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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

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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

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.

Wales Online

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

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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

The Guardian - US

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.

Reuters

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 Hindu

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

The Independent UK

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

Daily Mirror

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.

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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.

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga found guilty of inciting violence

Novelist given suspended sentence after staging peaceful protest calling for political reform

The Independent UK

Bipartisan group of senators condemns Iran over Amini death

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a resolution condemning the detention and death of Mahsa Amini

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The Hindu

All quiet on the Maoist front

The fall of Burha Pahar, a command centre of the CPI(Maoist) in the jungles along the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border, signifies a broader trend — the ultras are on the retreat across the country. Despite the gains made in depleting the strength of the rebels, the Union Home Ministry’s take-no-prisoners approach and…

Reuters

Iran protests over young woman's death continue, 83 said killed

Protests continued in several cities across Iran on Thursday against the death of young woman in police custody, state and social media reported, as a human rights group said at least 83 people had been killed in nearly two weeks of demonstrations.

The Guardian - AU

Refugee incorrectly jailed for 58 days in ACT has no right to compensation, court rules

Canberra court recognises South Sudanese refugee wrongly jailed but rules imprisonment not arbitrary nor a violation of Human Rights Act

The Conversation

UNDRIP 15 years on: Genuine truth and reconciliation requires legislative reform

On Sept. 30 Canada marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation for the second time since the federal government made it a statutory holiday. As Canada struggles to come to terms with colonialism and its ongoing legacies, we must also talk about what needs to be done to bring…

Glasgow Live

Glasgow City Council agree to spend £3300 for leader to attend Cop27 in Egypt

Glasgow hosted COP26 last year, and Susan Aitken has vowed to raise the issue of human rights when she travels to the Cop27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh.

Daily Mirror

North Korea fires two more missiles just hours after US vice-president visits border

In a rare condemnation during a visit to the inter-Korean border, Kamala Harris denounced the "brutal dictatorship", illegal arms programme and rampant human rights violations which continue in the North

The Conversation

Ukraine war: why Russians fleeing conscription should be treated as refugees

People fleeing across borders is a hallmark of armed conflict. We first saw millions of Ukrainians flee the country when the Russians invaded Ukraine in February this year. Now there are reports of hundreds of thousands of Russians fleeing their country in order to avoid Russia’s first mobilisation since the…

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