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More than two years after the Beirut blast, victims are waiting for justice. Australia can do more

The Beirut blast was not an unfortunate accident, but an avoidable catastrophe and a clear violation of the rights of the victims and their families. Isaac and all of the victims deserve justice, writes his mother Sarah Copland.

ABC News

UN torture prevention body cancels visit to Australia after access to facilities blocked

Rwanda is the only other country to have had a visit cancelled, with Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner calling decision ‘disappointing’

The Guardian - AU

Queensland to override state’s Human Rights Act in bid to make breach of bail an offence for children

Police minister Mark Ryan says the government accepts that its new laws ‘are incompatible with human rights’

The Guardian - AU

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Taminmin College locked-toilet policy 'at odds' with human rights, researcher says

Students at a Darwin school are choosing to go thirsty to limit the need to use the toilet after the introduction of a locked-bathroom policy to deter anti-social behaviour.

ABC News

Groundwater carries radiation risk for North Korean cities near nuke test site - rights group

Tens of thousands of North Koreans and people in South Korea, Japan and China could be exposed to radioactive materials spread through groundwater from an underground nuclear test site, a Seoul-based human rights group said in a report on Tuesday.

Reuters

Commit to end torture

Tomorrow should have been a historic day for human rights in Thailand. It should have been a time for human rights advocates and the public to celebrate because the Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act -- a crucial piece of legislation which took 14 years to pass…

Bangkok Post

Remote Top End community of Peppimenarti lodges discrimination complaint over violence, under-policing

Residents in Peppimenarti lodge a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission, alleging that they are being denied adequate policing based on their race, after years of worsening violence including a recent death and shootings.

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Linked to a 1988 massacre in El Salvador, a Texas man is stripped of his US citizenship

DALLAS — A Texas man has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported after he was linked to human rights violations as a military officer during the civil war in El Salvador.

Tribune News Service

‘Partial independence’: Kosovo reflects on secession from Serbia

Independence was a dream come true, but building a future is taking longer than expected, Albanian Kosovars say.

Al Jazeera

EU slaps sanctions on 9 more top Myanmar officials

The European Union has imposed sanctions on nine officials in Myanmar as well as government departments and companies linked to rising violence, human rights abuses and security threats

The Independent UK

El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs – at huge cost to human rights

War on gangs by populist leader Nayib Bukele has produced extraordinary change, but ‘the cure could be as harmful as the disease’

The Guardian - US

Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy

Carter is often criticized for foreign policy weakness, but his approach to the Soviet Union was highly effective

Salon

Head of Sudanese paramilitary force says still committed to single army

The head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group accused of widespread human rights abuses, said on Sunday he was committed to intergrating the force into a reformed national armed forces.

Reuters

Man 'shot four times' after being forced into a car by masked men in Coleraine

"This shooting is a clear human rights abuse and everyone has the right to live free from the threat of violence and feel safe in their own homes".

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Strike Hits Heart of Syria's Security Elite, 15 Dead

An Israeli missile strike aimed at Iranian and Hezbollah targets early Sunday killed 15 people and destroyed a building in a Damascus neighborhood home to much of Syria's security apparatus, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strike, which hit close to an Iranian cultural…

The Guardian - UK

Manchester United fans and rights groups raise fears over Qatar-led ownership bid

The Gulf state bank’s offer to buy the English Premier League team has been criticised by humanitarian organisations, LGBTQ+ fan clubs and advocacy groups for football governance

The Guardian - UK

Detained activist fears for missing zero-Covid protesters in China

Ding Jiaxi also tells lawyer he is worried about health after being held for more than three years

The Independent UK

‘I’m tired and scared’: The ‘historically bad’ wave of anti-LGBT+ legislation impacting youth mental health

A record number of state-level bills targeting transgender young people and the inflammatory right-wing rhetoric surrounding them are having a damaging effect on LGBT+ youth, Alex Woodward reports

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The Guardian - AU

‘A disease’: Caste discrimination in Australia is on the rise – but some are fighting back

As migration from south Asia booms, Australia’s human rights commission is looking at stronger measures against caste-based discrimination

The Independent UK

Ex-PMs of UK, Australia, Belgium urge tough action on China

Former leaders from Australia, Britain and Belgium have called for a tougher international approach to China to reduce the possibility of war over Taiwan and respond to human rights violations

Asharq Al-Awsat

Report: Syrian Govt Forces, Opposition Factions Clash in Quake-Hit Region

Syrian government forces and opposition factions have clashed overnight in northwest Syria for the first time since an earthquake devastated the region on Feb. 6, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. The northwest, one of the region's most badly affected by the earthquake that hit Syria and…

Reuters

Syrian government forces, rebels clash in quake-hit region-report

Syrian government forces and rebels have clashed overnight in northwest Syria for the first time since an earthquake devastated the region on Feb. 6, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison says he ran out of time to impose sanctions on China over human rights

Australia’s former PM urges new government to apply sanctions amid questions why he stopped short of taking such action when in power

The Independent UK

China faces grilling in review of key rights by UN committee

China has come in for a grilling over its human rights record as a two-day hearing opened at the United Nations human rights office

AAP

Morrison urges China pressure, praises own efforts

Scott Morrison will use a speech to spruik his efforts to call out "bullying" by the Chinese government and urge further pressure on human rights abuses.

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