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Algeria heads to polls: Tebboune favoured amid rights concerns

Some 24 million Algerians vote on Saturday to elect their next president, with incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune the clear favourite of only three candidates. If Algeria has enjoyed economic and social stability during his five years in power, human rights organisations warn of a decrease of freedom and rights.

Radio France Internationale

Kamala Harris should do what Joe Biden won’t: commit to actually reining in Israel

Harris doesn’t need to impose a full embargo on Israel – but she can pledge to enforce US laws restricting arms transfers to human rights violators

The Guardian - US

UN experts call for ‘impartial force’ to protect civilians in Sudan

Warring parties have committed ‘harrowing human rights violations’ that could amount to war crimes, report finds.

Al Jazeera

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UN-backed human rights experts seek wider arms embargo, 'impartial force' deployed to war-torn Sudan

U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war

The Independent UK

Algeria election to take place amid ‘steady erosion of human rights’

Abdelmadjid Tebboune set for second term as president after changed poll date is expected to favour him

The Guardian - UK

'Weakening': Human Rights Commission criticises ACT govt over jail law changes

Recent court decisions have prompted the urgent change.

The Canberra Times

Ukrainian Soldiers Executed After Surrendering, War Crimes Uncovered

Exclusive video shows Ukrainian soldiers being brutally murdered after surrendering to Russian forces in Ukraine, highlighting grave human rights violations.

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Cambodia's leader defends arrests of protesters, claiming they were trying to overthrow government

Cambodia’s leader has condemned international human rights groups for criticizing his government’s arrests of nearly 100 people for protesting against a decades-old regional development agreement with neighboring countries

The Independent UK

UK signs first international treaty to implement AI safeguards

Also signed by the EU, US and Israel, the declaration aims to mitigate the threats that AI may pose to human rights, democracy and the rule of law

The Guardian - UK

US Secures Release Of 135 Nicaraguan Political Prisoners To Guatemala

United States secures release of 135 Nicaraguan political prisoners, relocated to Guatemala, promoting human rights.

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Govt rushes through laws following human rights breaches at Canberra's jail

Recent court decisions have prompted the urgent change.

The Canberra Times

Human rights body urges El Salvador to end state of emergency

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged El Salvador Wednesday to end the more than two-year state of emergency, which has suspended fundamental civil rights while the government pursued the country’s powerful street gangs

The Independent UK

The UK’s suspension of some arms exports to Israel was highly political – here’s how to understand it

The UK government has announced it is suspending 30 arms export licences to Israel for military equipment used in operations in Gaza.

The Conversation

‘We are seeking to discriminate’: lesbian group wanting to exclude trans women compares itself to Melbourne gay bar

Australian Human Rights Commission says Peel hotel’s right to refuse heterosexual people was granted to help gay men achieve equality

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz To Keynote Human Rights Campaign Dinner

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to deliver keynote address at Human Rights Campaign's National Dinner, emphasizing advocacy for equality.

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Human Rights Watch Implicates Venezuelan Forces In Protest Killings

Human Rights Watch report reveals Venezuelan security forces' role in post-election killings and repression. International condemnation grows over lack of ...

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European Aid To Lebanon Linked To Human Rights Violations

European aid to Lebanon for sea migration control faces scrutiny over human rights violations against Syrian refugees. Complex challenges in managing migra...

The Independent UK

Rights group alleges Lebanon and Cyprus violated refugees' human rights and EU funds paid for it

A global watchdog report says European Union aid sent to Lebanon in an attempt to regulate migration by sea is funding practices that violate human rights

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International Business Times

Mexican Protesters Try To Disrupt Vote On Contentious Reforms

Protesting judicial workers on Tuesday blocked access to Mexico's lower house of Congress to try to prevent a vote on controversial reforms proposed by outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

International Business Times

Nicaragua Passes Law Against Those 'Undermining' Regime From Abroad

Nicaragua's regime-aligned Congress approved a law Tuesday empowering domestic courts to pass rulings against people and entities abroad that are found to promote sanctions against the internationally criticized government.

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U.N. Report Urges Iran To Halt Surge In Executions

U.N. report reveals a surge in executions in Iran, particularly for drug offenses, raising alarms over human rights violations and lack of transparency.

The Independent UK

Tugendhat doubles down on bid to win over right-wing Tories with attack on human rights convention

Tom Tugendhat has continued his efforts to reinvent himself as a candidate of the Tory right with a verbal assault on the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR)

The Guardian - UK

Incoherence over arms exports to Israel leaves UK on shaky middle ground

Government’s partial ban not enough for human rights groups as risk remains over use of British munitions in Gaza

France 24

Oppression of Afghan women: 'The world seems to be responding with a shrug,' HRW says

Human rights groups are reacting with fury after a further curtailing of women’s rights in Afghanistan. New laws brought in last month impose severe new restrictions on women that oblige them to not only cover their faces, but also forbid them from raising their voices or reading aloud in public.…

The Canberra Times

Electronic monitoring needed for DV offenders, parliamentary inquiry says

Bail conditions should also be reviewed, the committee said.

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