Human Rights
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Asia
‘A new era of slaves’: Thailand’s plan to loosen fisheries laws renews fears of illegal fishing, forced labour
The laws have made it much more difficult for commercial fishers to enter inshore exclusion and marine protected areas, which…
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Takeaways from the Swiss women’s climate victory
LONDON: The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of more than 2,000 Swiss women on Tuesday (Apr 9),…
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Asia
Myanmar junta slams UN’s ‘one-sided’ human rights claims
That resolution “included unfounded and one-sided allegations”, the junta’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement published in the Global…
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Asia
UN calls on governments to stop exports of jet fuel to Myanmar
GENEVA: The UN’s leading human rights body agreed Thursday (Apr 4) to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and…
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Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating rule is legal under civil rights law, appeals court says
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in…
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Human rights experts decry new evidence of torture of Ukrainian POWs by Russia
GENEVA — U.N.-backed human rights experts said Friday they have gathered new evidence of “horrific” torture of Ukrainian prisoners of…
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Sport
Inside 2024’s International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights
Taking place between 8 and 17 March, the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) returns for its…
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Russian court sentences co-chair of rights group to 30 months in prison
A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine to…
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Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using ‘incognito mode’
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who…
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