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Home Office hostility nearly split me from my husband. Others have been less lucky | Lana Estemirova

December 18, 2019 By The Guardian

By Lana Estemirova

After a costly two years, I won my battle to stay in the UK. We must show solidarity with migrants or the heartbreak will go on

On 28 November 2017, I burst into tears in the middle of a coffee shop after I learned that my spouse visa had been rejected by the Home Office. My lawyer had warned me that this would be the most likely outcome but it still felt like a punch in the stomach. I was being rejected by the country where I had spent the past seven years, although I was happily married to …read more

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The government must make sure technology serves public interest. The alternative is a libertarian free-for-all | Peter Lewis

December 17, 2019 By The Guardian

By Peter Lewis

From big tech to robodebt to My Health Record, Australians are rightly concerned about the automating of decisions

Falling levels of trust in our public institutions have become the backing track for the demise of the progressive political project and the rise of populist strongmen who promise to take back control.

Government becomes a problem to be solved, a “bubble”, a “swamp” of compromised technocrats and bean-counters operating against the interests of hard-working common folk, the “quiet Australians” whose will for a simple life is constantly being frustrated.

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Haben Girma: My disability has been an opportunity for innovation | Danny Lee

December 17, 2019 By The Guardian

By Danny Lee

The American deafblind lawyer and activist on why disabled people have the skills to design and build a better society for all

The cafeteria menu was only available in print when 19-year-old Haben Girma started at Lewis & Clark college in Portland, Oregon. “I asked the cafeteria manager to provide something that I as a deafblind student could access,” she says. “Blindness wasn’t the problem: the format was the problem.” But she says the manager refused, because the cafeteria was too busy. It had a massive impact on her life. “For the first few months I tolerated eating food without knowing …read more

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Israeli military law stifles Palestinian rights, watchdog says

December 17, 2019 By The Guardian

By Michael Safi in Amman

Many of the restrictions were announced in early days of occupation of West Bank

Palestinians in the West Bank are still being prosecuted under military orders that were designed to keep the peace in the early days of an occupation and that have stifled civil rights in the territory for more than 50 years, a watchdog group says.

The restrictions, some of which are based on laws passed during the British colonial era, are regularly used to break up protests, close radio stations and arrest activists under charges such as “attempt[ing] to influence public opinion … in a manner that may harm …read more

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‘I’m happy, but I am also broken for those left behind’: life after Manus and Nauru | Elaine Pearson

December 16, 2019 By The Guardian

By Elaine Pearson

Resettlement in the US has allowed some long-persecuted people to flourish, but that doesn’t let Australia off the hook

“To freedom.”

Imran, a 25-year-old Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, raises a glass with a big smile. We are in a bustling restaurant on Chicago’s north side. This midwestern city seems a million miles from Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, or the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, yet it’s now home to several Rohingya men resettled under an agreement between Australia and the US.

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People should be held accountable for AI and algorithm errors, rights commissioner says

December 16, 2019 By The Guardian

By Josh Taylor

After the robodebt scandal, Ed Santow says it’s time to set rules to govern how such new technologies are used

People need to be held accountable for the mistakes AI and algorithms make on their behalf, such as that seen in the government’s robodebt scandal, according to Australian human rights commissioner Ed Santow.

The proposal comes in a new discussion paper on the impact of new technologies on human rights in Australia, released by the commission on Tuesday.

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