesses, it has been decided.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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The Independent UK

Redefining sex definition could make law on women-only spaces clearer, says EHRC

The human rights watchdog also noted that a change in the definition could be ‘more ambiguous or potentially disadvantageous’ in other areas of life.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Holding Over 1,000 Palestinians without Charge, Most Since 2003

Israel is holding over 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday. Israel says the controversial tactic, known as administrative detention, helps authorities thwart attacks and hold dangerous militants without divulging incriminating material for security reasons. Palestinians and rights…

The Independent UK

Israel holding over 1,000 without charge, most since 2003

An Israeli human rights group says that Israel is holding over 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003

Reuters

U.N. rights body extends Ukraine inquiry into crimes since Russia's invasion

The United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted in favour on Tuesday of extending the mandate of an investigative body probing possible war crimes committed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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France 24

Public executions and torture: ‘The Taliban have reverted to their true nature’

In the latest example of public punishments carried out by the Taliban, two men were publicly humiliated and forced to wear a chador, a full-length hijab traditionally worn by women. But other punishments meted out by the Taliban have been far more violent, including flagellations and public executions. While Afghan…

Al Jazeera

Rights groups urge UN not to adopt IHRA anti-Semitism definition

A letter to UN secretary-general says the definition is often used to wrongly label criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic.

The National (Scotland)

Top lawyer Aamer Anwar speaks out as child rapist spared jail

A TOP human rights lawyer has intervened amid outrage after a child rapist was spared jail for his “horrific” crime.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rights Report Accuses Houthis of Committing War Crimes through Child Recruitment

The Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations, or Rasd Coalition, accused the Iran-backed Houthi militias of committing war crimes for their forced recruitment of children under 15. In a report, “Children Not Soldiers”, it also accused them of committing serious crimes against children and violating the rules of warfare…

The Guardian - US

Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia

The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths

The Independent UK

Rights groups welcome Malaysia's move on death penalty

Human rights groups have applauded Malaysia’s move to scrap the mandatory death penalty as a major step forward in the push for the abolition of capital punishment in Southeast Asia

ABC News

Prominent Perth doctor Anthony Bell cleared of assaulting wife, former human rights lawyer Rabia Siddique

Dr Anthony Bell is acquitted of assaulting his wife during an argument over another woman last year, as the judge suggests Rabia Siddigue had "engaged in a vendetta" against her husband.

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