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Human rights

Telcos, Media & Tech

Foxconn workers faced tough conditions in rush to make iPhone 17: labour group

The Human Rights Council has a long history of including members with checkered records on the very issue it’s supposed to help oversee.
International

UN members reject Saudi bid to join its Human Rights Council

Rosmarie Wydler-Walti and Anne Mahrer, of the Swiss elderly women group KlimaSeniorinnen, attend the hearing for the ruling in their case against the Swiss government.
Opinion & Features

Climate court ruling could set precedents in Europe and beyond

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Department of State is announcing that it is taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials.
International

US to impose new visa curbs on Hong Kong officials over rights crackdown

Goodyear faces allegations of labour abuse in Malaysia
Consumer & Healthcare

Goodyear faces allegations of labour abuse in Malaysia

Workers from Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal account for over 70 per cent of Malaysia’s migrant labour, with the remainder coming from countries including India, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Thailand.
ASEAN Business

Malaysia to review migrant labour deals to stamp out exploitation

Sean Turnell, an Australian economist who worked as an advisor with Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, speaks during an interview with AFP in Sydney on Nov 7, 2023.
ASEAN Business

Australian economist recounts ‘Kafkaesque’ time in Myanmar junta jail

Casino kingpin She Zhijiang was the brains behind an illegal gambling and online scam empire with links to people and firms throughout South-east Asia.
ASEAN Business

Online gambling kingpin has links throughout South-east Asia

UN experts have raised questions about Saudi Aramco's impact on human rights and climate change, according to correspondence made public over the weekend.
ESG

UN experts challenge Saudi Aramco over climate change

Relatives gather around a bus carrying prisoners being released outside the Insein prison in Yangon on May 3, 2023. Myanmar's junta announced on May 3 it had pardoned 2,153 prisoners jailed under a law that criminalises encouraging dissent against the military.
ASEAN Business

Myanmar lawyers face harassment, intimidation in junta courts: HRW

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