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Human rights

October 2024

  • In sector 6 of Cañada Real in Madrid residents have to use butane gas cylinders and gasoline generators to have electricity for a few hours a day. Antonio, 40 with his grandchildren, Yumara and Diego.

    Observer dispatch
    ‘We’re living like wild animals’: Europe’s largest shantytown waits in vain for power

  • Boris Johnson says there is a ‘strong case’ for a vote on the ECHR.

    Boris Johnson calls for referendum on leaving ECHR

  • Armed police officers step out of a police vehicle

    Tanzania suspends news websites over ad referencing killings of dissidents

  • An Arab woman with her head uncovered walking down a street in a T-shirt and dungarees while listening to earphones

    Rights and freedom
    Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Badenoch says 10% of civil servants are ‘very bad’ and jokes they are ‘should be in prison bad’ – as it happened

  • Julian Assange says he ‘chose freedom over unrealisable justice’

  • Tugendhat condemns Tory rival over claim UK special forces ‘kill rather than capture terrorists’

September 2024

  • Robert Jenrick

    Jenrick condemned for claim UK special forces ‘kill rather than capture terrorists’

  • Kemi Badenoch

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Kemi Badenoch faces backlash after comments on ‘excessive’ maternity pay – as it happened

  • Police escort a man in a yellow jumpsuit.

    Alabama executes death-row prisoner with nitrogen gas

  • People gather at the side of an explosion in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friday, May, 3, 2024. The Congolese army says a bomb at a refugee camp in eastern Congo has killed at least 5 people, including children. An army spokesman blamed the attack at the Mugunga refugee camp in North Kivu on a rebel group, known as M23, with alleged links to Rwanda, in a statement provided to The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

    Rwandan forces and M23 rebels shelled refugee camps in DRC, report claims

  • ‘Indefinite torture’: Australian children held in Syrian camp feel abandoned as other countries repatriate citizens

  • Outrage as Hungary presides over EU talks on democratic standards

  • Today in Focus
    Inside a secret summit of Afghan women’s rights activists – podcast

  • Children from Indonesia, Syria and Ukraine share hopes for the future – in pictures

  • The brutal truth behind Italy’s migrant reduction: beatings and rape by EU-funded forces in Tunisia

  • ‘Transformative, for better and for worse’: what’s the legacy of Peru’s Alberto Fujimori

  • ‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed

  • EU fears for its human rights credibility as Tunisia crushes dissent, leak shows

  • Rights and freedom
    Afghan women meet in Albania in ‘act of defiance’ against Taliban crackdown

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