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4 environmental, human rights activists awarded 'Alternative Nobel' prizes

The Right Livelihood Award — known as the “Alternative Nobel” — has been awarded to two environment activists from Kenya and Cambodia, a human right defender from Ghana and a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

The Independent UK

Why you will never hear an Australian leader call out Indonesia on West Papua

Australia is willing to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses in West Papua because alienating Indonesia is not worth the risk as China jostles for regional influence

The Guardian - AU

UN criticises France’s ban on its Olympic athletes wearing headscarves

Dress codes should not be imposed on women, spokesperson says, after Paris Games ban affecting French athletes

The Guardian - UK

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Egypt presidential election: Opponents under pressure ahead of December vote

The ballot hadn't been expected until spring next year. But Egypt's National Election Authority announced this week that the country would be holding its presidential vote in December, amid its worst-ever economic crisis. The vote is already fraught with accusations of repression. Human rights groups say at least 35 opposition…

France 24

Hearing over climate inaction against 32 countries opens in Europe

Six young people from Portugal will take on 32 countries in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday for not doing enough to stop global warming. The unprecedented hearing is the world’s largest climate legal action to date.

Radio France Internationale

Girl, 11, among six young people taking on 32 nations in historic climate case

Claimants say European countries are breaching their human rights by failing to take adequate action to tackle global heating

The Guardian - UK

Portuguese youths sue 33 European governments at EU court in largest climate case ever

A little over three years ago, a group of Portuguese youths filed a legal action against 33 European governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over what they say is a failure to adequately tackle global heating. Now, the Strasbourg court will be hearing them on 27 September,…

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Pakistan’s Ahmadis living in fear as graves, religious sites attacked

Human Rights Commission says at least 34 attacks on religious sites of minority Ahmadis have taken place so far in 2023.

Al Jazeera

In landmark court case, 6 young activists take on 32 European nations over climate action

Six Portuguese young adults and children between 11 and 24 years of age are at the European Court of Human Rights where they are accusing 32 European governments of violating their human rights for what they say is a failure to adequately address climate change

The Independent UK

In Manipur, efforts on to bring back sense of normalcy: EAM Jaishankar

Gov'ts in India & Manipur seek to restore normalcy & enforce law & order. UN experts raised alarm on human rights violations & abuses in Manipur. India rejected comments, calling them "unwarranted, presumptive & misleading".

The Hindu

Covid bereaved must not be ‘brushed aside’, says son ahead of High Court case

Relatives say the state failed to protect people under the Human Rights Act and have issued legal claims for damages for loss of life.

The Independent UK

UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention

UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’

The Guardian - UK

Smirking Suella trashes 70 years of human rights in 30 minutes

Time to ditch the UN convention, said Braverman, we’d all been far too nice to people fleeing persecution

The Guardian - UK

NHRC takes cognizance of TOI report about Mahadalit woman being urinated upon, sends notice to Bihar govt

PATNA: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of a TOI report about a Mahadalit woman being brutally assaulted, stripped and urinated upon for failing to pay interest on a loan at a village in Patna district and issued a notice to the Bihar government.

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UN refugee agency and charities blast Braverman's extreme asylum comments

The UK could be seen to be turning its back those in need in a “direct affront” to human rights, charities said after the Home Secretary…

The Guardian - US

‘It has a price’: war photographer Corinne Dufka on capturing conflict

The esteemed photographer has spent more then a decade in places such as Bosnia and Liberia, remembered in a powerful new book

The Guardian - UK

Family of dead para launch legal challenge to Northern Ireland legacy legislation

The law, which is preventing an investigation into the murder of Pte Tony Harrison in 1991, is a breach of the ECHR, his family argue

The Independent UK

Fear of being branded ‘racist’ hindering global asylum reform, says Braverman

The Home Secretary was speaking during a trip to Washington DC, as she pointed to the need to reform the United Nations’ Refugee Convention.

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The Independent UK

European court rules Turkish teacher's rights were violated by conviction based on phone app use

The European Court of Human Rights says that the rights of a Turkish teacher convicted of terrorism offences were violated because the case was largely based on his use of a phone app

The Independent UK

West faces existential threat if global asylum rules not tightened – Braverman

The Home Secretary said during a speech in the US that millions of asylum seekers were being incentivised to ‘try their luck’.

Evening Standard

Braverman faces backlash after ‘deeply divisive’ speech saying West faces ‘existential threat’ if global asylum rules not tightened

Home Secretary criticised after ‘inflammatory’ speech in US in which she declared multiculturalism has failed

The Independent UK

Russia tries to rejoin UN Human Rights Council

Country isolated at the world stage was kicked out of the council last year with 93 votes in favour of the move

Evening Standard

Suella Braverman warned tearing up refugee treaty ‘will make world a more dangerous place’

Anti-torture charity Freedom says it is ‘shocking to see the Home Secretary imploring the US and other democracies to tear up treaties designed to protect human rights’

The Guardian - UK

Thai pro-democracy activist jailed for speaking out at monarchy protest

Human rights lawyer Arnon Nampa imprisoned after calling for reform of country’s strict lese-majesty law

The Independent UK

Prominent Thai human rights lawyer accused of insulting the king receives a 4-year prison term

A prominent Thai human rights lawyer has been convicted of insulting the monarchy and sentenced to four years in prison, the first conviction under a controversial law guarding the royal institution since a civilian government took office after years of military-backed rule

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