Topic: Human Rights — Neutral reports only
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[2026-03-27 02:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Interior Ministry said Thursday that anyone involved in unsanctioned protests against tightening internet restrictions would be held criminally responsible, a warning that comes after cryptic videos circulating online called for nationwide rallies this coming weekend.
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[2026-03-26 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Allison Posner, an organizer for an upcoming “No Kings” protest poses for a photo on the steps of the town hall in Maplewood, N.J., Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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[2026-03-26 11:00 UTC+10:00] [Immigration] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: Kristin Heiberg, who writes software user guides, patrols her neighborhood every day and attends protests and vigils.“We’re just watching out for our neighbors. If that’s a form of protest, so be it.”Libby Blyth is an accountant for an environmental consulting company. She drives people to work who are afraid of being spotted by ICE and delivers food to families in hiding.“I don’t want to be one of those people that sat.
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[2026-03-25 23:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division speaks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
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[2026-03-25 14:14 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Owner of Book Punch store and three staff accused of selling copies of a biography of Jimmy Lai, a jailed pro-democracy activist and publisher
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[2026-03-25 07:31 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: We assume that we are living in a democratic society. However, what if it is merely a delusion, and in fact, we are living in an authoritarian, totalitarian society where democracy is falling apart? Indeed, we are now witnessing a worldwide crisis of democracy.
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[2026-03-25 05:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: UK inequality campaigner Gary Stevenson recently signed an open letter with hundreds of the "super-rich" — including Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith — demanding they be taxed more. Australia's number of billionaires doubled between 2015 and 2025, according to Oxfam. Credit: SBS/Caroline Huang
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[2026-03-25 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People rally with a banner reading in Spanish “Never again” on the anniversary of the military coup that brought the military regime to power, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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[2026-03-25 00:44 UTC+10:00] [Hong Kong] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Tse Chun-pan, 43, set up website for merchandise themed around 2019 protests and demanded media publish screenshots of seditious content in bid to frame rival
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[2026-03-24 23:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chinese Embassy is pictured in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. (Kazushi Kurihara/Kyodo News via AP)
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[2026-03-24 22:00 UTC+10:00] [US politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Bright Line Watch researchers see stabilization in democratic health but at lower levels after sharp decline
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[2026-03-24 20:53 UTC+10:00] [JAPAN] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: China has lodged a strong protest and made representations with the Japanese after what it described as a "forceful break-in" at its embassy in Tokyo, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
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[2026-03-24 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ever since the state’s founding, Israeli leaders have trotted out phrases like “a villa in the jungle”, “tough neighbourhood” or, perhaps most tiresomely, “only democracy in the Middle East”.
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[2026-03-24 19:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Ever since the state’s founding, Israeli leaders have trotted out phrases like “a villa in the jungle”, “tough neighbourhood” or, perhaps most tiresomely, “only democracy in the Middle East”.
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[2026-03-24 18:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, left, and Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, right, attend the party leader debate Democracy’s Evening on DR1 at the Concert Hall, DR City in Copenhagen, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
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[2026-03-24 17:44 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Head-shaving protests have returned to South Korean politics as the local election draws near. But some question the efficacy of such protests, saying the once powerful political tool has become overexploited.
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[2026-03-24 15:54 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The Embassy of India in Seoul and the National Museum of Korean Democracy on Tuesday opened an exhibition highlighting the human cost of terrorism and the importance of democratic values.
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[2026-03-24 02:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is warning that the push by countries around the world toward economic self-reliance carries a hefty price tag, while the AI boom threatens to worsen inequality.
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[2026-03-24 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad had a plan to ignite public protests that would lead to the collapse of Iran’s government, the New York Times has reported.
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[2026-03-22 21:00 UTC+10:00] [US justice system] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: At a time when the bad news feels endless, we should celebrate the gutsiness of a judiciary quietly standing up for democracy
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[2026-03-22 18:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Satellite images suggest accelerated dredging at the disputed South China Sea reef, sparking formal complaint from Hanoi
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[2026-03-22 07:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Andrie Yunus, a human rights campaigner, highlighted the issues of militarism during Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's first year in office. (Supplied)
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[2026-03-22 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: EVERY March 24, the world observes World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, which marks the 1882 discovery of the bacterium that causes the disease. More than a century later, tuberculosis remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. In the Philippines, it continues to pose a stubborn — and often underrecognized — public health challenge.
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[2026-03-21 23:15 UTC+10:00] [Roskomnadzor] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Meanwhile, although Putin’s regime has thwarted protests over the blocking of the popular messaging app, Telegram, there is still discontent
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[2026-03-21 21:51 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Seoul's most storied landmark has hosted royal processions, street protests and candlelight vigils. On Saturday, it hosts a historic K-pop comeback.
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[2026-03-21 20:40 UTC+10:00] [Iranian judiciary] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The three are the first to be executed from among tens of thousands arrested during a brutal crackdown on protests in January
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[2026-03-21 16:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Women look at their smartphones while riding a bus in Moscow, on March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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[2026-03-21 16:27 UTC+10:00] [Gaza Strip] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The Trump administration is seeking to be released from its obligation to pay millions of dollars in federal funds to the university
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[2026-03-21 16:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In this image from video circulating on social media, protesters dance and cheer around a bonfire as they take to the streets of Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP, File)
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[2026-03-21 13:00 UTC+10:00] [Bahrain] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: While attendance figures have been impressive, on the pitch the gap between the continent’s traditional powers and the rest remains stark
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[2026-03-21 05:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The administration of United States President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, seeking billions of dollars in restitution for allegedly neglecting the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students.
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[2026-03-21 04:19 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Lawsuit alleges university violated civil rights of Jewish and Israeli people in aftermath of war in Gaza
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[2026-03-21 02:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department filed a new lawsuit Friday against Harvard University, saying its leadership failed to address antisemitism on campus, creating grounds for the government to freeze existing grants and seek repayment for grants already paid.
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[2026-03-21 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Department of Justice sued Harvard University Friday, accusing the Ivy League school of running afoul of federal civil rights law in having “turned a blind eye to antisemitism and discrimination against Jews and Israelis” on campus.
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[2026-03-21 01:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump listens as Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-03-20 20:30 UTC+10:00] [Democracy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: States were on notice from the U.S. Department of Justice that if they didn’t fall in line, the federal government would force them into compliance.
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[2026-03-20 20:00 UTC+10:00] [Civil Rights] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: It’s difficult to put yourself in the place of Cherise Doyley, a pregnant mother of three who found herself facing a judge while in labor at the University of Florida Health hospital in downtown Jacksonville.
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[2026-03-20 19:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A poster of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, the successor to his late father Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as supreme leader is placed on an anti-riot police car as policemen stand on top of the car, during a rally to support him in Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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[2026-03-20 16:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Cesar Chavez is disappearing across California.Statues are coming down, street names are being stripped, and murals are being covered up in a rapid-fire backlash against the once-revered labor leader, as officials move to distance public spaces from a legacy now under scrutiny.In San Fernando, a statue of Cesar Chavez was removed Thursday, while at Santa Ana College, murals and other campus imagery bearing his likeness have been covered.
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[2026-03-20 14:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The nation’s still reeling from revelations about the late Cesar Chavez, the much-lauded Mexican-American civil rights hero and leader of the United Farm Workers.
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[2026-03-20 08:36 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Singapore/Jakarta: Four Indonesian military officers have been arrested in connection with a chemical attack on a young Indonesian activist who had long been critical of the country’s security forces and had investigated their conduct during last year’s deadly nationwide protests.
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[2026-03-20 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Most NSW voters feel Premier Chris Minns successfully managed the protest against visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog, despite chaotic scenes erupting and criticisms that Muslims were stopped from carrying out their evening prayers.
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[2026-03-20 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Federal agents look on as protesters gather outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP Photo/Tom Baker, File)
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[2026-03-19 16:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Former Phoenix City Council member Mary Rose Wilcox, who marched alongside César Chavez at protests in the 1970s, said she is dismayed at the sex abuse allegations against the long-admired Latino icon.
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[2026-03-19 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Spain] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The ex-king has been stranded in Abu Dhabi after a series of scandals. Now newly released files support his claim to have saved Spanish democracy
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[2026-03-19 16:00 UTC+10:00] [Global development] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: This week, the first students completed a three-year degree course, ready to treat displaced people and pro-democracy fighters unable to risk government-run hospitals
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[2026-03-19 14:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Activists held protests against the war and the demand from Donald Trump in Seoul. (Reuters: Kim Soo-hyeon)
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[2026-03-19 13:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — A transport group leading a strike in Metro Manila on Thursday accused police officers of allegedly harassing its members, as protests against high fuel taxes disrupted traffic in several areas.
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[2026-03-19 11:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The backlash against the late California civil rights icon Cesar Chavez has been fierce and widespread since bombshell allegations revealed Wednesday that he sexually abused children.
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[2026-03-19 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Amanda Villavicencio, the daughter of murdered presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, protests with other members of her family outside the court where suspects in her father’s murder are being tried, in Quito, Ecuador, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)
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