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Poland completes Belarus border wall to keep migrants out

A year after migrants started crossing into the European Union from Belarus to Poland, Polish authorities will announce that the construction of a new steel wall along its border with Belarus has been finished

The Independent UK

UN extends peacekeeping mission in Mali to June 2023

The United Nations Security Council has to maintain the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali, while condemning the country's military rulers for using mercenaries that have committed human rights violations.

Radio France Internationale

Firm sponsors pro who joined controversial Saudi Arabia-funded LIV Golf series

The company said it shares 'the concern that many people have expressed about Saudi Arabia's human rights record'

Birmingham Post

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Mali vows to defy U.N. call to allow peacekeepers to investigate abuses

Mali vowed on Wednesday to defy a United Nations Security Council call for the West African country to allow freedom of movement for peacekeepers to investigate human rights abuses.

Reuters

Venezuela moves to strengthen rule of law, judicial independence a concern: UN

Venezuela has taken some steps to strengthen the rule of law but the lack of independence of its legal system remains concerning, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a new report on Wednesday.

Reuters

Zakia Jafri and the constitutional conscience

In the struggle against impunity, the Constitution and a judiciary with a robust ‘constitutional conscience’ are key

The Hindu

Human rights fears affecting China’s standing globally, Pew survey finds

Negative views of China at highest level in years in many of the 19 countries that took part in survey

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Hong Kong's handover 25 years on: why human rights eroded so dramatically in the past two years

July 1 marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from British colonial rule to the People’s Republic of China.

The Conversation

Euro 2022 and the underappreciated sidekick role on football podcasts

In today’s Fiver: John Cusack’s boombox, Newcastle’s 1999-2000 kit and more good news for Gareth Bale

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool company sponsors pro who joined LIV Golf series hit by concerns over Saudi Arabia human rights record

Some big-name golfers have lost sponsorship deals after they joined the controversial series

Liverpool Echo

Andhra Pradesh: Help of officials sought for speedy disposal of human rights cases

20 cases settled in a day at Sitting Camp in Kakinada, says APSHRC Chairman

The Hindu

Pat Perez and Brooks Koepka shrug off Saudi human rights record in LIV press conference

Pat Perez and Brooks Koepka have defended their decision to join the highly-controversial Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series

Daily Mirror

Dad of wheelchair user slams lack of automatic ramps on brand new trains

He has called it a human rights issue and says that the new trains will not cater for everyone in the country

Dublin Live

Teest Setalvad arrest | UN Human Rights chief’s comment unwarranted, says India

The remarks constitute an interference in India’s independent judicial system, says MEA

The Hindu

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Reuters

South Korea violated the rights of deported North Korean fishermen - U.N. investigator

South Korea's 2019 decision to deport without legal process two North Korean fishermen suspected of murdering their shipmates violated human rights principles, a U.N. investigator said on Wednesday, after prosecutors reopened the case.

The Times of India

Opposition files National Human Rights Commission plaint over worker’s suicide

Vijayawada: Opposition parties in AP have lodged a plaint with National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) alleging that one Udayagiri Narayana (38), a Dalit man from Kandamooru village in Nellore rural, committed suicide following police harassment after a theft plaint was lodged against him.

Reuters

Spanish chief prosecutor will investigate deadly Melilla incident

The Spanish chief prosecutor ordered on Tuesday a probe to clarify the circumstances that led to the death of at least 23 migrants trying to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla last Friday amid clashes with Moroccan and Spanish security forces.

Radio France Internationale

Killings, kidnappings, stripping girls naked part of Cameroon separatist abuses, HRW says

Killing and attacking civilians, attacking education facilities, kidnapping workers, stripping schoolgirls naked and beating them are just a few of the abuses Cameroonian separatists have carried out on the civilian population in the Anglophone regions, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

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The Guardian - UK

Need an abortion? Better hope you have a generous boss

It’s great that US companies are offering to reimburse employees who have to travel for a termination. But access to abortion should be a civil right, not a corporate perk, says Arwa Mahdawi

The Independent UK

UN: More than 300,000 civilians killed in Syria's conflict

The United Nations says the first 10 years of Syria’s conflict, which began in 2011, killed more than 300,000 civilians

The Independent UK

Liz Truss unable to name any occasion she has challenged a Gulf state on human rights

’You can’t remember one?’ foreign secretary asked – despite pledge to ‘hold those who violate human rights to account’

Reuters

War has killed 1.5% of Syria's population: U.N. estimate

The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that 306,887 civilians had been killed in Syria during the conflict since March 2011, or about 1.5 % of its pre-war population, in what it said was the highest estimate yet.

The Independent UK

Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border

Spain’s prime minister is defending the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla

The Guardian - UK

‘The Punisher’: Rodrigo Duterte’s violent reign as Philippines president to end

Analysis: Duterte’s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and media

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Eyes Biden, Xi Meeting in Next Weeks, Sees Growing Convergence on China

US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to speak in the next few weeks, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday, citing growing convergence among NATO and G7 members about the challenge China poses. The Group of Seven rich democracies will address China's non-market…

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