Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta shakes hands with U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel.
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A UK plan to move asylum seekers on its shores to Rwanda has been met with stiff opposition from human rights organizations. But the UK persists, and Rwanda is all too willing.
“We Will Never Be Frightened”: Young demonstrators holding a banner during a protest in Yangon yesterday.
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This week’s executions have reminded the world about what’s happening under the generals. It’s time for Australian policy to change
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Australia’s offshore detention policies have helped to produce indifference to the suffering of refugees. Pushing refugees out of sight, and out of mind, has now placed them beyond moral concern.
Ukrainian women picket in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2022, calling for the rescue of Ukrainian fighters from the besieged Donbas city of Mariupol amid Russia’s invasion.
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Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine deserve some measure of justice through co-ordinated, carefully planned action.
The image of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, on a window at Regina Mundi Cathedral in Soweto.
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There is no such thing as ‘private’ religion. Beliefs have public implications. Yet, they cannot go unchecked when they cause harm.
Oromo women protest against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over violence in their homeland in 2020.
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Ethiopia’s largest region is pushing for self-determination - it hasn’t gone down well with Abiy Ahmed’s vision of a centralised state.
Joe Biden, then-Vice President meets with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2011.
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Joe Biden is set to make his first visit as president to the Middle East, during which he will meet the Saudi crown prince the US accuses of ordering the murder of a journalist.
The government had many years to ensure a smooth transition from analogue to digital television but failed.
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The decision further delays migration to digital broadcasting and places strain on the urgently needed bandwidth for mobile data.
Humans are not the best judges of consciousness because of their tendency to assign human characteristics on nonhuman entities.
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A Google engineer’s claims that a chatbot can feel things has prompted people to consider what consciousness means. It also begs the questions of the rights of sentient software and machines.
Protests have been banned at the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover ceremony.
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Hong Kong has seen a rapid erosion of its freedoms and human rights recently.
The ILO decided a safe and healthy work environment should be a fundamental right at its June 2022 conference.
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Making a safe and healthy work environment a human right is only the first step in ensuring governments protect workers
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Boycott actions often do more harm to individual athletes than to the condemned regime.
A child from the Mayuruna ethnic group stands on a pier on the banks of the Atalaia do Norte River in Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 12, 2022. Federal police and military forces are searching and investigating the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira.
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The deforestation of the Amazon in Brazil is at its peak, with 2022 breaking all records. Deforestation threatens human rights.
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The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act comes into force soon but it doesn’t recognise the basic right to health, meaning the government is less accountable for delivering on its obligations.
Facial recognition technology is controversial in many countries.
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Lawmakers around the world are making decisions about whether facial recognition technology is acceptable.
Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu.
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Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
McDonald’s is leaving Russia after three decades of operating there.
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Corporate pressure campaigns usually work best in partnership with local institutions. While Russia’s civic organizations are generally weak, there are some signs of growing defiance.
A Commonwealth summit in Kigali enables Kagame to position himself at the centre of international diplomatic networks.
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Summit provides opportunity to showcase modernity of Kigali and government achievements.
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The MPLA is using all instruments at its disposal to hobble a new united opposition front ahead of the Angola election.
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An archaic law means many people with disability are not allowed to vote. Other countries are changing their rules and so should Australia.