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| UpdatedThe top United Nations human rights body will send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
Topics: human, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, burma, european-union
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Amnesty International says it is appalled by the arrest of prominent human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor in the United Arab Emirates, fearing he could be tortured in jail.
Topics: world-politics, human, united-arab-emirates
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government refuses to bow to a parliamentary committee's calls for a royal commission into alleged abuse, neglect and violence against people with disabilities.
Topics: disabilities, health, carers, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, human, australia
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A group of seven Pacific island nations is calling on the United Nations to investigate allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Indonesia's Papua region, also known as West Papua.
Topics: world-politics, human, rights, land-rights, indonesia, vanuatu, tonga, nauru, palau, tuvalu, marshall-islands, solomon-islands, asia, pacific
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Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik loses a human rights case, with an appeals court overturning a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, norway
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Monash University's Professor Sarah Joseph about Australia's bid for a seat on the United Nation's Human Rights Council.
Topics: human, world-politics, australia, united-states
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A senior territory lawyer urges the Government to take a proactive approach to helping children, saying if you can compare their wellbeing to those in under-developed countries "something is very, very wrong".
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, children, child-abuse, human, darwin-0800, nt
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Israel now joins countries such as Cuba, Egypt, Syria, Sudan and Venezuela that have blocked access for Human Rights Watch staff members.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, rights, human, charities-and-community-organisations, world-politics, israel, palestinian-territory-occupied
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| UpdatedGlenice Grieve says she sent her son, Zak, news stories of a report criticising Darwin prison's facilities but the Corrections Department blocked their delivery.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, crime, human, government-and-politics, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis draws laughter from the Q&A audience as he suggests victims of the Government's error-plagued automated debt recovery system can simply contact Centrelink to have their case resolved.
Topics: welfare, refugees, human, immigration, government-and-politics, australia
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Teenage detainees at Victoria's maximum-security Barwon prison have been pinned down in their cells, punched and kicked by adult prison guards, human rights lawyers claim.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, youth, crime, judges-and-legal-profession, human, anakie-3221, vic
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| UpdatedIt is simply unacceptable that people with intellectual disability in our community are dying from preventable causes at over twice the rate as other Australians, write acting NSW Ombudsman Professor John McMillan and Deputy Ombudsman Steve Kinmond.
Topics: health, mental-health, disabilities, human, human-interest, healthcare-facilities, nsw
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Some of the nation's biggest legal heavy-hitters push the Australian Government to end the death penalty worldwide.
Topics: death, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, laws, human, australia, indonesia
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The Northern Territory Government is convinced youth diversion and rehab is a better way to cut youth offending and detention rates, than incarcerating children but it will have a tough argument to make to a community angry about youth crime.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, human, rights, youth, nt, australia
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| UpdatedTuvalu has become the first Pacific country, as well as one of the few in the world, to launch a national action plan on human rights.
Topics: climate-change, human, pacific, tuvalu
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| UpdatedProsecutors are opposing a bid by former Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller to be released early from prison, saying he has consistently behaved badly in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, youth, prisons-and-punishment, human, rights, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedDylan Voller is not due to finish his prison sentence for aggravated robbery until October, but his lawyers are set to ask the Supreme Court to release him early into a remote rehabilitation program, which teaches young people a range of skills including horsemanship.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, human, rights, youth, nt, australia
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| UpdatedHere's a brief guide for anyone who finds themselves suddenly and unexpectedly in charge of one of the largest immigration systems in the world.
Topics: world-politics, human, refugees, us-elections, foreign-affairs, united-states
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| UpdatedA protester arrested outside the Indonesian Embassy is fined and released from police custody after being held for almost 24 hours, under what his defence lawyer describes as unusual circumstances.
Topics: world-politics, human, canberra-2600, act, australia
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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