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UN experts demand truth and accountability after Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera dies in custody: Nicaragua
New Questions and Answers paper sets out path towards torture-free trade
UN Group of Experts appalled by Brooklyn Rivera’s death, demands accountability: Nicaragua
SAPOL’s 7th Domestic Violence days of action – 70 arrests
New Future For Ashley Youth Detention Centre Site
Gdeim Izik cases reveal torture, coerced confessions, and failure to investigate, UN committee finds: Morocco
Liverpool City Council budgets for surplus and no staff cuts
Special Rapporteur on torture warns of persistent risks for Palestinian detainees, implores Israel to change course
UN experts alarmed by yearlong detention of woman human rights defender Ruth López: El Salvador
National Corrections Day celebrates extraordinary work for a safer WA
Independent UN body finds systemic racism against people of African descent: Colombia
Record high prison numbers hiding crisis in remand services
Elliminyt Wetlands Project Nearing Completion
UN experts alarmed by crackdown on families of disappeared persons and civil society: Algeria
UN torture prevention body to make first visit to places of detention: France
Urgent Independent Inquiry into the systems that are failing Northern Territory’s children needed
Four in five children in prison haven’t been sentenced: new data shows alarming increase in locking up kids
Minns Labor Government introducing new offences, stronger penalties to gut organised crime networks
Autonomous sanctions targeting Iran’s campaign of oppression and destabilisation
UN Working Group gravely concerned by enforced disappearance and subsequent death in custody of Víctor Hugo Quero Navas: Venezuela
Israel must immediately release Gaza-bound Flotilla activists, say UN experts
Türk calls on Tunisia to end repressive measures against civil society and media
Mandatory minimums a pathway to despair, not deterrence
Israel must release Gaza-bound flotilla activists
Civilians impacted amid clashes: Mali
Former NSW director Mark Barnes sentenced to imprisonment after dishonestly obtaining $2.4m by selling false invoices
Greenpeace calls on Australian government to uphold international law and ensure safe passage of peaceful Gaza flotilla
Record Budget For Corrections For Safer Territory
UN experts appalled by allegations of death in custody of forcibly disappeared persons: Nicaragua
Israel’s discriminatory death penalty law marks grave human rights retrogression, UN anti-racism committee warns
Contract Awarded For New Youth Detention Facility
Sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians driving displacement, warn UN experts
City of Darwin 2026/27 draft Municipal Plan open for community feedback
Türk deplores crackdown on dissent, says rights of all Iranians must be respected: Iran
Trial against Hirak poet Mohamed Tadjadit must be quashed, say UN experts: Algeria
Human rights update on Syria
Gallipoli’s Living Legacy
Challenges persist in ensuring a safe environment for human rights defenders, warns UN expert: Mexico
Queensland Government expands landmark Adult Crime, Adult Time
Raptor Squad charge two people following alleged police pursuit in Lake Illawarra
UN experts warn Jagtar Singh Johal’s prolonged detention amounts to psychological torture: India
UN experts warn of torture, suicide attempts, deaths and reprisals in custody: Belarus
Cases of artist Gao Zhen and lawyer Yu Wensheng: China
Concerns over trial of artist Gao Zhen: China
UN experts alarmed by law targeting LGBT, women’s rights advocates and independent voices in Belarus
Plan to jail even more children won’t reduce youth crime
Youth Homelessness Matters Day
Wanted escapee from Bankstown located and charged on outstanding warrant

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