Rights watch

UK government accused of phoning Saudi Arabia to apologise after imposing human rights sanctions | The Independent

The UK government privately showered Saudi Arabia’s government with praise a day after publicly criticising its human rights abuses and targeting it for sanctions, The Independent has learned. The government was accused of “calling to apologise” to the regime after some Saudi individuals were included on the foreign secretary’s new “Magnitsky Act” sanctions list on Monday.

Fukushima nuclear waste decision also a human rights issue - Japan Today

In a matter of weeks, the government of Japan will have the opportunity to demonstrate to the world how much it values protecting human rights and the environment and to meet its international obligations. In the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, myself and other U.N. special rapporteurs consistently…

Belarus: Full-scale attack on human rights ahead of presidential election | Amnesty International

Opposition candidates along with their supporters are smeared, targeted and incarcerated under trumped-up charges, with women particularly targeted. One opposition activist was threatened with having her children taken into state custody; another was threatened with gang rape in a police station

Australia’s Climate Inaction is a Human Rights Violation | Earthjustice

Today, the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) and Environmental Justice Australia, together with US-based environmental law organization Earthjustice, urged the UN Human Rights Council to recommend that Australia implement measures to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and take steps to phase out its export of fossil fuels to ensure the full enjoyment of human rights by its people and others around the world.

UN expresses ‘serious concerns’ over continued human rights violations in India-occupied Kashmir

Extrajudicial killings, imprisonment, torture, and abuse by Indian forces are matters of grave concern, says UN

Pakistan court dismisses challenges to Hindu temple construction | News | Al Jazeera

Construction of Hindu place of worship still not assured, as government seeks recommendations from religious body.

Africa′s Court of Human Rights on the brink of collapse | Africa | DW | 11.06.2020

Civil society rejoiced when the Tanzania-based African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights was established in 1998. But the dream for justice within the continent risks falling apart as member states neglect the court.

Brazil’s indigenous peoples face a triple threat from COVID-19, the dismantling of socio-environmental policies, and international inaction | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

With the Brazilian state failing to protect them from coronavirus, indigenous groups have been forced to find ways to monitor and care for their own communities while also putting up serious resistance to destructive government policies.

Central and Eastern Europe Is Not in Bed With China – The Diplomat

Western analysts often parrot Chinese talking points about the strength of China’s presence in the region. The truth is far less rosy for Beijing.

Turkey slams Swedish FM for meeting with terror group

‘So-called human rights defenders ignore massacres, crimes, oppression by terrorists in Syria,’ says Foreign Ministry - Anadolu Agency