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Latest news, features and analysis on human rights, with a focus on civil liberties in Hong Kong, mainland China and Asia.
US President Donald Trump signs the charter of his Board of Peace initiative at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. Photo: AP
Middle East

Trump’s Board of Peace proposes US$2.45 billion Gaza reconstruction plan

Physical damage across Gaza will cost roughly US$35.2 billion in the medium term and another US$71.4 billion in the next 10 years.

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Southeast Asia forced-labour scams

Video | Chinese live-streamer held for US$90,000 ransom in Myanmar

Myanmar

Beatings, electric shocks, burns: women endure torture in Myanmar prisons

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Americas and the Caribbean

Nicaragua govt responsible for at least 8 deaths in custody since 2018: UN

Experts also documented the disappearance of at least 161 people since 2018, when a crackdown on dissent began after mass protests.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. File photo: AFP
United States

Man shot by ICE in Texas says bullet still inside him

Lawyer says Venezuelan DoorDash driver is experiencing left-side paralysis following Austin encounter.

Africa

UK brings first charges over the 1994 Rwanda genocide

Vincent Brown, 65, is accused of inciting and aiding murders of Tutsis after seven-year British investigation.

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Donald Trump

US prepares sanctions against the ICC: sources

Trump administration readies entity-wide measures that could severely disrupt tribunal’s war crimes probes.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo: Reuters
Israel-Gaza war

Rapper Macklemore’s US$1 million pledge highlights Palestinian suffering

‘There are children dying every single day’: non-profit leaders have welcomed both money and renewed public awareness.

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2026 Xi-Trump summits

China hawks join forces in US Congress to pressure Trump ahead of Xi’s visit

Trump administration criticised for focusing on achieving economic gains from Beijing while neglecting political and human rights issues.

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Rodrigo Duterte

Video | Rodrigo Duterte appears in ICC courtroom for first time

The former Philippine leader’s trial over his ‘war on drugs’ that killed thousands starts on November 30.

The former Philippine leader’s trial over his ‘war on drugs’ that killed thousands starts on November 30
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Malaysia

Malaysia to invite Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing for Rohingya repatriation talks

Anwar Ibrahim says it is necessary to formally recognise Minh Aung Hlaing’s government if Malaysia wants to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

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Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing is seen in Vietnam on September 5. Photo: EPA
Crime

Former Kosovo president Thaci gets 25 years in prison for war crimes

A tribunal said Thaci was guilty of the murder of 96 political opponents during the 1990s conflict with Serbia.

Singapore

Singapore is open to chemical castration, but what are ethical, health concerns?

Experts point to considerations on who receives the treatment, duration of the process and whether it is proportional to the offence.

France

France apologises for criticising US’ human rights record after backlash

France’s permanent mission to the UN expressed regret over a social media post questioning Washington’s commitment to human rights.

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France’s permanent representative to the UN, Jerome Bonnafont, speaks during a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Friday. Photo: ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
Syria

Alarm as Syria plans private jet hub on former torture site

Rights groups warn turning Mezzeh airbase into a VIP airport could destroy mass graves and evidence of Assad-era atrocities.

Abandoned tanks are seen parked in an aircraft hangar at a military airport in the suburb of Mezzeh, Syria. Photo: Reuters
Britain

UK lawmakers reject bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales

The bill had proposed allowing adults with fewer than six months to live to apply for an assisted death, subject to approval.

Italy

Emma Bonino, Italy’s activist politician, dies aged 78

Bonino was a passionate advocate for social justice and gender equality who deliberately courted controversy to advance her many causes.

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Israel-Gaza war

Lives ‘at serious risk’ as Gaza’s hospitals, homes battle fuel shortages

Doctors say hospitals have resorted to rotating power cuts between buildings, putting patients in ‘severe danger’.

A Palestinian man walks near damaged ambulances and vehicles, amid shortages of fuel and oil needed to run the generators, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 3. Photo: Reuters
European Union

Nicaragua accuses Germany of ‘multiple violations’ of law in Gaza genocide case

Nicaragua says Germany has breached the 1948 UN Genocide Convention with its support, notably arms shipments, for Israel.

United States

UN demands accountability over deaths in US immigration custody

Human rights chief voices alarm over rising detention fatalities and reported ICE plans to deploy electric shock gear.

Israel-Gaza war

Evidence of Israel’s ‘atrocity crimes’ risks being removed, UN expert warns

Francesca Albanese says rubble in Gaza is ‘material record’ of war, and implications of Israel’s large-scale debris removal are ‘profound’.

Two girls walk past the rubble of collapsed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 25. Photo: AFP
Britain

UK minister slams ‘thuggish’ anti-migrant protests in Portsmouth

The gathering was the second anti-migrant demonstration in two days, after masked men disrupted traffic in the port of Dover ‌on Saturday.

Police officers form a line to block protesters near Eastney Beach, in Portsmouth, England, on Sunday. Photo: PA via AP
Serbia

Commemoration held for late Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic

The ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ will be buried in Belgrade on Monday in a ceremony expected to draw thousands despite international condemnation.

Israel-Gaza war

US ambassador calls violent Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’ after West Bank unrest

Mike Huckabee on Saturday met Palestinian American residents who described the impact of the violence on their lives and properties.

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France

Students slam ‘mini-dictatorship’ at Argentina-run residence in Paris

Residents allege surveillance and far-right meetings as they claim Argentina House at Cite Universitaire has become ‘a space of fear’.

A person runs past Argentina House at Cite U in Paris in March. Residents have spoken out against evictions, far-right meetings and the management of the Argentine student residence by a new director with links to ultra-conservative circles. Photo: AFP
European Union

5 EU nations plan to send rejected migrants to non-EU ‘return hubs’, target 2027

Rights groups have criticised the plan, arguing that European nations cannot guarantee the rights of migrants would be respected.

Ministers from Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Greece attend a press conference after a meeting of the Ministers for Immigration and Integration in Copenhagen on Friday. Photo: Reuters
Donald Trump

White House video games depict migrant captures, building border wall

Five online games promote President Donald Trump’s agenda, drawing sharp criticism from rights groups.

US-China relations

Another Chinese national dies in US immigration custody, raising profiling fears

Wei Lianyong, 51, reportedly died in Northern Mariana Islands on August 23, after he was found unresponsive at a local detention facility.

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