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Activists faced a deadly year in 2022

Nearly a quarter of the activists murdered were Indigenous

Salon

EU seriously concerned about arrest of Chinese rights activists

The European Union has said it is seriously concerned about the arrest of two prominent Chinese human rights activists and has called for their immediate release after they were detained in Beijing last week en route to a meeting with EU officials.

Reuters

LIV Golf coincides with 'egregious' abuses in Saudi Arabia, Human Rights Watch warns

As South Australia prepares to host the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, a human rights watchdog condemns the tournament as a blatant example of "sportswashing" amid a period of "egregious" human rights abuses.

ABC News

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Rishi Sunak should meet Windrush victims after report slammed payouts, RAF veteran says

Campaigners are calling on the PM to meet with victims after a report found the compensation scheme was “designed to fail those who were supposed to benefit”

Daily Mirror

Arrest of Chihuahua migration chief spotlights abuses in Mexican system

Last month’s fatal fire in Ciudad Juárez is latest in a series of deaths and injuries dogging the country’s militarized migration agency

The Guardian - US

Reforms 'can't end' with legalised cannabis

MELBOURNE: Former New Zealand prime minister and current member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, Helen Clark, has praised Thailand for decriminalising cannabis, but has also called on the country to end capital punishment, especially for those convicted of drug offences.

Bangkok Post

Queensland is the only state with a blanket locked door policy in public mental health units. Experts say it harms patients

The policy requires all entry and exit doors on acute mental health inpatient units in public hospitals be locked.

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Roger Waters issues defiant statement on Frankfurt concert ban: "We’re coming anyway! Because human rights matter! Because free speech matters!"

Roger Waters says he's coming to Frankfurt, regardless of his show in the city being cancelled over claims of anti-Semitism

Louder

Ethiopia recruits 500,000 women for domestic work in Saudi Arabia

Human rights activists have criticised Ethiopia’s continuing recruitment of women for domestic work in Saudi Arabia.

Al Jazeera

Billions still lack access to safe drinking water – this is a global human rights catastrophe

Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that there would be some landmark breakthroughs to ensure that everyone had access to safe drinking water and sanitation.

The Conversation

Hikvision internal review found Xinjiang contracts targeted Uyghurs

"We're not going to absolve the company," the team conducting the review told Hikvision, per a recording of a private meeting.

Axios

Chile takes on ‘moral duty’ of finding the disappeared of Pinochet regime

As the 50th anniversary of Augusto Pinochet’s bloody coup nears, Chile’s government launches a new plan to find and identify those who went missing

The Guardian - US

Home Office’s Windrush payout scheme needs urgent reform, study finds

Human Rights Watch says claimants’ rights are being violated, with high obstacles to making claims and low awards

The Guardian - UK

Calls to ‘strip’ Home Office of Windrush compensation administration

A report from a humans rights organisation said the administration of the compensation scheme should be handed to an independent body.

The Independent UK

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360info

Criminalising suicide only makes it worse

If the aim of criminalising suicide attempts is to deter people from ending their lives and protect the vulnerable, it's failed.

360info

Nigeria's policies have come a long way but not far enough

Nigeria missed the unique opportunity to address its anti-suicide laws in the new mental health bill.

The Guardian - UK

How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state

Experts say Xu Zhiyong’s fate symbolises the rise and fall of China’s ill-fated rights movement

ABC News

Calls for changes to migration laws as families shown the door due to high medical costs

Kayban was born in Australia with a disability. His parents want to extend their working visa but have been told his care costs too much.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

SDF Commander Killed in Turkish Drone Attack

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that a commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed, and his escort was injured in an attack by a Turkish drone near Nusaybeen crossing on the border with Türkiye in al-Qamishli. The Observatory pointed out that the attack came a week…

Newsroom.co.nz

National finalises candidate selections, including two Māori seats

The race is on in Wellington Central for the National Party candidate selection where a well-known pub owner will battle it out against a human rights expert on Sunday.

Radio France Internationale

Ugandan activists brace for ratification of harsh anti-homosexuality bill

The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, recently called on Africa to "save the world from homosexuality", suggesting he would sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill passed by parliament last month. In Uganda and abroad, activists are mounting last-ditch efforts to try and stop the legislation.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two Rights Groups: Iran Executions Surge in Bid to 'Spread Fear'

Two rights groups revealed on Thursday that Iran is using death penalty as an “execution machine” aimed at spreading fear as protests shook the country in 2022. According to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France's Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), Iran hanged 75 percent more people in 2022…

Al Jazeera

Exposed: The links between Indonesia’s deforestation and Xinjiang

Chinese demand for Indonesian wood pulp is propping up industry ostracised elsewhere over sustainability concerns.

Reuters

Hours before Blinken visit, US condemns Vietnam's jailing of activist

Hours ahead of a visit to Hanoi by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the United States on Thursday condemned Vietnam's jailing of a prominent political activist and said ties could only reach their full potential if the country improved its human rights record.

France 24

Macron government under fire for criticising one of France’s oldest human rights NGOs

Amid the tense political atmosphere gripping France as the pension reform crisis continues, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Wednesday became the latest member of the Macron government to criticise the Human Rights League, one of France’s oldest NGOs, even accusing it of taking an “ambiguous” stance on Islamism in recent…

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