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By Kate Lamb in Jakarta

Voters will decide between President Joko Widodo and former general Prabowo Subianto, and choose more than 20,000 legislators

Tens of millions of Indonesians have started voting for a new president and more than 20,000 legislative seats in the nation’s biggest – and one of the world’s most complicated – ballots.

In the world’s third-largest democracy and largest Muslim-majority nation, almost 193 million Indonesians are registered to vote across 17,000 islands. On Wednesday morning voting kicked off at 7am local time in restive Papua. It will end at 1pm in Sumatra.

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By Ridhi Shetty

On April 5, 2019, Saudi Arabia arrested and detained at least seven more women’s rights activists. The latest arrests come after around a dozen women’s rights campaigners were put on trial in March 2019 following almost a year-long detention. In…

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By Amelia Hill

Hundreds of people who worked and lived in UK for years were told they had 14 days to leave

• Court castigates Home Office over misuse of immigration law

They are teachers, doctors, scientists and engineers. Most have British-born children. Many have lived legally in the UK for a decade or more, but all are now on the verge of destitution, forbidden from working, using the NHS, renting property or receiving benefits.

Their offence? To have made legal amendments to their tax returns. For that, the Home Office has fought – often for years – to force them to leave the UK under …read more

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By Amelia Hill

Damning verdict says use of terrorism-related rule to refuse applications is legally flawed

• How Home Office used terror law on highly skilled migrants

The appeal court has issued a damning judgment criticising the Home Office’s use of a terrorism-related paragraph of immigration law as “legally flawed” and ruling it must be changed.

The Guardian has repeatedly highlighted the Home Office’s use of the rule – designed in part to tackle terrorism – to refuse applications from hundreds of people for making legal amendments to their tax records.

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By Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo

Sicilian prosecutors to investigate case of 47 migrants who were not allowed off rescue ship

Prosecutors in Sicily have placed Italy’s prime minister and three senior members of his government under investigation for false imprisonment over the detention of 47 migrants who were prevented from disembarking from an NGO rescue ship.

Giuseppe Conte, deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio, and Italy’s minister of infrastructure, Danilo Toninelli, face charges for refusing to allow migrants to leave the Sea-Watch boat, which rescued them off the coast of Libya on 19 January.

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In March 2018, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (the Committee), ruled in the matter of J.I., finding violations of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the Convention)….

The post Identifying Holes in the Scandinavian Model: The Case of J.I. and Gender Discrimination in Finland appeared first on Human Rights Brief.

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By Diane Taylor

Campaigners condemn latest example of ‘devastating’ Home Office crackdown

A Home Office minister has apologised to a couple wrongly accused of entering a sham marriage, amid condemnation by politicians and human rights campaigners over the treatment of genuine couples.

A Guardian investigation found couples were being prevented from getting married and subjected to “insulting” and “gruelling” checks as part of a Home Office crackdown on sham marriages.

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Over the past seventeen years, asylum seekers and refugees who arrive to Australia by boat are prohibited from entering and accessing asylum procedures on the mainland. Instead, they are sent by boat to Australia’s offshore detention centers located on the…

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