Editor (2023-07-23). Young People Should Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act. scheerpost.com By Jason Kelley / Electronic Frontier Foundation Next week, Congress plans to move a bill forward that is opposed by dozens of organizations, digital rights protectors, LGBTQ+ activists, and human rights defenders: the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). As we've written before, KOSA would lead to censorship and privacy invasions for all social media users. But the most …

teleSUR (2023-07-23). Guantanamo Features Most Flagrant Human Rights Violation. telesurenglish.net Jose Ramon Cabanas, director of Cuba's Center for International Policy (CIPI), denounced that the prison at the Naval Station Guantanamo Bay sees the most flagrant violation of human rights perpetrated by the U.S. administration. | RELATED: | "This is a topic that has been presented again before the international community, but it is one of the longest human rights violations in U.S. history," Cabanas recalled. | Sp…

Anonymous669 (2023-07-23). 17 Government Fighters Killed Or Wounded In Blast Near Gaz Field In Central Syria. southfront.org Illustrative image. | On July 22, eight Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters were killed when a blast hit a bus that was carrying them in Syria's central region. | The deadly blast took place near Tuinan gas field, which is located right on the administrative border between Hama, Homs and Raqqa. In addition to the eight fatalities, nine soldiers and pro-government fighters were wounded. | The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and other pro-opposition news sou…

mforinoco (2023-07-22). BP Financed Colombian Military. orinocotribune.com By John McEvoy — Jul 19, 2023 | Documents reveal how the oil company offered to finance Bogota's military as it was killing opponents during the 1990s and collaborated with a general accused of kidnap, torture and murder, John McEvoy reports. | BP offered to aid Colombia's "national defence activities" when the country had the worst human rights record in the Western hemisphere | Foreign Office promised to "do anything we could to help BP operate smoothly in Colombia" | Colombian trade unionist who holds BP partly responsible for his kidnapping and torture tells Declassified he hopes "BP will be judged for i…

teleSUR, SH (2023-07-22). Colombia reporta 92 líderes sociales en primeros meses del 2023. telesurtv.net De acuerdo a la Defensoría del Pueblo el departamento del Cauca reporta 17 líderes y defensores de Derechos humanos asesinados.

Brenda Norrell (2023-07-23). United Nations Hears Testimony on Violations of Indigenous Rights by Governments, Police. indybay.org The United Nations heard testimony from Indigenous Peoples around the world, on the devastation from mining, ongoing genocide, and murder by federal agents and militarized forces, during this week's session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-23). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…

Rhoda Wilson (2023-07-23). Dutch economist let the cat out of the bag about "carbon emission rights" expose-news.com In August 2022, Dutch economist Barbara Baarsma appeared on BNR Newsradio to explain her plan for the carbon dioxide wallet. In doing so, Baarsma, who was CEO of Rabo Carbon Bank until …

Aallyah Wright (2023-07-22). White Leaders Prevent an Alabama Town's First Black Mayor From Serving. truthout.org Newbern, Alabama — There's a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town's first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall. After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of… |

Carolyn Marie Peterson (2023-07-22). What is a Woman? — A War on Biological Reality is being fought by Misogynistic & Child Abusing Men. expose-news.com As a steadfast advocate for women's rights and gender equality for decades, my journey has taken me through tides of societal change. I've witnessed the evolution of the feminist narrative, growing from …

Art Persyko (2023-07-22). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

Dongsheng News (2023-07-22). China Plans to Reach the Moon in 2030. dissidentvoice.org This week's News on China. | ‚Ä¢ US companies call for end to sanctions on China | ‚Ä¢ China's GDP grows 5.5% in the first half of 2023 | ‚Ä¢ China plans to reach the Moon in 2030 | ‚Ä¢ Shijiazhuang: City of Rock…

Vanessa Beeley (2023-07-22). BBC Normalizes a Terrorist Organization to Frame Syrian President — Updated. orinocotribune.com By Vanessa Beely — Jul 15, 2023 | The BBC appears to work in lockstep with US and UK deep state to facilitate new raft of sanctions against Syria. | Finally, could I get a comment from the BBC please about why a BBC documentary failed to inform their audience that the organisation interviewed in Idlib, Syria are, in reality. the intelligence arm of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) a UK and US proscribed terrorist organisation formerly Jabhat Al Nusra (Al Qaeda) and that the individuals interviewed are responsible for war crimes in Syria including the murder of children in Idlib? | The above is taken from an email…

scorinoco (2023-07-22). Governor of Zulia State Wants End of Sanctions That Are Destroying Venezuela's Industrial Production. orinocotribune.com

Lowkey (2023-07-21). The True Cost of Julian Assange's Persecution: An Exclusive Interview with Stella Assange. mintpressnews.com Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world's most famous political prisoner.

Editor (2023-07-21). 'Israel Is an Apartheid State': Progressives Explain Decision to Boycott Israeli President's Speech. scheerpost.com "It's contradictory to claim to support human rights when you're arming the oppressors with billions of dollars of bullets and bombs," said Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-21). Death toll mounts in Kenya as police intensify crackdown on protests against US-IMF backed tax regime. peoplesdispatch.org After police killed six protesters and arrested more than 300 on July 19, Kenya's left and human rights group warned of a resurgent police state. Kenyans have been protesting President William Ruto's Finance Act that increases taxes on essential goods…

teleSUR, JDO (2023-07-22). Mujeres de América Latina y el Caribe examinan estrategias de lucha. telesurtv.net Promueven la lucha por los derechos y emancipación de las mujeres, así como un espacio regional soberano y libre de la intervención imperialista.

teleSUR, SH (2023-07-22). Colombia reporta 92 líderes sociales en primeros meses del 2023. telesurtv.net De acuerdo a la Defensoría del Pueblo el departamento del Cauca reporta 17 líderes y defensores de Derechos humanos asesinados.

Staff (2023-07-21). "Immensely Invisible": Immigrant Women in ICE Jails Face Sexual Abuse Despite Reforms, Report Reveals. democracynow.org A damning new investigation by journalists Maria Hinojosa and Zeba Warsi examines how immigration officials have failed to properly address complaints of sexual abuse from people held in detention centers. The report from Futuro Investigates and Latino USA details how women in jails run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have been sexually abused, often in a medical setting when they are at their most vulnerable. It comes more than a decade after Hinojosa's report for PBS Frontline about sexual abuse in ICE detention. But allegations of abuse have continued. "If you complain, you are goin…

Amy Goodman (2023-07-21). Reforms Have Failed to Prevent Sexual Abuse in ICE Jails, Report Reveals. truthout.org A damning new investigation by journalists Maria Hinojosa and Zeba Warsi examines how immigration officials have failed to properly address complaints of sexual abuse from people held in detention centers. The report from Futuro Investigates and Latino USA details how women in jails run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have been sexually abused, often in a medical setting when they… |

Art Persyko (2023-07-22). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

Carolyn Marie Peterson (2023-07-22). What is a Woman? — A War on Biological Reality is being fought by Misogynistic & Child Abusing Men. expose-news.com As a steadfast advocate for women's rights and gender equality for decades, my journey has taken me through tides of societal change. I've witnessed the evolution of the feminist narrative, growing from …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-22). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…

Staff (2023-07-21). Headlines for July 21, 2023. democracynow.org Russia Targets Ukrainian Grain Supplies; Ukraine Starts Deploying U.S.-Supplied Cluster Bombs, Nebraska Teen Who Used Abortion Pill Gets Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail, Women Suing Texas over Abortion Ban Share Harrowing Personal Accounts, Florida's New Black History Standards Say Slavery Had "Personal Benefit", Florida Rights Groups Sue over Law Cracking Down on Immigrant Communities, Florida Rights Group Sue for Illegal Intimidation of People with Felonies Seeking to Vote, GA to Purge Nearly 200,000 Voters; AL Legislature Ignores SCOTUS Redistricting Order, Alabama Executes James Barber as It Re…

Ana Perdigón (2023-07-21). Venezuela's National Assembly Approves New Tax Law Aimed at Safeguarding Citizen Rights and Fostering Economic Growth. orinocotribune.com The National Assembly of Venezuela has approved the Organic Law for the Coordination and Harmonization of the Tax Powers of the States and Municipalities. | The law was approved by the National Assembly during a second round of discussions on Tuesday, July 18. It is aimed at protecting the rights of Venezuelan people embroiled in tax issues. | Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the National Assembly, emphasized that the primary objective of this law is to establish a systematic framework for tax regulations while safeguarding the rights of individuals, merchants, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Additionally,…

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

Trisha Trigilio (2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a Why was there a lawsuit over it?: | Despite broad support for this law, including support from victims' rights advocates, law enforcement officials filed multiple lawsu…

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-21). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org

Staff (2023-07-21). Headlines for July 21, 2023. democracynow.org Russia Targets Ukrainian Grain Supplies; Ukraine Starts Deploying U.S.-Supplied Cluster Bombs, Nebraska Teen Who Used Abortion Pill Gets Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail, Women Suing Texas over Abortion Ban Share Harrowing Personal Accounts, Florida's New Black History Standards Say Slavery Had "Personal Benefit", Florida Rights Groups Sue over Law Cracking Down on Immigrant Communities, Florida Rights Group Sue for Illegal Intimidation of People with Felonies Seeking to Vote, GA to Purge Nearly 200,000 Voters; AL Legislature Ignores SCOTUS Redistricting Order, Alabama Executes James Barber as It Re…

Ana Perdigón (2023-07-21). Venezuela's National Assembly Approves New Tax Law Aimed at Safeguarding Citizen Rights and Fostering Economic Growth. orinocotribune.com The National Assembly of Venezuela has approved the Organic Law for the Coordination and Harmonization of the Tax Powers of the States and Municipalities. | The law was approved by the National Assembly during a second round of discussions on Tuesday, July 18. It is aimed at protecting the rights of Venezuelan people embroiled in tax issues. | Jorge Rodríguez, the president of the National Assembly, emphasized that the primary objective of this law is to establish a systematic framework for tax regulations while safeguarding the rights of individuals, merchants, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. Additionally,…

Mike Ludwig (2023-07-21). 60 Years After the March on Washington, 1 in 3 Black Children Live in Poverty. truthout.org Conservatives today would have you believe the civil rights movement of the 1960s was so successful that systemic racism is a problem of the past. Every February, white Republicans observe Black History Month by twisting famous lines from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech to serve their own agendas. The Constitution is "colorblind," they claim, and if this flies in the face of… |

Trisha Trigilio (2023-07-21). The Illinois Supreme Court Cash Bail Ruling, Explained. aclu.org Under a Why was there a lawsuit over it?: | Despite broad support for this law, including support from victims' rights advocates, law enforcement officials filed multiple lawsu…

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-21). When The Welfare Rights Movement Was Force For Uplifting The Poor. popularresistance.org

Press Associates (2023-07-21). Union-backed coalition throws weight behind effort to revive Freedom to Vote Act. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—Four big unions—the Teachers (AFT), the Communications Workers, the Service Employees, and AFSCME—plus Pride at Work and the Working Families Party, were among 260 groups who renewed their support for a wide-ranging pro-voting rights bill in D.C. this week. The Freedom to Vote Act, pushed by congressional Democratic leaders, was expected to come up …

Teri Mattson, WtF is Going on in Latin America, the Caribbean. (2023-07-22). Nicaragua's School For Food Sovereignty. popularresistance.org Friday, June 30, WTF returned to Managua, Nicaragua to do follow-up study of Caribbean Coast government funded infrastructure projects and to celebrate the 44th Anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution on July 19. While on assignment, each week we will share with you segments of the documentary Nicaragua Against Empire. The film journals our March 2021 Sanctions Kill / Friends of the ATC, Nicaragua delegation. | This episode is an inside look at the Latin American Institute of Agroecology (IALA) Ixim Ulew in Chontales, Nicaragua. | Ixim Ulew means "Land of Corn" in Maya K'iche', paying homage to the Indigenous pe…

Luis De Jesus Reyes (2023-07-21). Does religious freedom exist in Cuba? peoplesdispatch.org In a report published in December 2022, the State Department placed the island on its Washington affirms that in the Caribbean country there is no "religious freedom", but Cuban religious leaders who spoke to CLARIDAD, have a different opinion, assuring that this is an excuse to damage the image of the Caribbean country and justify the imposition of more sanctions.