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A new global study has found that dissatisfaction with democracy is deepening in parts of Europe, where governments are not living up to the democratic expectations of their citizens. The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) is the biggest global temperature test of democracy, with almost 63,000 people from 53 countries, including 15 members of the European Union, surveyed between February and April this year. While a majority of EU citizens (57%) consider their home countries to be democratic, in three member states - France, Greece and Hungary - a majority now think they no longer live in free d...
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The world is witnessing a near-breakdown of international law, Amnesty International has warned in its annual report. Pointing to flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, a proliferation of armed conflict, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, the human rights organisation said the most powerful governments must shoulder much of the blame. The report's authors write that the US, Russia and China together have led a global disregard for international rules and values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with civilians in co...
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A predictable pile-on is occurring against the European Court of Human Rights. For some people, it can do no right. But its landmark ruling this week that weak climate policies in Switzerland put older women at greater risk of death from heatwaves is a precedent to welcome — and a warning to governments. To be clear, this is not some vexatious litigants’ charter. The court actually ruled out the right of any one individual to cite climate change — and inaction to remedy it — as a threat to their personal right to life. This week’s decision is about the right of groups of people to enjoy a “hea...
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The Swedish parliament has passed a law lowering the age for people to change their gender identity from 18 to 16. Those under 18 still need approval from a guardian, a doctor and the National Board of Health and Welfare. The law also stipulates that an official diagnosis for gender dysphoria, a condition of psychological distress experienced by those whose gender expression does not match their gender identity is no longer required. The bill was passed 234-94 with 21 lawmakers absent, following a debate that lasted for nearly six hours. Sweden joins a number of countries with similar laws inc...
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Having a safe climate is becoming more of a human right globally with this week's European court decision that says countries must better protect people from climate change, something warming-hit residents of the Global South long knew, said former President of Ireland Mary Robinson. Robinson, who was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, praised Tuesday’s mixed court decision as precedent-setting and change-triggering. The European Court of Human Rights sided with Swiss senior women saying their government wasn't doing enough to protect them from climate shocks, but dismissed...
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On Tuesday, Europe’s top human rights court ruled that Switzerland's failure to act on climate change was a human rights violation. The case was brought to the European Court of Human Rights by KlimaSeniorinnen (Swiss Elders for Climate Protection), a group of 2,000 Swiss women all over the age of 64. They argued that they were particularly affected, as older women are most vulnerable to extreme heat which is becoming increasingly common. The court ruled 16-1 in favour of KlimaSeniorinnen but two other cases were thrown out - one from a French mayor and the other from six Portuguese young peop...
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Four conservationists convicted of espionage in Iran have been released after six years in jail. They were arrested in 2018 after being accused of spying while working to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Their conviction in 2019 was condemned around the world by conservationists, scientists and human rights organisations. The group, which worked with the nonprofit Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), includes Niloufar Bayani - an Iranian wildlife researcher and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) consultant - and environmental activists Houman Jowkar, Taher Ghadirian and Sepideh Kashan...
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Poverty has many faces, but its most common face is that of a woman, like 54-year-old Geneviève Baert, who lives in Belgium. Losing the family business when she was a teenager and caring for five children as a single mother pushed her into poverty. "I had a period when I was poor and I didn't know it," she says in an interview with Euronews. But aid networks pushed her to "fight in a different way, with other weapons" and prevented her from blaming herself. "It's society that doesn't put things around me so that I can evolve," she says. She is one of the 95.3 million people in the European Uni...
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In a landmark decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that climate change violates the right to respect for one’s private and family life. This is the main legal basis through which the court has previous rule on environmental cases, but an “historic” one regarding the climate crisis, observers say. The case was brought by an association of older Swiss women concerned about the impact of global warming on their health, who claim the Swiss government is not taking enough action. The ECHR ruled by 16 judges to 1 that the KlimaSeniorinnen (Swiss Elders for Climate Prot...
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Catherine, the Princess of Wales, announced that she has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently receiving chemotherapy. Speculation about the princess' welfare and whereabouts has been rife on social media since the prominent royal underwent abdominal surgery at a private London hospital in January. She has not been seen in public since Christmas. How King Charles III broke centuries of royal tradition by disclosing his cancer diagnosisIn a video message released on Friday, she said the diagnosis "of course, came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to proc...
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