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Human rights

May 2024

  • Can Dündar

    The Guardian view on transnational repression: dissidents need safety in their new homes

    Editorial: Authoritarian governments are extending their pursuit of critics far beyond their borders
  • Zahra Joya poses for portrait on a bench in Elthorne Park, London.

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘They are trying to eradicate us completely’: the passion and pain of telling the stories of Afghan women

    Her family have been threatened and her team faces increasing risks in Afghanistan, but Zahra Joya knows she must keep reporting from exile
  • A pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong holds up signs in support of Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist who has been in prison since 2020

    Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report

    Pen America says there are 107 people behind bars for published content in China, with many accused of ‘picking quarrels’

30 April 2024

  • Former Central African Republic president François Bozizé

    Arrest warrant issued for Central African Republic’s former president over crimes against humanity

    François Bozizé is wanted by special criminal court over alleged crimes including murder and torture
  • Owen Jones

    Never mind stop the boats: Sunak is using fear to build a life raft for himself. But the people will stop him

    Owen Jones
    If MPs cannot resist the Rwanda plan, activists will, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Nothing screams ‘covering up war crimes’ like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent investigation

29 April 2024

  • Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty Images.

    The IPP scandal
    The torture of being trapped by indefinite prison sentences

    Letters: Readers on the harm caused to those who remain incarcerated despite the abolition of IPP sentences in 2012
  • Woman with black curly hair and adorned with feathers stares into camera

    First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism

    Murrawah Johnson recognised for role in landmark legal case to block coalmine backed by Clive Palmer
  • A mural on the side of a building in Bogside, Derry, commemorates the unarmed civilian protesters shot dead by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972): their faces and a cross are depicted on a bright red circle, framed by white leaves and on a darker purple background which stretches across the whole wall.

    Northern Ireland legacy act will harm Britain’s reputation, rights panel warns

    Report concludes state sheltered soldiers from prosecution for Troubles-era crimes, as amnesty legislation comes into force

28 April 2024

  • Shia Muslim devotees self-flagellate over an unfurled banner on the ground depicting the Pride rainbow flag defaced with a boot in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq in 2023.

    Human rights groups and diplomats condemn Iraq’s anti-LGBTQ+ law

    US state department says law could drive away foreign investment and David Cameron calls it ‘dangerous and worrying’
  • David Blunkett

    The IPP scandal
    David Blunkett says devising 99-year prison sentences is his ‘biggest regret’

    Labour former home secretary says imprisonment for public protection sentences have resulted in ‘deeply damaging outcomes’
  • Scott Rider, as a child and adult, who was convicted in 2005, said he had lost hope he would ever be freed.

    The IPP scandal
    ‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years

    Coroner condemns ‘inhumane’ imprisonment for public protection sentences that have no end date for release

26 April 2024

  • Series of trucks driving along a winding road at an open-pit copper mine

    UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

    Panel of nearly 100 countries to draw up guidelines for industries that mine raw materials used in low-carbon technology

24 April 2024

  • The Australian Border Force logo

    Damning report alleges sexual discrimination and harassment by ABF officers

  • Women being forcefully arrested by the 'morality police'

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown

  • A middle-aged woman holds up a report that says: 'The state of the world's human rights' with the Amnesty candle and barbed-wire logo behind her

    Rights and freedom
    UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally

  • Illustrated portrait of Tommy Nicol.

    The IPP scandal
    Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence?

23 April 2024

  • Migrants are brought into Dover Port by a RNLI lifeboat after being picked up in the English Channel.

    The Guardian view on sending refugees to Rwanda: the UN is right – this law sets a bad example

    Editorial: There is no evidence for the government’s claim that deportations will ‘stop the boats’
  • Rishi Sunak addresses a press conference in Warsaw.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Defence spending in UK to be put ‘on war footing’, Rishi Sunak says – as it happened

    Prime minister announces increase to UK defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030 in speech about security
  • Sandy soil with large empty trench and digger in background and people in white PPE.

    UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals

    Spokesperson says some bodies allegedly had their hands tied while others were bound and stripped
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