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Mothers demand justice as London case over Brazil dam collapse concludes

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • Yesterday - 20:16

Nineteen people died in Mariana environmental disaster, prompting up to £36bn claim against mining firm BHP

With tears in their eyes, mothers of children who died in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster – the 2015 Mariana dam collapse – demanded justice for their loved ones as submissions in their London lawsuit came to an end.

Nineteen people were killed when the Mariana dam in south-eastern Brazil collapsed and unleashed a wave of toxic sludge, leaving thousands homeless, flooding forests and polluting the Doce River.

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Release of technology secretary’s use of ChatGPT will have Whitehall sweating

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • Yesterday - 19:39

Use of Freedom of Information Act to reveal Peter Kyle’s ChatGPT queries has shocked experts and left journalists wondering what to request next

Technology secretary Peter Kyle asks ChatGPT for science and media advice

When Tony Blair looked back on his time in power, he had a simple assessment of his decision to introduce the Freedom of Information Act: “You idiot.”

While the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, is a fan of the former prime minister, he may be inclined to agree with that verdict after the act was used to reveal that he had been asking ChatGPT which podcasts he should appear on . The disclosure has already caused frustration among ministers, given its possible repercussions.

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UN judge ‘exploited and abused’ woman she forced into slavery, court rules

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • Yesterday - 17:11

Lydia Mugambe, 49, was found guilty of forcing someone to work and conspiring to breach UK immigration law

A UN judge has been convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave who she “exploited and abused”.

Lydia Mugambe, 49, took “advantage of her status” over the victim in the “most egregious way” by preventing her from holding down steady employment and forcing her to work as her maid and to provide childcare without payment, prosecutors said.

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Whole-life order for Sara Sharif’s father rejected by court of appeal

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • Yesterday - 16:34

Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr also rejects bid from Urfan Sharif, his wife and brother to challenge their sentences

The father of Sara Sharif will not serve a whole-life order for the murder of the 10-year-old after the court of appeal rejected a bid to increase his 40-year sentence.

Urfan Sharif, 43, was convicted alongside his wife Beinash Batool, 30, of murdering Sara at the family home in Woking, Surrey, in August 2023.

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Taxi firms crowdfund legal battle with Uber over VAT on fares in UK

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • Yesterday - 06:00

Minicab drivers say Uber’s bid to apply tax to all rides would put many out of business and leave people stranded

Two British taxi companies have launched a crowdfunding drive for the last leg of a lengthy legal battle with Uber that could result in higher cab fares.

Uber will seek, at a supreme court hearing in July, a ruling on contractual models that affect whether VAT applies to private-hire companies outside London, which it has argued would level the playing field across the UK.

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Jonathan Reynolds ‘corrects record’ for referring to himself as ex-solicitor

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 22:52

Business secretary said he made ‘inadvertent error’ by claiming he once worked in the legal profession during a 2014 Commons debate

The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has “formally corrected the record” in parliament for referring to himself as a former solicitor during a 2014 speech.

During a debate on high-speed rail, Reynolds had said he “worked as a solicitor in Manchester city centre” before changing careers.

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Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest could be telling blow in the Philippines’ dynastic feud

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 16:04

Former president was surrendered to The Hague amid a row between his family and that of the current president

Few expected things to move so quickly. Supporters of the Philippines’ former president Rodrigo Duterte barely had time to protest before he was jetted off to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity in relation to his country’s so-called “war on drugs”. According to activists, this bloody crackdown has seen as many as 30,000 people killed since 2016.

The charges brought against the former leader are the culmination of years of work by activists, lawyers and victims, who documented abuses committed under his government, often at great personal risk. But Duterte arguably would not have been surrendered to The Hague if it weren’t for his family’s dramatic feud with that of Ferdinand Marcos Jr , the current president.

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Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners – report

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 2 days ago - 06:00

First such study finds laws on abortion, debt and dress help increase rate of women being jailed twice as fast as for men

Poverty, abuse and discriminatory laws are driving a huge rise in the number of women in prison globally, according to a new report.

With the rise of the far right and an international backlash against women’s rights, the research said there was a risk that laws would increasingly be used to target women, forcing more behind bars.

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‘I can’t sleep, I’m terrified’: the rise in mothers having their babies taken away within days of giving birth in England

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 25 January

Charity finds ‘inhumane’ system is forcing women to defend themselves in court, sometimes from their hospital beds, while in fear of having their newborn child taken from them

Ella* gave birth to her daughter in a London hospital last week. Days later, still in the same busy hospital, she appeared via a laptop in a court hearing, challenging an emergency order from the council, which wants to take her baby into care.

“I’m not eating properly. I can’t sleep because I’m terrified. I just want to go home with my baby,” she told the Observer this weekend. “I don’t feel they are giving me a chance.”