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‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups
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Smoke curls into the air, a drum beats, the dance begins, a chant is raised. Ten metres away, cars howl past on a busy road, drivers unaware of the sacred ritual taking place in the centre of a bustling South African ...
Ukraine refugees homeless in UK after falling out with hosts, say community groups
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Growing numbers of refugees are being made homeless, and in many cases destitute, after relationship breakdowns with their Homes for Ukraine hosts in the UK, community organisations have said. Some predict the system ...
Consequences ‘dire’ if Human Rights Act ditched, più di 50 groups warn
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Tearing up the Human Rights Act would have “dire consequences” including removing obligations to properly address violence against women and girls and destabilising peace in Northern Ireland, più di 50 organisation...
Groups perpetuating Trump’s 2020 election lie face scrutiny and lawsuits
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Conservative groups perpetuating Donald Trump’s false charges that the 2020 election was rigged have sparked a lawsuit against one in Colorado, and a congressional panel investigation of another in New Mexico, over ag...
Greens and animal welfare groups push for Labor to give timeline for live export ban
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The Greens and animal welfare groups have called on Labor to commit to a timeline for phasing out live sheep exports, after the opposition said it still intended to ban the trade. Labor told the Alliance for Animals t...
Boston’s ban on Christian group’s flag at city hall illegal, US supreme court rules
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The city of Boston violated the free speech rights of a Christian group by refusing to fly a flag bearing the image of a cross at city hall as part of a program that let private groups use the flagpole while holding e...
Community groups call for ‘right to grow’ food in UK’s unloved public spaces
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People should be given the right to turn road verges, sterile lawns around hospitals and underused public spaces into vegetable gardens and orchards, say campaigners for a “right to grow” law. Incredible Edible, a net...
Hostile foreign states pose ‘real risk’ of influencing MPs’ cross-party groups
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Hostile foreign states and others pose a “real risk” of gaining access and wielding influence through all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs), the Commons standards committee has warned. Calling for reforms to avert wh...
Rio carnival groups fight for right to party ahead of official celebrations
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Some of Rio’s most cherished street carnival groups say they are fighting for the right to party ahead of the city’s first official celebrations since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Rio’s world-famous samba sc...
Campaign groups to save women’s cycling classic hit by trans rights row
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One of Britain’s most prestigious women’s cycling races is on the verge of being saved 24 hours after its longstanding sponsor pulled out in protest at British Cycling’s suspension of its transgender policy. The Women...
Tigray has been the scene of ‘ethnic cleansing’, say human rights groups
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Ethiopian paramilitaries have carried out a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes using threats, killings and sexual violence, according to a joint report by ...
LGBT groups quit UK conference over failure to ban trans conversion practices
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Più di 80 LGBT and HIV charities, including Stonewall and the Terrence Higgins Trust, are to boycott the UK government’s first global LGBT conference, in response to the decision to exclude trans people from a ban ...
Labour to ban leftwing groups including Alliance for Workers’ Liberty
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Labour is to proscribe three leftwing groups including the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, a movement connected to a number of current and former MPs that also has links with pro-European campaigns. Sources on the part...
Climate groups say a change in coding can reduce bitcoin energy consumption by 99%
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Bitcoin mining already uses as much energy as Sweden, according to some reports, and its booming popularity is revitalizing failing fossil fuel enterprises in the US. But all that could change with a simple switch in ...
Pope meets Canada Indigenous groups seeking apology for abuse of children
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Pope Francis has heard first-hand the horrors of abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, as Indigenous delegations pressed him for an apology. Indigenous survivors are visiting the Vatican this we...
US plan to provide 15bn cubic meters of natural gas to EU alarms climate groups
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A major deal that will see the US ramp up its supply of gas to Europe in an attempt to shift away from Russian fossil fuel imports risks “disaster” for the climate crisis, environmental groups have warned. Under the a...