(2023-05-09). Haiti: Gang Related Violence Left 600 Dead in April. telesurenglish.net At the presentation of his latest report on Tuesday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned that a vicious cycle is taking shape in Haiti due to the appearance of vigilantes who take the law into their own hands to fight armed gangs. | RELATED: | During the first quarter of the year, at least 846 people were killed, 393 were injured, and 395 were kidnapped, according to the Human Rights Service…
(2023-05-09). Behind the faàßade of humanitarian aid and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. thealtworld.com The humanitarian paradigm for Palestinians is not working, the UN should be informed. On the assumption that the Institution holds a shard of respect towards human rights. For several years, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has been warning of a funding deficit that affects its provision of services. Recently, the World Food Programme (WFP)
(2023-05-09). Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories. independentmediainstitute.org Headlines in This News Package: U.S. Activists Face Harassment From Authorities Upon Return From Cuba IACHR Slams Peru's De Facto Government for Human Rights Violations Against Protesters South African Court Rules in Favor of NUMSA and Others in Load Shedding Case, Asks State to Ensure Power Supply to Critical Facilities Iran and Syria Call for …
(2023-05-09). UN Visits Minneapolis To Investigate Human Rights After Pressure Campaign. popularresistance.org Minneapolis, Minnesota – United Nations human rights investigators visited six U.S. cities that have been in the spotlight in recent years for police-involved killings of African Americans. The Minnesota visit comes after Twin Cities based activists organized petitions and letters to get the human rights panel to include Minneapolis in its tour. | On May 2, the Urban League in North Minneapolis hosted two United Nations' (UN) panelists and a room full of members of the Twin Cities Black American and African communities, along with the press, for a community listening session. At least 80 people were in attendance…
(2023-05-09). U.S. a benchmark in disregarding and violating human rights: Chinese FM. ecns.cn The U.S. is by no means a model of respecting and protecting human rights, but a typical example of disregarding and violating human rights.
(2023-05-08). Project Invictus: Inside the UK's Human Rights Busting Campaign to Spy on Refugees. libya360.wordpress.com Kit Klarenberg In recent months, the British government's war on refugees has included a relentless deluge of vicious xenophobic rhetoric from ministers and human rights-busting, UN-condemned legislation in the form of the Illegal Migration Bill, and is seemingly intensifying with each passing day. Despite backlash from the public and certain sections of the media, this virulent…
(2023-05-08). Amid Growing Anti-Immigrant Hate, 8 Killed as Driver Plows Into Group Near Migrant Shelter in Texas. democracynow.org 
We get an update from South Texas, where eight people were killed and at least 10 more injured Sunday in Brownsville after a driver rammed his SUV into a group of people near a shelter for migrants. The incident comes just days before the Trump-era Title 42 policy is set to expire and more migrants are expected to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border. "I can only describe it as a hate crime. It was motivated by hate," Jennifer Harbury, a longtime human rights lawyer and activist with the Angry Tias and Abuelas, says of the car-ramming attack. She also talks about the history of U.S. interventions i…
(2023-05-09). Free Cuba to Free Ourselves. By: Calvin Wu. midwesternmarx.com 
We left Havana on May 3. Tired after days of seminars, meetings with locals, and cultural activities, I was able to begin unpacking and relax, unlike many others returning home to the United States who ended up being detained at the airports of Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Newark. They were granted special permission to visit Cuba under the US blockade that has been in place for more than sixty years (except for a short reprieve from 2014—2017). Yet, despite legal documents and …
(2023-05-09). More US Activists Face Harassment By Authorities Upon Return From Cuba. popularresistance.org On May 7, several members of the US-based National Network on Cuba (NNOC) who had participated in the May Day Brigade, were detained and harassed by US Customs and Border Patrol upon arrival to the United States from Cuba. | The NNOC released a public statement on the evening of May 7, emphasizing that "In face of persecution, we reaffirm our right to travel to Cuba. Solidarity is not a crime — the US blockade is!" They added that several of the people who were detained by CBP also had their electronics seized and some were even threatened with jail time. | The harassment of their brigade members comes just…
(2023-05-08). Former Palestinian prisoner Etaf Alayan launches hunger strike to demand the release of Khader Adnan's body and the detained martyrs' bodies. samidoun.net 
Former Palestinian prisoner and long-term hunger striker Etaf Alayan launched a hunger strike on Sunday, 7 May, outside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Al-Bireh, occupied Palestine, to demand the release of the body of Khader Adnan and his fellow detained martyrs in the occupation's morgues. "I will not stop …
(2023-05-08). The Coronation Not Seen on TV: Anti-Monarchists Arrested; Slavery & Colonization Reparations Demanded. democracynow.org 
Police in England arrested at least 52 people Saturday around the coronation of King Charles, including numerous anti-monarchy activists who say they were detained before they even started protesting. Charles and his wife Camilla were crowned king and queen in a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey that is expected to cost over £100 million, or about $125 million USD, taking place against the backdrop of a severe cost-of-living crisis in the U.K. Despite growing disinterest in the monarchy, criticism of the institution has been very "muted" in the mainstream U.K. media, says Priya Gopal, Cambrid…
(2023-05-09). New Hampshire Republicans want to erase Communist leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from history. peoplesworld.org 
CONCORD, N.H. (AP)—A historical marker dedicated to a New Hampshire labor activist who championed women's rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union—but who also joined the Communist Party and was sent to prison—has drawn objections from Republican officials and scrutiny from the governor. Known as "The Rebel Girl" for her fiery …
(2023-05-09). Brazilian 'Freedom Rocker' Rita Lee Died. telesurenglish.net On Monday night, Rita Lee Jones, known as one of the most popular figures in Brazilian music, died at the age of 75 after suffering from lung cancer. | RELATED: | "Rita Lee left us. She was ever-changing, revolutionary, democratic, defender of women's rights, defender of animals, defender of sexual freedom. She was bold, creative, shameless, and great. I send you an ecological hug by telepathy to the rings of Saturn, wh…
(2023-05-09). 71 Argentineans learn to read and write with Cuban literacy method. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The government of the Argentinean province of Tierra del Fuego informed that 71 people learned to write and reade with Cuba's Yo si puedo (Yes, I Can), and assured that the program offers more opportunities to citizens and guarantees rights.
(2023-05-09). Thursday 5/11: #HumanRights: Ending Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Centering Disability. indybay.org Livestream event…
(2023-05-08). Texas House Passes Bill to Allow Election Workers to Carry Guns at Polling Sites. truthout.org On Friday, lawmakers in the Texas House passed a bill that would allow certain election workers to carry handguns in a proposal that voting rights advocates say would decrease voter participation and create an atmosphere of intimidation at polling sites. The Republican-sponsored bill would allow election judges, or the presiding officer at a polling place, and some poll workers to carry handguns… |
(2023-05-08). Protecting affirmative action is key to protecting democracy. cpusa.org 
There is a multi-dimensional attack on affirmative action underway today. Affirmative action represents a group of wins by the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and worker-led civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s addressing the enforced denial of access for African Americans and others to voting, jobs, education, and housing. Affirmative action was a step …
(2023-05-09). Massachusetts Activists Demand An End To Sanctions In Latin America. progressivehub.net CELINA DELLA CROCE | PEOPLES DISPATCH…
(2023-05-09). Brazilian 'Freedom Rocker' Rita Lee Died. telesurenglish.net On Monday night, Rita Lee Jones, known as one of the most popular figures in Brazilian music, died at the age of 75 after suffering from lung cancer. | RELATED: | "Rita Lee left us. She was ever-changing, revolutionary, democratic, defender of women's rights, defender of animals, defender of sexual freedom. She was bold, creative, shameless, and great. I send you an ecological hug by telepathy to the rings of Saturn, wh…
(2023-05-09). 71 Argentineans learn to read and write with Cuban literacy method. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The government of the Argentinean province of Tierra del Fuego informed that 71 people learned to write and reade with Cuba's Yo si puedo (Yes, I Can), and assured that the program offers more opportunities to citizens and guarantees rights.
(2023-05-09). Thursday 5/11: #HumanRights: Ending Solitary Confinement in Prisons and Centering Disability. indybay.org Livestream event…
(2023-05-08). Texas House Passes Bill to Allow Election Workers to Carry Guns at Polling Sites. truthout.org On Friday, lawmakers in the Texas House passed a bill that would allow certain election workers to carry handguns in a proposal that voting rights advocates say would decrease voter participation and create an atmosphere of intimidation at polling sites. The Republican-sponsored bill would allow election judges, or the presiding officer at a polling place, and some poll workers to carry handguns… |
(2023-05-08). Protecting affirmative action is key to protecting democracy. cpusa.org There is a multi-dimensional attack on affirmative action underway today. Affirmative action represents a group of wins by the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and worker-led civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s addressing the enforced denial of access for African Americans and others to voting, jobs, education, and housing. Affirmative action was a step …
(2023-05-09). Massachusetts Activists Demand An End To Sanctions In Latin America. progressivehub.net CELINA DELLA CROCE | PEOPLES DISPATCH…
(2023-05-09). China firmly opposes illegal sanctions, long-arm jurisdiction over China on grounds of China-Russia cooperation: FM. ecns.cn Wang made the remarks in response to some foreign media outlets, including the Financial Times, which reported that the EU has proposed sanctions on Chinese companies accused of selling equipment that could be used in weapons to support Russia.
(2023-05-08). Activists demand US Representative Jim McGovern take action against sanctions. peoplesdispatch.org 
May 28, 2023 will mark exactly two years to the date of Rep. Jim McGovern's His…
(2023-05-08). Media organizations from Global South discuss solidarity and standing up to sanctions. peoplesdispatch.org 
At an event in Shanghai, representatives of media organizations from Asia, Africa, and Latin America highlighted the need for learning from and working with each other and building infrastructure to resist western hegemony…
(2023-05-08). Military Situation In Syria On May 8, 2023 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On May 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense recorded no cases of hostilities and ceasefire violations in the Idlib region in the past 24 hours; | There will be no normalization of relations with the Pro-Assad forces without a political solution in accordance with UN resolutions, according to the European Commission; | US rejects Syria's readmission into Arab League and stressed that it would not drop its sanctions against Damascus; | On May 8, SAA artillery shelled positions…
(2023-05-09). Talk World Radio: James Bamford on Israelgate and Nordstream. scheerpost.com 
By David Swanson / Let's Try Democracy This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Israelgate and Nordstream. Our guest, journalist James Bamford, has a new book called Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence, and recent articles in The Nation, one called "The Candidate and the Spy," another "The Nord Stream Explosions: …