
The Guardian - 3 hours 8 min ago
Previously sceptical MPs are now acting to prevent an overreach of the law or worse, if they lose to the far right The sight of David Lammy and Richard Hermer arriving together in Strasbourg to demand new constraints on human rights law would have been unthinkable even a year ago. But as one ally says, quoting The Leopard , "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." It was that sentiment that convinced Lammy's predecessor, Shabana Mahmood, now home secretary...

Forbes - 3 hours 12 min ago
The U.S. should get serious about tackling the threat the CCP poses to human rights by strengthening tools to free political prisoners.

US Weekly - 3 hours 56 min ago
Kerry Kennedy is proud of her cousin Tatiana Schlossberg after she went public with her terminal cancer diagnosis . "I think she is so courageous to put herself out [there] in such a public way and all of us are holding her close to our hearts and holding Caroline [Kennedy] especially as well," Kerry, 66, exclusively told Us Weekly at the annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala on Tuesday, December 9. Last month, Caroline's daughter Tatiana, 35, revealed that...

Tech Meme - 10 hours 16 min ago
Joseph Menn / Washington Post : TTP: Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store host dozens of apps linked to US-sanctioned foreign companies; Google removed 17 apps and Apple removed 35 — Watchdog finds firms and organizations in Apple and Google stores that were banned for issues including human rights abuses in China and facilitating war in Ukraine.

BBC - 12 hours 45 min ago
Sir Keir Starmer calls for European reforms to make protecting borders easier.

The Guardian - 13 hours 47 min ago
Ukrainian president's comments came after US president Donald Trump accused him of clinging to power Separately, there is also an important meeting in Strasbourg, with ministers from 46 countries discussing the interpretation of the European Convention of Human Rights when it comes to migration. As Pippa Crerar and Rajeev Syal say in our story: Ahead of the meeting, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen have called on European leaders to urgently curb joint...

Sky News - 22 hours 11 min ago
Sir Keir Starmer has called for a tougher approach to policing Europe's borders ahead of a meeting between leaders to discuss a potential shake-up of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).