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Iran violations may amount to crimes against humanity - UN expert

Iran's authorities have committed violations in recent months that may amount to crimes against humanity, a U.N.-appointed expert told the Human Rights Council on Monday, citing cases of murder, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, sexual violence and persecution.

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LGBTQ+ rights: African Union watchdog goes back on its own word

The primary human rights watchdog in Africa recently made a decision that departed from its existing practice. The African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, an independent expert body within the African Union (AU) framework, used sexual or gender identity as the reason it rejected applications for observer status from…

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Iran Violations May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity, Says UN Expert

Iran's authorities have committed violations in recent months that may amount to crimes against humanity, a UN-appointed expert told the Human Rights Council on Monday, citing cases of murder, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, sexual violence and persecution. Iran has been swept by protests since the death of a young…

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EU imposes further sanctions on Iran for human rights violations

The European Union on Monday imposed a new package of sanctions against Iran, its sixth, in response to human rights violations, adding eight individuals and one entity to its list.

Reuters

New Zealand foreign minister to visit counterpart in China

Nanaia Mahuta says she will raise concerns over Ukraine and human rights issues as well as ways the two countries can cooperate

The Guardian - AU

From murder to stadium crush: Can Indonesia’s police reform?

Indonesian police have found themselves in the dock in some high-profile cases amid hopes of greater accountability.

Al Jazeera

Fresh sanctions levelled at Iran for human rights abuse

Multiple Iranian individuals and entities have been slapped with new sanctions for human rights abuses and for support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Australia issues new sanctions on Iran over human rights abuses, supply of drones to Russia

The Australian government says it is imposing Magnitsky-style sanctions on 14 Iranian individuals and 14 entities over "egregious human rights abuses and violations in Iran".

ABC News

Sanctions against Iran not enough, opposition says

The opposition wants to list the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation in addition to sanctions against Iran for human rights abuses.

AAP

Saudi Arabia bets on cinema: A smokescreen for human rights violations?

FRANCE 24 brings you a special full-length report on how the conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is investing in home-grown cinema. Making films in stunning Saudi locations is also a way of attracting foreign tourists to the country. Young people are now rushing to see films at multiplex cinemas and…

France 24

UK’s Braverman to discuss controversial migration deal in Rwanda

Several lawsuits have been filed to stop the conservative government from acting on a deportation agreement with Rwanda.

Al Jazeera

Rights Groups: Iran Executes 7 Kurds, Including 'Political Prisoner'

Iran on Friday hanged a Kurdish man viewed as a political prisoner by activists, rights groups said, amplifying alarm over the soaring number of executions in the country this year. Mohayyedin Ebrahimi, 43, was hanged at dawn at Urmia prison in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

West spotlights North Korea rights abuses; China opposes

The United States, its Western allies and experts shone a spotlight on the dire human rights situation and increasing repression in North Korea at a U.N. meeting

The Independent UK

US blasts China for attempt to ‘shield’ North Korea at UN meeting

The US ambassador criticises Security Council members for barring a webcast about alleged North Korean abuses.

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U.S. accuses China of trying to hide North Korea atrocities

The United States accused China on Friday of attempting to hide North Korea's atrocities from the world by blocking the webcast of an informal meeting of United Nations Security Council members on accusations of human rights abuses by Pyongyang.

Daily Mirror

What next for Vladimir Putin after 'significant' arrest warrant over abducting kids

Aisling Reidy, legal advisor at Human Rights Watch, says the significance of the arrest warrant for Russia's brutal ruler Vladimir Putin "should not be downplayed"

The Independent UK

Drivers given assurances about safety at Saudi Arabian GP

Formula One is back in Saudi Arabia one year after a missile strike hit an oil depot near the track during race week

The National (Scotland)

Scotland's equality and human rights fund helps 115,000 people in first year

HUMAN rights and equality groups in receipt of part of a £21 million fund have supported 115,000 people in the past year, a new report has found.

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The Independent UK

Premier League will never be stable while Gulf states own clubs, warns Fair Square

The human rights group says nations’ involvement in football ‘leaves the Premier League inextricably entwined with, and exposed to, developments in the UK’s foreign policy’

Al Jazeera

‘Demonising refugees’: UK plan to stop boat migration draws fire

Critics say proposed bill goes against international law and will end up in court if pushed through parliament.

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Calls for UN to Probe Iran Schoolgirl Poisonings

European lawmakers called on the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday to conduct an independent investigation into a wave of poisonings that have hit schoolgirls in Iran. Some 13,000 pupils, mostly girls, have fallen ill after "suspected poisonings" according to state media and officials in Iran, with some politicians blaming…

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Iran Rearrests Female Activist Hours After her Release

Iranian security forces rearrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ali Khamenei, activists said Thursday. Gholian, 28, was freed Wednesday from Tehran's Evin prison after spending over four years behind bars following a conviction related to her reporting…

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Iranian protesters are making demands in charters and bills of rights

It’s been six months since the latest spark ignited mass protests in Iran — the death of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa (Jina) Amini in morality police custody after she was arrested for allegedly failing to wear her hijab properly.

ABC News

What are incendiary weapons and how are they being deployed in Ukraine?

Such attacks can look like "fireworks" but could in fact be dangerous incendiary weapons, experts warn, which burn at around 2,000 degrees Celsius and cause excruciatingly painful burns to the skin.

The Independent UK

Russia has committed ‘widespread’ war crimes in Ukraine, UN-backed inquiry says

The report is based on more than 500 interviews as well as satellite images and visits to detention sites and graves

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