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By DuffyC
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today condemned the Trump Administration’s decision to indefinitely incarcerate refugee children and their families. In response to the rule that attempts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, Human Rights First’s Jennifer Quigley issued the following statement:
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By DuffyC
Washington, D.C.—Human Rights First today condemned the Trump Administration’s decision to indefinitely incarcerate refugee children and their families. In response to the rule that attempts to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, Human Rights First’s Jennifer Quigley issued the following statement:
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By Sarah Martin Chief political correspondent
Human Rights Watch raises concerns of ‘dire’ human rights record, including at least 133 political prisoners
Scott Morrison has been urged to raise human rights concerns with the Vietnamese government when he makes his first official visit there this week, including the case of Australian citizen Chau Van Kham who has been detained since January.
The prime minister travels to Hanoi on Thursday to discuss the strategic partnership signed by Australia and Vietnam in 2018 with Vietnam’s prime minister, Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.
Related: EU signs landmark trade deal with Vietnam
Related: Concern for Australian citizen jailed without charge …read more
By Letters
Emma Ginn, the director of Medical Justice, warns that women in immigration detention receive inadequate healthcare
You report how a pregnant rape survivor experiencing a miscarriage and barely able to stand was unlawfully held in immigration detention which amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment (Home Office pays £50,000 to trafficked woman detained during miscarriage, 20 August).
This case show precisely why the Home Office must heed our advice and that of the medical profession, and actually ban the detention of pregnant women.
Human rights campaigners criticised ‘whitewashing’ of Egyptian government’s abuses
The UN has postponed an anti-torture conference due to take place in Cairo, following an outcry from human rights activists who accused the organisation of “whitewashing” the Egyptian government’s abuses.
The conference on “defining and criminalising torture in the Arab region” was scheduled for 4 and 5 September. A draft copy of the agenda listed participants including the UN special rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, as leading discussions on the prohibition of torture alongside Egyptian government officials.
(February 25, 2011)
Related: US-Egyptian man was tortured by Egypt security forces, says rights …read more
By Kate Morrow
In April 2019, the Supreme Court of Chile decided a landmark case in which the court called for greater enforcement of citizens’ environmental rights. The case was brought after two pollution incidents exposed 200 residents of Quintero and Puchuncaví to…
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By Kate Morrow
In April 2019, the Supreme Court of Chile decided a landmark case in which the court called for greater enforcement of citizens’ environmental rights. The case was brought after two pollution incidents exposed 200 residents of Quintero and Puchuncaví to…
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By Rajeev Syal
More than a fifth of Border Force staff have experienced discrimination on duty
Home Office agencies embroiled in the Windrush scandal have reported rising levels of discrimination in the workplace, an official survey has revealed.
Employees at the Border Force and Immigration Enforcement, which played a key role in the wrongful detention and prosecution of people who rightfully came to the UK from the Caribbean, told an internal survey they face increasing levels of discrimination from colleagues.
Officers shot tear gas canisters into student accommodation and took 43 people into custody after reports on social media
Indonesian authorities raided a university dormitory in Surabaya on Saturday and arrested dozens of West Papuan students after a standoff over allegations the Indonesian flag was thrown into a sewer.
Officers broke down the gates of the Surabaya building and used teargas to clear the rooms, taking 43 people into custody on the Indonesian Independence Day weekend.
Related: West Papua: Pacific leaders urge UN visit to region’s ‘festering human rights sore’
16/8/19 Surabaya, Java
Ini yel-yel massa sepanjang malam: “usir, usir …read more
By Letters
The UK must not remain silent on human rights violations in Saudi Arabia, says crossbench peer David Alton
The spike in executions in Saudi Arabia is great cause for concern, as highlighted by the son of reformist Saudi cleric Salman al-Odah (My father called for reform in Saudi Arabia. Now he faces death, theguardian.com, 13 August) and a recent report by Helena Kennedy QC. Whenever the UK government is challenged about its apparent indifference to Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations, it justifies its silence by claiming it uses its significant economic and security ties to exert back-channel …read more