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.
Doris Bara
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.
EPA-EFE/Ahmed Jallanzo
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.
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We need a more nuanced approach to the world’s last isolated peoples.
President Donald Trump.
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President Trump says an alliance with Saudi Arabia is necessary, despite evidence the country’s crown prince ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The fight for decent housing in South Africa has been unsuccessful.
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Failure by South Africa’s municipalities to provide housing for the poor violates a Constitutional Court ruling.
UN envoy Philip Alston hears from people in Newcastle.
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The UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty has given a damning indictment of how austerity has hit the UK. A former UN envoy explains why his calls to uphold social rights are so crucial.
Transgender employees still struggle in the workplace.
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While US companies have made significant strides in creating workplaces that are more inclusive of transexual individuals, discrimination and employment penalties remain.
Remembering Amal Fathy in Carlisle.
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Amal Fathy spoke out about sexual harassment – and is now languishing in jail. She is not alone.–
A large number of poor South Africans live in informal settlements.
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Initiatives to boost South Africa’s economy could reinforce structural weaknesses without addressing the high levels of inequality.