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Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize

Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committee

The Guardian - UK

Facial recognition to be expanded across the country in fresh crime crackdown

Critics called on the government to limit roll-out of facial recognition, but others have urged ministers to accelerate the expansion to ‘boost safety’

The Independent UK

Family of man killed in US ‘drug boat’ strike files complaint over ‘extrajudicial killing’

The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since it began striking vessels that the Trump administration said were carrying drugs

The Independent UK

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‘Fifa cannot be silent’: human rights groups speak out over 2026 World Cup concerns

Fifa risks becoming ‘a public relations tool of an increasingly authoritarian US government’, human rights organisations have warned

The Guardian - UK

British troops accused of human rights violations and sexual abuse in Kenya

Inquiry into British Army Training Unit in Kenya by country’s parliament says UK military ‘dismissed most complaints as false, without publishing its findings’

The Guardian - UK

Trump's ICC Fears Heighten As He's Hit With Landmark Human Rights Complaint Over Deadly Raid

The first formal human-rights complaint against Trump's Caribbean boat strikes secures backing from a Colombian family.

International Business Times UK

Russia's push for war crimes immunity 'cannot be accepted,’ freed Ukrainian POW tells Euronews

Ukrainian journalist and one of the country's most prominent human rights activists, Maksym Butkevych, spent more than two years in Russian captivity. He told Euronews Moscow is deliberately trying to avoid inevitable responsibility.

Euronews

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Macron begins China visit as Europe faces trade and security tensions

French President Emmanuel Macron begins a three-day state visit to China from Wednesday to strengthen dialogue on Ukraine, trade, China's expanding influence in the Pacific and human rights.

Radio France Internationale

Tunisian police detain leading human rights defender as crackdown on critics widens

Tunisian police have arrested prominent opposition lawyer Ayachi Hammami

The Independent UK

Victoria police would get power to search children on the spot in proposed crackdown on protests

Human rights lawyer says the government’s bill seeking to expand search powers in designated areas is ‘incredibly concerning’

The Guardian - AU

UN Human Rights Chief Urges Trump Admin To Investigate Reported Second Strike To Finish Off Survivors Of Alleged Drug Boat

UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged the Trump administration to investigate a reported second strike to finish off survivors of an alleged drug vessel in September.

Latin Times

Silent service: defence gags sexual assault survivors

Women who were sexually abused and harassed in the military have been gagged from talking about their experience due to restrictive non-disclosure agreements.

AAP

UK pulls $1.15bn support for Mozambique gas project after climate and terror concerns

TotalEnergies scheme became lightning rod for terror in region and was accused of violating human rights

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer's former barrister chambers 'firmly opposed' to government's jury axe plans

Keir Starmer helped to set up Doughty Street when he was a human rights barrister

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Radio France Internationale

Balancing security powers with civil liberties after Paris attacks

Immediately after the 2015 Paris attacks, French police were granted extra powers to search and detain people suspected of links to terrorism. Ten years later, many of these exceptional measures have become law and legislators continue to expand surveillance – steps that human rights experts say encroach on civil liberties…

The Conversation

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights finally grapples with the Nakba

Even as it claims to champion the stories of global injustice, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has struggled, if not refused, to meaningfully acknowledge Palestine for more than a decade.

The Guardian - US

Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn

Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms

Radio France Internationale

Prominent Tunisian activist arrested as hundreds protest clampdown on dissent

Lawyers for Chaima Issa, a well-known Tunisian writer and human rights activist, say she was arrested at a protest in Tunis on Saturday as hundreds demonstrated against the curtailing of freedoms.

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The Independent UK

Dictatorship-era army officers and supporters rally in Argentina in latest sign of political shift

Ex-military officers who served in Argentina’s brutal dictatorship and their families have staged a rare rally to push for the release of fellow officers imprisoned for human rights abuses committed during the junta’s 1976-1983 rule

The Guardian - UK

Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’

Staff at human rights body said to be ‘desperate for regime change’ over inertia after court’s legal definition of a woman

The Independent UK

UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights

The Guardian - UK

The deadliest wait: five women on death row

Up to 1,000 women globally await execution in prison, with mitigating factors such as child abuse and coercion ignored

Benzinga

Advocacy Group Claims Conflict Metals Still Flow Into Apple Products

International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) of using minerals tied to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.

The Guardian - UK

Sam Gregory joins the Scott Trust board

The Scott Trust, sole shareholder of Guardian Media Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of internationally recognised technologist, researcher and human rights advocate Sam Gregory to its board.

The Guardian - AU

‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months

Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups

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