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US now supports bid to allow poorer nations to make cheap copies of vaccines, but Australia is holding out • US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccinesPressure is mounting on Australia to support the waiver of intellectual property prot…
Authorities lambast British-born Paul Harris for criticising treatment of pro-democracy campaignersBeijing and Hong Kong authorities have accused the British-born head of Hong Kong’s bar association of being an “anti-China politician” after he criticis…
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Unscientific ‘morality’ examination linked to low conviction rates and violates women’s rights, says Equality NowPhysical vaginal tests are still used to determine whether women and girls have been raped in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to a ne…
Human Rights Watch urges more coordination by governments to tackle China’s treatment of Turkic MuslimsThe Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, where it has escalated its oppression of Turkic Muslims to unprecedented le…
Appeal court clears wife to sue company in London over husband’s death while helping to scrap tanker in ChittagongBritish shipping companies that sell old vessels to be scrapped cheaply in dangerous, low-paid conditions in Bangladesh, India or Pakistan…
However monstrous her actions in joining Isis, her citizenship isn’t conditional because her parents were born abroadShamima Begum has the right to contest the government’s decision to deprive her of British citizenship. But she cannot exercise that ri…
Veteran activist Lee Cheuk-yan accuses police and government of depriving Hongkongers of constitutional rightsA veteran champion of democracy in Hong Kong has described its legal system as an instrument of political suppression, after he and eight othe…
Supreme court ruling welcomed by rights activists who say it opens the way to broader prison reformsIn a landmark decision, Pakistan’s supreme court ruled this week that prisoners with serious mental health problems cannot be executed for their crimes….
Fashion brand to investigate the death of 20-year-old Jeyasre Kathiravel, reportedly killed by supervisor at Natchi ApparelsThe family of a young garment worker at an H&M supplier factory in Tamil Nadu who was allegedly murdered by her supervisor s…
Family of women’s rights advocate, found dead in Canadian lake, call for police to reopen investigationIt was the homecoming they never wanted. Five years ago, Karima Baloch fled Pakistan after her work as a prominent human rights activist put her life…
British barrister was called ‘mercenary’ by UK foreign secretary for taking on case against pro-democracy figuresThe British QC hired to run the prosecution of senior Hong Kong activists, including the media mogul Jimmy Lai, has pulled out of the case …
Defeated measure aimed to give high court more power to protect minorities such as China’s UighursThe government has narrowly defeated a move requiring the government to reconsider any trade deal with a country found by the high court to be committing …
UK-based security firm faces calls to repay charges made by recruitment agents for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zonesMigrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the United Arab Emirates have collectively been forced to pay milli…
UK politicians challenge David Perry’s decision to act against group accused of illegal assemblyA British barrister has agreed to act for the Hong Kong government next month in its efforts to convict Jimmy Lai and eight other pro-democracy activists ac…