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    Jurist FIFA urged to recognize Afghanistan women’s football team in exile amid Taliban rule

    The Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) called on FIFA on Tuesday to take action to recognize the Afghan women’s football team in exile as the representative of Afghanistan to ensure their return to international competition, after being banned in 2021 when the Taliban took power in the country...
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    Jurist Japan Osaka court holds same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional

    The Osaka High Court held that Japan’s lack of recognition of same-sex marriage is unconstitutional on Tuesday. The Osaka High Court is the fifth court to rule that the ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional after similar rulings in the high courts of Sapporo, Tokyo, Fukuoka and...
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    Jurist Amnesty urges Turkish authorities to cease unlawful use of force and detentions

    Amnesty International (AI) on Monday called for an end to unlawful violence against protesters and detention of journalists by police in Turkey in the wake of the detention of opposition presidential candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, which has sparked mass protests across the country. According to AI...
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    Jurist Rights groups urge Nepal to use budget for expanding children’s assistance program

    In a letter addressed to the Nepal Finance Minister on Sunday, Bishnu Prasad Paudel, rights groups urged Nepal to protect the rights of children by accounting for an expansion of the child grant program in the forthcoming budget. The groups represented a coalition of 24 Nepali and international...
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    Jurist Rights groups call for release of Venezuela human rights defenders

    The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and several other rights groups called for the release of imprisoned rights defenders in Venezuela at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, noting the prevalence of enforced disappearances used to silence opposition. Venezuela’s Bolívar Law...
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    Jurist UK sanctions former Sri Lanka military commanders for serious human rights abuses

    The UK government imposed sanctions Monday on four individuals responsible for serious human rights abuses during Sri Lanka’s civil war. The 26-year conflict, which ended in May 2009, claimed an estimated 80,000-100,000 lives according to UN figures, with an estimated 40,000 Tamil civilians...
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    Jurist Pakistan rights group urges UN to intervene in Baloch protest repression

    The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) called upon UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to urgently intervene in the repression of peaceful protests in Pakistan. The group also urged Guterres to secure the immediate release of Dr Mahrang Baloch and other members of the Baloch...
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    Jurist Anti-torture group urges China to release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan

    The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders requested Monday the urgent intervention of Chinese authorities regarding the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of citizen journalist Zhang Zhan. Zhang Zhan is accused of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble.” Currently...
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    Jurist US judge denies Trump’s request to lift deportation ban on Venezuelans

    Chief Judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, James Boasberg, issued an opinion on Monday, denying the Trump administration’s request to lift the two-week deportation ban on Venezuelans. He states, “There is, moreover, a strong public interest in preventing the mistaken...
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    Jurist South Korea Constitutional Court reinstates impeached Prime Minister Han as acting president

    The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was Illegitimate as his conduct, while partially unconstitutional, did not constitute a “betrayal of public trust”. The decision effectively reinstates Duck-soo as acting president. While...
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