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Macron begins China visit as Europe faces trade and security tensions

French President Emmanuel Macron begins a three-day state visit to China from Wednesday to strengthen dialogue on Ukraine, trade, China's expanding influence in the Pacific and human rights.

Radio France Internationale

Tunisian police detain leading human rights defender as crackdown on critics widens

Tunisian police have arrested prominent opposition lawyer Ayachi Hammami

The Independent UK

Victoria police would get power to search children on the spot in proposed crackdown on protests

Human rights lawyer says the government’s bill seeking to expand search powers in designated areas is ‘incredibly concerning’

The Guardian - AU

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UN Human Rights Chief Urges Trump Admin To Investigate Reported Second Strike To Finish Off Survivors Of Alleged Drug Boat

UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged the Trump administration to investigate a reported second strike to finish off survivors of an alleged drug vessel in September.

Latin Times

Silent service: defence gags sexual assault survivors

Women who were sexually abused and harassed in the military have been gagged from talking about their experience due to restrictive non-disclosure agreements.

AAP

UK pulls $1.15bn support for Mozambique gas project after climate and terror concerns

TotalEnergies scheme became lightning rod for terror in region and was accused of violating human rights

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer's former barrister chambers 'firmly opposed' to government's jury axe plans

Keir Starmer helped to set up Doughty Street when he was a human rights barrister

Evening Standard

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Balancing security powers with civil liberties after Paris attacks

Immediately after the 2015 Paris attacks, French police were granted extra powers to search and detain people suspected of links to terrorism. Ten years later, many of these exceptional measures have become law and legislators continue to expand surveillance – steps that human rights experts say encroach on civil liberties…

Radio France Internationale

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights finally grapples with the Nakba

Even as it claims to champion the stories of global injustice, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) has struggled, if not refused, to meaningfully acknowledge Palestine for more than a decade.

The Conversation

Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn

Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms

The Guardian - US

Prominent Tunisian activist arrested as hundreds protest clampdown on dissent

Lawyers for Chaima Issa, a well-known Tunisian writer and human rights activist, say she was arrested at a protest in Tunis on Saturday as hundreds demonstrated against the curtailing of freedoms.

Radio France Internationale

Dictatorship-era army officers and supporters rally in Argentina in latest sign of political shift

Ex-military officers who served in Argentina’s brutal dictatorship and their families have staged a rare rally to push for the release of fellow officers imprisoned for human rights abuses committed during the junta’s 1976-1983 rule

The Independent UK

Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’

Staff at human rights body said to be ‘desperate for regime change’ over inertia after court’s legal definition of a woman

The Guardian - UK

UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

The deadliest wait: five women on death row

Up to 1,000 women globally await execution in prison, with mitigating factors such as child abuse and coercion ignored

Benzinga

Advocacy Group Claims Conflict Metals Still Flow Into Apple Products

International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) of using minerals tied to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.

The Guardian - UK

Sam Gregory joins the Scott Trust board

The Scott Trust, sole shareholder of Guardian Media Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of internationally recognised technologist, researcher and human rights advocate Sam Gregory to its board.

The Guardian - AU

‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months

Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups

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The Guardian - AU

‘She’s a shrewd Green’: meet Alice Springs’ new mayor, determined to rewrite the story of her beloved home town

Criminal defence lawyer Asta Hill says she is putting human rights at the centre of her leadership – without shying away from addressing community safety

The Guardian - AU

Human rights fears over Australia’s role in F-35 parts after Trump’s decision to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia

Experts warn US deal on ‘lethal’ aircraft presents issues for Australia that ‘we’ve tried desperately to ignore with the Israelis’

The Independent UK

UN human rights rapporteur calls on United States to lift sanctions on Cuba

A United Nations human rights official is urging the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba, saying they are impacting the island’s entire population, hitting sectors including health care, nutrition and education

The Independent UK

Australian journalist speaks out after indictment in Thailand over Malaysia blog posts: ‘I would do it again’

INTERVIEW: Scariest moment wasn’t his arrest but what followed, Murray Hunter tells Maroosha Muzaffar. The 67-year-old felt alone and helpless in his jail cell and remembers thinking: ‘Nobody cares about this, so I am on my own to fight’

The Independent UK

Belarus frees 2 imprisoned Catholic priests after talks with Vatican

Officials say two Roman Catholic priests imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were freed from prison following talks with the Vatican

Evening Standard

Government may appeal on whether convicted terrorist had human rights breached

The ruling said the Ministry of Justice had breached Sahayb Abu’s human rights by not allowing him to mix with other prisoners.

The Independent UK

Israel accused of war crimes over expulsion of 32,000 refugees from West Bank camps

A report by Human Rights Watch claims the IDF carried out war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing

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