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Amnesty hits out at BBC for ‘uncritical’ videos advertising Qatar ahead of World Cup

Corporation produced films fronted by Jodie Kidd which Amnesty International UK says risk ‘blurring the line between journalism and fundraising’

The Independent UK

Mexico: reporters and activists hacked with NSO spyware despite assurances

Country’s current government had sworn it would no longer use the hacking software

The Guardian - US

Bahrain pulls out of U.N. human rights body election after criticism

Bahrain will no longer run in an election to the U.N.'s top human rights body later this month, a U.N. website showed, after critics drew attention to alleged human rights violations.

Reuters

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Paris joins other French cities in World Cup TV boycott

Local authorities will not broadcast matches in protest at human rights and environmental abuses in Qatar

The Guardian - UK

UN accuses Bangladesh of suppressing environmental activism

The UN says the Digital Security Act is being used to punish criticism of government, including environmental policies.

Al Jazeera

Int’l Coalition Forces Cordon Tanf Base, Amid Divisions in Ranks of Jaysh Maghawir Al-Thawra

The international coalition forces cordoned off Tanf base in the 55-kilometer deconfliction zone and ordered, via loudspeakers, all fighters, except their forces in the base, to leave without weapons, amid coalition aircraft flights over the area, a war monitor reported on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had previously…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hezbollah ‘Collaborators’ Coming Under Increased Attacks in Syria’s Quneitra

Attacks against members and officers of the Syrian regime, as well as suspected collaborators with Hezbollah, have increased in the Quneitra province, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and the southern Daraa province. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Monday that a new assassination took place in Daraa. Riders on…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Qatar World Cup 2022: Paris to scrap showing matches on big screens amid concerns over rights

Paris will not broadcast World Cup matches on giant screens in public fan zones amid concerns over rights violations of migrant workers and the environmental impact of the tournament in Qatar.

France 24

Mexico's alleged victims of Pegasus spyware seek criminal probe

Three human rights investigators filed a complaint with Mexican prosecutors on Monday calling for a probe into the alleged "interception of private communications without legal authorization," according to Leopoldo Maldonado, the Mexico director of rights group Article 19.

Reuters

Canada Imposes Fresh Sanctions on Iran Citing Death of Mahsa Amini

Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Monday for alleged human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who died while in custody of Iran's "morality police," the Canadian government said. "These sanctions are in response to gross human rights violations that have been…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Canada imposes fresh sanctions on Iran citing death of Mahsa Amini

Canada imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Monday for alleged human rights violations, including the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iranian Kurdistan who passed away after being taken into custody by Iran's "morality police," the Canadian government said.

Reuters

Switzerland has 'systemic' racism issues, UN experts say

Switzerland has a serious systemic problem with racism against people of African descent, according to a report presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday, giving a broad range of examples from police brutality to a children's game.

Reuters

Iranian students defy security forces after violence at university

Rights groups ‘extremely concerned’ about violent repression of demonstrations in Tehran and Isfahan

The Guardian - UK

Indonesia Sets up Team to Probe Soccer Stampede; Police Use of Tear Gas in Focus

Indonesia has set up an independent team to investigate a crowd crush at a football stadium that killed 125 people, including 32 children, authorities said on Monday, as the country's human rights commission questioned the police use of tear gas. Panic-stricken spectators stampeded as they tried to escape the overpacked…

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The Hindu

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

The prizes were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite.

AAP

Call to end ATO whistleblower prosecution

The Human Rights Law Centre has called on the Commonwealth to withdraw its prosecution of tax office whistleblower Richard Boyle.

Reuters

Pegasus spyware attacks in Mexico continued under Lopez Obrador -report

Phones of at least three human rights investigators in Mexico were infected with Pegasus during the term of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador despite his goverment's assertions that it would stop using the controversial spyware, a report on Sunday found.

The Independent UK

Government still aims to reform Human Rights Act – Justice Secretary

Brandon Lewis said the Government would still seek to reduce the influence of Strasbourg on UK law and prioritise protecting the public.

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Tel Aviv Demands Cut to Funding of European Groups Seeking Israel Boycott

The Israeli Mission to the European Union submitted on Friday a request to cut funding for 60 organizations and movements active in the countries of the Union and which support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. “These organizations receive large funding from the EU to support human rights…

The Independent UK

Western push on China, Russia at UN rights body faces test

Western countries are leading a simultaneous push at the U.N.’s top human rights body to scrutinize human rights in two of the world’s most influential countries: China and Russia

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Strikes in Syria Decreased since Ukraine War

Russian strikes in Syria have decreased since it invaded Ukraine, resulting in fewer deaths, a war monitor said Friday, seven years into Moscow's intervention in the Middle Eastern country. A total of 241 people have been killed by Russian strikes in Syria during the past year, mostly fighters from the…

Wales Online

Union warning over Government's potentially 'illegal' plans over industrial action

TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady slams proposals to clamp down on strikes

ABC News

Lack of audio descriptions on Australian TV a human rights breach, UN committee finds

A United Nations committee has found Australia breached an international human rights treaty by failing to provide audio descriptions on free-to-air television for the blind and vision impaired community. The finding comes after a seven year complaint process from a disability advocate.

France 24

Facebook accused of promoting violence against Rohingya in Myanmar

Amnesty International accuses Facebook of exacerbating human rights violations in Myanmar. It claims the social network proactively "amplified" anti-Rohingya content back in 2017, when the country's military launched a deadly crackdown on the ethnic minority. Patrick de Brun, a researcher at Amnesty International who wrote the report, tells us more…

Wales Online

Welsh Government rejects calls to shut its Qatar office over human rights concerns after death of British national

Cardiff Bay said it believed in engaging with countries that don’t share values on human rights in order to influence change.

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