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Another Sinister Step Closer to a Surveillance State?
What does the Met Police’s use of live facial recognition mean for our privacy and freedom of expression?
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Boris Johnson Must Keep His Hands Off Our Judges
Gareth Roberts provides a barrister’s take on the Conservative Party’s desire to curb the independence of the judiciary.
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Manchester United’s Fight Against the Sun has Little Hope with a Toothless Press Regulator
It is as if the football club is playing an away fixture, uphill, under rules written by the opposing side – which also happens to employ the referee, argues Brian Cathcart.
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Brexit: the Real Battle Begins – for Workers’ Rights
Mike Buckley argues that the new Labour leadership must stand up to the economic destruction proposed by the Conservative Brexiters.
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Israel Dares International Criminal Court to Hold it Accountable for its Actions in Palestinian Territories
Israel has branded the ICC as “anti-Semitic” after the court announced that it believes it has the basis to probe its crimes.
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“F*ck Boris”: Are Schoolchildren Now Under Political Surveillance by the Government?
Byline Times has uncovered a disturbing tale of apparent censorship of students protesting against the Prime Minister using Stormzy’s rallying call to the young.
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Life-Saving Technology? The New Tools Journalists Can Use to Expose Human Rights Violations Around the World
How technology is being used for dark purposes, but is also helping to expose persecution.
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The United Arab Emirates Cannot be Allowed to Whitewash its Way Out of Serious Human Rights Abuses
With the UAE’s ‘World Tolerance Summit’ taking place this week, it is seeking to create a façade of tolerance while crushing dissent – why are the UK and US enabling this?
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How Many Palestinians have to be Killed before the UK Stops Selling Arms to Israel?
CJ Werleman explores why the UK has failed to condemn the murders and violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Meghan Markle Claims Mail Suppressed Key Parts of her Letter to her Father About his ‘Exploitation by UK Tabloid Media’
New details have emerged of the Duchess of Sussex’s legal action against the Sunday tabloid, which published a private letter she sent to her reportedly estranged father.
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Sandhurst Earns Millions Teaching Overseas Troops – Including Many from Countries of ‘Human Rights Concern’
Soldiers from countries including Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Saudi Arabia have attended Britain’s top military training centre – is it professionalising despots?
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Standing Up to the British Media Protects Us All from Press Abuse
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Ben Stokes and Gareth Thomas are fighting for us all when they speak out against the appalling behaviour of our tabloid media.
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How Donald Trump Became a Vision of Hope for the Hong Kong Protestors
Steve Shaw sat down with political activist Edward Chin in Hong Kong to discuss how the protests taking the island by storm have a different feel from those which occurred five years ago.
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How Can the World Move on So Easily from the Brutality in Kashmir?
Why the world’s waning interest in the violations occurring in Kashmir at the hands of Narendra Modi are so dangerous for its eight million Muslims.
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Therese Coffey: The Worrying Votes and Views of Boris Johnson’s Latest Right-Wing Appointment
Following Amber Rudd’s resignation from the Cabinet over the Prime Minister’s plans for a ‘no deal’ Brexit, a hardline figure has been handed her job at the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Brexit from Abroad: The Language of a Country Falling Apart
Chris Keulemans has spent the past three years at our sister organisation, Byline Festival, listening to a great national debate – going nowhere as truth crumbles.
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Marching for Freedom in Hong Kong
Steve Shaw reports from Hong Kong on the revolution sweeping the streets of the island and its fight for democracy.
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Transgender Discrimination Case Against The Times Thrown Out
An employment tribunal found that the newspaper did not unfairly dismiss or victimise Katherine O’Donnell as a transgender employee.
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A ‘Good Versus Evil’ Narrative Gets Us Nowhere When Our Rights Collide
The polarity in modern debate leads to an over simplification which fails to recognise that humans are multi-dimensional creatures with complex motivations.
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Charity Watchdog to Condemn Oxfam Over Haiti Sexual Exploitation – But Ignore Global Sexual Abuse of Refugees and Aid Workers
A report by the Charity Commission will single out Oxfam’s failures on sexual exploitation, while brushing aside the much bigger scale of the problem.
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Trump’s Legacy: Corruption, Misogyny, Racism
As Trump heads to the UK for his first official state visit, praising Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, his history of corruption, misogyny, and racism will follow him overseas.
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‘If Prisoners Don’t have Human Rights, None of Us Do’, Warns Ex-Chief Inspector of Prisons
Prisoners, who are particularly vulnerable to neglect and abuse, still have rights, says Nick Hardwick
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‘Tabloid Newspapers have Distorted Human Rights’ – UN Special Rapporteur Investigating UK Poverty
UN Special Rapporteur Professor Philip Alston believes the perception that human rights are only for criminals or the most vulnerable is damaging
