Rohingya refugees shout slogans during a protest against a disputed repatriation programme at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf, Bangladesh. November 15, 2018.
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Nearly 15 years after the international community endorsed the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), standards tragically are slipping.
Instead of expanding its only prison, the ACT government will redirect $14.5 million into a range of justice reinvestment programs.
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For years, the benefits of justice reinvestment programs have been championed. Now the ACT is actually investing in it, and the federal government should do the same.
Egyptian President and newly-elected AU Chairperson Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
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Having Egypt at the helm of the African Union might not bode well for human rights on the continent.
A handout photo of Shamima Begum, who left London in 2015 to join Islamic State.
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A schoolgirl who left Bethnal Green to join Islamic State in Syria is now in a refugee camp and wants to return to the UK.
Many Muslim minorities in China, particularly the Uyghurs, are arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned.
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The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority group living China’s Xinjiang region. It is now estimated over one million Uyghurs have been arrested and imprisoned in China’s vast network of “re-education” camps.
The change in leadership is one of the factors that led to the decriminalisation of homosexual relationships in Angola.
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Angola’s new President João Lourenço has shown some willingness to engage in more inclusive politics.
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Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
We’re watching you.
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New research on facial recognition technology trials by the police calls for tighter regulation to protect human rights.
Central American asylum seekers paint murals on Casa Tochan, a refugee shelter in Mexico City.
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A human rights researcher documents the stories of Central American migrants leaving behind endemic poverty and high homicide rates. In limbo in Mexico, many use art therapy to express their anxiety.
Hakeem Al-Araibi’s case has become a crucial test of world football’s commitment to human rights.
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FIFA can act quickly and decisively for its sponsors. Now it must act for the human rights of one of its footballers.
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the families of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in Guerrero state. He has ordered a truth commission to investigate the unsolved disappearance.
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President López Obrador campaigned on some outside-the-box ideas to ‘pacify’ Mexico after 12 years of extreme violence. But so far his government has emphasized traditional law-and-order policies.
Childhood Holocaust survivors Simon Gronowski and Alice Gerstel Weit touring the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum.
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Memory is traumatic but also important in Holocaust remembrance. It also serves a critical role in providing lessons for the future.
Rio Tinto’s mineral sands mine near Richards Bay, north of Durban. Plans for similar operation in the Xolobeni region south of Durban have been resisted by the local community.
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Australia’s government can do more to ensure Australian mining companies do no harm in pursuit of Africa’s mineral wealth.
Under the ParentsNext that was delivered, some parents lose payments for failing to attend appointments and others don’t.
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ParentsNext has punitive dimensions that threaten people’s human rights. Now a Senate Committee will determine whether it’s helping or harming vulnerable parents and their children.
Fighting deadly diseases such as Ebola is a strong case for providing donor aid to authoritarian countries like the DRC.
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Aid has never been just about helping people. It’s also about gaining influence and exercising soft power.
Women in totalitarian states are among those particularly at risk by government’s use of Big Data to spy on its citizens.
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If left unchecked, invasions of privacy enabled by technology could put every human right at risk, and on a scale that would be truly terrifying.
Burmese fishermen raise their hands as they are asked who among them wants to go home. Human trafficking sometimes occurs in the seafood industry.
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Estimates of modern slavery vary widely, whether they try to pin down numbers in the U.S., across the globe or just in certain industries.
South Africans head to the polls in May 2019 but there are challenges.
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South Africa’s electoral commission’s failure to ensure a credible voters’ roll threatens to undo its legacy of free and fair elections.
Rohingya women and children being moved on a truck south of Yangon, Myanmar.
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The issues that captured the world’s attention this year show the struggle to secure human rights is far from over.
Swingeing changes are overdue.
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In a divided, alienated, austerity, backward-looking Britain, the time has come to make good on social rights.