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Europe's top rights court says Switzerland is not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states in curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
The UN Human Rights Council votes to demand a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, which has killed more than 33,000 people. The resolution, which passed with 28 of the council's 47 member states voting in favour, six opposed and 13 abstaining, marks the first time the United Nations top rights body has taken a position on the bloodiest-ever war to beset the besieged Palestinian territory. IMAGES
The bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a Gaza strike are transported out of the war-torn Palestinian territory via Egypt as Israel faced a chorus of outrage over their deaths. Israeli bombardment killed seven staff of the US-based food charity World Central Kitchen on Monday in an attack that UN chief Antonio Guterres labelled "unconscionable" and "an inevitable result of the way the war is being conducted". IMAGES
Uganda's Constitutional Court rejects a bid to overturn a controversial anti-gay law that is considered one of the toughest in the world. "We decline to nullify the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 in its entirety, neither will we grant a permanent injunction against its enforcement," Justice Richard Buteera, Uganda's deputy chief justice and head of the court, says in the landmark ruling. IMAGES
"There are reasonable grounds" to believe that Israel has committed "the crime of genocide against Palestinians," says the UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian Territories. Speaking during a press conference in Geneva, Francesca Albanese says "Israel has committed three acts of genocide with the requisite intent." SOUNDBITE
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