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The Hamas movement continues to violate Palestinian law in carrying out death penalties in the Gaza Strip.

The gap between how human rights groups view incarcerated people, and how governments in Australia view them, continues to be wide. 

To monitor compliance with OPCAT, UN independent inspection teams are permitted to conduct unannounced visits to any place where people are deprived of liberty. But on October 24, a Corrective Services NSW spokesperson announced that inspection teams were ‘refused entry without incident’ to the Mary Wade Correctional Centre. By Binoy Kampmark

Manila 6th District Rep. Bienvenido Abante, Jr. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, pitched a lineup of proposed measures forming part of his committee’s legislative priorities in the 19th Congress that “would definitely bear the mark of a rights-based approach to legislation.” (Karapatan / Manila Bulletin)

Concerns ranging from the tightening restrictions on civil society to the broad use of anti-terrorism legislation were raised as India’s human rights record was examined as part of the Universal Period Review (process), a peer-based evaluation mechanism.

Abstract: Among the many reasons why the U.S. should not accede to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is the reality that it would expose the United States to international environmental lawsuits that would harm its environmental, economic, and military interests. Having failed to impose their agenda on the U.S., climate change alarmists and other environmental activists are preparing the legal ground and claimants to sue the U.S. if it joins UNCLOS. Even the threat of such suits...

The number of children on waiting lists for therapies under primary care in County Roscommon has been described as “shameful”. According to the figures there…

Nana Wants Death Penalty Abolished

‘We were only notified on the day’ delegation arrived in Australia, secretary of federal Attorney-General’s Department says

President Akufo-Addo has lamented the delay by state actors in Ghana’s quest to remove the death penalty from the statute book, arguing that the move is “long overdue”.