Rising vaccination rates reduce the need for jab mandates, and “broad-based, blanket” public health orders that raise “human rights issues”, the incoming human rights commissioner has said. Lorraine Finlay made the comments to Guardian Australia in an interview defending governments’ ...
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Court cases threatening human rights group Memorial start in Russia | Russia
africamustchangeRussia may dissolve Memorial, the country’s premier human rights group, in an attack on civil society and symbolic reversal of the freedoms won by dissidents at the fall of the Soviet Union. A supreme court case, to be heard on ...
Peng Shuai backlash leaves IOC facing familiar criticism over human rights | Peng Shuai
africamustchangeAs human rights organisations and the world’s media questioned the whereabouts of the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, the International Olympic Committee opted for a “quiet diplomacy” approach, arguing that was the most effective way to deal with such a ...
US: Texas Targeting Migrants | Human Rights Watch
africamustchange(Washington, DC) – Texas has arrested more than 1,500 migrants since March 2021 under a discriminatory and abusive operation that targets suspected migrants for arrest, prosecution, and incarceration on state misdemeanor offenses, Human Rights Watch said today. The United States ...