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South Korea says summit with Biden to give significant attention to North Korea rights

South Korea's Washington ambassador Cho Hyun-dong said on Friday he was sure North Korean human rights would be given significant attention in summit talks between South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden next week.

Reuters

Burkina Faso investigates alleged abuses by security forces

Burkina Faso’s government has opened investigations into allegations of human rights abuses by its security forces after a video surfaced that appeared to show the extrajudicial killing of seven children in the country’s north

The Independent UK

Five people sanctioned over imprisonment of British-Russian dissident

Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years on Monday in a process the UK says breached his human rights.

The Independent UK

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Vietnam accused of abducting blogger from Thailand

Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Vietnam of kidnapping a blogger critical of the communist government who was living as a refugee in Thailand.

Bangkok Post

'Only 5%' of Afghanistan's humanitarian needs funded for 2023, researcher says

Since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021, women have been robbed of their right to learn, work and move freely. Their exclusion from public life is having dire consequences for the entire country. We discuss the situation with Melissa Cornet, a human rights researcher who works with…

France 24

Activists want Chaiwat sacked over ‘Billy’ disapperance

Ten human rights organisations have called for the dismissal of senior national parks official Chaiwat Limlikit-aksorn and three others from the civil service for their alleged role in the disappearance and death of Karen activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen nine years ago.

Bangkok Post

Russia crosses new lines in crackdown on Putin's enemies

With virtually all the Kremlin's opponents already jailed or in exile, and liberal press outlets and human rights groups forced to shut down, it might have appeared that years of repression in Russia had achieved their objective.

Reuters

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Victoria moves to raise age of criminal responsibility to 12 despite criticism it’s not enough

Move would defy advice from UN, human rights, children’s advocates and Indigenous organisations who say age should be raised to 14

The Guardian - AU

Biden thanks Colombia for hosting Venezuelan refugees, eyes deeper partnership

U.S. President Joe Biden praised Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Thursday for his country's treatment of refugees from Venezuela and for his commitment to democracy and human rights.

Reuters

Outrage as Florida Republicans pass ‘fascist’ bill to remove trans kids from parents’ custody

‘These bills directly threaten transgender Floridians’ fundamental human rights and safety,’ an ACLU official says

The Independent UK

Ignoring European courts on migration bill would 'undermine' rule of law, say experts

ANY plans by the UK Government to ignore orders from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which would stop the illegal removal of migrants from…

The National (Scotland)

James Cleverly defies Tory right’s push to leave ECHR

Foreign secretary says UK should not want to club with Belarus and Russia in rejecting European human rights convention

The Guardian - UK

New caucus in Congress condemns poisoning of Iranian girls

A new bipartisan caucus in Congress is condemning the Iranian government over the recent poisoning of school girls in the country, amplifying the growing criticism in Washington against the Islamic Republic and its disregard for human rights

The Independent UK

Podcast: holding multinationals to account, Agent Orange on stage, ten years of gay marriage

France's pioneering 2017 law that made French-based multinational companies responsible for human rights and environmental violations wherever they do business. Also, a Franco-Vietnamese theatre director brings Vietnamese history to life on stage. And the first same-sex marriage remembered 10 years after it became legal.

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The Guardian - UK

When I call relatives in Sudan, I don’t know if they will still be alive. The world must not look away

The UK has a duty to lead a campaign of international pressure, says Sudan human rights researcher Mohamed Osman

Al Jazeera

The soft-power campaign of Sudan’s RSF leader ‘Hemedti’

Leader of the Rapid Support Forces has used global public relations firms to convince observers he is a force for good.

The Guardian - AU

Sydney BLM and trans rights protesters fail to overturn Covid fines using freedom of speech argument

Pair’s lawyer says supreme court’s decision highlights ‘need for much stronger protections of civil and human rights’

ABC News

Greg Norman defends LIV Golf ahead of Adelaide leg, amid 'sportswashing' criticism

The Adelaide event begins on Friday, and is set to feature some of the world's top players, but human rights advocates have described the LIV Golf tour as a "blatant example of sportswashing".

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The Guardian - UK

‘They just left the corpses lying there’: survivors speak about the horrors of a massacre in northern Tigray

Human rights experts fear perpetrators will not face justice for the hundreds of civilians murdered in the last fighting of the two-year war in Ethiopia

Reason

Court Refuses to Enforce United Arab Emirates Child Custody Decree That Disfavored Christian Parent

From Al Namani v. Watson, decided last year by Judge Daniel Klau (Conn. Super. Ct.), but just posted on Westlaw: General Statutes § 46b-115ii bars a Connecticut family court from enforcing a foreign court judgment that is "repugnant to the public policy of this state." Citing this statute, the respondent…

Reuters

Britain sounds alarm on spyware, mercenary hacking market

British officials are sounding the alarm over the widespread abuse of surveillance software and hackers-for-hire, saying that thousands of people were being targeted each year by an industry they described as posing an increasingly unpredictable threat.

The National (Scotland)

ITV gaffe mistakes Labour leader Anas Sarwar for lawyer Aamer Anwar

TOP human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar has mocked ITV after the broadcaster mistook him for Labour leader Anas Sarwar...

The Conversation

US giving to Israeli nonprofits – how much Jews and Christians donate and where the money goes

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judiciary overhauls and the continued erosion of Palestinian human rights for months.

Salon

Activists faced a deadly year in 2022

Nearly a quarter of the activists murdered were Indigenous

Reuters

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.

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