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Françoise Hampson obituary

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

The Guardian - UK

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)

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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.

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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.

Capital & Main

'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legal guidance issued by the UK’s human rights watchdog in response to the Supreme Court’s sex ruling should be withdrawn, a…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 National (Scotland)

Watchdog told new trans guidance breaches human rights

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The Independent UK

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

The Independent UK

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.

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

Evening Standard

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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.

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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.

The National (Scotland)

‘Consciously cruel’ UK benefits system failing on human rights, charity warns

The UK's social security system has been branded “consciously cruel” by campaigners who say it “does not stand up to the international human…

Radio France Internationale

EU court condemns French failure to protect rights of underage rape victims

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France failed to protect the rights of three teenage girls who reported being raped, as the country debates changing how the crime of rape is defined.

The Independent UK

Top European court condemns France over failure to protect girls who reported rape

The European Court of Human Rights has sided with three women who said they were raped when they were aged 13, 14 and 16 and argued that French authorities did not protect them well enough

The Guardian - UK

He fought to stop the forest being felled. The price was 30 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit

The UN has called the detention of Pablo López Alavez ‘arbitrary’, while human rights organisations say his sentence is part of a systematic and alarming pattern of criminalisation of Mexico’s environmental activists

The Independent UK

Give abused migrant workers new visa to stay in the UK, home secretary urged

Law firms write to home secretary Yvette Cooper over ‘serious concerns’ about treatment of migrant workers arriving in the UK on sponsored visas

The National (Scotland)

Tories to force vote on Green MSP's committee role amid Supreme Court sex row

THE Tories will seek to force a Holyrood vote on whether Green MSP Maggie Chapman should be removed from a key committee role ...

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