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• [New] Intel has announced that it will invest $25 billion in apartheid Israel as Israel's #GazaGenocide continues, signaling its commitment to bolstering apartheid. BDS Movement
• [New] Ensuring equality of gender remains a pressing issue worldwide, with women experiencing various forms of violence, discrimination, and limited access to opportunities. Scribd
• [New] The ongoing suppression of democratic freedom and pervasive human rights violations under military rule has fostered an environment of fear and instability across Myanmar, with no indications that things will improve in the foreseeable future. Springer Nature Singapore
• [New] In a lawsuit in Arizona, the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project said one of its clients is a 12-year-old asylum-seeker who has chronic kidney disease, needs dialysis to stay alive and will need a kidney transplant. Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• [New] The risk is that the Bukele model, with all its grave human rights implications, becomes the flavour of the month as elections come up in Chile, Colombia, and elsewhere. Time
• [New] Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Czech Republic have publicly voiced concerns, citing risks to citizens' rights. WebProNews
• [New] Migrant workers in Mexico face heightened risks relating to labour rights, workplace safety and wages - all of which have worsened over the past year. The Conversation
• [New] Tariffs are reshaping migration patterns and, as a result, raising the risk of human rights abuses to workers across global supply chains. The Conversation
• [New] Quebec says it will ban prayer in public, a move that civil rights groups described as an alarming measure that targets religious minority groups and would infringe on basic democratic freedoms. The Guardian
• [New] Across South Asia, women have been at the forefront of grassroots peacebuilding - from the Mothers of the Disappeared in Sri Lanka and Kashmir to rural women in Bangladesh fighting for land rights, to Afghan women risking their lives for education. Katoikos
• [New] South Korea has proven to be a reliable and strong American ally in advancing freedom, opportunity, and prosperity in eastern Asia and around the globe. The Heritage Foundation
• [New] Thanks to President Trump's racist regime and mass deportations, that workforce will shrink even more, just as American society is rapidly aging. The American Prospect
• With legal challenges ahead, the Supreme Court's verdict will be crucial in determining the balance between regulation, industry survival, and constitutional rights. / India Ekam IAS Academy
• A world where crime is nearly impossible could be achieved through perfect, panopticon-style surveillance that eliminates privacy and freedom. Chandravanshi Inc #
• The policy shifts have been described by some as governmental overreach, threatening the independence and academic freedom that has long defined American higher education. AfroTech
• Policymakers can focus on enforcing AI notices that signal content was generated by AI, particularly at a critical time when the U.S. is considering revising its AI policies to do just the opposite - removing language about risk, discrimination and misinformation - based on a new executive order. Mirage News
• Over the past 10 years, some of the world's largest economies have begun to enact laws that require businesses to conduct risk analyses and publicly report on their human rights impacts. The Conversation
• Dissidents, human-rights activists and journalists being persecuted by foreign regimes could find themselves unable to get asylum hearings in Canada under planned immigration changes. Multicultural Meanderings
• From facial recognition in public spaces to predictive policing, the balance between safety and personal freedom will become one of the biggest debates of the decade. Medium
• Child-free resorts and adult-only hotels are discriminatory, risk creating a society of intolerance and should be banned, a French senator has said, amid a growing debate in France on whether it is inhumane to exclude children from holidays. The Guardian
• Kenya's Bill of Rights has as its sole mission to preserve the dignity of individuals and communities and to promote social justice and the realization of the potential of all human beings. Al Jazeera
• Colorado enacted a landmark bill requiring that developers and deployers exercise reasonable care to protect consumers from risks of algorithmic discrimination in certain situations. Mondaq
• Texas's law will require AI system developers and users to adhere to certain safeguards (for instance, it prohibits intentionally harmful AI uses like encouraging violence or discrimination), and it gives the state attorney general broad powers to investigate AI-related harms. Alexander M Sidorkin

Last updated: 07 September 2025