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UN Accuses Australia of Breaching Its International Torture Obligations FILE - A view of United Nations headquarters from inside the General Assembly hall on Sept. 21, 2021. The U.N. is accusing Australia of breaching its human rights obligations after it suspended a tour of detention facilities.  —  The United Nations is accusing Australia of breaching its human rights obligations after it suspended a tour of detention facilities. U.N. inspectors say authorities in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland have denied them access into various detention facilities. Australia ratified the United Nation's Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture in 2017. Inspectors from the U.N. subcommittee on prevention of torture arrived in Australia last week to carry out unannounced visits to state, territory and federal prison facilities over 12 days. In a June 2022 statement, the U.N. said the committee would visit Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ec...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris: China is undermining key elements of the international rules-based order U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets with members of the U.S. Navy while on the USS Howard naval ship, at Yokosuka Naval Base, in Yokosuka, Japan, Sept. 28, 2022. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris blasted China’s foreign policy Wednesday in a speech outside Tokyo, saying Beijing’s aggressive behavior is threatening the “international rules-based order." Harris made the comments in an address to U.S. service members aboard the USS Howard, a Navy destroyer docked at the Yokosuka Naval Base, the largest U.S. naval installation in the world. “China is undermining key elements of the international rules-based order. China has challenged freedom of the seas. China has flexed its military and economic might to coerce and intimidate its neighbors,” said Harris. Harris, who is in Japan to attend former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral, also criticized ...

International protests after the death of a young woman in Iran Iranian activist and doctoral student Saeideh Mirzaei cuts her hair on a university campus in Canada in an act of defiance as part of international protests after the death of a young woman in Iran. The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions against seven Iranian security and morality police officials on Thursday, accusing them of violating the rights of women, civil society activists and peaceful protesters. The new sanctions target the head of Iran's notorious morality police, Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, and the force's director for Tehran, Haj Ahmad Mirzaei. Mirzaei has reportedly been suspended from his post following protests over the death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, under his watch. Amini, 22, was pronounced dead at a hospital on September 16 after spending three nights at a morality detention center in Tehran where she was allegedly tortured for not properly wearing a h...