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By Felicity Lawrence and Ella McSweeney
System leaves migrant workers vulnerable to modern slavery, four UN special rapporteurs say
Ireland’s permit scheme for migrant workers on its fishing trawlers breaches international human rights law, four UN special rapporteurs have said in a warning letter to the Irish government.
Related: ‘We thought slavery had gone away’: African men exploited on Irish boats
Related: US criticises Ireland for insufficient action on modern slavery
Revelation by head of home affairs department comes as Nauru bans medical transfers based on telehealth assessments, threatening to derail new medevac laws
Sick people from Manus Island and Nauru will be sent to Christmas Island, not the mainland, under new medevac laws, the head of the home affairs department has revealed.
The Nauru government has also passed laws banning medical transfers based on telehealth assessments, threatening to derail the system and potentially breaking international law, according to human rights lawyers.
Related: Nine facts about the medical evacuation bill
The government plans to send sick refugees and people seeking …read more
Whatever the risk this young Isis supporter may pose, she is Britain’s responsibility and we cannot afford to shirk it
Exploited victim or unrepentant villain? It’s impossible to determine the truth about Shamima Begum, the 19-year-old who left Bethnal Green in London when she was 15 to join Islamic State, from a single newspaper interview. And it shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge that more than one interpretation of her story might contain a ring of accuracy.
Begum is undoubtedly vulnerable. She was groomed online at the age of 15; married off, albeit willingly, to a jihadist fighter while still a child just …read more
Wanting to forge new trading relationships after Brexit and securing them are two very different things
A trade deal, any trade deal: that is all Liam Fox wants from his civil servants. It is not much for an international trade secretary to ask. Especially when the prospect of all-encompassing agreements on imports and exports was held up in the referendum and its aftermath as one of the chief benefits of quitting the European Union. Not least by Fox himself.
Wanting a trade deal and securing one are not the same thing, as Fox has found out in the last two …read more
‘Homosexuality is not an illness,’ says gay health minister Jens Spahn
The German health minister, Jens Spahn, has said that he will seek to ban “conversion therapies” that claim to change sexual orientation. “Homosexuality is not an illness, which is why it does not need to be treated,” Spahn, who is gay himself, told the left-leaning Berlin daily Die Tageszeitung.
Related: ‘I still have flashbacks’: the ‘global epidemic’ of LGBT conversion therapy
Related: Man who worked as top ‘conversion therapist’ comes out as gay
By Letters
Violence against protesters and human rights abuses by government condemned
We are deeply concerned about grave human rights violations in Zimbabwe and condemn the violent repression of peaceful protesters, including the leaders and members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, who called for a peaceful three-day strike in mid-January. Since then, security forces have used live ammunition against civilians, killing at least 12 people and wounding 78 others. Civil society activists and opposition politicians have been arbitrarily arrested and detained. Our colleagues in Zimbabwean human rights groups report that police and men in military uniform are conducting door-to-door …read more
By DuffyC
Washington, D.C.—Following today’s declaration of a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Matthew Olsen, issued the following statement:
Original content available at: Human Rights First
Campaigners demand external investigation after human rights organisation dismisses their claims
Prominent Indian rights activists have withdrawn their support for Amnesty India amid allegations of caste discrimination and harassment within the organisation, the Guardian has learned.
The allegations include claims that staff were humiliated, ill-treated and discriminated against because of their caste, a system of social hierarchy among Hindus.
Related: Amnesty International has toxic working culture, report finds
By DuffyC
New York City—Following the White House’s confirmation today that President Trump will declare a national emergency to build a wall at the southern border, Human Rights First’s Eleanor Acer issued the following statement:
Families seeking refuge at the border are not a national emergency, but the Trump Administration’s cruel and illegal response is a national disgrace.
Original content available at: Human Rights First
By steine
New York City—Following reports that the first children have been returned to Mexico under the Trump Administration’s plan to illegally force asylum seekers to wait in the country during their asylum proceedings, Human Rights First’s Eleanor Acer, who observed the first returns in Tijuana last week, issued the following statement:
Original content available at: Human Rights First