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• Rwanda scheme would ‘completely erode’ UK’s standing on world stage

  26-03-2023 16:49
  
  New Human Rights Watch head Tirana Hassan says UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers is ‘cheap politics’The UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda would “completely erode” Britain’s standing on the world stage, the new head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.Tirana Hassan, who takes over as HRW’s executive director on Monday, also said other conservative governments in Europe were considering following Britain’s lead and looking at Afric
  
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• Welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu to No 10 is an insult to British Palestinians like me | Sara Husseini

  26-03-2023 16:32
  
  The government’s mealy mouthed criticism of the Israeli PM’s increasingly rightwing policies is not enough. He should be persona non grata in the UKThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, might have been hoping for some brief respite from the tumult back home during his flying visit to London. Instead, in addition to his meeting with Rishi Sunak and other officials, the Likud leader was met with protests from human rights activists, including a protest by Amnesty Internationa
  
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• Carey Young: Appearance review – the faces of female justice

  26-03-2023 14:00
  
  Modern Art Oxford
  The British artist’s enduring fascination with justice and the law has yielded an outstanding new film in a riveting retrospectiveVivien Rose, supreme court justice, stares steadily back at you from Carey Young’s outstanding new film at Modern Art Oxford. Lady Rose is only required to sit for two minutes in this red leather chair but the pressure of time (and the lens) is upon her. The imperturbable gaze flickers ever so slightly, as she waits for the endless moment
  
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