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After 14-hour debate, upper house passes laws on disruptive protests, which increase maximum fine to $50,000 along with potential jail time Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or…
Special rapporteur Olivier De Shutter calls for action on neglected crisis after finding ‘absolutely terrible’ conditions on visit to Cox’s Bazar camps in BangladeshRohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk of becoming “the new Palestinians”, accordi…
The Iranian deputy justice minister says the Islamic Republic is the top destination of around 63 percent of Afghan refugees fleeing a host of crises in their homeland.
Global outcry over Museveni’s assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a ‘permission slip for hate and dehumanisation’Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed into law the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which allows the death penal…
Experts point to crackdown on national security and legal system that encourages guilty pleas Chinese courts prosecuted 8.3 million people in the five years to 2022, a 12% increase on the previous period. There was also a nearly 20% increase in the num…
Peter Lam Bui posted his video after a Vietnamese official visited the celebrity chef’s London steakhouseA Vietnam court has jailed a noodle seller who went viral for impersonating celebrity chef Salt Bae, after the restaurateur served a gold-leaf stea…
Daughters of Rached Ghannouchi and Said Ferjani demand justice amid continuing crackdown on dissent by President SaiedFamilies of detained Tunisian opposition politicians filed a case at the African court on human and peoples’ rights in Arusha, Tanzani…
Report by Syrian Network for Human Rights details laws giving Assad’s government powers to seize landAs many as 14 million Syrians face a near insurmountable barrier to returning to their homes after the government passed laws giving the state power to…
Council of Europe finds ‘shocking’ levels of bullying in education system and threats to legal status and rightsThere is “troublingly persistent” levels of discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Travellers (GRT) in the UK, an expert group from Europe’s…
House in Braunau am Inn will become police station and training centre after €20m renovationAustria has announced it will use the house where Adolf Hitler was born to provide human rights training to police officers, in what authorities hope will be th…