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A US Congressional report has revealed major gaps in US automakers' oversight of forced labour in their supply chains, including two companies that shipped cars or parts to the United States this year that were made with parts from a banned Chinese supplier. BMW imported cars, Jaguar Land Rover imported parts, and Volkswagen AG manufactured cars that included components made by Chinese firm Sichuan Jingweida Technology Group, which is banned for using Uyghur forced labour, the report said. "Automakers are sticking their heads in the sand and then swearing they can't find any forced labor in th...
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Germany's Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (FADA) is warning against prohibiting inclusive and gender-neutral language, following a recently imposed ban in the conservative southern state of Bavaria. "Banning people from using inclusive language is a step backwards into the last century. The state should promote respect and tolerance, not prohibit it," said Ferda Ataman, Federal Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination, in a statement. Several German states, including Bavaria, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein, have imposed or announced bans on the use of gender-inclusive langu...
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Swiss singer Nemo, who won the Eurovision contest in Sweden at the weekend with their song "The Code," was greeted by more than 100 cheering fans at Zurich Airport on Sunday night. Many of the 24-year-old's fans were waving the non-binary pride flag, which has yellow, white, purple and black horizontal stripes. Nemo is non-binary and prefers they/them pronouns in English. Nemo's victory in Malmö was only the third time Switzerland has won the Eurovision Song Contest. The last time was in 1988 when Céline Dion represented the country. The triumph on one of Europe's biggest stages fuelled debate...
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The Czech Constitutional Court has stipulated that a legal change of gender can be possible in future without sterilization or surgical gender reassignment measures, after the court's judges made a ruling on Tuesday in the city of Brno. The current legal requirements were contrary to the fundamental right to physical integrity and violated the human dignity of those affected, the court ruled. The lawsuit was brought by a person who identifies as a man, although born female. The judges gave the legislature until the middle of next year to amend the unconstitutional regulations. Interior Ministe...
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The Danish government announced on Friday that women in the Scandinavian country will in the future have the right to choose abortion up to the end of the 18th week of pregnancy. Until now, the limit for abortions in Denmark has been 12 weeks. Danish Minister for the Interior and Health Sophie Løhde said in a statement: "There is no medical evidence for the current limit and there is also nothing to suggest that there will be significantly more or later abortions if we raise the limit." The amendment to the law is due to take effect in mid-2025. Additionally, it grants 15 to 17-year-olds the a...
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Ukraine's Crimea envoy Tamila Tasheva has accused Russia of torturing and abducting people on the annexed Black Sea peninsula. "The Russians are persecuting human rights activists and journalists in Crimea, they are dragging civilians into dark cellars and torturing them there. They are making people disappear," Tasheva told the RND German media group in Berlin. "The Russians have turned Crimea into a huge military base and are using it as a launching pad for attacks against Ukraine," she said. The poor human rights situation in Crimea has also been denounced in reports by the Council of Europ...
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Following a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Berlin, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for greater respect for human rights in the Central Asian republic. "The German government is committed to upholding human rights worldwide, and that also applies to Azerbaijan," Scholz said at a joint press conference with Aliyev on Friday in response to a question from journalists. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), human rights defenders and the media must be able to work "freely and without pressure" in the country, he said. Scholz said he discussed the general situation in Azerb...
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Following a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Berlin, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for greater respect for human rights in the Central Asian republic. "The German government is committed to upholding human rights worldwide, and that also applies to Azerbaijan," Scholz said at a joint press conference with Aliyev on Friday in response to a question from journalists. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), human rights defenders and the media must be able to work "freely and without pressure" in the country, he said. Scholz said he discussed the general situation in Azerb...
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The police in Iran intend to stick to their recently tightened checks to make sure women are complying with Islamic dress codes, the country's chief of police has said. Police units will continue the large-scale operation with "vigour, precision and intellect," said police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan, according to a report by state media on Tuesday. For more than a week, Iran's notorious morality police have been stepping up their crackdown on offences related to the wearing of a headscarf, which is meant to cover all of a woman's hair. Videos shared on social media in recent days are said to show ...
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Heads of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday called on Britain to reconsider its new law facilitating the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The bill passed on Monday significantly restricts the possibility of resisting deportation - even if migrants are exposed to risks in the process, UNHCR head Filippo Grandi and the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said in Geneva. Moreover, people's specific individual circumstances may not be adequately examined before deportation - contrary to international humanitarian law, they noted. "By shifting ...
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