
The Guardian - 10 hours 20 min ago
For some transgender men and women and the campaigners who support them the updated guidance confirms their worst fears Stephen Whittle was visiting the Chelsea flower show as a birthday treat with his wife on Thursday afternoon. At around the same time, the updated code of practice from the Equality and Human Rights Commission was published. It confirmed, amongst myriad updates, that single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms must be used on the basis of biological sex, and that transgender...

The Guardian - 15 hours 6 min ago
US social media firms acting on orders from Middle East kingdom accused of being instruments of repression' Major US social media companies including Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms have blocked the accounts of Saudi Arabian dissidents so they are no longer visible inside the kingdom, following orders by Saudi authorities. Those affected include Abdullah Alaoudh, a US-based activist and vocal critic of Saudi human rights violations, and Omar Abdulaziz, a Canada and UK-based activist...

NY Post - 16 hours 7 min ago
The United States has sanctioned Tanzania's police chief and barred him from entering the US, citing alleged human rights violations committed by the police force.

BBC - 19 hours 3 min ago
The sanctions come amid growing scrutiny of Tanzania's human rights record in recent years.