(2023-05-27). The criminalisation of the right to protest. left.eu In the context of corporate power's offensive, the protection of human rights risks becoming subordinated to corporate interests.
(2023-05-27). Obituary] Mathura Prasad Shrestha. thelancet.com Public health expert, human rights activist, and former Health Minister of Nepal. Born on May 6, 1936 in Kathmandu, Nepal, he died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Feb 20, 2023 in Kathmandu, aged 86 years.
(2023-05-27). After Clearing MI5 of Torture, Keir Starmer Attended its Chief's Farewell Party. scheerpost.com 
The year after he protected Jonathan Evans from possible prosecution, the U.K. Labour leader — then senior public prosecutor — went to the spymaster's farewell drinks, paid for by the security agency, Matt Kennard reports.
(2023-05-27). Correspondence] An open letter from Syrian to Ukrainian war-displaced medical students. thelancet.com In my fifth year of medical school, staying in Syria was no longer safe. Medical facilities, including teaching hospitals, were systematically targeted and health-care providers were detained, tortured, and subsequently killed. The theme of those days was waiting for the unknown. I spent every minute preparing my mind for the worst. In the recollection of the why, when, and how, the recurring memory was the moment when I was forced to leave the only home I had ever known. The theme thereafter became foreignness.
(2023-05-27). Transportistas italianos realizan huelga por derechos laborales. telesurtv.net La manifestación afecta los servicios ferroviarios, marítimos y de taxis.
(2023-05-27). Comisión de DD.HH. investigará asesinato de periodista mexicano. telesurtv.net La CNDH, indicó que se comunicaron con la Comisión estatal para que presten atención a las investigaciones sobre el asesinato del periodista Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández.
(2023-05-28). ICE, Homeland Security Accused Of Targeting Outspoken Migrant Worker. popularresistance.org Immigrant rights attorneys filed a complaint against United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that alleges that ICE detained a migrant worker known for speaking out against workplace abuse at construction and poultry plants. | Baldomero Orozco Juarez, an indigenous father from Guatemala who lives in Mississippi, was arrested at an ICE check-in on April 12, 2023. Authorities sent Orozco Juarez to a private detention facility in Jena, Louisiana, owned by LaSalle Corrections. He faces deportation. | In 2019, Orozco Juarez was deported to Guatemala after the "largest workplace immigration raid in a sin…
(2023-05-28). Biden Labor Board Restores Right To Use Heated Language. popularresistance.org In a landmark May Day ruling called Lion Elastomers, the National Labor Relations Board restored the rights of union representatives to use heated language, including occasional profanity, during arguments with management. | The Board ordered employer Lion Elastomers to reinstate steward Joseph Colone with full back pay going back to a 2018 discharge. | The ruling reversed the Trump era's infamous General Motors decision, which had upended 70 years of precedent protecting workers' rights to use strong language when pressing union points during grievance discussions and other meetings.
(2023-05-27). The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.: an interview with Justin Akers Chacón. mronline.org Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego, California, campaigns for worker and migrant rights in the US-Mexico border region and is the author of The border crossed us: the case for opening the US-Mexico border. He caught up with Red Flag to discuss immigrant rights in the US under Democratic President Joe Biden.
(2023-05-27). Harry Belafonte was more than a Civil Rights activist but a genuine internationalist. iacenter.org By Monica Moorehead and Pedro de la Hoz May 1, 2023 The great Jamaican-identified artist, Civil Rights activist and internationalist, Harry Belafonte, died from congestive heart failure at age 96 on April 25, 2023. Despite becoming the first Black person to win a TV Emmy award in 1960, a Broadway Tony award in 1954 and selling millions of recordings, Belafonte experienced racist discrimination firsthand, like most Black entertainers in the 1950s and 1960s, including his good friend, the late actor Sidney Poitier. Belafonte was an important political organizer and financial backer of the Civil Rights Movement led…