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| UpdatedPost-inauguration women's marches in Australia and New Zealand launch a global human rights event expected to attract over 2 million people worldwide.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, human, world-politics, new-zealand, australia, sydney-2000, united-states
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China will build a "new model" of relations with the United States, President Xi Jinping says, in a speech that portrayed China as the leader of a globalised world where only international cooperation could solve the big problems.
Topics: world-politics, human, china, asia, united-states
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| UpdatedThe election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the rise of populist leaders in Europe pose a "profound threat" to human rights, the US-based Human Rights Watch warns in its annual global report.
Topics: human, world-politics, united-states, european-union
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission's website is taken over by a group claiming to be affiliated to international hacking group Anonymous, sending it offline for several hours.
Topics: hacking, computers-and-technology, human, rights, melbourne-3000
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The United Nations is getting daily reports of rapes and killings of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and independent monitors are being barred from investigating, the UN human rights office says.
Topics: human, relief-and-aid-organisations, intergovernmental-organisations, burma, asia
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Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte says the killings he claimed he committed while mayor were part of legitimate operations against drug pushers.
Topics: drug-offences, death, laws, human, philippines, asia
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A federal parliamentary committee recommends that Australia ratify its extradition treaty with China, despite widespread anxieties about the country's legal system and its human rights record.
Topics: human, rights, government-and-politics, australia, china
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| UpdatedMalta has the most progressive transgender legislation in the world, and eight-year-old Willa Naylor was instrumental in completely transforming it.
Topics: human, rights, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, children, malta
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| UpdatedWaiting for a wheelchair after a Jetstar flight made Australian Paralympian Bill Chaffey feel "like an animal in a zoo".
Topics: paralympics, disabilities, human, human-interest, banora-point-2486, lismore-2480
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Topics: disabilities, paralympics, human, air-transport, banora-point-2486
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| UpdatedThe Australia-Japan Community Network is set to lodge a Section 18C discrimination case against the Uniting Church over a Sydney memorial commemorating Korean sex slaves in World War II.
Topics: world-war-2, government-and-politics, race-relations, human, sydney-2000, japan, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedBeloved ABC sports commentator and anti-domestic violence campaigner Charlie King wins a Northern Territory human rights award, using the moment to call for an end to family violence over Christmas this year.
Topics: human, human-interest, activism-and-lobbying, domestic-violence, community-and-society, darwin-0800, nt
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A former facilitator of the remote work-for-the-dole scheme broke his contract and quit after seeing the daily hardship it brought people.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, aboriginal, aboriginal-language, federal-government, welfare, human, kalgoorlie-6430
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| Updated"This is a little bit of a wake-up call for us, isn't it?" says Mission Australia's chief, with a third of young people experiencing race-based discrimination according to the charity's survey.
Topics: discrimination, community-and-society, human, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Cambodian Government says it cannot find any cases of debt bondage or children working in brick factories, despite media stories and a major report from a local rights group.
Topics: government-and-politics, human-interest, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, cambodia
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| UpdatedThere could be tens of thousands of slaves in brick factories across Cambodia, a human rights organisation estimates in a bleak new report.
Topics: human, rights, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, cambodia
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| UpdatedSugar giant Wilmar remains under pressure to strike a fair deal with the Queensland sugar industry, as Amnesty International raises concerns about the company's human rights record abroad.
Topics: sugar, multinationals, work, human, australia, qld, ayr-4807, indonesia
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| UpdatedTensions have run high in Myanmar's Rahkine State since 2012, but a recent military crackdown has drawn criticism from international human rights advocates.
Topics: rights, human, human-interest, foreign-affairs, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, burma
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| UpdatedAn atheist's request to say "IM GOD" on his number plate has been denied by the state of Kentucky, which said it might distract other drivers, could spark confrontations and would be in bad taste.
Topics: other-religions, atheism, offbeat, human, united-states
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| UpdatedEvery Sunday morning at Don Dale, one of Australia's most controversial prisons, a former chef holds cooking classes in a bid to teach troubled youth basic life skills and connect with them over bubbling vats of spaghetti Bolognese.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, human, rehabilitation, social-policy, darwin-0800
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UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland tells Auskar Surbakti that food has run out in eastern Aleppo and the medical sector is "kneeling under the burden of so many wounded civilians".
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, human, syrian-arab-republic
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NGOs are calling for access to Myanmar's Rakhine State amid reports that more than 100 members of the ethnic minority Rohingya community have been killed by government troops.
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| UpdatedHuman Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs will not have her contract renewed next year, Malcolm Turnbull says.
Topics: human, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedHuman rights advocates raise concerns about the Victorian Government's plan to house young offenders in adult prisons following recent riots at youth justice facilities.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, human, rights, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic, australia