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Lawmaker blasts China on human rights in front of embassy

The Republican chairman of a special House committee dedicated to countering China is pulling no punches in his criticism of its communist government

The Independent UK

Man jailed for two years in Thailand for selling rubber duck calendars

A Thai court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to two years in jail for selling satirical calendars featuring rubber ducks, which authorities said insulted the king. Inflatable yellow ducks were used as a symbol during pro-democracy protests in 2020. The sentencing comes as two women were rushed to hospital after…

France 24

Georgians have been protesting a controversial bill for days. Lawmakers scrapped it

Lawmakers in the former Soviet republic voted Friday to drop their "foreign agents" bill, which critics view as a threat to democracy as well as the country's push to join the European Union.

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Court rejects LM suspect's bid to attend UN talks

The Criminal Court has refused to consider a request by a lese-majeste suspect who is seeking permission to travel abroad to attend meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, lawyers say.

Bangkok Post

Commentary: Jimmy Carter was right about human rights

When I first joined the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service, I was optimistic about the positive role the United States played in the world. By the time I left not quite a decade later, I was haunted by how dangerous our shortsighted foreign policy can be.

Chicago Tribune

Bahrain cancels Human Rights Watch parliament conference visas, group says

Bahrain has revoked entry visas issued to Human Rights Watch to attend an international parliamentary conference, the rights group said on Friday, days after raising concerns about the Gulf state's rights record.

Reuters

Scrutiny of youth justice laws 'cements Queensland as a backwater', youth advocate and lawyer Katherine Hayes says

Youth Advocacy Centre CEO Katherine Hayes' comments came after a parliamentary committee released a report recommending the Palaszczuk Government's proposed youth justice law changes be passed.

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US defends deportations to Haiti before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Biden administration officials Thursday defended the government’s immigration policies toward Haitian migrants, including the deportation and repatriation of individuals back to the volatile Caribbean nation despite its spiraling violence and deepening humanitarian crisis.

Miami Herald

Queensland committee backs overriding human rights for new youth laws as striking ‘appropriate balance’

Changes ‘justified’ in light of public anxiety and despite some provisions being incompatible with rights act

The Guardian - AU

Controversial Qld youth justice bill gets green light

Queensland's youth justice bill should be passed with limitations on human rights justified to ensure public safety, a parliamentary committee says.

AAP

Toronto school board becomes first in Canada to recognize caste discrimination

Toronto's school board has become the first in Canada to recognize that caste discrimination exists in the city's schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue.

Reuters

Lebanon government failing to uphold ‘right to electricity’: HRW

Human Rights Watch says Lebanon’s electricity crisis has exacerbated poverty and inequality.

Al Jazeera

Detainees with disabilities in 'spiral of hopelessness' after cancelled United Nations visit to Australia

Advocates are concerned people with disability in detention settings across Australia have been forgotten following the cancelled visit of an international torture prevention group.

ABC News

Rights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty

Human Rights Watch says many middle and working class families in Lebanon have been forced to spend most of their monthly income to pay shady neighborhood businessmen running private generators

The Independent UK

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The Conversation

Strikes bill could breach UK workers' human rights and expose the government to legal challenges

UK workers’ human rights are at risk under government plans to curb strike activity, according to a report by parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights. The strikes (minimum service levels) bill 2023 aims to set requirements for the level of service needed in certain key sectors during strike action.

The Conversation

UK moves to copy Australia's cruel asylum-seeker policy – and it will have the same heavy human toll

The United Kingdom’s Illegal Migration Bill, introduced in the House of Commons this week, will look very familiar to Australians.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on refugee rights: a warning from history

Editorial: Rishi Sunak’s pretence of serious statecraft is belied by his embrace of shabby populism when it comes to immigration law

Daily Mirror

Former Newsnight host Emily Maitlis slams BBC 'double standards' over Gary Lineker

Emily Maitlis, who was once found to have breached impartiality rules during her time at the BBC, has offered her thoughts on the saga involving Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, the government and her former employer

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The Guardian - UK

What are the legal obstacles faced by the UK’s illegal migration bill?

Suella Braverman has denied the government is breaking the law but experts say it faces many challenges

The Guardian - UK

Brexit trade treaty ‘could be terminated’ if UK quits ECHR over small boat crossings

Legal experts say Brussels has right to take retaliatory action, making cross-border law enforcement harder

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Targets Iranian Officials for Abuse of Women, Girls

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian officials and companies over accusations of serious human rights abuses, stepping up pressure on Tehran over its crackdown on protests as Washington marks International Women's Day. The US Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on two senior Iranian…

The Conversation

Illegal immigration bill does more than 'push the boundaries' of international law

The UK government has introduced its latest effort to deter small boat migration, by vowing to remove all those who arrive in the UK illegally by any route. The illegal migration bill, if enacted, will apply retrospectively, meaning that those who arrived even before the bill’s passage will be subject…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Seven Dead in Syria Drone Strike on Arms Factory

Seven people including several civilians were killed Wednesday when a drone strike targeted a weapons factory belonging to Iran-backed factions in government-held eastern Syria, a war monitor said. It was not immediately clear who was behind the strike in Deir Ezzor province, where Iran-backed factions hold sway and where a…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Banning abortion pill mifepristone would be a terrible policy choice and violate human rights

Patients’ access to lifesaving medicine is under threat because an anti-abortion rights organization sued in federal district court to overrule the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, which has been used to terminate early pregnancies for almost a quarter century in the U.S. If the judge, appointed by the…

Bangkok Post

UN: Video of Ukraine soldier's killing 'may be authentic'

GENEVA: The United Nations said Wednesday it believes that a viral video showing the apparent execution of a captured Ukrainian soldier by Russian troops may be authentic.

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