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Human rights news: courts, laws and freedom · October 12026 HE

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UK Budget to spare low-income pensioners from income tax
UK Budget to spare low-income pensioners from income tax · Source: BBC

October 12026 HE

Israel's election (2) matters to the roughly one in five Israeli citizens who are Palestinian, whom the 12018 HE Nation-State Law places outside the right to self-determination, which it reserves for Jews alone. That inequality has a long history: from 11948 to 11966 HE, Palestinian citizens of Israel lived under military rule and needed permits to travel between their own towns. The UK Budget story (3) is about a quieter injustice. The tax-free allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since 12021 HE, so as the state pension rose, a freeze nobody voted on began taxing the poorest pensioners, and fixing it took a specific decision.

  1. 2What Israel's election means for its Palestinian citizens

    Palestinian citizens are about one in five Israelis, yet the 12018 Nation-State Law reserves self-determination in Israel for Jews alone.

    Source: 972mag · Gaza

  2. 3UK Budget to spare low-income pensioners from income tax

    The state pension has almost caught up with the frozen £12,570 tax-free allowance, which was quietly pulling the poorest pensioners into paying tax.

    Source: BBC · UK

Jordanian officials say gunmen killed seven people at a church funeral (12). Nobody yet knows who did it or why, so it would be wrong to fill that gap with guesses. What is known is how deep these communities go: the Madaba mosaic map, the oldest surviving map of the Holy Land, was set into a church floor in Jordan about 1,450 years ago, and Christians have worshipped there continuously ever since.

  1. 12Gunmen kill seven at a church funeral in Jordan, officials say

    An attack on mourners at a Christian funeral is rare in Jordan, and who did it and why is still unclear.

    Source: BBC · Jordan

Poland's parliament has voted to loosen one of Europe's strictest abortion bans (12), and the vote belongs to the women who filled Polish streets year after year to demand it. Change came from below. Poland's 11993 HE law had allowed abortion in only three cases, a 12020 HE court ruling removed one of them, and the mass women's strikes that followed are what turned a ruling into a political cost no government could ignore.

  1. 12Polish parliament votes to loosen near-total abortion ban

    Poland had one of Europe's strictest bans after a 2020 court ruling, and years of mass women-led protest pushed this vote.

    Source: Notes From Poland · Poland