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India ‘intensified and broadened crackdown on media’ in 2022, says Human Rights Watch report

In 2022, Indian authorities “intensified and broadened their crackdown on activist groups and the media”, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023, an annual review of human rights around the globe. To silence activists and independent journalists, authorities used “politically motivated criminal charges, including terrorism, to jail…

Newslaundry

Premier League told Qatar links to Spurs investment should be a ‘wake-up call’

A meeting between Daniel Levy and Qatar Sports Investments chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi took place last week.

The Independent UK

The Standard View: Time for ministers to support Ella’s Law

Ella’s Law, otherwise known as the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill, has already passed the Lords and now it is in the queue of private members’ bills waiting to come before the Commons.

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International response to Ukraine ‘exposes double standards’ of most EU nations, says Human Rights Watch

HRW also praises response to crisis by calling it ‘a moment of hope’

The Independent UK

UK risks being listed as a ‘human rights abuser’, NGO warns

Human Rights Watch warns UK has ‘very short window’ to reverse legislation, including restrictions on the right to protest

The Guardian - UK

'Strongmen are beginning to lose power': acting Human Rights Watch chief

FRANCE 24 spoke to Tirana Hassan, acting executive director of Human Rights Watch, which is publishing its annual report this week. Although the report reveals the grim picture of a world shattered by multiple crises, our guest believes the attacks carried out against democratic institutions, such as in Brazil, show…

France 24

Russia says it is interested in future talks with Ukraine's human rights commissioners - TASS

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said on Thursday that both Moscow and Kyiv are interested in future contacts between their rights commissioners, the TASS news agency reported.

Reuters

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Turkey using courts, laws to target dissent ahead of votes-Human Rights Watch

President Tayyip Erdogan's government has cracked down more aggressively on dissent and political opponents ahead of Turkish elections with censorship and prison sentences, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

Reuters

Ukraine Response Should Be 'Replicated', HRW Urges Governments

Human Rights Watch on Thursday hailed the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, urging governments to show the same concern for civilians caught up in other conflicts. "Amongst the fog of war and the darkness that we have seen in this war in Ukraine, there has been a shining…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Cracks in authoritarian regimes offer hope in a dark year, says Human Rights Watch

Watchdog praises protests in China and Iran and international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in annual report on the state of human rights

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s credibility on human rights blighted by laws targeting climate protesters and jailing children, report says

Human Rights Watch calls on government to address its own ‘alarming deficiencies’, including detention of children under 14 and treatment of asylum seekers

The Guardian - AU

Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs

A leading rights group says widespread opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrates the power of a unified response against human rights abuses

The Independent UK

Australia's human rights credibility undermined by domestic record, new report finds

Human Rights Watch highlights more Indigenous Australians died in custody last year than in 2021, and that new laws targeting climate protesters resulted in harsher penalties against activists.

ABC News

Peaceful protest punishments 'outrageous'

Human rights advocates have delivered a scathing assessment of Australia, condemning punishments for protesters, prison conditions and the climate response.

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Reuters

U.N. calls for investigation into killing of two environmentalists in Honduras

A U.N. special rapporteur on human rights defenders on Wednesday called for an independent investigation into the killing of two environmental activists in Honduras, who had opposed an illegal mine polluting water supplies in a national reserve.

The Guardian - US

Honduran environmental defenders shot dead in broad daylight

Aly Domínguez and Jairo Bonilla, co-founders of grassroots resistance group to iron ore mine in Guapinol, murdered in street

Reuters

Turkish court convicts doctor of terrorism propaganda, releases her from jail-rights groups

A Turkish court sentenced the head of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) to more than two years in prison for terrorism propaganda on Wednesday but ruled she should be released after being in detention since October, human rights activists said.

The Independent UK

Indonesian president acknowledges past human rights abuses

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged that serious human rights violations occurred across the country in recent decades and vowed to compensate victims and prevent such abuses from happening again in the future

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Ukraine, Russia agree to swap 40 prisoners - Russian rights official

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said on Wednesday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed on an exchange of 40 prisoners of war after meeting her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ukraine and Russia Agree Prisoner Swap in Ankara Talks

Russia and Ukraine have agreed on an exchange of 40 prisoners of war, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said on Wednesday after meeting her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets in Türkiye. Moskalkova and Lubinets met on the sidelines of an international ombudsman conference in Ankara. Photos showed them sitting on…

Reuters

Russian, Ukrainian rights commissioners meet in Turkey

Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova and her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets met in the Turkish capital on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on humanitarian assistance.

Reuters

Indonesia president says "strongly regrets" past rights violations in country

Indonesian President Joko Widodo acknowledged on Wednesday a series of incidents amounting to "gross human rights violations" had taken place in his country's past, including the bloodshed and arrests that took place in 1965 and 1966.

Reason

Harvard Kennedy School Dean Rejects Proposed Fellowship, Allegedly Based on the Person's "Anti-Israel Bias"

The proposed fellow would have been Kenneth Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch, and apparently a highly prominent expert on the subject.

ABC News

Australian MPs throw support behind Iranians who are facing execution

Some Australian MPs are publicly backing young Iranians facing the death sentence, hoping the negative publicity for the regime might stave off imminent executions.

Al Jazeera

Canada sanctions ex-Sri Lanka presidents Mahinda, Gotabaya

Sanctions are over human rights violations committed during armed conflict in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009, Canada says.

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