teleSUR -HIM (2022-02-12). Denuncian asesinato de otro líder social en Valle del Cauca. telesurtv.net Desde la firma del acuerdo de paz en 2016 han sido ultimados 1308 líderes, lideresas sociales y defensores de Derechos Humanos en Colombia.

Asieh Namdar (2022-02-12). The Heat: Women in Afghanistan. america.cgtn.com From the humanitarian crisis to women's rights, we take an in-depth look inside Afghanistan.

Staff (2022-02-12). Biden is rooting for Russia to invade Ukraine, Tulsi Gabbard says. rt.com The former US congresswoman suggests US and NATO want Moscow to attack so they can impose "draconian" sanctions and enrich the military-industrial complex | President Joe Biden and his NATO allies could easily prevent war in Ukraine but would rather see Russia invade their ally to justify harsh sanctions against Moscow and spur a money-making cold war, former US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday in a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson. | Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran who ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, made her comments as Biden's administration and US media outl…

sputniknews (2022-02-12). US & European Partners Finalizing Anti-Russia Sanctions, SWIFT Ban Off Table – Reports. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States and its European partners are finalizing sanctions targeting major Russian banks should the Ukraine situation escalate, but banning Russia from the SWIFT financial system is off the table, Reuters reported citing US and European Union officials.

_____ (2022-02-11). Wet'suwet'en Approach UN Over Militarization And Rights Violations. popularresistance.org As the movement against the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline project in Canada continues, indigenous Wet'suwet'en activists have approached the United Nations to raise their concerns about indigenous rights violations. In a submission filed to the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, February 7, activists of the Gidimt'en clan of Wet'suwet'en raised the issues of forced industrialization, police militarization and violation of the rights of indigenous peoples. | The eight-page document points out that Canada has overlooked its international obligations under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UND…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-11). Civilian casualties nearly doubled in Yemen since end of UN-mandated international monitoring. peoplesdispatch.org The Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen was first formed in 2017 to monitor the human rights violations and war crimes being committed by the parties in the war in Yemen. The UN Human Rights Council failed to renew its mandate in October 2021…

_____ (2022-02-11). UK Official Secrets Act Proposals Take Cues From US Espionage Act Cases. popularresistance.org The United Kingdom's right-wing dominated government is on course to greatly expand its ability to prosecute and jail whistleblowers and journalists through amendments to the country's Official Secrets Acts. | These potential amendments would be the first major changes to the law since 1989. They come as the U.K. and U.S. governments continue to seek the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his role in receiving and publishing the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, Guantanamo Bay detainee files, and U.S. diplomatic cables. | Proposals would expand possible imprisonment for leakers, recipients of leaks…

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-11). Progressives oppose opening of more migrant detention centers in Greek islands. peoplesdispatch.org The right-wing New Democracy-led Greek government is gearing up to set up new refugee camps in its Aegean islands under the directives of the European Union…

Nora Barrows-Friedman (2022-02-11). Texas anti-BDS measure ruled unconstitutional — again. electronicintifada.net Lawmakers in Georgia and Virginia attempt to crush free speech rights in service to Israel.

Stuckey (2022-02-11). Union election rematch: Bessemer workers continue to fight Amazon's anti-labor campaign. liberationnews.org Voting is now underway at Amazon's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama after the NLRB ordered a second union election on the grounds that the company grossly violated workers' rights in the first vote…

Wyatt Souers (2022-02-11). One month after deadly Bronx fire tenants honor the victims & rally for their rights. liberationnews.org "One month since the fire, there isn't a single authority here. Not the Governor, not the Bronx Borough President, not Mayor [Eric] Adams…They only call for their cameras and then leave," said 40-year-old Twin Parks resident Milagros Colón.

League of Women Voters (2022-02-11). Monday 2/14: League of Women Voters 102nd Birthday: Virtual Action Rally for Voting Rights & Democracy. indybay.org Virtual action rally for voting rights and democracy…

Staff (2022-02-11). Headlines for February 11, 2022. democracynow.org WaPo: Trump Took "Top Secret" Documents to Mar-a-Lago Resort, Anti-Vaccine Truckers Block Three Ports of Entry Along U.S.-Canada Border, Biden Urges U.S. Citizens to Leave Ukraine as Russia and NATO Continue Troop Buildup, Biden to Split $7B in Frozen Afghan Assets Between 9/11 Families and Humanitarian Relief, Pace of Civilian Killings in Yemen Has Doubled Since U.N. Disbanded Monitoring Group, Biden Admin Approves Billions in New Arms Deals to Middle East and Indonesia, At Least Six Killed in Mogadishu Blast, Heber López Becomes 5th Journalist to Be Killed in Mexico in 2022 , Historic Rights Trial B…

South Bay Indigenous Solidarity (2022-02-11). Saturday 2/26: Noted Indigenous and Prisoner Rights Advocate Lenny Foster. indybay.org Zoom Webinar Registration: us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_dXFlyEK4TwuAJvywNY1Pqg…

Staff (2022-02-11). "American Reckoning": 55 Years After KKK Murder of Mississippi NAACP Leader, Case Remains Unsolved. democracynow.org This month marks 55 years since the assassination of an NAACP leader. The new documentary "American Reckoning" seeks justice in the cold case of murdered civil rights activist and local NAACP leader Wharlest Jackson Sr. in Natchez, Mississippi. No one was ever charged with his 1967 murder, despite evidence pointing to the involvement of the inner circle of the local Ku Klux Klan. It's one of many unsolved crimes targeting civil rights activists. "The fact that no one has been indicted for Wharlest's case or for these other cases shows the limits of the justice system," says co-…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-02-11). Tehran, Moscow developing mechanism against sanctions. en.mehrnews.com The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Tehran and Moscow are creating a mechanism to protect the two countries trade and financial exchanges from the threat of sanctions.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-11). Civilian casualties nearly doubled in Yemen since end of UN-mandated international monitoring. peoplesdispatch.org The Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen was first formed in 2017 to monitor the human rights violations and war crimes being committed by the parties in the war in Yemen. The UN Human Rights Council failed to renew its mandate in October 2021…

Stuckey (2022-02-11). Union election rematch: Bessemer workers continue to fight Amazon's anti-labor campaign. liberationnews.org Voting is now underway at Amazon's fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama after the NLRB ordered a second union election on the grounds that the company grossly violated workers' rights in the first vote…

Wyatt Souers (2022-02-11). One month after deadly Bronx fire tenants honor the victims & rally for their rights. liberationnews.org "One month since the fire, there isn't a single authority here. Not the Governor, not the Bronx Borough President, not Mayor [Eric] Adams…They only call for their cameras and then leave," said 40-year-old Twin Parks resident Milagros Colón.

South Bay Indigenous Solidarity (2022-02-11). Saturday 2/26: Noted Indigenous and Prisoner Rights Advocate Lenny Foster. indybay.org Zoom Webinar Registration: us02web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_dXFlyEK4TwuAJvywNY1Pqg…

League of Women Voters (2022-02-11). Monday 2/14: League of Women Voters 102nd Birthday: Virtual Action Rally for Voting Rights & Democracy. indybay.org Virtual action rally for voting rights and democracy…

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-02-11). Tehran, Moscow developing mechanism against sanctions. en.mehrnews.com The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Tehran and Moscow are creating a mechanism to protect the two countries trade and financial exchanges from the threat of sanctions.

WSWS (2022-02-10). Continuing US-led economic blockade provokes North Korean missile tests. wsws.org North Korea's economy has suffered from years of sanctions, now compounded by the global pandemic.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-10). Human Rights Watch chronicles use of secret arbitrary detentions in Tunisia. peoplesdispatch.org The rights group called upon the Tunisian government to immediately stop the use of secret arbitrary detentions, first introduced during the state of emergency imposed in 2015 to crush dissent in the country…

Anonymous669 (2022-02-10). More Than 30 ISIS Terrorists Killed Or Wounded In Russian Airstrikes On Central Syria. southfront.org Su-25 aircrafts in Syria. FILE IMAGE: Vadim Grishankin/Russian Defense Ministry Press and Information Office/TASS | On February 10, at least nine terrorists of ISIS were killed when warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) targeted hideouts of the terrorist group in Syria's central region, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). | The London-based monitoring group said that the hideouts were located in the outskirts of the town of Ithriyah in the eastern Hama countryside and near the town of al…

Dave DeCamp (2022-02-10). Yemen: January Saw Highest Civilian Casualties in Saudi Air War Since 2016. news.antiwar.com A monthly summary from According to the data, 139 civilians were killed by Saudi air raids, and another 287 were wounded. It was the highest number of civilian casualties recorded in a single month since October 2016. | The deadliest air raid of the month hit a migrant detention facility in Sadaa on January 21st, which killed at least 91 civilians and wounded at le…

Alejandro Agustin Ortiz (2022-02-10). The Most Racist Supreme Court Cases You've Probably Never Heard Of. aclu.org Over 100 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a series of rulings known as the Insular Cases that still prevent millions of people — overwhelmingly, people of color — from accessing certain constitutional rights and protections. These rulings continue to uphold systemic racism today. | In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court spoke to whether, and to what extent, the rights and protections guaranteed by the Constitution applied to residents in the then-new territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. In this string of cases decided from 1901 to 1922, the court described the territories…

Sameena Rahman (2022-02-10). Supreme Court OKs Alabama state government plot against Black voters. liberationnews.org With a slew of high-profile cases the Supreme Court is slated to hear this year, it is increasingly clear that the rightwing justices will use every opportunity to take away key rights won by mass movements and move us backwards to greater inequality.

Peoples Dispatch (2022-02-10). Police repress workers' protest for living wages in Port au Prince and other stories. peoplesdispatch.org Today we look at protests by textile workers in Port au Prince, Wet'suwet'en activists' report to the UN on rights violations by Canada, and more…

Global Research News (2022-02-10). Selected Articles: Brian Peckford, Signatory of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, on Trudeau and the COVID-19 Mandates. globalresearch.ca By Watch Brian Peckford speaking to a crowd in December 2021 on Trudeau's vaccine mandate and the …

_____ (2022-02-10). National Day Of Action: Love To Afghanistan. popularresistance.org After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, Peace Action welcomed the withdrawal of troops from the country and an end to the war. | Yet when the United States military pulled out of Afghanistan, the Biden administration also responded by choking off assets to Afghan banks and the economy by freezing the reserves of the Afghan Central Bank held in the U.S. They also imposed sanctions on those doing business with Afghanistan and cut aid. Jobs and income disappeared, people cannot afford to buy food and mass starvation is now occurring. | The Afghan people are suffering now more than ever. Hunger could kill more now than…

Chris Walker (2022-02-10). West Virginia Students Stage Walkout After School Hosts Christian Revival. truthout.org On Wednesday, more than 100 students at Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia, staged a walkout to protest a school-sanctioned religious revival that some of their teachers required them to attend. | Earlier this week, teachers told students that during a non-instructive class period called COMPASS,

sputniknews (2022-02-10). US Senate at 'Impasse' Over Nord Stream 2 Sanctions in Anti-Russia Bill, Menendez Says. sputniknews.com The US Congress has prepared what Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) called "the mother of all sanctions" bills against Russia, which would aim to cripple the Russian economy by punishing nations who would continue trading with Moscow if Russian troops invaded Ukraine.

sputniknews (2022-02-10). Diaspora Group Warns Sanctions Bill Advanced to House Floor Will 'Destroy Ethiopian-US Relations'. sputniknews.com When the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) announced a complete withdrawal to Tigray in mid-December, the Ethiopian government began a national dialogue on reconciliation. However, it has rejected negotiations with the designated terrorist group, saying it must recognize the sovereignty of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.

ecns.cn (2022-02-10). Commerce Ministry denounces U.S. sanctions. ecns.cn The United States should remove additional tariffs and sanctions on China as soon as possible, Commerce Ministry spokesperson Gao Feng said at a news briefing on Thursday.

sputniknews (2022-02-10). US Senate Mulls Sanctions Against Russia for Alleged Cyberattacks on Ukraine, Reports Say. sputniknews.com MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee is contemplating introducing sanctions against Russia for alleged cyberattacks against Ukraine amid a protracted debate on the Defending Ukraine Sovereignty Act of 2022 in the US Congress, Politico reported on Thursday.

Xiaolu Sun (2022-02-10). Colorado wildlife sanctuary honors Year of the Tiger. america.cgtn.com This Lunar New Year brings in the year of the Tiger, see how Colorado wildlife sanctuary is helping protect endangered tigers.