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As detainees go on hunger strike over conditions at Delaney Hall, relatives describe concern for loved ones’ wellbeing In mid-May, Elder Guerra was showering inside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility when he slipped and fell. Guerra, a Guatemalan immigrant, has been locked up in the New Jersey jail for nearly five months. He was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank and injured one of the child’s parents after opening fire on the family’s car, despite it having complied with an order to stop. Soldiers opened fire on Friday on a car carrying the infant and his parents in t…

The justice department decision to launch a criminal investigation into Carroll is a troubling, dark turn Donald Trump is accused of raping E Jean Carroll, the magazine writer, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store sometime in the mid-1990s. Trump denies this , as he denies all the sexual abuse allegations that have been made against him by more than two dozen women , but he was fo…

Anjali Pal, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun Amber Srivastava, Assistant Professor, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun ABSTRACT The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a complicated condition of the developing brain which has an impact on communication, social skill and behaviours. The autism condition in India crosses the boundary of medical diagnosis and …

Campaigners say supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’ Severely disabled people will be at heightened risk of abuse in care homes and hospitals after the biggest upheaval in disability law in a generation overturned “vital” legal safeguards, campaigners have warned. They said a supreme court judgment that potentially strips the right of …

Draft treaty claims sexual and reproductive health and rights are an existential threat to the African family An African treaty that rejects longstanding international human rights obligations moved a step closer to becoming policy this week as governments across the continent met in Ghana. The draft African charter on family, sovereignty and values, seen by the Guardian, asserts that African val…

Against the backdrop of the global “human-rights turn” in environmental protection, incorporating environmental human rights into China’s Eco-Environmental Code to strengthen humanistic care is highly significant. From a human-rights perspective, this paper elaborates on the unique advantages of such a perspective in highlighting the humanistic dimension of environmental law. Adopting legal-dogma…

States attending the June Climate Meetings next week in Bonn, Germany must use the talks to turn climate commitments into a concrete actionable rights-centric agenda for November’s COP31, Amnesty International said today.   What happens in Bonn matters because it will shape the negotiations, priorities and level of ambition that governments carry into COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye later this year. Th…

In response to the announcement by Haitian authorities of two new specialized judicial units intended to address, among other issues, serious human rights abuses in Haiti, Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, said:  “The opening of these specialized judicial units is a necessary step in the fight against the widespread impunity that has enabled […] The post Haiti: New judicial …

Announcement seeks to close a difficult chapter for the company after the Guardian revealed its platform was used in mass surveillance of Palestinians Microsoft has said it will tighten human rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry into how the Israeli military used its cloud technology for the mass surveillance of Palestinians. On Thursday, Microsoft announc…

Announcement follows DoJ’s recent findings that medical schools at UCLA and Yale illegally used race in admissions The US Department of Justice’s civil rights division has launched investigations into 15 medical schools over allegations of potential race discrimination in their admissions processes. Thursday’s announcement follows the DoJ’s recent findings that the medical schools at the Universi…

Andrew Wilson appears in court over killing of Latoya Bulgin at protest over a police shooting days earlier Authorities in Jamaica have taken the rare step of charging a police officer with murder after he was accused of shooting a 45-year-old woman in a case that prompted violent protests. According to the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom), Constable Andrew Wilson appeared in co…

The cancellation of Cenk Uygur’s and Hasan Piker’s visas tells us that the home secretary’s powers to police speech are too broad In August 1967, the activist Stokely Carmichael was banned from entering Britain. An ally of Martin Luther King Jr and head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Carmichael was banned because that July he had visited London and given a rousing, militant spe…

Garima Negi & Asst. Prof. Anuj Sethi ABSTRACT Proclaimed as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution, this right to Life and Personal liberty has become one of the most colourful, wide construed fundamental rights in the country. Initially, article 21 protected the life of an individual from being taken away at the arbitrary hands of the State but is now extended to pro…

Public acts to commemorate the 1989 killings have become increasingly sensitive in Hong Kong A performance artist in Hong Kong who tried on Wednesday to honour the victims of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown was quickly stopped by plainclothes police, the latest sign of the city’s shrinking freedom of expression. Sanmu Chen tried to tie a symbolic red thread to a street signpost in Cause…

The University of Gothenburg, one of Scandinavia’s leading research-intensive universities, has announced an exceptional doctoral opportunity for aspiring researchers interested in peace, development, migration, human rights, governance, and security studies. The institution is inviting applications for a fully funded Doctoral Student Position in Peace and Development Research with a specialized …

‘Reboot Fifa’ calls for investigation into Infantino Complaint to be sent to ethics committee after World Cup A quest to deliver the “biggest complaint Fifa has ever received” is being launched by campaigners a week before the World Cup. With fans concerned over safety and the cost of tickets at the tournament, and complaints ongoing against Fifa from human rights organisations and football compe…

Responding to the news that Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma has been convicted and sentenced to one year in prison following an unfair trial, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, Mahmoud Shalaby said:   “The renewed unjust imprisonment after an unfair trial of Ahmed Douma is a devastating assault on the right to freedom of expression.  The weaponization of the criminal justice sy…

[MohammadMehdi SeyedNasseri has a PhD in Public International Law from Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch (Dubai) and is a Researcher at the Center for Ethics and Law Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. Savalan Mohammadzadeh is a PhD candidate in public international law at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran and secretary of the Youth Committee of the Iranian Association …

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - World News Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí recently arrested two people linked to a Facebook page critical of the local government under a new AI law that human rights groups warn is being used to curb political dissent. San Luis Potosí's Attorney General's Office released a statement May 22 saying the women had been arrested over conten…