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‘George Osborne has been praised by Chinese state media for focussing on business rather than human rights. The Global Times hailed the Chancellor as “the first Western official in recent years who focused on business potential rather than raising a magnifying glass to the ‘human rights issue’”. Amnesty International’s latest report into China describes wide-ranging […]

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‘A group of human rights experts affiliated with the United Nations has called on the Saudi regime to stop executing children, saying Riyadh must abide by the terms of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Any judgment imposing the death penalty upon persons who were children at the time of the offense, […]

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‘The Conservative party released its plan to scrap the Human Rights Act if it won the General Election. Secretary of State Chris Grayling said they’d also be prepared to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, unless they were allowed to veto judgements from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). They won and […]

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‘Bahrain’s opposition says the human rights situation in the Persian Gulf monarchy is worsening as the Al Khalifa regime continues to target opposition activists. “The political opposition as well as political activism are [sic]subjected to wide targeting, tightening and unprecedented security pursuit,” Bahrain’s main opposition movement, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, said in a statement posted […]

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‘For Britain, geostrategic objectives outweigh human rights in Ukraine, British political analyst and publisher of Politics First magazine Marcus Papadopoulos told TASS on Wednesday. “The conflict in Ukraine has claimed many civilian lives and has the potential to claim many, many more. However, Britain, while it claims to be a guardian of human rights, acts […]

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‘A legal expert has warned that the laws that govern robotics are playing catch-up to the technology and need to be updated in case robots ‘wake up’ and demand rights. He also argues that artificial intelligence has come of age, and that we should begin tackling these problems before they arise, as robots increasingly blur […]

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‘Two human rights groups have slammed Australia’s policy of sending asylum seekers to offshore detention centers, saying it has failed in resettling the migrants. In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Human Rights Law Centre denounced the Australian government’s measure to send refugees who try to enter the country by […]

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‘The Obama administration will remove Malaysia from its official list of the world’s worst human trafficking offenders, according to Reuters, a move human rights advocates fear will damage U.S. credibility. The maneuver would allow the administration to continue negotiating a controversial trade agreement with Malaysia and 10 other Pacific nations. Legislation authored by Sen. Robert […]

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‘The US State Department has announced that Washington would resume its military aid to Bahrain despite the Middle Eastern country’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. “While we do not think that the human rights situation in Bahrain is adequate…we believe it is important to recognize that the government of Bahrain has made some meaningful progress on […]

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‘A Bahraini court has provoked condemnation from human rights campaigners by jailing a Shia opposition leader the day after a British government minister visited the Sunni-ruled kingdom to break-ground on a controversial new Royal Navy […]

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‘Months ago journalists leaked that Israel would be kept off a United Nations list of the worst violators of children’s human rights in 2014 following frantic lobbying by Israel and the United States. The Guardian […]

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‘Newly appointed Justice Secretary Michael Gove will push ahead with Conservative plans to repeal the Human Rights Act – a move experts warn could spark a constitutional crisis and blight Britain’s reputation on human rights […]

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