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UK signs first international treaty to implement AI safeguards

Also signed by the EU, US and Israel, the declaration aims to mitigate the threats that AI may pose to human rights, democracy and the rule of law

The Guardian - UK

US Secures Release Of 135 Nicaraguan Political Prisoners To Guatemala

United States secures release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, relocated to Guatemala, promoting human rights.

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Govt rushes through laws following human rights breaches at Canberra's jail

Recent court decisions have prompted the urgent change.

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Human rights body urges El Salvador to end state of emergency

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged El Salvador Wednesday to end the more than two-year state of emergency, which has suspended fundamental civil rights while the government pursued the country’s powerful street gangs

The Independent UK

The UK’s suspension of some arms exports to Israel was highly political – here’s how to understand it

The UK government has announced it is suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel for military equipment used in operations in Gaza.

The Conversation

‘We are seeking to discriminate’: lesbian group wanting to exclude trans women compares itself to Melbourne gay bar

Australian Human Rights Commission says Peel hotel’s right to refuse heterosexual people was granted to help gay men achieve equality

The Guardian - AU

Human Rights Watch Implicates Venezuelan Forces In Protest Killings

Human Rights Watch report reveals Venezuelan security forces' role in post-election killings and repression. International condemnation grows over lack of ...

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz To Keynote Human Rights Campaign Dinner

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to deliver keynote address at Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner, emphasizing advocacy for equality.

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European Aid To Lebanon Linked To Human Rights Violations

European aid to Lebanon for sea migration control faces scrutiny over human rights violations against Syrian refugees. Complex challenges in managing migra...

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Rights group alleges Lebanon and Cyprus violated refugees' human rights and EU funds paid for it

A global watchdog report says European Union aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights

The Independent UK

Mexican Protesters Try To Disrupt Vote On Contentious Reforms

Protesting judicial workers on Tuesday blocked access to Mexico's lower house of Congress to try to prevent a vote on controversial reforms proposed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

International Business Times

Nicaragua Passes Law Against Those 'Undermining' Regime From Abroad

Nicaragua's regime-aligned Congress approved a law Tuesday empowering domestic courts to pass rulings against people and entities abroad that are found to promote sanctions against the internationally criticized government.

International Business Times

U.N. Report Urges Iran To Halt Surge In Executions

U.N. report reveals a surge in executions in Iran, particularly for drug offenses, raising alarms over human rights violations and lack of transparency.

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Tugendhat doubles down on bid to win over right-wing Tories with attack on human rights convention

Tom Tugendhat has continued his efforts to reinvent himself as a candidate of the Tory right with a verbal assault on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)

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The Guardian - UK

Incoherence over arms exports to Israel leaves UK on shaky middle ground

Government’s partial ban not enough for human rights groups as risk remains over use of British munitions in Gaza

France 24

Oppression of Afghan women: 'The world seems to be responding with a shrug,' HRW says

Human rights groups are reacting with fury after a further curtailing of women’s rights in Afghanistan. New laws brought in last month impose severe new restrictions on women that oblige them to not only cover their faces, but also forbid them from raising their voices or reading aloud in public.…

The Canberra Times

Electronic monitoring needed for DV offenders, parliamentary inquiry says

Bail conditions should also be reviewed, the committee said.

The Independent UK

Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick doubles down on plan to leave European Convention of Human Rights

Tory leadership rightwinger Robert Jenrick has said that he sees no alternative to leaving the European Convention of Human Rights

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Radio France Internationale

Tunisian opposition candidate arrested amid 'dictatorial' pre-election climate

Five weeks from Tunisia's presidential election, police have arrested one of the few opposition candidates authorised to run against President Kais Saied. It comes amid what civil society groups have denounced as a "dictatorial" political climate ahead of the 6 October polls.

International Business Times

NGO Reports 'Human Rights Disaster' At Uganda Oil Project

A massive oil project in Uganda co-owned by French group TotalEnergies and China's CNOOC is mired in reports of sexual violence, forced evictions and environmental damage, climate activists said Monday.

International Business Times

Why Is Mexico's Judicial Reform Plan So Controversial?

Judicial reforms championed by Mexico's outgoing president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and supported by his incoming successor have sparked diplomatic tensions with the United States and upset financial markets.

The Guardian - AU

‘So demeaning’: Melbourne woman denied service by 10 cabs in one booking over guide dog

Debra Simons filed complaint against 13Cabs with human rights commission, and was offered a $100 gift voucher after company argued it does not directly employ drivers

France 24

Afghan women erased by the Taliban as the international community looks on

The oppression of Afghan women continues unabated before the eyes of the world. The Taliban imposed severe new restrictions earlier this month, with women not only obliged to cover their faces but now forbidden from raising their voices, singing or reading aloud in public. Western countries – led by the…

AAP

Teen's custody death triggers call for justice overhaul

The death of a second Indigenous teenager in custody in less than a year has prompted calls for an overhaul of the youth justice system.

Newslaundry

Maoist recruitment case: NIA searches 9 locations across 4 states

The National Investigation Agency on Friday searched nine locations, including the homes of a farm leader and several activists and human rights lawyers in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, over a Maoist recruitment case.

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