Human Rights
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Australia’s ‘lowest priority’: The men waiting a decade to reunite with their families
Some have now been waiting, alone, for more than 10 years. Rebekah Holt SBS News The rural city of Swan…
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It’s time to welcome back refugees
As new Immigration Minister, Alex Hawke, prepares to announce important reforms to Australia’s Community Sponsorship of Refugees, a poll commissioned…
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Myanmar on the Brink of State Failure
In a briefing to the UN Security Council’s 9 April 2021 ‘Arria-Formula’ Meeting on the situation in Myanmar, Crisis Group’s…
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Joint Declaration of the Southeast Asian People-to-People Region Hall on the Crisis in Myanmar
Convened by President José Ramos-Horta and Dr Dino Patti Djalal, Chairman of Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia Thursday, 8 April…
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New Laws Further Stifle Freedom of Speech in Belarus
On April 2, Belarus’ parliament moved forward eight bills, including a raft of amendments to the country’s Mass Media Law…
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Janet Yellen pledges greater US international co-operation
“America first must never mean America alone,” she said in her first major speech on its overseas economic policy. BBC…
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What Joe Biden Can Learn from the Greek War of Independence
We need to find the right balance for today. Paul Glastris Washington Monthly Few presidents have entered the White House…
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Report due on ‘failings’ for fatal family
NSW Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan is due to release her findings and recommendations on Wednesday into the deaths of Jack and…
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Three women in Istanbul
I am quite certain that I never will. Nicholas Karides It is a city that conjures two key references for…
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‘We tried it the other way’: Morrison and ministers push Liberals to adopt quotas
Separately, a hunt is on for Coalition staff involved in sharing videos of lewd acts performed in Parliament House and…
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Freedom From Racial Discrimination is a Right, Not a Privilege
Geneva – In marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the United Nations Network on Migration calls on…
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‘We don’t deserve this suffering’: Uighur parents say their children have been sent to state-run orphan camps
China is forcibly separating exiled Uighur parents from their children and placing them in state-run “orphan camps” or boarding schools,…
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She was shot dead, her body dug up and her grave filled with cement. But her fight is not over
The following morning, in footage shared to CNN and from witness accounts, among the detritus left scattered around the desecrated…
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Minneapolis has agreed to pay $27 million to settle family lawsuit over George Floyd’s death
The family of George Floyd, the Black man who died while being arrested by a white police officer in Minneapolis,…
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China tells UN Australia’s offshore detention centres violate human rights, don’t have adequate conditions
Ties between the two countries soured in 2018 when Australia became the first nation to publicly ban China’s Huawei from…
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Why human rights groups are concerned about Australia’s online surveillance bill
Here’s a look at what the bill is, who it would directly affect and why it is triggering concerns. Marcus…
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