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New police pat-down powers in Melbourne face legal challenge from ‘Greedozer’ activist and Invasion Day rally organiser

Benny Zable worries Victoria police powers will target mask wearers, while Tarneen Onus Browne warns it will ‘supercharge the harassment’ of Indigenous people

The Guardian - AU · Dec 7, 2025

Legal challenge to CBD-wide warrantless searches

A protest organiser and performance artist are challenging a decision to declare an entire city's CBD and surrounds a designated search area for six months.

AAP · Dec 7, 2025

Predator in Your Pocket: Leaked Files Reveal Spyware Hiding in Ads to Hack Phones in Seconds

Leaked documents reveal Intellexa's Predator spyware hiding in online ads to infect phones within seconds, raising global privacy and human rights concerns.

International Business Times UK · Dec 7, 2025

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Richard Gere: How His 1993 Speech Led to a 20-Year Ban From the Oscars

Richard Gere has recently spoken about his 1993 Oscars speech, in which he addressed China's human rights abuses in Tibet, that led to his 20-year ban from the Academy Awards.

International Business Times UK · Dec 7, 2025

As Russia's Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe atrocities from beheadings to rapes

The Associated Press has spoken to over 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses committed by Africa Corps, a new military unit under Russia's direct command

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2025

Amnesty International Uncovers Nightmarish 'Box Cells' At Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention Facility

Amnesty International documents alleged torture, 'box' confinement and systemic abuses at Florida's Everglades 'Alligator Alcatraz' and Krome detention centre.

International Business Times UK · Dec 5, 2025

Gaps in UK migration statistics hamper public debate and policy decisions, study shows

Official data cannot show what affect ECHR has on asylum cases, says leading thinktank Migration Observatory

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

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First Thing: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainees face human rights violations, report alleges

Amnesty finds detainees at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage. Plus, how the dollar-store industry overcharges consumers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2025

Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges

Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day

The Guardian - US · Dec 4, 2025

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 · Dec 4, 2025

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 · Dec 4, 2025

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 · Dec 3, 2025

‘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 · Dec 3, 2025

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 · Dec 3, 2025

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International Business Times UK · Dec 3, 2025

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.

Euronews · Dec 3, 2025

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.

Radio France Internationale · Dec 3, 2025

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.

The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2025

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

Tunisian police have arrested prominent opposition lawyer Ayachi Hammami

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The Guardian - AU · Dec 2, 2025

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’

Latin Times · Dec 1, 2025

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.

AAP · Dec 1, 2025

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.

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2025

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

Evening Standard · Dec 1, 2025

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

Radio France Internationale · Dec 1, 2025

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 · Nov 30, 2025

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.

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