presstv.ir (2023-11-25). Iran's top rights official: Criminal Israeli leaders must stand trial. presstv.ir Iran's top human rights official says criminal Israeli authorities must be brought to trial for their atrocities against Palestinians.

Ileana Ferrer Fonte (2023-11-24). Argentine organization sues to end US blockade against Cuba. plenglish.com Buenos Aires, Nov 24 (Prensa Latina) The Argentine League for Human Rights joined organizations worldwide that demand an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade the United States has imposed on Cuba for over six decades.

Jessica Buxbaum, MintPress News. (2023-11-24). These Are Western Countries Aiding Israel's Genocide In Gaza. popularresistance.org Now into its second month, Israel's war on Gaza has left the strip's northern section in shambles and killed over 14,000 Palestinians, with the majority being women and children. While Israel is launching the attacks on Gaza, several Western powers are also involved in the assault behind the scenes. MintPress News takes a deep dive into the countries sustaining Israel's war. Since Israel's war on Gaza began in October, several rights groups have initiated legal proceedings regarding arms exports to Israel. | On Nov. 6, Palestinian human rights organizations, Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Pales…

Sahar Qeshta (2023-11-24). My kind neighbor was tortured while working in Israel. electronicintifada.net Released by Israel, Gaza workers imprisoned after 7 October tell stories of beatings and humiliation.

teleSUR, rzr, MS (2023-11-25). Presidente cubano se reúne con representante de Derechos Humanos. telesurtv.net El encuentro coincidió con la celebración en La Habana, en la misma jornada, del IV Diálogo de Derechos Humanos entre Cuba y la Unión Europea.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-11-24). Sindicatos de educación y salud exigen derechos en Perú. telesurtv.net Ante la desatención del sector y el incumplimiento de promesas, el Sutep ha convocado a un Paro Nacional.

Anonymous Contributor (2023-11-25). Indigenous Activists Detained in Oaxaca Following Gathering on Political Prisoners. itsgoingdown.org Report on repression of indigenous activists in Oaxaca, Mexico following a conference on political prisoners. On Tuesday, November 21st 2023 three Indigenous land defenders were kidnapped by the State in their hometown of Eloxochitlán (Nguixo), a Mazatec community in Northern Oaxaca. For nine years, Jaime Vidauria Romero, Artemio Vidauria Romero and Ranulfo Vidauria Estrada have…

Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. (2023-11-25). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 49: Four-Day Truce Begins In Gaza. popularresistance.org A planned four-day temporary ceasefire mediated by Qatar began at 7 a.m. on Friday in the Gaza Strip after 48 days of relentless bombardment and fighting. | A first batch of hostages is expected to be released by Hamas and Israel on Friday afternoon, as part of a prisoner exchange deal that is set to see the exchange of 50 Israelis held by Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza since October 7 with 150 Palestinian women and children detained in Israeli prisons. | At 4 p.m. local time, 13 Israeli women and children are scheduled to be taken to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, then flown back to Israel via heli…

Staff (2023-11-25). 39 Palestinian prisoners in first day of exchange achieved by Palestinian Resistance. samidoun.net On Friday, 24 November, with the start of the four-day "humanitarian pause" in the ongoing Zionist genocide on Gaza, the Palestinian Resistance extracted the liberation of women and children prisoners jailed by the Israeli occupation. Today, 39 prisoners were released in exchange for a group of Israelis detained by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza; each …

Arturo Dominguez, Unicorn Riot. (2023-11-25). FBI Labels Anti-Fascists And Anti-Racists As Violent Extremists. popularresistance.org A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled "Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide" links common protest symbols to "terrorism" — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Brennan Center have raised warnings about such documents, citing inadequate protections for people's constitutional rights. | In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on July 27 (PDF), the ACLU voiced deep concern ab…

The Lancet (2023-11-25). Editorial] Drug decriminalisation: grounding policy in evidence. thelancet.com The Global Commission on Drug Policy's latest report, published ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec 1, describes decriminalisation of drug use as an essential precursor to ending HIV and viral hepatitis as public health threats. Since its formation in 2011 by political, economic, and cultural leaders, the Commission has advocated for decriminalisation as part of a rights-based approach to drug policy, rooted in scientific evidence and principles of public health, to minimise the harms arising from drug use.

WSWS (2023-11-25). Legal challenge to Australian government's new laws to impose inhuman conditions on released refugees. wsws.org The court challenge underscores the readiness of the ruling political establishment to override even the extremely limited protections of legal and democratic rights in the 1901 Constitution.

Ann Brown (2023-11-24). Transforming East Detroit: How Raphael Wright's Personal Health Battle Inspired The Creation Of Neighborhood Grocery. moguldom.com In the heart of Detroit's east side, a transformative initiative is taking shape, poised to impact residents' lives profoundly. Raphael Wright, a Detroit native, is on a mission to combat the pervasive issue of food insecurity in his community through the launch of Neighborhood Grocery. Wright's journey began with a personal health battle. Diagnosed with …

Derek Seidman (2023-11-24). Private Equity Is Using Prison Phone, Food and Health Systems to Rack Up Profits. truthout.org Private equity firms, one of the most powerful arms of Wall Street, have become key adversaries of movements from labor rights to climate action to housing justice. With their wealthy CEOs and aggressive cost-cutting tactics aimed at delivering big returns, these firms are one of the most rapacious expressions of financial profiteering today. This makes it all the more alarming that private equity… |

Derrick Broze (2023-11-24). Who Owns Your Children? The Government Keeps Acting Like It Does. thelastamericanvagabond.com Governments across the world continue to take actions that reflect the belief that it is not parents who are the guardians of their children but the state itself. In September, the First Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a high-profile case regarding whether a school violated parents' constitutional rights by actively encouraging their 11-year-old

Jocelyn James, Scheer Post. (2023-11-24). Environmental Pollution Lawsuit May Pump The Brakes On Cop City. popularresistance.org Earlier this month, the South River Watershed Alliance (SRWA) filed a civil rights complaint against the city of Atlanta, saying the rapid construction of a police training facility, locally known as Cop City, has caused environmental destruction to the surrounding community. The SRWA filed the complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and says the project's location constitutes environmental racism. The facility's construction is planned for a predominantly Black residential area, despite the investors and organizers of the project hailing from mostly white residential areas, and a proposed 43% of…

Jordan Atwood (2023-11-24). Chaco Canyon's future: a pledge for environmental justice and tribal rights. nationofchange.org Amid environmental concerns and cultural significance, the Honoring Chaco Initiative aims to transform the Greater Chaco Landscape, but real progress remains in limbo.

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-11-24). China Warns US, Philippines Not To Harm Its Sovereignty, Rights. orinocotribune.com By Yang Sheng and Liu Xuanzun — Nov 22, 2023 | Joint patrol shows 'poor military capability, nothing meaningful but bluffing' | China on Wednesday warned the US and the Philippines that their recent joint naval patrols near Chinese territorial waters should not harm China's sovereignty and maritime interests, with analysts saying the military activities by Washington and Manila showed the two countries have no sincerity to ease tension. | Chinese military experts said the vessels and aircrafts that are participating in the patrol showed poor combat capability and lack of effective collaborative capacity betw…

Ramzy Baroud (2023-11-24). How Gaza United the World. counterpunch.org For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective rights for freedom, equality and justice, the Palestinian struggle was

Rhoda Wilson (2023-11-24). EU Digital Identity: Eurocrats want to create a regime in which citizens are increasingly controlled by Brussels. expose-news.com The agreement between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the EU Digital Identity Wallet is open to abuse and gives Brussels the ability to deny people rights …

Staff (2023-11-24). Ta-Nehisi Coates and Rashid Khalidi on Israeli Occupation, Apartheid & the 100-Year War on Palestine. democracynow.org In this special broadcast, we air excerpts from a recent event organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature at the Union Theological Seminary here in New York. The event featured a discussion between the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. Coates won the National Book Award for his book Between the World and Me. Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia. His books include The Hundred Years' War on Palestine. Their conversation was moderated by civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander.

Staff (2023-11-24). "The Mandates of Conscience": Michelle Alexander on Israel, Gaza, MLK & Speaking Out in a Time of War. democracynow.org "But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience." That was the name of a recent event organized by the Palestine Festival of Literature here in New York, where leading writers and academics came together to speak out against Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Speakers included Yasmin El-Rifae of PalFest and the civil rights attorney Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Maria Paez Victor (2023-11-24). ExxonMobil's Land Grab. counterpunch.org Attacks on Venezuela by the USA and its allies include 930 illegal sanctions that shut the country out from international finance blocking it from buying medicines, food or producing or selling its oil. Also there have been direct and indirect support for coup d'etat attempts, street violence leading to murders and injuries, cyberattacks on its

Pressenza Athens (2023-11-22). The International Tribunal on the US sanctions against the Republic of Cuba. pressenza.com The extensive political and economic sanctions imposed on the Republic of Cuba since 1960 up to date violate international law. These include, above all, Articles 2(4) and 2(7) of the UN Charter on the protection of sovereignty, self-determination and the prohibition of intervention, the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966, as well as the provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the protection of freedom of trade and numerous principles of the Treaty on European Union (TEU, Maastrich…

Melvin Goodman (2023-11-22). Biden and the Washington Post Combine to Argue for War. counterpunch.org David Ignatius, the Washington Post's national security columnist, has been an apologist for the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency for the past several decades. In the past, he has defended the CIA's political assassination program as well as its torture and abuse program. He never condemned the CIA training of death squads in Central America and never deplored the Phoenix program during the Vietnam War, when the CIA ran a paramilitary campaign of interrogation, torture, and assassination that targeted many innocent victims. Now, he has a new client—the Israeli Defense Forces—and the IDF co…

Staff (2023-11-22). UP: Hindu extremists abduct and torture Muslim man in Hapur. muslimmirror.com On October 17, 2023, in Mauja Nidhooli, Tehsil Dhaolana, Hapur district, Uttar Pradesh, Muhammad Nadim bin Babu fell victim to the heinous acts of some Hindu extremist goons from the neighbouring village of Hay. The perpetrators, identified as Bini Sharma, Deepanshu Sharma, Prince Sharma, and several others, abducted Nadim from Nidhooli during the night and …

teleSUR, YSM (2023-11-23). Presidente Maduro destaca que el 3 de diciembre marcará un precedente en la historia de Venezuela. telesurtv.net "Venezuela está reclamando sus derechos históricos, jurídicos, de la Guayana Esequiba que nos dejaron los libertadores y los libertadoras de nuestra Patria", manifestó.

Al Mayadeen, Orinoco Tribune. (2023-11-22). Yemeni Armed Forces Capture Israeli Ship In Red Sea. popularresistance.org The Yemeni Naval Forces managed to capture an Israeli ship in the depths of the Red Sea, sources familiar with the matter told Al Mayadeen on Sunday. | Reportedly, 52 people aboard the Israeli ship, presumably a vehicle carrier, were detained, Al Mayadeen's sources added, revealing that the Yemeni Armed Forces were working on revealing their identities and nationalities. | The ship is called the Galaxy Leader. It is Bahamian-flagged but owned by an Israeli businessman. | "Await what will warm your hearts," a Yemeni military source said, confirming the authenticity of the news Al Mayadeen reported.

Editor (2023-11-22). Tel Aviv police ban World Children's Day event supporting "children living in the shadow of the war" mronline.org Tel Aviv police refused to allow a silent vigil for World Children's Day saying the event could "cause serious harm to public security." Police have used this same rationale to attack and detain peaceful protesters around the country.

Larry Johnson (2023-11-22). Israel Accepts Cease fire Deal to Secure Release OF SOME HOSTAGEs. sonar21.com I would like to have been a fly on the wall of the Tuesday night meeting of the Israeli Cabinet. That meeting lasted well over three hours and pitted Netanyahu against the more radical members of his government. According to Haaretz: | The Israeli cabinet has voted to accept a deal for a temporary cease-fire with Hamas that would involve the exchange of hostages being held by the organization for Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. According to a senior Israeli official, the plan will see Hamas release 30 kidnapped children, eight mothers and 12 more women during a five-day cease-fire. | According to th…

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-11-22). 'Israel' Assassinates Prisoner Thaer Abu Asab in Al-Naqab Prison. orinocotribune.com The Prisoners Club says the Israeli occupation is carrying out systematic operations against Palestinian prisoners. | The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Club announced that Israeli occupation forces assassinated 38-year-old prisoner Thaer Sameeh Abu Asab from Qalqilya province in the al-Naqab Desert prison. | Israeli occupation forces arrested Abu Asab on May 27, 2005, and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. It is noteworthy that Abu Asab is the sixth prisoner to be assassinated by the Israeli occupation, following the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood o…

Giorgos Mitralias (2023-11-22). When Netanyahu Accustoms Us to an Inhuman World Without Rights or Rules, the Law of the Jungle Reigns! counterpunch.org While the operation to exterminate and ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in Gaza has — quite rightly — monopolized the world's attention for weeks, little or no attention is being paid to one of its crucial objectives, which is passing rather unnoticed: the habituation of our societies and of each and every one of us, i.e.

Deepak Bhargava, Stephanie Luce (2023-11-22). Why We Need Bayard Rustin's Practical Radicalism Today. counterpunch.org Ask most Americans what they think of "radicals" and you'll hear skepticism. Ask them about "practical radicals," and you might get a chuckle. Surely practical people don't try to change society in dramatic ways? A new film and books about Bayard Rustin, an organizer and strategist in civil rights, peace, and economic justice movements, bring

infobrics (2023-11-22). Ukraine will not recognize rights of Russian citizens. infobrics.org According to the words of a Ukrainian official, the regime is willing to continue its policies of apartheid and ethnic persecution.

Jessica Buxbaum (2023-11-22). These Are Western Countries Aiding Israel's Genocide in Gaza. mintpressnews.com Now into its second month, Israel's war on Gaza has left the strip's northern section in shambles and killed over Who is sending Israel weapons?: | Since Israel's war on Gaza began in October, several rights groups have initiated legal proceedings re…

Johanna Silver (2023-11-22). 2023 at the ACLU: Our Year in Stories. aclu.org Across the country, 2023 saw both new and ongoing challenges to civil rights, whether it was reproductive freedom, access to gender-affirming health care, or the ability to speak openly and freely in classrooms. But the ACLU has been there every step of the way, and we've seen many victories amid these challenges. Throughout the year, we brought attention to some of the country's biggest fights to protect our rights, shared the stories of those whose freedoms were assailed, and celebrated hard-won battles. Look back with us on some of the civil rights moments that defined this year. |
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WSWS (2023-11-23). US appeals court guts Voting Rights Act. wsws.org With the Eighth Circuit ruling, a new stage in the assault on the Voting Rights Act and democratic rights more broadly has been initiated.