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Traditional owners ask banks to reconsider Santos loan

Activist lawyers have sent human rights complaints to a dozen banks that helped Santos finance its offshore Barossa project.

The New Daily

Brazil creates rights medal named after Black writer, replacing princess

Brazil's leftist government on Monday abolished a human rights medal that former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro had named after the daughter of the country's last monarch, replacing it with a prize named after a Black writer and abolitionist.

Reuters

What will Asean be like come 2045?

It is now official: the Asean Community's Post 2025 vision will be extended by another ten years from 2035 to 2045. Asean Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn revealed the 20-year vision in Bangkok last week, much to the surprise of diplomats and the local audience. The decision was taken at the…

Bangkok Post

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The UN is asking the International Court of Justice for its opinion on states' climate obligations. What does this mean?

The United Nations has just backed a landmark resolution on climate justice.

The Conversation

UN report charges South Sudan officials of rights violations

A United Nations-backed panel of investigators alleges that several officials in South Sudan have perpetrated serious human rights violations and should be held accountable for their crimes, in a report released Monday

The Independent UK

Autopsies show 30 people died from gunfire in Peru protests

Human rights groups have called on the Peruvian government to investigate claims of excessive force by police and soldiers during recent anti-government protests that have left 49 civilians dead

The Independent UK

Clive Palmer’s Waratah coal mine denied environmental licence

A coal mine that was the subject of a court battle fought on climate change and human rights has been denied an environmental licence.

The New Daily

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Court hears former human rights lawyer Rabia Siddique allege husband's push left her with serious wrist injury

A former human rights lawyer tells a court her husband, a prominent Perth doctor, pushed her to the ground and left her screaming in pain during an argument over another woman.

ABC News

NHRC notice to Odisha, Telangana chief secretary on mortgage of children

BHUBANESWAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought action taken reports (ATRs) from chief secretaries of Odisha and Telangana on the heart wrenching incidents of mortgaging children for final rites of their fathers, the sole breadwinner of their families.

The Times of India

How a Canadian judge erred in ordering the repatriation of suspected ISIS members

In a January 2023 Federal Court decision, the government of Canada was ordered to request repatriation of four suspected ISIS members currently being held in Syria.

The Conversation

Mike Bianchi: Forgive me, but I enjoyed the LIV Golf experience in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. — Forgive me, golf gods, for I have sinned.

Orlando Sentinel

Newcastle vs Man Utd takeover Q&A: Theories debunked and deciphering the changes

In a week where the Premier League refused to say if Newcastle's owners are being investigated, there were more warnings against Manchester United's potential takeover from a Qatari group

Daily Mirror

Activist Vahid Beheshti on hunger strike to uphold freedom, aid regime change in Iran

Activist Vahid Beheshti is entering his 40th day of a hunger strike with a simple message: designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – the military arm of Iran's government — as a terrorist organisation.

ABC News

Chinese Christians detained in Bangkok

More than 60 self-exiled Chinese Christians who were arrested in Pattaya for overstaying their visas are now at a police facility in Bangkok awaiting the authorities’ next move.

Bangkok Post

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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Experts Call For Repatriating Detained Syria Children

UN-appointed human rights experts on Friday demanded an urgent repatriation of children from northeast Syria. UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of human rights while countering terrorism, released a joint statement, as the detained children enter…

Reuters

Mexican probe into missing students beset by delays and failure, watchdog says

Mexican authorities have failed to carry out all arrests ordered by prosecutors over the 2014 disappearance of 43 students and the military has denied access to important information, a rights group said on Friday, expressing concern over continued delays in the investigation.

The Guardian - UK

‘Let him go’: Joe Biden calls on Russia to release US journalist

Human Rights Watch describes arrest of WSJ’s Evan Gershkovich as ‘depraved cynical move’ designed to silence critical voices

Reuters

Children among 8 killed in Myanmar military air strike - rights group, media

At least eight civilians including children were killed in an air strike on a village in northwest Myanmar, according to a human rights group, ethnic minority rebels and media, the latest violence as the ruling military battles to consolidate power.

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#EndGenderApartheid: The need to make it an international crime

A group of leading Iranian and Afghan women are calling to make gender apartheid an international crime as the situation in both countries continues to deteriorate rapidly for women and girls. Annette Young talks to Dr Ewelina Ochab, a lawyer from the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute who is…

Reuters

U.N. human rights chief decries 'shockingly routine' abuses in Ukraine war

The United Nations Human Rights chief Volker Turk deplored on Friday how grave human rights violations were "shockingly routine" in Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said the number of civilian casualties was far higher than official figures.

Al Jazeera

Alarm after Taliban arrests girls’ school activist amid crackdown

Matiullah Wesa, an advocate for girls’ education, is arrested as the Taliban cracks down on women’s rights activists.

The Guardian - UK

Newcastle and Manchester United fans unite to condemn sportswashing

Newcastle United and Manchester United fans have joined forces before the teams meet to call for a ban on the sale of clubs to states who could use their ownership for sportswashing

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Forces' Role Declines in Syria, 90 Months After their Arrival

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) published the results of its monitoring of the activity of Russian forces, with the completion of their 90 months of involvement in the Syrian crisis. The first month of the eighth year of the Russian intervention in Syria witnessed several developments within the…

The Guardian - AU

Mark Dreyfus rejects human rights commissioner’s claim Indigenous voice would undermine principles of equality

Attorney general declines to comment on calls for commissioner Lorraine Finlay to consider her future in the role

Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemeni Official to Asharq Al-Awsat: Prisoner Swap Will Be Held on April 11

Yemeni deputy minister for human rights Majed Fadail revealed that a planned prisoner swap between the legitimate government and Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militias will take place in April. The official, who is also a member of the government negotiations delegation that took part in the talks with the Houthis over…

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