Sam Pollak (2024-11-09). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Downballot Victories Enshrine Worker, Voter, And Reproductive Rights. levernews.com Good things are (still) happening! While the presidential race has received most of the attention, Election Day delivered considerable wins downballot. Thanks to state ballot measures across the country, voters enshrined abortion rights, struck back at oligarch election meddling, funded public schools, and championed workers' rights, among other issues.Voters Choose The Right To Choose: Voters in seven states dramatically expanded access to reproductive health by passing measures to guarantee abortion rights in their state constitutions. The votes come in the wake of states enacting abortion bans in the t…

presstv.ir (2024-11-09). EU sanctions directly impact Iran's medicine imports: Official. presstv.ir The deputy head of Iran's Food and Drug Administration (IFDA) says the European Union's sanctions have directly affected the country's pharmaceutical imports.

Aysu Bicer, Anadolu Agency. (2024-11-06). 'Gaza Tribunal' Established To Seek Justice For War Crimes In Gaza. popularresistance.org A group of academics, intellectuals, human rights advocates, and representatives from the media and civil society organizations gathered in London last week, the capital of the UK, to launch the symbolic "Gaza Tribunal," an independent initiative serving as a "court of humanity and conscience." | Led by Richard Falk, a distinguished international law expert and former UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, the tribunal is taking an alternative route to international justice, aiming to spotlight voices from civil society in the examination of abuses following the conflict that escalated aft…

_____ (2024-11-06). CPJ, 27 partners call on Sandvine to strengthen commitment to human rights and remediate harms. sandvine.com

Hugo GABBERO (2024-11-06). India : Intensification of the harassment against Babloo Loitongbam. fidh.org IND 004 / 1024 / OBS 042 Intimidation / Harassment India October 23, 2024
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Maxime Duriez (2024-11-06). Mozambique: Over ten protesters killed by police amid severe wave of human rights violations. fidh.org

Eva Bartlett (2024-11-06). A massacre within a massacre: How journalists reporting on Gaza deaths are being targeted. mronline.org Over 160 media workers have been killed and 60 detained as the methodical destruction of the brutalized Strip continues.

NEOB (2024-11-06). Justice Minister Simelane to visit Durban Magistrate's Court. sanews.gov.za Justice Minister Simelane to visit Durban Magistrate's Court | Justice and Constitutional Development Minister, Thembi Simelane, is expected to visit the Durban Magistrate's Court to assess progress in the implementation of the virtual remand detainee system on Friday. | According to the department, the court has experienced "numerous connectivity challenges that have delayed the roll out the virtual remand detainee system". | "As part of the visit, the Minister will together with Deputy Minister Andries Nel engage with officials from the Justice, Correctional Services and South African Police Services as well as…

SKWAWKBOX (2024-11-06). Exclusive video: Zionist appears to direct police on whom to arrest during London Gaza march. skwawkbox.org Pro-Israel counter-demonstration figure filmed appearing to point police toward people he wants detained The 12-minute long footage from the national march for Palestine and against Israel's genocide appears to show a man in a yellow vest — some kind of marshal of the tiny pro-Israel counter-demonstration, judging by his position in the area in front …

Andrea GIORGETTA (2024-11-06). Thailand: New report reveals conditions in the most secretive places of detention. fidh.org

Andrea GIORGETTA (2024-11-06). Women in detention in Thailand: Submission to the United Nations working group on discrimination against women and girls. fidh.org

Hugo GABBERO (2024-11-06). China : Alarming degradation of Xu Zhiyong's health in arbitrary detention. fidh.org

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2024-11-06). Mayo Clinic Minute: 3 tips to avoid Halloween hand injuries. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org There are plenty of frights to go around on Halloween, but a hand injury probably isn't one you'd expect. "Interestingly, it's the fourth busiest holiday for hand injuries," says Dr. Sanj Kakar, a Mayo Clinic orthopedic hand and wrist surgeon. Dr. Kakar says almost one-third of those Halloween hand injuries are among kids ages 10 to 14. And most of them happen when people are carving pumpkins. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute Journalists: Broadcast-quality video…

Esther Afolaranmi, Carter Dillard, Beatrix Homler,, Mwesigye Robert (2024-11-06). The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas. counterpunch.org We have laws to ensure children are born into a safe, sustainable, and unpolluted environment. These laws are also meant to empower future generations and guarantee birth equity. But far from ensuring that these rights are upheld, we disfranchise children at birth because they do not have a legal say in the actions of adults that impact