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| UpdatedMillions of people from all over the world march at more than 600 demonstrations in 60 countries to express concern that women's rights will be eroded under the new US President, Donald Trump.
Topics: us-elections, world-politics, feminism, rights, women, united-states
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| UpdatedSeveral people are injured, one critically, after a shooting at a Martin Luther King parade in Miami, Florida.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, rights, united-states
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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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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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A monitoring group says a Tibetan monk has set himself on fire in protest against Beijing's presence in Tibet.
Topics: rights, religion-and-beliefs, china
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| UpdatedThe establishment of a same-sex couples register in South Australia is welcomed by a man who experienced the grief of not being recognised as next-of-kin when his partner died during their honeymoon.
Topics: marriage, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, parliament, rights, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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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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Today marks 10 years since Fiji's 2006 military coup, which saw then-Commodore Frank Bainimarama take control of the island nation in a controversial move that frayed its ties with Australia and the world.
Topics: world-politics, rights, government-and-politics, fiji
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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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A woman drives a car in Saudi Arabia.
Topics: rights, transport, saudi-arabia
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Premier Jay Weatherill is set to issue a formal apology to the state's LGBTIQ community in the State Parliament today, but some community members say this needs to be followed by changes to discriminatory laws.
Topics: parliament, gays-and-lesbians, government-and-politics, discrimination, state-parliament, community-and-society, states-and-territories, laws, rights, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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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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| UpdatedThe Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service launches a Supreme Court challenge to the Andrews Government's decision to send teenagers involved in the Parkville youth detention centre riot to an adult prison.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, rights, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000
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While the Irish may have established their progressive bona fides last year with their vote on same-sex marriage, a vote on abortion could produce a very different result.
Topics: abortion, rights, medical-procedures, laws, crime, constitution, referendums, world-politics, ireland
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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
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| UpdatedA conscience vote backs legislation which could allow same-sex couples in South Australia to adopt children.
Topics: adoption, state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, community-and-society, rights, law-crime-and-justice, gays-and-lesbians, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe Australian states of Victoria and South Australia have announced new plans to regulate the labour-hire industry, after inquiries into the exploitation of foreign workers.
Topics: work, rights, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, australia
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Professor Gillian Triggs is facing possible defamation action from two Queensland University of Technology students who had been accused of racial vilification.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, laws, community-and-society, human, rights, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government says it is treating allegations that dozens of people have been arrested in Ethiopia in retaliation for protests by their relatives in Australia seriously, and it has raised the matter with the Ethiopian Government.
Topics: human, world-politics, rights, australia, ethiopia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government sets up a parliamentary inquiry into the Racial Discrimination Act to determine whether it imposes unreasonable limits on free speech and to recommend whether the law should be changed.
Topics: laws, rights, law-crime-and-justice, race-relations, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Author and activist Naomi Klein has questioned the consistency of those fighting to have 18C repealed whilst remaining silent over asylum seeker rights.
Topics: refugees, rights, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAmnesty International, a campaign group which has accused the Kremlin of violating human rights with its bombing campaign in Syria, is ejected from its Moscow office.
Topics: rights, relief-and-aid-organisations, russian-federation
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| UpdatedThe face of United States' same-sex marriage fight is in Australia, calling for the Federal Parliament to vote for "life of equality".
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, marriage, rights, australia
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| UpdatedTurkey has effectively written a "blank cheque" for security services to torture people detained after a failed military coup attempt, a Human Rights Watch report says, citing accusations of beatings, sleep deprivation, and sexual abuse.
Topics: government-and-politics, rights, human, unrest-conflict-and-war, turkey