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Ghana Is Latest African Nation to Agree to Receive Third-Country Deportees From the US

The policy has faced sharp criticism from rights groups and legal experts, who question its legality and warn about potential human rights abuses

Latin Times

Rick Stein’s restaurant firm among those to miss gender pay reporting deadline

The Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed a list of 10 organisations that missed the deadline to report by several months.

Evening Standard

Trump paid El Salvador $5M to jail deportees – with conditions on abortion and DEI but not preventing torture

Secret memos made public this week show Trump administration’s arrangement with Nayib Bukele to jail Venezuelans

The Independent UK

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Nigeria’s use of soldiers for civilian tasks comes with serious costs – how to prevent this

Nigerians have experienced what it means for their government to be controlled by the military.

The Conversation

Peru accused of violating human rights after government rejects reserve for uncontacted people

Campaigners shocked after ministers voted against the 1.2m-hectare Yavari Mirim reserve after 20 years of debate

The Guardian - UK

Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known

The Independent UK

Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state

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PHOTO ESSAY: Those caught in the dragnet of China’s digital cage enabled by U.S. tech

China runs the largest digital surveillance apparatus on earth. An Associated Press investigation has found that American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.

The Independent UK

How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state

The Independent UK

US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

The Independent UK

Netanyahu threatens Gaza residents as UN slams Israel over ‘mass killing’

Gaza City residents told to ‘leave now’, while UN human rights chief condemns Israel for ‘war crime upon war crime’.

Al Jazeera

Lawyers Caught In Turkey's Crackdown On Opposition

Turkish lawyers defending human rights or representing clients who challenge state policies have found themselves increasingly caught in the crossfire of the crackdown on its main opposition party.

International Business Times

Police Scotland arrests of two Palestine activists 'not justified', Amnesty warns

POLICE Scotland arrests of two Palestine protesters over the weekend may “not be justified” under human rights laws, Amnesty International has…

The National (Scotland)

Venezuelan Regime Accused of Kidnapping Family, Including a Toddler, as Political Prisoner Numbers Grow

A Venezuelan human rights organization has denounced the disappearance of four members of a family, including an elderly woman and a 2-year-old girl, after they were detained without a warrant in the state of Carabobo earlier this month.

Latin Times

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The Conversation

Canada’s response to the war in Gaza raises questions about its commitment to human rights and justice

Canada and Canadians have long considered themselves defenders of human rights, democracy, justice and the rule of law. Canada played a significant role in the development of what’s known as the liberal international order, including multilateral institutions like the United Nations, and international law.

Latin Times

Report: Nayib Bukele's Gang Crackdown Fueled by Human Rights Abuses, Corruption in Salvadoran Prisons

A recent report from a Salvadoran human rights group reveals that Bukele's crackdown on gangs has reshaped the country's prison system, with officials now exploiting detainees' families for profit through extortion.

The Guardian - UK

Farage rows back on promise to stop small boats within two weeks if he becomes PM – as it happened

Reform UK leader clarifies that, if he wins election, he will have to wait until law passed to deport people more quickly, which could take months

Latin Times

Border Restrictions Have Pushed More Than 14,000 Migrants to Reverse Course, UN Report Finds

Human rights advocates and government officials warn that reverse flow is proving to be just as dangerous, and in some cases more dangerous, than the original journey north to the United States.

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Al Jazeera

UN rights chief urges US to withdraw sanctions on Palestinian NGOs

Volker Turk warns that the US sanctions over ICC cooperation could have a ‘chilling effect’ on civil society globally.

The Independent UK

UN decries crimes including gang rape, murder, torture in Congo conflict over last year

The U.N. human rights office says Congo’s armed forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have committed gang rape, sexual slavery, torture, killings of civilians and other “horrific” atrocities in eastern Congo this year

Al Jazeera

UN suspects all sides in DR Congo conflict guilty of war crimes

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk calls for accountability for victims of ‘horrific’ atrocities.

The National (Scotland)

Labour told to 'ban trans people from single-sex spaces' in new EHRC guidance

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued new guidance advising Labour to ban transgender people from accessing any single-sex…

The Guardian - UK

Brexit didn’t solve Britain’s woes, but no matter: leaving the ECHR definitely will. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?

As Reform gathers for its conference, momentum builds for ditching the European convention on human rights. It would be a disaster, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Al Jazeera

US sanctions Palestinian rights groups for supporting ICC Israel probe

Al-Haq, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) and Al-Mezan targeted for engaging with ICC, state department says.

Radio France Internationale

European court faults France for failings on sexual consent laws

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that France had violated the European Convention on Human Rights in a case involving a pharmacist accused of forcing a colleague into a sadomasochistic relationship.

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