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Ten children reportedly among those killed during intense aerial campaigns last monthMyanmar’s military has launched some of its heaviest aerial campaigns since the 2021 coup in recent months, killing at least 26 people in a series of attacks in early …
続きを読むECJ ruling follows Afghan women’s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee statusThe European court of justice (ECJ) has ruled that gender and nationality alone are sufficient grounds for a country to grant asylum to women from Afghanis…
続きを読むPhillips, who the court of final appeal said was stepping down for ‘personal reasons’, is fifth foreign judge to leave city’s judiciary this yearThe British judge Nicholas Phillips has stepped down from Hong Kong’s top appeals court, the fifth overseas…
続きを読むMore than one in five prisoners in Fuchū jail is 65 or over – and younger inmates get care qualifications to look after themWith its glass frontage and portico, Fuchū prison could be mistaken for a local government office. Inside, visitors enter an air…
続きを読むAbsence of legally binding targets for greenhouse gas reductions from 2031-49 deemed unconstitutionalSouth Korea’s constitutional court has ruled that part of the country’s climate law does not conform with protecting the constitutional rights of futur…
続きを読むNew vice and virtue restrictions offer ‘a distressing vision of Afghanistan’s future’, says UNNew Taliban laws that prohibit women from speaking or showing their faces outside their homes have been condemned by the UN and met with horror by human right…
続きを読むDespite protests and laws, sexual violence remains pervasive. India’s misogynist patriarchal culture is holding women backWith a rape occurring every 16 minutes, violence is one of the biggest deterrents to women working in India. On the eve of India’s…
続きを読むArakan Army targeting Muslim minority as Myanmar’s military are driven out of Rakhine, UN official saysThousands of Rohingya are being forced to flee from their homes in Myanmar and escape on dangerous boat journeys after being targeted by armed rebels…
続きを読むDavid Neuberger was part of court panel that dismissed appeal of Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy activistsDavid Neuberger, the former president of the UK’s supreme court, has resigned from his role as chair of a legal advisory board to an interna…
続きを読むFormer governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protestChris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as “unjust” a decision by the Chinese city’s top court to uphold the conviction of Jimmy L…
続きを読むRights groups protesting at Modi government’s view that criminalising sexual assault violates ‘sanctity’ of marriageCampaigners angry that marital rape is not to be criminalised under India’s long-awaited new penal code have been promised a ruling on t…
続きを読むOver 200 signatories urge government to reverse decision enabling action against writer under anti-terrorism lawMore than 200 Indian academics, activists and journalists have published an open letter urging the Indian government to withdraw last week’s…
続きを読むReport finds that religious, historical and cultural references have been removed in crackdown by BeijingHundreds of Uyghur villages and towns have been renamed by Chinese authorities to remove religious or cultural references, with many replaced by na…
続きを読むCountry on track to become third in Asia – after Taiwan and Nepal – to legalise same-sex marriageThailand’s senate has passed the final reading of a historic marriage equality bill, paving the way for the country to become the first in south-east Asia …
続きを読むForced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcareThe phrase “khat rahein hain” (“being worn down”) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city …
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