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Why the growing number of foreign agent laws around the world is bad for democracy

After several days of mass protests and clashes between protesters and police in early March, the ruling party of Georgia, a former Soviet state located in the Caucasus, succumbed to pressure and abandoned its proposed laws on foreign agents.

The Conversation

Biden holds second democracy summit amid doubts over progress

World leaders will gather virtually this week for the second U.S.-organized Summit for Democracy, an event critics say illustrates the halting progress the Biden administration has made in advancing human rights and democracy as a focus of its foreign policy.

Reuters

The Women Fighting One of the Harshest Abortion Laws in the Americas

In some cases, women face handcuffs and criminal charges after suffering medical emergencies

The Walrus

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Suella Braverman expected to toughen asylum bill as she is accused of being ‘sock puppet’ for Tory right

Rebels hopeful government will tighten bill to stop European Court of Human Rights blocking deportations

The Independent UK

MPs urged to uphold UK’s global obligations in migration bill debate

Council of Europe commissioner raises concerns that legislation may not meet human rights standards

The Guardian - UK

Iran Calls for Int’l Committee to Investigate Human Rights Violations in France

The spokesman of the Iranian government Ali Bahadori Jahromi called on Monday for the formation of an international research committee for dealing with France’s human rights violations of hundreds of thousands of protesters. “(French President) Emmanuel Macron's government is directly responsible for widespread violations of human rights and harsh dealing…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Alarm over decision to exclude Queensland police from Indigenous truth-telling inquiry

Human rights commissioner says given role in ‘brutal colonisation’, it is ‘fundamentally important’ police participate in inquiry

The Guardian - AU

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ATO whistleblower Richard Boyle faces trial after immunity defence fails

Human rights advocate says decision is a ‘major blow for Australian democracy’ and shows whistleblower protections are ‘utterly broken’

The Guardian - AU

Randall Robinson, human rights activist and lawyer, has died at 81

He died in St. Kitts of aspiration pneumonia. He was known for his advocacy against South African apartheid and for Haitian democracy.

WEKU

Righting the wrongs of development

A key issue with which the world community has had to grapple since the end of the Second World War is that of "development", especially from the angle of national and international measures to ensure responsiveness to the rights and needs of the peoples of the land, without discrimination and…

Bangkok Post

Rwanda scheme would ‘completely erode’ UK’s standing on world stage

New Human Rights Watch head Tirana Hassan says UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers is ‘cheap politics’

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak warned giving in to Tory right on asylum bill will ‘erode trust’

Up to 60 rebel Tory MPs said to want ban on Strasbourg court orders on deportation

The Independent UK

At least 29 African migrants die when two boats sink off Tunisia

At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard said on Sunday.

Reuters

Twitter loses bid to throw out complaint by Australian Muslim group over ‘hateful’ content

Queensland Human Rights Commission disagrees with assertion complaint is ‘lacking in substance’ and refers matter to tribunal over jurisdiction

The Guardian - AU

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France 24

Critics claim Paris using 2024 Games to introduce Big Brother video surveillance

France’s National Assembly is due to adopt a law on Tuesday ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Article 7 is the most controversial aspect of this law, as it will allow AI video surveillance to be used to detect abnormal behaviour. Human rights organisations and the French left…

Tribune News Service

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene visits jailed suspects in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday went to the Washington, D.C., jail to visit detainees accused of participating in the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, saying the facility “violates human rights.”

Al Jazeera

UN commission ends hearings on rights abuses in Israel, Palestine

The commission of inquiry spoke to witnesses, including relatives and colleagues of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh.

Asharq Al-Awsat

ISIS Group Kills 15 Truffle Hunters in Syria, Says Monitor

The ISIS group killed 15 people foraging for desert truffles in conflict-ravaged central Syria, while 40 others are missing, a war monitor said Friday. Syria's desert truffles fetch high prices in a country battered by 12 years of war and a crushing economic crisis. Since February, at least 150 people…

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Why Saudi Arabia is not put off by its F1 critics

Formula 1 in Saudi Arabia has weathered a fair few storms, from sportswashing criticisms and concerns over human rights to the safety doubts after the missile attack at the race in 2022. On the eve of the event taking place last weekend, human rights group Reprieve issued a strongly worded…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkish Forces Shell SDF Positions in Northeast Hasakah

Turkish forces shelled an SDF position in Sarmasakh village in Al-Malkiya countryside north east Hasakah, causing material damages, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said. Tuesday’s shelling comes in light of the alarming calm that has prevailed for weeks in SDF-held areas in northern and eastern Syria. On February…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Bills intended to shame and scare transgender students are despicable

Republican lawmakers across the nation have introduced more than 400 bills to restrict the rights of LGBTQ people in the current legislative cycle, according to Human Rights Watch. One of them is Assembly Bill 1314, an odious proposal by California Assemblymembers Bill Essayli, R-Corona, and James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, to…

Al Jazeera

Activists, everyday Russians and a soldier punished for war talk

Almost 500 Russians have been charged under wartime censorship laws. We look at 12 cases.

The Guardian - US

‘Historic moment’ as El Salvador abortion case fuels hopes for expanded access across Latin America

Human rights court hears seriously ill woman denied procedure as advocates call for change in region with world’s most restrictive abortion laws

The Guardian - UK

Daughter of Danish-Bahraini rights activist offers to take his place in prison

Maryam al-Khawaja says she fears her father Abdulhadi’s health is deteriorating in prison and condemns Denmark for inaction

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Observatory: Top Commander among 4 Killed in Aleppo Strike

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed that the Israeli strike on Aleppo on Wednesday destroyed a weapons cache used by Iranian militias in the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport. A top Syrian commander was among four killed in the attack. One of the dead was another Syrian, while the…

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