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The Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal Wednesday heard submissions by two transgender men appealing a January 2022 High Court decision, which upheld a government policy requiring transgender persons to undergo genital reconstruction surgery before changing the sex on their identity cards. The court reserved the ruling to a later date. In their oral submission, [...]

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In an exclusive interview with British broadcaster LBC, Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd Thursday said that police “got it wrong” when they arrested reporter Charlotte Lynch during a Just Stop Oil protest this week. In total, three journalists were arrested while reporting on climate protests in the UK this week, raising concerns about [...]

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The UN Human Rights Committee on Thursday found that Mauritius’ amendments to the National Identity Card Act 1985, which introduced a new ID card containing biometric information of the cardholder, violated the privacy rights of Mauritian citizens. The Committee held that there were no sufficient guarantees against the risk of abuse and arbitrariness following from [...]

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Ever since winning the general election of Poland in 2015, the Polish government led by the Law and Justice Party (PiS), has continuously pushed the country to adopt a series of judicial reforms supposedly to drive out the last strands of communism from the judicial set-up. These reforms, however, have been highly controversial in that [...]

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An Indian couple on Wednesday challenged a UK immigration law that contains an English language speaking requirement. The provision , which was announced in June 2010 by UK Home Secretary Theresa May , requires an immigrant...

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The British government began issuing identity cards Monday to foreign nationals in an effort to curb immigration abuse and to strengthen identity protection. The cards, which are being issued pursuant to the Identity Cards Act...

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