Topic: Human rights
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Austrian Muslim groups plan legal challenge if latest hijab ban becomes law
Leading lawyers and educators tell Hyphen they will appeal to Austria’s constitutional court if its parliament passes legislation prohibiting headscarves in schools
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‘Honour’ violence could be defined in law for first time
Home Office announcement pre-empts plans backed by 35 rights and research organisations to introduce own definition of ‘honour’ violence
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MPs banned Palestine Action while doctors told parliament of Gaza horrors
Vote to proscribe direct action group came as medics a few corridors away spoke of the Gaza healthcare system’s collapse under Israeli bombing
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NHS pays ethnic minority workers from overseas less than white colleagues
Asian migrant workers are 22% less likely to be high earners than their white, UK-born colleagues, while Black migrant workers are 30% less likely
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Muslims three times as likely to oppose assisted dying as non-Muslims
Exclusive poll of 4,500 people reveals 43% of Muslims and 19% of Christians in England and Wales are against terminally ill adults (end of life) bill
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Government loses appeal over controversial anti-protest law
Labour had fought to keep Suella Braverman’s legislation allowing police to crack down on ‘more than minor’ disruption
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Recipes from an Iranian prison: ‘If there is one book that shows the power of words, it’s this one’
Sepideh Gholian’s The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a memoir-cum-cookbook from the Iranian activist held in the country’s notorious jail
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Poland passed an ‘illegal’ anti-asylum law and the EU isn’t doing anything
People crossing the Belarusian border — including Afghan, Iraqi and Somali migrants — are no longer able to claim asylum, breaching international law
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An empty chair at the table: the mothers whose children are in prison this Ramadan
Relatives of women accused of breaking into an Israeli business in Bristol say their daughters have experienced harsh prison conditions
