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The Latest Breaking News from Human Rights

Thailand is proudly a hub for United Nations (UN) agencies and programmes, and this adds weight to its leverage in international relations. Inevitably, the UN presence has to address key issues of sustainable development, human rights, democracy and peace. A key question is thus whether a viable balance is being…

Bangkok Post

‘Humiliating climbdown’ or a chance to assert US diplomacy: What’s really behind Biden’s controversial trip to Saudi Arabia

The White House says Mr Biden’s visit with Saudi leaders is meant to ‘reorient’ America’s relationship with Riyadh. But as Andrew Feinberg reports, foreign policy experts are split on whether the president should be going at all

The Independent UK

Civilian toll in Ukraine conflict passes 5,000 mark, UN says

The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday that more than 5,000 civilians had been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, adding that the real toll was likely much higher.

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In pursuit of oil and Mideast security, Biden to meet with Saudis he once regarded as pariahs

WASHINGTON — Nothing about President Joe Biden’s visit this week to the Middle East is going to be easy.

Los Angeles Times

Biden once wanted to make Saudi Arabia a 'pariah' – so why is he playing nice with the kingdom's repressive rulers now?

Even before setting foot in the Middle East for his first visit to the region as president, Joe Biden felt compelled to defend a portion of the trip. “I know that there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to Saudi Arabia,” Biden acknowledged in an op-ed for…

The Conversation

Killing of Palestinian journalist threatens to overshadow Biden's Israel trip

Joe Biden flies to the Middle East on Tuesday for his first trip to the region since entering the White House. Before a visit to Saudi Arabia – one which reawakens the age-old foreign policy dilemma of realpolitik versus human rights – the US president goes to Israel, where he…

France 24

US looking at new international body to record rights abuses in Yemen

Rights activist say move is akin to asking Vladimir Putin to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

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Maria Ressa: Amal Clooney condemns court after Nobel laureate’s conviction upheld

Human rights lawyer’s team calls on new Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos Jr to ‘stop the rot’ and allow a free press

The Guardian - AU

Tory leadership contenders' key policies compared - tax, cuts, culture wars and Brexit

Conservative leadership election candidates are scrambling to out-Tory each other on tax, spending cuts, Brexit, human rights and so-called ‘culture war’ issues. We look at the key things they’re saying

Daily Mirror

More private schools denounce homosexuality, diverse gender identity in enrolment contracts

The schools are part of the Christian Community Ministries and have been accused by human rights lawyers of exposing students to potential discrimination, after enrolment forms demanded prospective families support beliefs denouncing homosexuality and diverse gender identity.

ABC News

‘Racism: It Stops with Me’ campaign funded by disaffected former Collingwood football club sponsor

Insurance firm redirected funding from club to Australian Human Rights Commission campaign after racism claims

The Guardian - AU

Mhairi Black issues stark warning as Tory hopefuls drift further to the right

TORY leadership hopefuls seeking to seize the Number 10 keys are engaged in a “desperate battle to be seen as more militant than one another”,…

The National (Scotland)

Protests last July brought Cuba worldwide attention, but the human rights crisis continues

A year after the largest anti-government demonstrations in Cuba in several decades, hundreds of people remain detained, waiting for trials or in prison for chanting pro-freedom slogans.

Miami Herald

ECHR Says Turkey Failed to Comply with Ruling to Release Philanthropist

Europe's top rights court said on Monday Turkey had not complied with a ruling that called for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala, moving further in a process that could lead to Ankara's suspension from the Council of Europe (CoE). The Committee of Ministers of the CoE, which oversees the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Evening Standard

What is the European Convention on Human Rights? Robert Jenrick says UK should leave the treaty

The current favourite to be Tory leader blames the pact for stopping Britain from being able to cut illegal immigration

AAP

NSW anti-protest laws excessive: Amnesty

Laws targeting protesters in NSW have been criticised as excessive by human rights groups ahead of bail hearings for two accused demonstrators jailed for weeks.

Axios

Biden: Human rights on agenda during Middle East trip

"My views on human rights are clear and long-standing, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when I travel abroad."

The Independent UK

In Mideast, Biden struggling to shift policy after Trump

Joe Biden took office looking to reshape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East

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Dynamite News

Biden defends pending visit to Saudi Arabia in opinion piece

President Joe Biden, preparing for a trip to Saudi Arabia amid criticism of its poor human rights record, defended his decision in a newspaper opinion piece, insisting that he had long supported reforms and sought to reorient but not rupture relations with a longstanding strategic partner. Read further on Dynamite…

Al Jazeera

‘Reorient… not rupture’: Biden defends Saudi visit in column

US president writes in Washington Post his visit will keep US ‘strong and secure’ and that human rights is on agenda.

Tribune News Service

Biden defends upcoming Saudi trip as national security necessity

President Joe Biden defended his upcoming visit to Saudi Arabia in The Washington Post and pledged to give attention to human rights on his visit with the crown prince, a meeting that has been widely criticized by opponents of Mohammed Bin Salman’s policies.

Reuters

Biden defends decision to visit Saudi Arabia, says rights are on his agenda

President Joe Biden on Saturday defended his decision to travel to Saudi Arabia saying human rights would be on his agenda as he gave a preview of a trip on which he aims to reset ties with the crown prince, who he previously denounced as a pariah.

AAP

Amnesty criticises NSW protest laws

NSW's new protest laws erode people's right to fight for human rights and climate action, Amnesty International says.

The Independent UK

UN says Ukraine bears share of blame for nursing home attack

A United Nations report says Ukraine’s armed forces bear a large share of the blame for a deadly assault on a care home for the elderly and disabled

Bangkok Post

Is Taiwan going to be the next Ukraine?

Russia's brutal war on Ukraine is, most observers agree, an assault on democracy, sovereignty and human rights. For the United States and its Nato allies, the Kremlin's aggression demands a powerful response, including unprecedented economic sanctions against Russia and huge amounts of military aid to Ukraine.

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