(2021-09-07). UN Human Rights Experts: Texas Abortion Ban Is a Violation of International Law. commondreams.org
(2021-09-07). US Targets China with Mekong River Meddling. newatlas.report September 7, 2021 (The New Atlas) — The US is using multiple artificial crises to justify its continued meddling across the Indo-Pacific region. This includes interfering in nations through which the Mekong River flows — under the basis of "protecting" the environment and human rights. In reality, the US seeks simply to block infrastructure projects …
(2021-09-07). New Zealand government axes emergency benefit payments to migrants. wsws.org The widening attack on the basic rights of migrants belies the veneer of "kindness" and "compassion" promoted by the Labour-Greens government.
(2021-09-07). The Weekly Round-Up: "undue lenience" and unpopular social care proposals. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In the News: In the relatively quiet period before the courts reopen for Michaelmas term, a suspended sentence handed down by a judge at Leicester Crown Court has attracted relatively loud censure. Timothy Spencer QC, Leicester's senior resident judge, sentenced 21-year-old former Leicester student Ben John to two years in prison, suspended for two years. John had …
(2021-09-06). Workers rally for union and housing rights. workers.org 
Worker leader and whistleblower Chris Smalls and a dozen Amazon workers led a Labor Day weekend workers assembly Sept. 4, demanding union recognition at Amazon's Staten Island JFK8 facility and passage of the federal union rights PRO Act. They gathered in Union Square across from Amazon-owned Whole Foods in Manhattan. . . . |
(2021-09-06). It's A Wage And Workers Rights Shortage. popularresistance.org As we approach Labor Day, America's working people are deep into a protracted general strike. Millions are refusing to go back into low-wage, no-benefits jobs that require they abandon dignity and rights at the workplace door. Their struggle has brewed for 40 years as wages stagnated, benefits vanished and public policy offered working families little reprieve. Employers complain that too few people are returning to work, but America's "labor shortage" is really a shortage of good wages and workers rights on the job.
(2021-09-06). Why neoliberalism needs neofascists. mronline.org 
It has been four decades since neoliberal globalization began to reshape the world order. During this time, its agenda has decimated labor rights, imposed rigid limits on fiscal deficits, given massive tax breaks and bailouts to big capital, sacrificed local production for multinational supply chains, and privatized public sector assets at throwaway prices.
(2021-09-06). Fight for reproductive freedom and women's rights! fightbacknews.org On September 1, abortion became illegal in Texas, except in the very earliest stages of pregnancy. The handful of abortion providers in the state are now turning away most people seeking their services because they are not arriving early enough in their pregnancies. The law makes no exception for rape or incest, or for the age of the pregnant person. | This is a tremendous blow to women's and reproductive rights in Texas. Globally 13% of pregnancy deaths are caused the complications of unsafe abortions. This attack poses a real risk of expanding to other issues of reproductive freedom such as birth control a…
(2021-09-06). Supreme Court's Attack on Abortion Rights Opens Door for Vigilante Lawsuits Against the Unvaccinated. commondreams.org By refusing to block the Texas law, "the Supreme Court of the United States has chosen to trample on the protection of women's reproductive rights," said one expert.
(2021-09-06). How the Disaster of Guantánamo Foretold US Defeat in Afghanistan. orinocotribune.com By Andy Worthington — Aug 25, 2021 | In the last few weeks, since the last US troops left Afghanistan and the Taliban swept into Kabul, bringing the US's nearly 20-year occupation of the country to an ignominious end — in defeat — I've been thinking about the extent to which that defeat is linked to the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, and the significance of the Afghans held there — around 220 in total — as well as the numerous other Afghans held in the US's prison at Bagram Airbase. | When we think of Guantánamo, we have been encouraged to think of the "high-value detainee…
(2021-09-06). US condemns Guinea coup, hints at sanctions after elite army unit detains president, shuts borders & imposes curfew. rt.com 
The US State Department has slammed the military coup in Guinea, saying it undermines the West African country's path to 'a brighter future', after a special forces unit apparently seized power and detained President Alpha Conde. | "The United States condemns today's events in Conakry," the US State Department statement said. "These actions could limit the ability of the United States and Guinea's other international partners to support the country as it navigates a path toward national unity and a brighter future for the Guinean people." | UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres previously voiced similar sentim…
(2021-09-06). U.S. readies Kosovo war scenario for Crimea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com U.S. calls on Russia to immediately release detained Crimean Tatars The U.S. State Department has condemned persecution of the Crimean Tatars by the Russian occupation authorities and demanded that the detainees be released. "The United States strongly condemns the September 4 detention of the Deputy Chairman of the‚ÄØCrimean Tatar Mejlis, Nariman Dzhelal, and at least …
(2021-09-06). United Nations Condemns Military Coup In Guinea. popularresistance.org On Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the military coup against Guinea-Conakry's President Alpha Conde and called for his release. The coup leader, the Army Special Forces chief Mamady Doumbouya informed over the detention of Conde at the presidential palace on Sunday morning. He also announced the dissolution of the Constitution and State's institutions.
(2021-09-06). Misconduct in public office — ECtHR reviews foreseeability of common law offence. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
On 6 July 2021 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) published its judgment in the case of Norman v UK (Application no. 41387/17). The case concerned Mr Robert Norman, an officer at Belmarsh prison, who in 2015 was convicted of misconduct in public office for passing a variety of information to a tabloid journalist …
(2021-09-06). Open letter to state parties of Arms Trade Treaty calls for arms embargo on Israel. peoplesdispatch.org The signatories, which include rights organizations and members of civil society, called on the signatories of the Arms Trade Treaty to end the supply of conventional arms, munitions, parts and components to Israel…
(2021-09-06). Nicaragua's Caribbean Autonomous Regions: Valdrack Jaentschke. libya360.wordpress.com We sat down for an informal conversation with Nicaragua's former Minister Advisor for International Affairs & the Caribbean, Valdrack Jaentschke, in Managua. Jaentschke discusses the relinquishing of rights under the Sandinista Revolution in the Caribbean coastal regions where Black/Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples have government recognized and supported autonomy. Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of the Caribbean…
(2021-09-06). Immigration and National Identity. counterpunch.org Debates will soon begin in Congress over a path to citizenship for up to 10.2 million undocumented individuals, but the run-up to these debates has already been marked by recent court rulings representing significant setbacks for immigrant rights. In July, a federal judge in Texas ruled that DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is unlawful, continuing to cast in doubt the fate of hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients (those who came here when just children, most often with parents, frequently so young they have few memories of any other country than the US, including many who are now adults with degre…
(2021-09-06). Victoria Police's use of non-lethal weapons condemned. greenleft.org.au Rights activists have condemned the use of non-lethal weapons against anti-lockdown protesters. Shane Pemmelaar reports.
(2021-09-06). COVID-19: The mental health crisis and right's hypocrisy. greenleft.org.au The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up many surprises but none as sickening as the right pretending to care about people's mental health, argues Dechlan Brennan.
(2021-09-06). A Unified Story For A Divided World. popularresistance.org Wars of position rage between "race reductionists" who insist on the political primacy of race and their "class reductionist" counterparts. But some of us, especially those of us who make use of racial capitalism as a set of frameworks, insist that such debate is tired. In Golden Gulag, Ruth Wilson Gilmore offers an intricate definition of racism: "the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death." It follows that races are divisions of populations into hierarchies of vulnerability to premature death (the likely fate of the materially insecure…