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United States skips UN review of its human rights record
US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

Femicide: ‘Police often do not take complaints from attacked women seriously’
he 23-year-old woman of Spanish descent who was killed in Brussels last week by what is believed to be her ex-partner is the 19th case of femicide in Belgium this year. A new law should address the issue at its root. But is that enough? Brussels shel...

Sweden: Step up efforts to fight systemic racism, urge UN experts
Sweden should step up efforts to fight systemic racism and focus on strategies to restore trust between police and minority groups, said a UN Human Rights Council-appointed group of independent experts on advancing racial justice and equality, on Fri...

In Britain, a jail sentence is often a death sentence. What’s going on in our prisons?
Last year, 371 people died behind closed doors. We want justice for them – and an end to a cruel, complacent system.

UK households slipping into poverty
The United Kingdom has been warned of a gloomy economic outlook with a recession now a certainty as a consequence of higher energy prices. This is while new figures show around half of British adults are struggling to pay their energy bills, rent, or...

Al Wefaq boycotts elections due to repelling of reform in Bahrain
Al-Wefaq deputy Secretary General Sheikh Hussain al-Daihi has boycotted general election in Bahrain, condemning the Bahraini rulers for repelling real reform, pursuing political repression, and allowing the Zionist enemy to infiltrate in the Arab cou...

US jails rife with violence, abuse and overcrowding
In California, lawyers accused staff at the Los Angeles County jail of chaining mentally ill detainees to chairs for days at a time. In West Virginia, people held in the Southern Regional Jail sued the state, saying they found urine and semen in thei...

Children among thousands of refugees in prison-like facility in UK
Thousands of refugees, including children, are being held in prison-like conditions at a refugee detention center in England, and that has drawn concerns about the British government’s treatment of asylum-seekers.

British police custody black deaths
Thousands of anti racism activists gathered in central London Saturday for a march on Downing Street in an effort to combat institutional racism in the British police force.

Queensland police: woman who was raped and abused killed herself after being wrongly identified as offender, report finds
Domestic and Family Violence Death Review Board’s 2022 annual report found Maeve* took her own life after protection order issued.

Why is solitary confinement increasing in federal prisons? New chief wants to know
President Joe Biden has sought to limit the use of restrictive housing in prisons, but Bureau of Prisons data has shown otherwise, perplexing the agency's new director.
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