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Questions over validity of Supreme Court gender ruling ‘unacceptable’ – Mahmood

Giving evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Shabana Mahmood said that justices at the UK’s highest court had ‘done their job’.

Evening Standard

UK's only transgender judge plans to take government to ECHR over biological sex ruling

A controversial decision recently issued by the UK's Supreme Court ruled that existing equalities legislation does not protect trans people from sex discrimination according to their preferred gender.

Euronews

Eurovision winner Nemo takes action after UK court ruling over transgender women

Nemo called the ruling of Britain’s highest court an “attack on trans+ rights”. Doctors at the British Medical Association have condemned the ruling, and now, the UK's only judge to publicly say they are transgender plans to take the UK governement to the European Court of Human Rights.

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Kerry Kennedy Claims Salvadoran Police Prevented Her From Meeting With Deported Clients

U.S. lawyer Kerry Kennedy said Salvadoran authorities prevented her from meeting with Venezuelan deportees she represents. Later, a prominent human rights organization said its offices were raided

Latin Times

Tory MSP told off over point of order to Patrick Harvie trans anxiety question

A Tory MSP has told off for a point of order to a question from Patrick Harvie during a fiery Holyrood debate following the interim guidance from…

The National (Scotland)

UK's first trans judge planning gender ruling challenge in European Court of Human Rights

Dr Victoria McCloud suggested the UK Supreme Court judgement violated her human rights

Evening Standard

Françoise Hampson obituary

Human rights lawyer who argued cases challenging the territorial limits of responsibility for military operations

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Doctors slam Supreme Court ruling as 'reductive' and 'scientifically illiterate'

Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) have branded the Supreme Court's gender ruling as "scientifically illiterate" ...

The National (Scotland)

Trans judge to take UK Government to top European court over sex and gender ruling

The UK's first trans judge has announced she is planning on taking the UK Government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over the Supreme…

The National (Scotland)

Human rights laws could block removing sex offenders from UK, Cooper suggests

The Government plans to bar migrants convicted of sexual offences from being able to claim asylum in the UK.

The Independent UK

UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling

Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sex

The Guardian - UK

Donald Trump fuelling global human rights roll-back, warns Amnesty International

DONALD Trump is fuelling a global human rights rollback and letting his “corporate allies run amok”, according to a major new report.

The National (Scotland)

Israel carrying out ‘live-streamed genocide’ in Gaza, Amnesty says

Amnesty accuses US President Donald Trump of committing a ‘multiplicity of assaults’ on human rights.

Al Jazeera

Trump’s Nominee to Head Customs and Border Protection Could Be Implicated in Alleged Cover-Up

Rodney Scott led the U.S. Border Patrol sector in San Diego when officials killed immigrant Anastasio Hernández Rojas.

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'Careless' guidance on Supreme Court sex ruling slammed by former EHRC solicitor

“Careless” legal guidance issued by the UK’s human rights watchdog in response to the Supreme Court’s sex ruling should be withdrawn, a…

The Independent UK

Watchdog told new trans guidance breaches human rights

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Equalities watchdog under pressure to scrap new guidance on trans people using single sex spaces

Interim guidance published by the equalities watchdog risks outing trans people and breaching human rights, campaigners warn

Evening Standard

Equalities watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces

Trans women ‘should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities’ in workplaces and some services, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said.

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Evening Standard

Scottish Government keen to work with equalities watchdog after gender ruling

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published updated guidance.

Evening Standard

Trans women should be barred from female toilets, Britain's equality watchdog recommends

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has released interim guidance on how organisations should interpret the landmark Supreme Court judgement

The National (Scotland)

EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces branded 'harsh, authoritarian and cruel' by Greens

The UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) legal guidance on the implications of the Supreme Court’s gender ruling has been branded…

The National (Scotland)

EHRC issues guidance on single-sex spaces after Supreme Court gender ruling

THE UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued legal guidance on the implications of the Supreme Court’s gender ruling, saying…

The Independent UK

Matt Gaetz visited El Salvador’s mega-prison and saw people drained of hope. He then pitched it to Stephen Miller

Matt Gaetz was given a tour of the facility, which human rights groups have described as a ‘tropical gulag’ rife with abuses

Euronews

I wish I didn't have to send people back to Libya, Frontex chief tells Euronews

The executive director of the EU's border and coast guard responds to Euronews’ question about an NGO's claims that returnees often face human rights abuses.

The Conversation

The UK’s social security system falls way below international human rights standards: new report

The right to social security is enshrined in several international agreements on human rights. But the UK’s system – even before the disability benefits cuts announced earlier this year – falls way below these standards.

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