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How prisons are using COVID-19 containment measures as a guise for torture

Newly reported data shows that torture continues in federal prison segregation units. It’s an ongoing feature of Ontario provincial jails too.

The Conversation

Killings of Colombia human rights defenders fell in 2021 but still a concern -NGO

Killings of human rights defenders in Colombia fell to 139 last year, compared with 199 in 2020, local advocacy group Somos Defensores said on Thursday, though it found that overall acts of intimidation and violence rose slightly.

Reuters

Human Rights laws slowing action on abortion clinic buffer zones, FM says

Calls for buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland have intensified in recent weeks

The National (Scotland)

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Qatar World Cup: Amnesty tell England players how they can address human rights issues

The tournament, blighted by human rights issues, begins in 200 days and teams are planning how to protest and raise awareness while questions around safety of LGBTQ+ community remain

Daily Mirror

What overturning Roe v. Wade could mean for the rest of the world

If the U.S. scraps the constitutional right to abortion, human rights advocates warn that repressive governments across the globe could use it to justify crackdowns on their citizens.

WEKU

U.S. would lag behind global abortion access if Roe v. Wade is undone, advocates say

Human rights organizations say there is an international trend toward expanding abortion access, as countries such as Mexico and Argentina have worked to decriminalize the procedure.

WEKU

India of today ‘like plane flying backwards, headed for a crash’, says Arundhati Roy

The Booker prize winner was speaking during the launch of the book 'Why do you fear my way so much?', a selection of poems and letters by jailed human rights activist G.N. Saibaba

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Rights groups cite 338 violations in El Salvador arrests

Five human rights groups say there have been complaints of at least 338 violations of human rights during El Salvador’s massive arrests of suspected gang members

The Independent UK

Election forum walkouts after Craig Kelly labels vaccine mandates ‘an abuse of human rights’

Former Liberal MP’s claims at forum in southern Sydney seat of Hughes leaves other candidates perplexed

The Guardian - AU

Human rights ambassador needed to restore reputation after Morrison’s ‘negative globalism’, Labor says

Opposition also pledges to defend Australian Human Rights Commission with return to merit-based appointments

The Guardian - AU

EU censures border agency after reports of human rights abuses in Greece

MEPs refuse to sign off Frontex’s accounts and call for access to investigation in 2019 into alleged harassment and misconduct

The Guardian - UK

Human rights advocate to lead PEN's writers' protection work

The literary writer’s organization PEN America has hired a human rights advocate, Liesl Gerntholtz, to expand its support of writers around the world who face imprisonment for their work

The Independent UK

Russian mercenaries linked to civilian massacres in Mali

Exclusive: Internal Malian army documents show Wagner operatives took part in ‘mixed missions’

The Guardian - UK

Iranian-Swedish Tensions Rise over Trial of 1988 Mass Executions Jailer

Swedish-Iranian national Ahmad Reza Jalali is to be executed on May 21 at the latest, Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency said on Wednesday, citing sources. Jalali, a disaster medicine doctor and researcher, was arrested in 2016 on an academic visit to Iran and sentenced to death on charges of espionage…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Police ‘Punched’, ‘Kicked’ & Pepper-Sprayed Protesters Trying To Save Refugees From Deportation

"I’ve been protesting for all of my life and I have never seen bully men come through the way they did."

Newslaundry

‘Humbled by your courage’: Antony Blinken lauds journalists, warns of issues like surveillance, media censorship

US secretary of state Antony J Blinken held a press briefing on the occasion of World Press Freedom day on Tuesday, where he said an independent press was the “cornerstone for any healthy democracy” and “one of the most effective tools” for advancing human rights.

The Independent UK

Brazil's Senate to investigate after alleged Yanomami rape

The Human Rights Committee of the Brazilian Senate is sending a team to Yanomami territory in the Amazon rainforest after reports that a 12-year-old Indigenous girl was raped and murdered

France 24

World Press Freedom Day: RSF reveals mixed rankings in Africa

In tonight's edition: Human Rights Watch accuses Russian private security forces invited into Central African Republic of killing civilians. We speak to the daughter of Rwandan opposition figure Paul Rusesabagina. The “Hotel Rwanda” hero's family has filed a $400 million lawsuit against Kigali over alleged kidnapping and torture. And our…

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The Guardian - UK

Greek court acquits four police officers over death of LGBT activist

Two men convicted of killing Zak Kostopoulos but human rights groups express dismay as officers walk free

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on overturning Roe v Wade: a human rights catastrophe

Editorial: Access to safe abortion is vanishing fast. The US supreme court appears poised to deal it the worst blow yet

The Guardian - UK

‘I am sure they will change’: Taliban swap guns for pens to learn about human rights

Young men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governing

Radio France Internationale

Russian paramilitary forces accused of rights abuses in CAR

Human Rights Watch says there is “compelling evidence” that Russian paramilitary troops are committing serious rights abuses and killing civilians in the Central African Republic.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Syrian Authorities Release Prisoners in Presidential Amnesty

Dozens of prisoners were released in Syria on Monday under the general amnesty issued on the eve of Eid al-Fitr. A presidential decree called for “granting a general amnesty for terrorist crimes committed by Syrians” before April 30, 2022, “except for those leading to the death of a person,” the…

The Guardian - AU

Pacific nations walk geopolitical tightrope over Ukraine war, as nuclear legacy looms

Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemnation of the superpower

The Independent UK

Rights groups criticize El Salvador's mass gang roundups

Human rights groups are criticizing El Salvador’s massive arrests of suspected gang members

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