(2021-06-07). Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Visits Colombia. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, a mission from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will start an official visit to Colombia to analyze human rights violations committed by the Military Police (ESMAD) amid nationwide protests whipping the country since April. | RELATED: | The mission will analyze denunciations of excessive use of force, forced disappearances, eye injuries, sexual and gender-based violence committed by…
(2021-06-07). Colombia's Police Used Bus Stations as Detention Centers. telesurenglish.net In response to a petition filed by Bogota's councilman Diego Cancino, TransMilenio confirmed that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) used its stations as centers for the detention of citizens during the National Strike. | RELATED: | TransMilenio is a rapid transit bus system that serves Bogota with raised-floor stations distributed along the main routes. According to information provided by the company's manager,…
(2021-06-07). "Lethal Disregard:" UN report on Deaths of Migrants in Mediterranean goes too Light on Libyan, Italian Navies. juancole.com Mt. Berry, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment) — The diplomatic language used in official human rights reports often fails to express the horrors that they reference. So it is with the May 2021 report issued by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet: "Lethal Disregard: Search and Rescue and the Protection of Migrants …
(2021-06-07). Dozens Of Syrian Mercenaries Returned From Libya For First Time In Weeks: Monitoring Group. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. Syrian mercenaries in one of their camps in Libya. | Dozens of Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries had returned from Libya for the first time in ten weeks, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on June 7. | "Nearly 95 fighters of the al-Hamzah Division, al-Majd Brigade, Sultan Murad Division, al-Muetasim Division returned in the last 48 hours," the London-based monitoring group said in a report. | A Source informed on the matter told the SOHR that the return of the mercenaries did not represent th…
(2021-06-07). US Kidnaps Venezuelan Diplomat: Alex Saab's Case. popularresistance.org Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with attorney Femi Falana about the shocking case of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who has been kidnapped for the crime of violating illegal sanctions in order to feed his country.
(2021-06-07). Manchin upending entire Democratic agenda. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he opposes the For The People Act (S-1 in the Senate) all but guarantees that the sweeping voting rights bill the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have been backing is all but dead in the water now. The bill was the only chance to undo the …
(2021-06-07). Tragic death of young Sri Lankan woman exposes horrific conditions in Japanese detention centres. wsws.org Ridma Ratnayake, Sandamali's younger sister, spoke to the spoke to the World Socialist Web Site from Tokyo last week.
(2021-06-07). Supreme Court Ruling is a Win for Investigative Journalists and Civil Rights Researchers. aclu.org Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a At first glance, the decision may not seem obviously related to civil rights enforc…
(2021-06-07). Amid surging pandemic, Sri Lankan government criminalizes strikes by public sector workers. wsws.org Nearly one million public sector workers now face draconian punishments, including mass firings and lengthy jail terms, if they strike in opposition to the Sri Lankan government's homicidal response to the pandemic and its attacks on workers' rights.
(2021-06-07). Justice Department under Trump and Biden tried to seize email data of New York Times reporters. wsws.org The New York Times revealed on Friday that the US Justice Department under both the Trump and Biden administrations secretly attempted to seize the email logs of four of its journalists in violation of freedom of the press rights.
(2021-06-07). Learning to Feel Collectively. indybay.org The starting point of the upheavals are the anti-colonial movements that have been spreading across the globe since the end of World War II. With the Black Civil Rights Movement, they penetrate into the heart of the capitalist world system starting in the mid-1950s, where they politicize liberal students* and the existentialist beat culture of the bohemians.
(2021-06-06). President Duque Disguises State Terrorism With Police Reform. telesurenglish.net After one month of ignoring police brutality reports, Colombia's President Ivan Duque on Sunday announced that his country will undergo a police reform to put an end to human rights violations. | RELATED: | "We will modernize the Defense Ministry and transform the Mobile Anti-Riot Squadron (ESMAD) and the National Police," Duque said during a police officer promotion ceremony in Bogota. | The Duque administration hopes to a…
(2021-06-06). Colombia: The Regime of Terror in Cali. libya360.wordpress.com Luis Alfonso Mena S. In a failed attempt to crush the National Strike and the youth resistance, Ivan Duque established a regime of terror in Cali and on Friday, June 4, 2021, unleashed a campaign of horror in the north of the city, which left more dead, wounded, disappeared and detained. According to the Union…
(2021-06-06). On Contact: Confronting The Ruling Elite. popularresistance.org On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Richard Falk about the inner workings of the power elite and the institutions that do its bidding. Falk is professor emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University, and the former United Nations human rights rapporteur in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. | Falks' new memoir, 'Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim', documents how he confronted entrenched political, military and economic power, especially after visiting Hanoi in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War. During his tenure as rapporteur from 2008 to 2014, he often clashed wit…
(2021-06-06). Cuba Rejects Attempts to Setback Links With the European Union. telesurenglish.net Cuba's Parliament rejected the intention of a group of lawmakers from the European Parliament to analyze the human rights situation on the island. | RELATED: | Cuban lawmakers expressed that the initiative seeks to stop the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement signed between the European Union (EU) and Cuba in 2016. | Noting that the "maneuver" has been promoted by a minority in the European…
(2021-06-06). Central Syrian Insurgency: 23 Pro-Government Killed In ISIS Attacks, Russian Warplanes Struck Back. southfront.org 
2712070 10/04/2015 Russian servicemen attach a Kh-25 high-precision missile to a Su-24 aircraft at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. Dmitriy Vinogradov/RIA Novosti-25 | At least 23 soldiers and pro-government fighters were killed in Syria's central region on June 3 and 4 as a result of attacks by ISIS cells, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on June 5. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the fighters were killed in ambushes set by ISIS cells. | One of the victims of improvised exp…
(2021-06-06). Save Alex Saab. popularresistance.org U.S. authorities ordered his arrest, and Alex Saab was pulled off a plane on June 12, 2020, during a refuelling stop in the Republic of Cabo Verde, an island nation off Africa's West Coast. | Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat to the African Union, was on a humanitarian mission to Iran at the time of his seizure to arrange emergency shipments of food, medicine, and essential supplies for Venezuela. Detained and imprisoned in total isolation and darkness in Cabo Verde for the past year, Saab has also been tortured. | Saab is battling cancer and urgently needs to be cared for by his doctors in Venezuela. | The U.S. sancti…
(2021-06-06). Sheikh Jarrah defenders Muna and Mohammed al-Kurd detained by Israeli occupation: Take action! samidoun.net 
On Sunday morning, 6 June, Palestinian activists from Sheikh Jarrah, twin brother and sister Muna and Mohammed al-Kurd, 23, were seized by Israeli occupation forces. Both Muna and Mohammed have appeared extensively in Arab and international media, including CNN, MSNBC and Democracy Now, highlighting the Israeli state and settlers' attempts to steal their family home in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied Jerusalem. Their massive reach on social media has allowed them to tell the story of Palestinian Jerusalemites to millions, with Muna having over 1 million Instagram followers and Mohammed with hundreds of thousands of twitt…
(2021-06-06). Sheikh Jarrah defenders Muna and Mohammed al-Kurd detained by Israeli occupation: Take action! samidoun.net UPDATE: Muna al-Kurd has now been released. UPDATE 2: Mohammed al-Kurd has been released! Now is the time to keep up the struggle until all Palestinian prisoners — and all of Palestine — is free. The twins are finally reunited ‚ù§Muna and mohammed ‚ù§ @m7mdkurd#SaveSheikhJarrah #SaveJerusalem #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/gx73EVOYs8 — Hayat üáµüá∞ üáµüá∏ (@pakistanikiz) June 6, 2021 Palestinian activist Muna al-Kurd has been released. #SheikhJarrah #Palestine…
(2021-06-06). Assange's Father On US Tour—First Stop Miami. popularresistance.org Organized by Assange Defense, John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's father and brother, will begin the #HomeRun4Julian tour in Miami on June 6 via a live-streamed event. The Shiptons are scheduled to make stops on both coasts and the Midwest before concluding the tour in the nation's capital. | Assange's family members will meet with activists, press, and policymakers to raise awareness of the importance of protecting whistleblowers and journalists, and to advocate for the release of Julian Assange, whom the United Nations has declared "arbitrarily detained" since 2010.
(2021-06-06). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
(2021-06-06). Treaties Offer New Aid In Environmental Fights. popularresistance.org Native treaty rights are becoming powerful tools for protecting the environment against government mismanagement and destructive private industries, as worldwide efforts intensify to halt climate change and protect the environment . | With the right to hunt, fish and gather on lands ceded to the federal government, treaties also offer growing leverage on state and federal governments to ensure the health of the habitats upon which those rights were granted. | "Tribes exercising treaty rights is not a one-sided thing," said Paul DeMain, citizen of the Oneida and Ojibwe tribes and a board member of Honor the Earth,…
(2021-06-06). Learning to Feel Collectively. indybay.org The starting point of the upheavals are the anti-colonial movements that have been spreading across the globe since the end of World War II. With the Black Civil Rights Movement, they penetrate into the heart of the capitalist world system starting in the mid-1950s, where they politicize liberal students* and the existentialist beat culture of the bohemians.
(2021-06-06). High School Valedictorian Speaks Out Against State's Extreme Anti-Choice Law. zcomm.org "I refuse to give up this platform to promote complacency and peace, when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights"