(2023-04-28). Tibet enjoys social stability, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony: FM spokeswoman. ecns.cn China's Tibet Autonomous Region enjoys social stability, economic development, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony. People there lead a happy life and historic progress has been made in the human rights cause, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
(2023-04-28). World Governments Attempt to Silence Indigenous Peoples at United Nations Permanent Forum. indybay.org The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues began its second week today, and world governments continued to rush to silence Indigenous Peoples, and deny the human rights violations being exposed. The Indigenous Forum is "no place to come and complain" said one of the United Nations representatives critical of the exposure of human rights violations around the world.
(2023-04-28). UN Should Notice US Sanctions Effect on Human Rights: Venezuela. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Hector Constant, the Venezuelan representative to the United Nations (UN), asked Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to consider the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the Bolivarian people's human rights. | RELATED: | "In the consultation on the 2024-2027 management plan of the UN Human Rights Office, we asked Turk to consider the impact of these measures on the population, especially on the most vulne…
(2023-04-27). Human Rights Defenders To Sue the Salvadoran State. telesurenglish.net Humanitarian Legal Aid (SJH) began to collect information to establish a collective lawsuit against the Salvadoran state, which must take responsibility for the people who have died in prisons, or after being released, during President Jayib Bukele's emergency regime. | RELATED: | This Salvadoran NGO will present its legal recourse to the Inter-American Human Rights System, where it will request moral and material…
(2023-04-28). Iran Seizes Oil Tanker in Gulf, U.S. Navy Says. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, in international waters located in the Gulf of Oman, the Islamic Republic of Iran captured and detained an oil tanker which was bearing the flag of the Marshall Islands. The United States of America was made aware of this incident. | Related: | According to a statement issued by the Navy, the present incident marks the most recent occurrence in a succession of seizures or assaults targeting commercial vesse…
(2023-04-28). Castillo to Congress: 'I am Still the Constitutional President of Peru'. orinocotribune.com The deposed president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, has affirmed in his appearance before Peru's congressional Oversight Committee that he remains the constitutional president of the country. | On Wednesday, April 26, Castillo made it clear in a virtual appearance before the parliamentary commission: "I am still the constitutional president of Peru," he stated from the Barbadillo prison, where he has been detained since December 2022. The Attorney General's Office has accused him of conspiracy, while investigations against him for alleged corruption schemes continue. | Castillo was summoned by the commission to testif…
(2023-04-28). Tibet enjoys social stability, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony: FM spokeswoman. ecns.cn China's Tibet Autonomous Region enjoys social stability, economic development, ethnic solidarity and religious harmony. People there lead a happy life and historic progress has been made in the human rights cause, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Friday.
(2023-04-28). World Governments Attempt to Silence Indigenous Peoples at United Nations Permanent Forum. indybay.org The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues began its second week today, and world governments continued to rush to silence Indigenous Peoples, and deny the human rights violations being exposed. The Indigenous Forum is "no place to come and complain" said one of the United Nations representatives critical of the exposure of human rights violations around the world.
(2023-04-28). UN Should Notice US Sanctions Effect on Human Rights: Venezuela. telesurenglish.net On Friday, Hector Constant, the Venezuelan representative to the United Nations (UN), asked Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to consider the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the Bolivarian people's human rights. | RELATED: | "In the consultation on the 2024-2027 management plan of the UN Human Rights Office, we asked Turk to consider the impact of these measures on the population, especially on the most vulne…
(2023-04-27). Human Rights Defenders To Sue the Salvadoran State. telesurenglish.net Humanitarian Legal Aid (SJH) began to collect information to establish a collective lawsuit against the Salvadoran state, which must take responsibility for the people who have died in prisons, or after being released, during President Jayib Bukele's emergency regime. | RELATED: | This Salvadoran NGO will present its legal recourse to the Inter-American Human Rights System, where it will request moral and material…
(2023-04-28). Iran Seizes Oil Tanker in Gulf, U.S. Navy Says. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, in international waters located in the Gulf of Oman, the Islamic Republic of Iran captured and detained an oil tanker which was bearing the flag of the Marshall Islands. The United States of America was made aware of this incident. | Related: | According to a statement issued by the Navy, the present incident marks the most recent occurrence in a succession of seizures or assaults targeting commercial vesse…
(2023-04-28). Castillo to Congress: 'I am Still the Constitutional President of Peru'. orinocotribune.com The deposed president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, has affirmed in his appearance before Peru's congressional Oversight Committee that he remains the constitutional president of the country. | On Wednesday, April 26, Castillo made it clear in a virtual appearance before the parliamentary commission: "I am still the constitutional president of Peru," he stated from the Barbadillo prison, where he has been detained since December 2022. The Attorney General's Office has accused him of conspiracy, while investigations against him for alleged corruption schemes continue. | Castillo was summoned by the commission to testif…
(2023-04-27). Migrant Massacre in Ciudad Juárez Is Rooted in US-Mexico Border Policing. truthout.org April 27 marks one month since the death by incineration of 40 migrants from five countries who were locked in a single overcrowded cell in a Mexican detention center in Ciudad Juárez, despite their desperate protest over inhumane conditions and the commensurate indifference of their privatized jailers. At least 68 migrants had been packed in a cell designed for 50 — detained simply for being… |
(2023-04-28). 21 Illegal Migrants Arrested in Libya. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the government of Libya reported the detention of a cohort of 21 unauthorized immigrants in the Garrabulli region, situated approximately 55 km to the east of the country's capital, Tripoli. | Related: | "After searches and investigations, the patrols managed to thwart an illegal immigration operation and arrested 21 illegal immigrants inside a house used for illegal immigration work in Garrabulli," the Libya…
(2023-04-28). Land Grabs, Palm Oil, and Migration: The Tragic Story of Byron Lopez Xol. actionaidusa.org In a tearful interview in a Q'eqchi Indigenous community of Rio Zarquito in Alta Verapaz Guatemala, Florinda Noemí Xol, told Prensa Comunitario why her 25-year-old son, Byron Lopez Xol, had left to migrate to the United States and had perished along with 38 other migrants abandoned to die in a horrific detention center fire in…
(2023-04-29). Correspondence] Gender inclusivity in India's National Family Health Survey. thelancet.com India's National Family Health Surveys (NFHSs), the most recent of which was done in 2019—21 (NFHS-5),1 have provided rich insights into women's wellbeing and agency and the progress made in enabling women to claim their rights. The NFHSs have allowed policy makers, programme implementers, and researchers to track over time women's nutritional status, access to institutional delivery services, educational status, and agency—namely, participation in household decision making, freedom of movement, control over resources, freedom from spousal violence, and other indicators reflecting voice and choice.
(2023-04-28). The Real Reason Disney Is Defying DeSantis. independentmediainstitute.org Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis is eager to cast himself as the new and improved Donald Trump. He has waged a relentless war against what he calls "woke ideology" by attacking the rights of vulnerable minorities to teach and learn history, to read literature, and to get life-saving medical care such as gender-affirming treatment and …
(2023-04-28). How a Tribal Rights Lawyer Is Winning Back the Rights of Nature. independentmediainstitute.org The United States was founded on the declaration that all people are inherently endowed by their Creator with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but what about the rest of life on the planet? With climate-change-fueled droughts and environmental exploitation in the form of oil pipelines causing the depletion and contamination …
(2023-04-28). Thursday 4/27: #ERANow: Historic Senate Vote on Equal Rights Amendment & Press Conference Livestreams. indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2023-04-28). Activists chain themselves to consulate to protest Israeli war crimes. workers.org 
San Francisco A crowd of 150 protesters shut down the Israeli consulate in San Francisco on April 18. They denounced the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and demanded respect for the human and national rights of the Palestinian people. San Francisco, April 18, 2023. PHOTO: Arab . . . |
(2023-04-28). Advocates Warn Biden's New Migrant Policy Restricts Rights of Asylum Seekers. truthout.org While welcoming parts of the Biden administration's newly announced plans to expand refugee resettlement and family reunification parole in the Americas, migrant rights advocates on Thursday warned that provisions restricting the rights of asylum-seekers undermined the policy. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday unveiled sweeping… |
(2023-04-28). Headlines for April 28, 2023. democracynow.org U.S. Plans Migrant Processing Centers in Latin America and Rapid Deportations from Southern Border, Food Shortages Worsen in Sudan as Battles Continue Despite Ceasefires, Kansas GOP Overrides Democratic Gov. to Pass Sweeping Anti-Trans Bathroom Law, Abortion Ban Bills Fail in South Carolina and Nebraska, Keeping Abortion Legal Until 22 Weeks, Senate GOP Blocks Equal Rights Amendment 100 Years After Its Introduction, Senate GOP and Joe Manchin Vote Against New Emissions Limits for Heavy Trucks, Climate Protesters Descend on Podesta Talk to Demand Biden Admin Halt Fossil Fuel Projects, Mike Pence Testifies Before J…
(2023-04-28). Colorado responds to right-wing anti-trans attacks. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO — About 150 members of the trans community and their allies gathered at the Colorado State Capitol on Sunday, April 23 to protest the legislative attacks on transgender and gender non-conforming people across the country. Groups such as Denver-Aurora Community Action Committee (DACAC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), & Housekeys Action Network Denver (HAND) co-sponsored the event. | This protest was hosted by Rise Up Trans Rights Network, a Colorado-based network aiming to connect transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and allies who are prepared to organize direct actions whe…
(2023-04-28). Triller to pay Sony Music $4.5 million in US music rights case. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-27). Ruling Rejects Rights For Abu-Jamal — Again! thiscantbehappening.net Editorial note: The recent ruling rejecting an appeal filed by Mumia Abu-Jamal bent law and logic. Below is a critique of that ruling rendered by Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Lucretia Clemons. This insightful critique is from Wendell Griffen, a recently retired judge in Arkansas. The distinguished career of Griffen includes lawyer, head of a … |
(2023-04-27). Desperate for a 'win' in Europe, USA mulls merging Ukraine with Poland. thecommunists.org Whilst the collective west hypocritically chides Russia for supposedly disrespecting the rights of sovereign nations, misrepresenting Russia's justified measures to defend its own borders as a war of aggression, it is imperialism itself that continually tramples underfoot the sovereign rights of other nations. And this is nowhere better illustrated than in the gross disservice it …
(2023-04-28). Chinese youth and workers face jobs crisis as US sanctions hit. wsws.org There are about 30 million jobless young people even before the annual graduation season in June and July, and this is producing open dissatisfaction on social media.
(2023-04-28). US Sanctions on Russian Diamonds: Surat Industry Stares at 25% Job Loss. infobrics.org Urges that sanctions be imposed on only high-valued diamonds of one carat and above…
(2023-04-28). UN expert urges Japan to sanction Myanmar junta. channelnewsasia.com
(2023-04-27). Leaked Pentagon Docs Say Russia Can Keep Funding Ukraine War Despite Sanctions. news.antiwar.com Leaked US military documents show the US believes Russia will be able to continue funding its war in Ukraine for at least another year despite Western sanctions, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The assessments were part of a trove of documents allegedly released by Jack Teixeira, an Air National guardsman who faces up to 15 …
