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Is it antisemitism or political discourse? Professor plans to sue Cabrini University after he was fired for tweets about Israel

PHILADELPHIA — Kareem Tannous said he was getting good reviews after he started his job in 2020 as an assistant business professor at Cabrini University.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Uganda’s new anti-homosexuality law bans identification as LGBTQ

Law could be the first to criminalise identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ): Rights Watch

Al Jazeera

Uganda's legislature passes harsh new anti-LGBTQ bill

Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill prescribing jail terms of up to 10 years for offenses related to same-sex relations, responding to popular sentiment but piling more pressure on the East African country’s LGBTQ community

The Independent UK

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From murder to stadium crush: Can Indonesia’s police reform?

Indonesian police have found themselves in the dock in some high-profile cases amid hopes of greater accountability.

Al Jazeera

What does the ICC arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin mean in reality?

International criminal court warrants for Putin and children’s commissioner are not recognised by Russia – but send signal to officials

The Guardian - UK

What next for Vladimir Putin after 'significant' arrest warrant over abducting kids

Aisling Reidy, legal advisor at Human Rights Watch, says the significance of the arrest warrant for Russia's brutal ruler Vladimir Putin "should not be downplayed"

Daily Mirror

What are incendiary weapons and how are they being deployed in Ukraine?

Such attacks can look like "fireworks" but could in fact be dangerous incendiary weapons, experts warn, which burn at around 2,000 degrees Celsius and cause excruciatingly painful burns to the skin.

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HRW: Egyptian dissidents denied identity documents

Human Rights Watch says Egyptian authorities refuse to renew documents to pressure dissidents to return to Egypt.

Al Jazeera

‘Forcible transfer’: Orphans from Ukraine ‘taken’ by Russia

Thousands of children have been transferred to Russia or occupied territories, says the watchdog’s report.

Al Jazeera

Man jailed for two years in Thailand for selling rubber duck calendars

A Thai court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to two years in jail for selling satirical calendars featuring rubber ducks, which authorities said insulted the king. Inflatable yellow ducks were used as a symbol during pro-democracy protests in 2020. The sentencing comes as two women were rushed to hospital after…

France 24

Georgians have been protesting a controversial bill for days. Lawmakers scrapped it

Lawmakers in the former Soviet republic voted Friday to drop their "foreign agents" bill, which critics view as a threat to democracy as well as the country's push to join the European Union.

WEKU

Bahrain cancels Human Rights Watch parliament conference visas, group says

Bahrain has revoked entry visas issued to Human Rights Watch to attend an international parliamentary conference, the rights group said on Friday, days after raising concerns about the Gulf state's rights record.

Reuters

Lebanon government failing to uphold ‘right to electricity’: HRW

Human Rights Watch says Lebanon’s electricity crisis has exacerbated poverty and inequality.

Al Jazeera

Rights group says Lebanon electricity crisis deepens poverty

Human Rights Watch says many middle and working class families in Lebanon have been forced to spend most of their monthly income to pay shady neighborhood businessmen running private generators

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Happy International Women’s Day: a look back at over a century of the global fight for justice and equality

From New York to Beijing, women have been demanding their rights on this day for more than a century. Much remains to be done, say activists, but there is reason for celebration

Al Jazeera

Rubber duck calendar lands Thai man in jail for insult to monarch

Court ruled the desk calendar contained pictures of yellow rubber ducks that mocked Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

The Independent UK

Thai man gets 2-year term for calendar said to mock king

A Thai man has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling calendars featuring satirical cartoons of yellow ducks that a court said mocked the country’s monarch

Al Jazeera

Legislators urged to raise Bahrain human rights at int’l assembly

Parliamentarians urged to raise severe restrictions on political freedom when they gather in Manama from March 11.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia’s ‘quiet diplomacy’ approach to human rights in India has failed, advocates say

Human Rights Watch urges Anthony Albanese to speak directly to Narendra Modi

The Guardian - US

UN urged to intervene over destruction of US abortion rights

Exclusive: letter from human rights groups says overturning of the constitutional right violates US’s obligations as a UN member state

The Independent UK

Disgraced ex-Haitian soccer president announces he's back

Haiti’s former soccer federation president whose lifetime ban from sport over sexual abuse allegations was overturned last month has announced he is reclaiming his position

Al Jazeera

HRW calls on Tunisia’s president to halt crackdown on judiciary

Human Rights Watch says Kais Saied’s government has taken away the independence of the judiciary.

France 24

India's 'vegetarian nationalism': Hindu fundamentalists target meat eaters

Across India, measures targeting meat consumption have amplified since Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014, from the closure of meat shops to increasing the jail term for cow slaughtering. Hindu extremists are leading this wave of "vegetarian nationalism". Butchers in the state of Haryana, who are predominantly Muslim,…

Al Jazeera

20 years since war began in Sudan’s Darfur, suffering continues

Two decades since a devastating genocide began, Darfur is still plagued by violence and displacement.

The Independent UK

Rights group: Mideast governments target LGBTQ people online

A rights group says in a new report that security agencies and government officials across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been using social media platforms and mobile dating apps to crack down on LGBTQ people

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