Angela (2023-12-14). Friday 12/15: International Human Rights Day Community Art Build and Teach-In. indybay.org 1555 Irving St. | San Francisco, CA…

Editor (2023-12-13). Rape, war and human rights: the real story. mronline.org Sexual abuse is too serious to be treated as a justification for war, argues Lindsey German.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2023-12-13). Palestine and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 75 Years Later. libya360.wordpress.com Maha Abdullah, Aseil Abu-Baker, Lina Ali, & Marya Farah United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Center) speaks during a press conference at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, October 20, 2023. (Photo: © Gehad Hamdy/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images) The system of international law affords impunity to the strong, while the weak…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-12-13). Israel's genocidal war on Gaza enters 67th day. peoplesdispatch.org For the 67th consecutive day, the Israeli military has continued to kill and injure dozens of more civilians across the densely-populated Palestinian territory of Gaza. The death toll in Gaza has climbed up to well over 18,200, with more than 50,000 Palestinians injured, according to the latest statistics from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. | Several Palestinians have also been reported killed in the Occupied West Bank as a result of multiple raids and aerial bombardments carried out by the Israeli security forces, with many others sustaining injuries. | The UN, as well as numerous human rights groups and ai…

Redacción Chile (2023-12-13). Human Rights and education. pressenza.com On 10 December, Human Rights Day (HRD) was celebrated all over the world, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Paris in 1948. This declaration was a very important historical milestone in human civilisation, in its articles it enshrines the inalienable rights that every person has as a human being, regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political position, socio-economic status, nationality or any other condition. These are rights that must be promoted and protected throughout the world. | It is now 75 years and it is worth asking ourselve…

Redacción Chile (2023-12-13). Human Rights: Laura Rodríguez and the Villa Grimaldi Peace Park. pressenza.com We publish here the words of the humanist Dario Ergas on the occasion of the installation of a plaque in homage to Deputy Laura Rodríguez in the Villa Grimaldi Peace Park, which she helped to found in the years immediately following the recovery of democracy in Chile. | This recognition took place on International Human Rights Day."Dear friends, comrades, dear family. | Coming to Villa Grimaldi, to the Villa Grimaldi Peace Park, is not easy. | It requires an intention, to want to immerse oneself in the memory of pain; of what should never have happened, but we force ourselves, to have in mind what we must not rep…

Redacción Chile (2023-12-13). The Resistance of the Argentinean Memory: Human Rights in the New Political Scenario. pressenza.com By Maxine Lowy | Slowly, the crowd moves forward one step and then another and then stands still, slowly turning counterclockwise, with the Pirámide de Mayo crowned by the Statue of Liberty on the left and the Casa Rosada in front, as the Madres have done every Thursday afternoon for more than four decades. Some weeks only about twenty people accompanied them, but today, with several Mothers, assisted in wheelchairs, so many have arrived at the Plaza de Mayo that this 2380th lap is not enough to go all the way around. | Today is Thursday, 23 November, and the Mothers called for the first round following the lands…

WSWS (2023-12-13). The Texas Supreme Court's anti-abortion ruling and the war on democratic rights. wsws.org Texas Supreme Court's abrupt intervention to block a medically necessary abortion is a concentrated expression of the profound rot of the whole social order in America, with fundamental human rights under siege and collapsing across the board.

WSWS (2023-12-13). The Texas Supreme Court's anti-abortion ruling and the war on democratic rights. wsws.org The Texas Supreme Court's abrupt intervention to block a medically necessary abortion is a concentrated expression of the profound rot of the whole social order in America, with fundamental human rights under siege and collapsing across the board.

Black Alliance For Peace, Black Agenda Report. (2023-12-14). On Human Rights Day; The US Is The Greatest Violator Of Human Rights. popularresistance.org As the international community celebrates December 10th as International Human Rights Day, it is imperative that the world also affirm that violators of the fundamental human rights of peoples and nations will be held accountable. | From the war in Ukraine to mass incarceration of Black, Latino and Native Peoples in the U.S. to Obama's ongoing war in Yemen to murderous economic sanctions, coups, assassinations, war and abandonment of Afghanistan, international arms sales, commodification of COVID vaccines, illegal military occupations in Syria and Iraq, the pending invasion of Haiti and the resource wars in the D…

Jordan AK (2023-12-14). Israel's genocidal war on Gaza is an ecological disaster. greenleft.org.au As international solidarity with Palestinian people predicated on human rights continues to develop, it is intersecting with growing outrage over the environmental cost of war, writes Jordan AK.

Redacción Chile (2023-12-13). The Resistance of the Argentinean Memory: Human Rights in the New Political Scenario. pressenza.com Slowly, the crowd moves forward one step and then another and then stands still, slowly turning counterclockwise, with the Pirámide de Mayo crowned by the Statue of Liberty on the left and the Casa Rosada in front, as the Madres have done every Thursday afternoon for more than four decades. Some weeks only about twenty people accompanied them, but today, with several Mothers, assisted in wheelchairs, so many have arrived at the Plaza de Mayo that this 2380th lap is not enough to go all the way around. | Today is Thursday, 23 November, and the Mothers called for the first round following the landslide election vic…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2023-12-13). An Old CIA Intellectual Continues to Promote Fake Atrocity Stories and Advance War Propaganda in Retirement. covertactionmagazine.com From 1983 until 2021, Carl Gershman served as director of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which was established by Congress to take over the CIA's covert propaganda initiatives. The NED packages itself as a champion of human rights, though it finances groups that primarily publicize the atrocities—both real and imagined—of U.S. government enemies in …

Tikender Panwar (2023-12-14). World Mountain Day: Impossible to restore ecosystems with current development models. peoplesdispatch.org "Restoring Mountain Ecosystems" is the theme for World Mountain Day, observed across the world on December 11, just a day after Human Rights Day. Why should mountains be celebrated? Because they are part of the evolutionary process of this planet and the larger ecosystem. With the ruining of mountains at the current pace, even the plains will not be able to survive. | Awareness needs to be built that copy-paste models of plains cannot be adopted in the mountains. They are not just ecologically different, and also the fragility in the mountains is high. Hence, the sensitization and campaigns around it should not j…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2023-12-13). UN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly for Gaza ceasefire. electronicintifada.net Palestinian civilians arbitrarily detained and tortured by Israeli ground forces.

a guest author (2023-12-14). Stop the torture! Free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui! workers.org The report below is excerpted from Pakistan Aaj TV, followed by excerpts from The News. Incarcerated Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui met with her sister Dr. Fowzia for the second time in two years at a prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday. In one of her earlier videos, Dr. . . . |

The Independent (2023-12-14). UPDF soldiers captured on video tortuing suspect, face court martial. independent.co.ug Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) soldiers will be tried publicly for the alleged torture of a suspected motorcycle thief. Since Tuesday, a video has been circulating on social media showing the suspect, identified as Nelson Omon, a resident of Lagot Village, Larakaraka Parish in Pubec Parish, Mucwini East …

teleSUR, lfb, DRL (2023-12-14). Denuncian cifra de agresiones contra activistas salvadoreños. telesurtv.net Un integrante de la Red Salvadoreña de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos señaló que la tendencia de estas violaciones va en aumento, en especial contra periodistas, comunicadores y otros activistas.

teleSUR, rzr, MS (2023-12-14). Asesinado líder del gremio del transporte informal en Colombia. telesurtv.net La Defensoría del Pueblo trasmitió la Alerta Temprana 019/23 dirigida a líderes sociales y defensores de Derechos Humanos.

Victoria Korn (2023-12-13). Empeñados en un golpe en Guatemala contra el gobierno electo de Arévalo. globalizacion.ca La Unión Europea, la Organización de Estados Americanos y la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) alertaron sobre una inminente ruptura del orden constitucional en Guatemala debido al abuso de poder por parte de la Fiscalía para impedir la asunción…

ecns.cn (2023-12-14). Beijing police detain man responsible for leaking personal medical records. ecns.cn A man has been placed under administrative detention by Beijing police for leaking a patient's personal medical records, the public security department of Shunyi district said on Thursday.

kwjorinoco (2023-12-13). Milei's Argentina to Finalize Theft of Venezuelan 747 Cargo Jet. orinocotribune.com The airplane belonging to the Venezuelan firm EMTRASUR, affiliated with Conviasa, which was illegally detained at the Ezeiza International Airport in June 2022 was moved from the maintenance runway after an Argentine court ratified the confiscation of the aircraft following a US request. | The transfer took place one day after the inauguration of far-right president Javier Milei in the South American nation. | The Boeing 747-300 was detained in Argentina in June 2022 at the request of Washington, which alleged that its sales process was "illegal" because, according to a United States (US) judge, it violated the u…

Yoav Haifawi (2023-12-13). Activists hold Israel responsible for drive-by-shooting at homes of detained demonstrators in Umm al-Fahm. mondoweiss.net In a new escalation, the homes of two Palestinians currently detained for protesting in Umm al-Fahm were attacked by a drive-by shooting. Activists suspect the Israeli government was involved.

geo.tv (2023-12-13). Two protestors jump into Indian parliament from gallery in major security breach. geo.tv Those who breached security have been detained…

Staff (2023-12-14). Behind Enemy Bars: Palestinian and Israeli Prisoners. orinocotribune.com By Robert Inlakesh — Dec 7, 2023 | The fair treatment of Israeli captives by Hamas has become part of the information war between Palestinians and Tel Aviv. Left unsaid is that there remain thousands of Palestinians in captivity who barely survive their Israeli detention. | The issue of Prisoners of War (POWs) taken captive by Hamas-led Palestinian resistance forces has become one of the key justifications for Israel's military assault on the Gaza Strip. | While western audiences are often presented with the image of these groups as bloodthirsty terrorists, a closer look reveals that Hamas and other factions…

Staff (2023-12-13). Jammu and Kashmir High Court orders release of Journalist Asif Sultan after 5 years. muslimmirror.com The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the preventive detention order imposed on journalist Asif Sultan by the Srinagar District Magistrate. The court, headed by Justice V C Koul, said that Sultan's fundamental right to a fair appeal was obstructed due to inadequate provision of detention records and evidence. Asif Sultan has been held …

Alexandra Jacobo (2023-12-13). Crossing state lines for care: Kate Cox's forced journey from Texas to seek abortion rights. nationofchange.org Cox's case spotlights the intense legal and ethical debates surrounding abortion in America today.

greenleft.org.au (2023-12-13). Labor votes down Lidia Thorpe's bill to uphold First Nation's rights in law. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-12-13). Labor's new punitive refugee laws criticised. greenleft.org.au

Shefali Luthra (2023-12-13). Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Access to Mifepristone Abortion Pill. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the future of mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States, setting up another major dispute over abortion rights less than two years after the court's conservative majority voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. The case, concerning the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone, will be argued early next… |

Tina Renier (2023-12-13). Women's Rights and the Dominant Neoliberal Agenda: The Current Global Trajectory Is Far from Sustainable. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-12-14). Labor votes down Lidia Thorpe's bill to uphold First Nation's rights in law. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-12-14). Labor's new punitive refugee laws criticised. greenleft.org.au

Toni Waterman (2023-12-13). U.S. states weigh more abortion cases and policy. america.cgtn.com The future of abortion access across large swaths of the American Mountain West could be decided this week. | The Supreme Courts of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming are all weighing cases that could determine how much access — if any — a woman will have to the procedure. | It's the complicated, often messy, aftermath of last year's overturning of Roe v. Wade — the 1973 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that protected American women's rights to an abortion. The Supreme Court threw the issue back to U.S. states to decide. | CGTN's Toni Waterman reports.

geo.tv (2023-12-14). Australia's new migration strategy to reduce post-study work rights. geo.tv Student visa changes may create new hurdles for int'l students as Australia recovers from COVID-19 pandemic…

WSWS (2023-12-14). Irish government seizes on far-right riot as pretext for state clampdown. wsws.org The numerically insignificant far-right draws strength because its agenda corresponds to the needs of the ruling class to destroy democratic rights, scapegoat the most vulnerable, drive down wages and conditions and prepare for war.

Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik (2023-12-13). Poison pills in House money bill for labor too much to swallow. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON— House Republicans this week have put forward outrageous attacks on immigrant rights with their push for policies that will stop all efforts at meaningful immigration reform. They are busy impeaching President Biden with no evidence whatsoever and they have stepped up their now-temporarily halted drive to prevent workers from exercising their right to form …

presstv.ir (2023-12-13). Enemies failed to hinder Iran's nuclear progress through sanctions: Nuclear chief. presstv.ir The enemies have failed to hinder the progress of Iran's peaceful nuclear energy program through illegal sanctions, says the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

Tanupriya Singh (2023-12-13). ECOWAS to hold talks with Niger as Sahel states moves to expand ties. peoplesdispatch.org The West African regional bloc has decided to negotiate with Niamey for a "short transition roadmap" that can potentially lift sweeping economic sanctions. Meanwhile, Niger, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, is strengthening regional integration…

presstv.ir (2023-12-13). Iran: EU sanctions others, looks the other way on Gaza genocide, ethnic cleansing. presstv.ir Iran denounces EU's recent sanctions on its drone program over 'baseless' allegations of drone delivery to Russia, slamming the block for turning a blind eye on Israel's 'genocide' unfolding in the Gaza Strip.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-12-13). ECOWAS to hold talks with Niger as Sahel states move to expand ties. peoplesdispatch.org The West African regional bloc has decided to negotiate with Niamey for a "short transition roadmap" that can potentially lift sweeping economic sanctions. Meanwhile, Niger, along with Mali and Burkina Faso, is strengthening regional integration…