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Canada imposes fresh sanctions on Iran citing death of Mahsa Amini

Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Monday for alleged human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who passed away after being taken into custody by Iran's "morality police," the Canadian government said.

Reuters

Switzerland has 'systemic' racism issues, UN experts say

Switzerland has a serious systemic problem with racism against people of African descent, according to a report presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday, giving a broad range of examples from police brutality to a children's game.

Reuters

Iranian students defy security forces after violence at university

Rights groups ‘extremely concerned’ about violent repression of demonstrations in Tehran and Isfahan

The Guardian - UK

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Indonesia Sets up Team to Probe Soccer Stampede; Police Use of Tear Gas in Focus

Indonesia has set up an independent team to investigate a crowd crush at a football stadium that killed 125 people, including 32 children, authorities said on Monday, as the country's human rights commission questioned the police use of tear gas. Panic-stricken spectators stampeded as they tried to escape the overpacked…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

The prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.

The Hindu

Call to end ATO whistleblower prosecution

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Commonwealth to withdraw its prosecution of tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle.

AAP

Pegasus spyware attacks in Mexico continued under Lopez Obrador -report

Phones of at least three human rights investigators in Mexico were infected with Pegasus during the term of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador despite his goverment's assertions that it would stop using the controversial spyware, a report on Sunday found.

Reuters

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Government still aims to reform Human Rights Act – Justice Secretary

Brandon Lewis said the Government would still seek to reduce the influence of Strasbourg on UK law and prioritise protecting the public.

The Independent UK

Tel Aviv Demands Cut to Funding of European Groups Seeking Israel Boycott

The Israeli Mission to the European Union submitted on Friday a request to cut funding for 60 organizations and movements active in the countries of the Union and which support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. “These organizations receive large funding from the EU to support human rights…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Western push on China, Russia at UN rights body faces test

Western countries are leading a simultaneous push at the U.N.’s top human rights body to scrutinize human rights in two of the world’s most influential countries: China and Russia

The Independent UK

Russian Strikes in Syria Decreased since Ukraine War

Russian strikes in Syria have decreased since it invaded Ukraine, resulting in fewer deaths, a war monitor said Friday, seven years into Moscow's intervention in the Middle Eastern country. A total of 241 people have been killed by Russian strikes in Syria during the past year, mostly fighters from the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Union warning over Government's potentially 'illegal' plans over industrial action

TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady slams proposals to clamp down on strikes

Wales Online

Lack of audio descriptions on Australian TV a human rights breach, UN committee finds

A United Nations committee has found Australia breached an international human rights treaty by failing to provide audio descriptions on free-to-air television for the blind and vision impaired community. The finding comes after a seven year complaint process from a disability advocate.

ABC News

Facebook accused of promoting violence against Rohingya in Myanmar

Amnesty International accuses Facebook of exacerbating human rights violations in Myanmar. It claims the social network proactively "amplified" anti-Rohingya content back in 2017, when the country's military launched a deadly crackdown on the ethnic minority. Patrick de Brun, a researcher at Amnesty International who wrote the report, tells us more…

France 24

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Welsh Government rejects calls to shut its Qatar office over human rights concerns after death of British national

Cardiff Bay said it believed in engaging with countries that don’t share values on human rights in order to influence change.

Daily Mirror

George Clooney says he's never fought with wife Amal in eight years of marriage

George Clooney has revealed how he keeps his marriage to human rights lawyer Amal strong after nearly a decade

The Guardian - US

Venezuela’s mining region a hotbed of sex trafficking and violence, UN says

Fact-finding mission reports brutal massacres and sexual slavery in gold-rich arc where armed gangs fight for control

Reuters

Uyghur leader urges Japan to join call for UN debate on alleged abuses in China

Japan needs to do more than make an "empty promise" to stop human rights abuses in China, the leader of the largest ethnic Uyghur group in exile said in Tokyo on Friday.

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The Hindu

Women's rights group calls on FIFA to kick Iran out of World Cup

The call comes as protests continued in several cities across Iran, as a human rights group said at least 83 people had been killed in nearly two weeks of demonstrations

The Independent UK

George Clooney gushes about wife Amal at their first Albie Awards: ‘Couldn’t be more proud’

The couple’s Clooney Foundation for Justice recognised journalists, lawyers and rights groups

Daily Mirror

Family ordered to demolish house before Christmas pin hopes on human rights probe

Stephanie Rolfe and Stuart MacDonald have been told to "dismantle" the moveable home they began work on in 2018 over a planning application row but their local MP has intervened

360info

Civil society the key to preventing an Indonesian police state

Reforming the Indonesian police needs to be driven from the bottom up by civil society groups.

360info

Violence continues under Indian piecemeal approach

Legislation from last century allows paramilitary violence to continue in the North East of India.

Reuters

Experts accuse Mexico of hampering new probe into 2014 student disappearances

A panel of experts on Thursday accused Mexico's government of blocking prosecutions in the 2014 disappearances of 43 student teachers, dealing a blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who vowed to clear up the case.

Bangkok Post

NHRC hails elective abortion law

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has welcomed a legal amendment that allows for the elective termination of pregnancies between 12 and 20 weeks to ensure safe and legal abortions, a basic right for women urged by at least two international pacts Thailand has signed.

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