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Human Rights Network blasts Home Office plan to use racist AI on asylum-seeking children

Post author:Grace
Post published:29 July 2026
Post last modified:30 July 2026

The Human Rights Network has added its voice to the growing number of advocacy organisations and watchdogs which have denounced Home Office plans to use AI facial-recognition software to assess the age of asylum-seeking children. The charity has already worked with hundreds of minors whom the state has wrongfully categorised as adults. Back in April, the Human Rights Network exposed the fact that the Home Office frequently detains so-called “age-disputed children” as adults. Of the 76 age-disputed detainees at the time, Social Services had reassessed (or were reassessing) 26 as children. Less than a month later, the Helen Bamber Foundation revealed…

Human rights lawyer detained at Liverpool airport for opposing genocide

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:30 June 2026
Post last modified:1 July 2026

UK ‘counter-terror’ police have detained distinguished US human rights professor and international law expert, Dan Kovalik, at Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport. Kovalik, a well-known author and activist, said on X that he had been grilled about his opposition to Israel’s Gaza genocide and to the illegal war on Iran. In the height of irony, I was detained at John Lennon International AirPort in Liverpool, England by anti-terrorism police concerned about my opposition to the Genocide on Gaza and the war on Iran. They seized my phone, computer, fingerprints and DNA sample. More to come . . . pic.twitter.com/WOtXQLjjO2 — Dan Kovalik…

The human cost of IOF aggression in Sidon

Post author:Guy Smallman
Post published:26 June 2026
Post last modified:26 June 2026

Lebanon — After seventy-two hours of continuous ceasefire, the southern port city of Sidon was looking completely transformed on Tuesday (23 June). Shops were open and the trademark traffic jams were being exacerbated by the continuous flow of vehicles — returning refugees further south. While no one here trusts the Israelis to abide by agreements, there was a cautious optimism as the dynamic had dramatically changed since previous accords signed in 2024. That truce had been violated by the IDF on over fifteen thousand separate occasions — ranging from minor acts, like incursions into Lebanese airspace by drones and jets, to…

Human rights abuses linked to transition mineral mining surge by 111% in just one year

Post author:The Canary
Post published:24 June 2026
Post last modified:24 June 2026

The Canary has reported previously on the Business and Human Rights Centre’s Transition Minerals Tracker. And now the latest report reveals a dramatic and accelerating human rights crisis at the mines supplying the global transition to clean energy. The figures for 2025 show a staggering 111% overall increase. There were 329 allegations of abuse linked to transition mineral mining operations worldwide, up from 156 the previous year. The latest report examined more mines than the previous year. Across mines also appearing in the 2025 report, there were 270 allegations, an increase of 73%. It’s the only research of its kind. And…

Children behind bars for life — the human cost of ‘British justice’

Post author:Antifabot
Post published:23 June 2026
Post last modified:23 June 2026

The UK state traps vulnerable children in a brutal cycle of lifetime incarceration, and exposes a system that rejects the idea of rehabilitation entirely. This disgusting model our nation follows separates us from the rest of Western Europe, where sticking kids in cages for life is banned. At a London panel hosted by the campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) on Friday 19 June 2026 saw mothers, lawyers and former child lifers tell their stories. And it ripped my heart out. JENGbA campaigns tirelessly to end child life sentences and their testimonies exposed a racist, ableist nightmare under…

Parents expose human cost of Science Museum sponsorships in unofficial tour

Post author:The Canary
Post published:19 June 2026
Post last modified:21 June 2026

In response to the Science Museum’s ongoing partnership with Adani, a coal and weapons conglomerate, volunteers led by Parents for Palestine invited children and their families on an unsanctioned ‘alternative tour’ of the museum. The tour aimed to explore the: untold stories revealing the institution’s role in the destruction of life, communities, and land in Palestine and in India. Adani, sponsor of the Science Museum’s ‘Energy Revolution’ Gallery has a joint weapons-producing venture with Elbit Systems (Adani-Elbit). It produces the Hermes 900 drone which has been used in the genocide of the Palestinian people and continues to be used by Israel…

Human rights abuses linked to transition mineral mining surge by 111% in just one year

Post author:The Canary
Post published:17 June 2026
Post last modified:17 June 2026

The Canary has reported previously on the Business and Human Rights Centre’s Transition Minerals Tracker. And now the latest report reveals a dramatic and accelerating human rights crisis at the mines supplying the global transition to clean energy. The figures for 2025 show a staggering 111% year-on-year increase. There were 329 allegations of abuse linked to transition mineral mining operations worldwide, up from 156 the previous year. It’s the only research of its kind. And it reveals direct implications for renewable energy companies relying on these minerals and their investors: Nearly 70% of mines associated with at least one allegation of…

Palestine Action ban to stay in place as courts rule human rights protest is ‘terrorism’

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:15 June 2026
Post last modified:15 June 2026

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of home secretary Shabana Mahmood’s appeal against the High Court’s ruling that the ‘terrorism’ ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. The appeals court decided that the ban was a proportionate infringement on UK human rights and did not exceed the government’s powers. Palestine Action The judge reading out the decision based this judgment on the home secretary being better placed than the courts to decide what was needed – an anti-judicial coup carried out by judges, effectively. The interference of pro-Israel groups in the decision to ban the direct action group was ignored.…

Belfast human rights activist could be deported due to Home Office incompetence

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. In Belfast, Home Office incompetence is threatening Nina Briggs, head of the Migrant Workers’ Union Northern Ireland, with deportation. They insist that Briggs’ active appeal against the unfair Home Office decision does not exist. That is despite an immigration tribunal confirming the department submitted documents in her case in December 2025. Briggs has spent the last 14 years living in Britain or the North of Ireland. Born in the US, she came to Britain to study at St Andrews University in Scotland back in 2012, at age 16. She subsequently entered…