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November 2024

  • Peter Thiel at the Oxford Union: he stands in front of shelves with neat rows of leather-bound books

    Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’

    Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers
  • Starbursts of thick brown smoke and projectiles explode in midairThe Galix System features up to 24 mortar-like launchers for decoys and less-lethal ammunition. Three variants of the control system are available. Lacroix Defense Vehicle Survivability Galix AOS Passive Countermeasures For light vehicles, - an autonomous GALIX system with a manual launch option. For combat vehicles - when a threat emerges unexpectedly, a fully automated variant of the system comprising a variety of sensors, including laser warning sensors, will take action . For "group protection" - launchers may also be utilized to provide protection to vehicules operating nearby.

    French military systems in Sudan may break UN arms embargo, says Amnesty

    Group says it has identified the Galix defence system on armoured vehicles imported from the UAE and calls for government to investigate

    • Burkina Faso wants to reinstate death penalty, government source says

    • Iran claims German-Iranian dissident died before he could be executed

    • Iran arrests woman who stripped to underwear in protest at ‘abusive’ dress code policing – video

October 2024

  • Kemi Badenoch arrives at the GB News Tory leadership special

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Use of ‘culture wars’ phrase ‘a dog whistle to attack the right’ Badenoch tells GB News Tory leadership special – as it happened

  • Delegates stand at the opening of the 54rd UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 September 2023

    Rights and freedom
    ‘A slap in the face to victims of abuse’: UN urged to reject Saudi Arabia’s bid to join Human Rights Council

September 2024

  • peter vincent boat

    Letter: Peter Vincent obituary

  • Composite image of Aldofo Campos, Tanaice Neutro, Gildo das Ruas and Pensador

    Amnesty calls for release of peaceful protesters in Angola

July 2024

  • Roger Hallam, Dr. Larch Maxey and Mike Lynch-White pose for photographs as they leave Isleworth Crown Court

    Campaign groups call on Home Office to stop ‘steady erosion’ of protest rights

    Civil society organisations demand home secretary protects the ‘safety valve’ of democracy
  • The emblem of Saudi Arabia – a palm tree above two crossed swords – on the pediment of its embassy in London, with a blurred fence in the foreground

    Rights and freedom
    UK ‘turning a blind eye’ to threats to kill Saudi activists living in exile

    Saudis living in the UK claim Riyadh is targeting them for speaking out on human rights and jailing of female activists
  • Patricia Dale

    Other lives
    Patricia Dale obituary

    Other lives: GP and public health specialist who became general secretary of the Medical Practitioners’ Union

June 2024

  • Three small children sit on the floor, while a man hands them food from a small plate.

    EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’

    Egypt forcibly returned 800 Sudanese detainees in first three months of this year, Amnesty International reports
  • Pro-China supporters and anti-China protesters wave flags and banners

    Labor urged to put human rights record before trade as Chinese premier visits Canberra

    Anthony Albanese should seek commitments for concrete action in his talks with Li Qiang, campaigners say
  • A man in a hi-vis vest seen from behind as he picks rubbish amid some trees

    Rights and freedom
    Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision

    Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations

May 2024

  • FILE - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi listens to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not in photo, during a joint news conference following their meeting at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 24, 2024. Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and others were found dead at the site of a helicopter crash site, state media reported Monday, May 20, 2024. (Mert Gokhan Koc/Dia Images via AP, File)

    Ebrahim Raisi obituary

    Ruthless prosecutor linked to thousands of executions who rose through the theocratic ranks to become the president of Iran

April 2024

  • 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

  • Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces at a refugee camp

    US and UK complicit in detentions at Syrian camps where torture rife, says Amnesty

March 2024

  • Bangladesh Story 1 and 2 Worker Deaths Pattisson - 20 of 30 (28c0c034d06c1c90e908bc30662744eabe366a63)

    Rights and freedom
    Another World Cup will be tainted by worker deaths if Fifa fails to act, say rights groups

  • Gunnel Ingham

    Other lives
    Gunnel Ingham obituary

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