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'We stand with you': Russia campaigner meets leaders

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's widow has met with Anthony Albanese, as the government promises to hold Vladimir Putin to account.

AAP

UN expresses concern over crackdown on Indonesian student protests after 20 reported missing

A human rights group has warned that 20 people remain missing

The Independent UK

Tiny African country detaining five deported US migrants asked Trump team for $500 million: report

Activists challenge secret agreement between US and Eswatini as human rights groups warn against lack of due process

The Independent UK

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Report that rejects claim NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR sparks debate

Amnesty has said for the UK to repudiate the European Convention on Human Rights would be a ‘serious breach of international law’.

Evening Standard

Ministers committed to ECHR, No 10 says, ahead of border reforms announcement

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will unveil reforms to the border security and asylum system on Monday.

Evening Standard

Humza Yousaf urges Lord Advocate not to prosecute Palestine Action protesters

SCOTLAND'S top prosecutor is being urged to take a “principled” stand by making clear demonstrators “peacefully” showing support for the…

The National (Scotland)

Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank

The Policy Exchange claims public debate on human rights law reform had been ‘distorted’.

The Independent UK

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Mexico's first elected Supreme Court faces critical test of independence

Mexico's first elected Supreme Court is set to be seated, and observers are watching to see if it will assert independence from the governing party

The Independent UK

Hundreds of former immigration detainees to be deported

A deal to deport former immigration detainees to Nauru has secured bipartisan support but drawn condemnation from human rights groups.

AAP

Hazel Fox obituary

Lawyer who was an authority on lawsuits against nation states, advising on General Pinochet’s human rights abuse case in 1998

The Guardian - UK

How tariff wars are reshaping migration and raising the risk of human rights abuses in supply chains

The tariff wars between the US and its trade partners have rarely been out of the news since the US president, Donald Trump, revealed his plans for sweeping “liberation day” levies back in April. The uncertainty that followed for businesses worldwide has now morphed into a battle over global supply…

The Conversation

UN human rights staff urge leadership to declare Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide

Internal letter also calls on UN member states to suspend arms sales, saying ‘criticising Israel is not enough’

The Guardian - UK

Iran Has Executed At Least 841 People This Year: UN

At least 841 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying "a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a tool of state intimidation".

International Business Times

The most radical part of Reform’s deportation plans

Speaking to the press in an airport hangar near Oxford on August 26, the leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, unveiled his party’s new policy on mass deportations.

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The Independent UK

Voices: Getting rid of the ECHR won’t stop a single boat of migrants

COMMENT: As New Labour grandees unite with Red Wall Labour MPs to call for the European Court of Human Rights to be reformed – legislation that Nigel Farage wants to scrap – Sean O’Grady says the mainstreaming of the view that it is no longer workable or needed is deeply…

The Conversation

Treaties like the ECHR protect everyone in the UK, not just migrants

Reform UK has laid out plans for an “emergency programme” to address illegal immigration. The party argues its plans, which include expanding immigration detention capacity from the current roughly 2,200 places to 24,000, would enable the deportation of up to 600,000 people over a parliamentary term.

The Guardian - US

US soldiers could be liable for war crimes in Gaza. Will they be prosecuted?

Human Rights Watch says US military personnel could face criminal prosecution for assisting Israel’s war in Gaza

Euronews

Amnesty calls on governments to reign in Big Tech. But as Trump’s tech threat looms, will they?

The report said AI is ‘the next phase’ of tech giants’ global ‘dominance’.

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The Independent UK

Why are there growing calls for Britain to quit the ECHR – and would it make a difference?

Here, The Independent takes a look at what the ECHR is, why some people think we should quit and why others say leaving may bring more problems than it solves

AAP

'Serious concerns' rights undercut in migration changes

Australia's human rights watchdog is alarmed proposed changes to migration rules would stop natural justice applying to foreign criminals facing deportation.

The National (Scotland)

Hundreds of UN staff pressure rights chief to call Gaza a genocide, letter shows

HUNDREDS of United Nations staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have written to ask him to explicitly describe the Gaza war…

Al Jazeera

UN staff urge rights chief Volker Turk to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’

Letter on behalf of more than 500 OHCHR workers says failure to do so undermines the global rights protection system.

The National (Scotland)

'Good' digital ID 'can't happen under auspices of the Home Office'

DIGITAL identification should not be brought in “under the auspices of the Home Office", a leading human rights charity has warned.

The National (Scotland)

'Really dangerous': Liberty chief blasts Labour over human rights law tinkering

LABOUR’S tinkering with European human rights laws is “really dangerous”, according to the head of a leading civil liberties group.

Euronews

EU's and Spanish migration policies ‘exacerbate’ rights abuses in Mauritania - HRW report

Human Rights Watch says EU's and Spain’s outsourcing of migration control to Mauritania has worsened abuses against asylum seekers, including torture, rape and mass expulsions. The report links these violations to a €210 million 2024 migration deal aimed at curbing departures to the Canary Islands.

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