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Uganda’s military chief says holding opposition activist ‘in my basement’

Opposition leader says Eddie Mutwe’s abduction ‘a reminder to the world’ of breakdown in law and order in Uganda.

Al Jazeera

Jolyon Maugham: Why I think Supreme Court legal challenge could succeed in Scotland

A TOP barrister has said he hopes a legal challenge against the Supreme Court’s ruling that a woman is defined by “biological sex” will be…

The National (Scotland)

How state agents target journalists while governments claim to protect them – stark warnings from Mexico and Honduras

Humberto Padgett was reporting on the effects of drought in Cuitzeo, a rural area of central Mexico, when his car was intercepted by armed men on September 13 2024. They threatened him and stole the car, his identity papers and work equipment, including two bullet-proof jackets.

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New Report Accuses Nicolás Maduro Regime of Post-Election Abuses, Including Killings, Kidnappings

"The Venezuelan government has killed, tortured, detained and forcibly disappeared people seeking democratic change," said Juanita Goebertus, Americas director at Human Rights Watch.

Latin Times

Explainer: what mental health support do refugees and asylum seekers get in Australia?

When Australia signed the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, it committed to providing protection to people who have fled war, persecution and human rights violations.

The Conversation

Human rights commission urges monitoring of Brazil’s flood recovery efforts

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling for a permanent monitoring system to track Brazil’s compliance with its recommendations following the devastating floods that struck southern Brazil one year ago

The Independent UK

Mexican Human Rights Activist Found Dead After Denouncing Groupchat Sharing Women's Nudes

Indigenous lawyer and human rights activist Sandra Domínguez and her husband, Alexander Hernández, have been found dead and buried seven months after their disappearance.

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China ends sanctions on EU lawmakers as pressure grows over US trade war

China will lift sanctions on several Members of the European Parliament and the parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, the EU’s top parliamentary official has said. The move comes as tensions rise over new US trade tariffs targeting both China and the EU.

Radio France Internationale

Top KC claims assisted dying bill is not compatible with human rights convention

Exclusive: The legal opinion obtained by a campaign group opposed to assisted dying comes as the government is expected to publish its impact assessment for Kim Leadbeater’s legislation

The Independent UK

Amal Clooney 'faces possible US ban from Trump over war crimes probe into Netanyahu'

The high-profile British human rights lawyer sat on the expert legal panel that advised the International Criminal Court on evidence from the Gaza conflict

Evening Standard

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.

Euronews

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

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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…

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Françoise Hampson obituary

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

The National (Scotland)

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" ...

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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 Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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 National (Scotland)

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.

Al Jazeera

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.

Capital & Main

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.

The National (Scotland)

'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…

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