(2024-07-17). No pride in genocide: Disability rights activists demand justice for Palestine. workers.org 
Somerville, Massachusetts — Dozens of disability justice and pro-Palestine activists gathered outside Somerville City Hall, on July 11 to demand an end to U.S support for the ongoing Zionist genocide in Gaza, which has killed and disabled hundreds of thousands of people. Disabled Palestinians are being disproportionately harmed, lacking even . . . |
(2024-07-17). A brief history of 'human animals': From Peru to Gaza genocide>. newarab.com 
One of the images that haunts modern Peru is that of stray dogs: caught, tortured, strangled, and In propaganda leaflets, the Shining Path insurgency — which waged war on the Peruvian peasantry and the state from 1980 until 1992 — noted that these dogs were meant to These reformist traitors — including Deng Xiaoping, Hu Yaobang and Z…
(2024-07-17). West wants to eradicate Palestinians. presstv.ir EU foreign policy Chief Josep Borrell expresses his "utter dismay" at the plight facing Palestinians, but again stops short of indicating any sanction against the Israeli regime.
(2024-07-17). Human Rights Watch: At least five Palestinian groups committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Oct. 7 attacks. haaretz.com The group's new report rebuts Hamas' claims that its combatants were instructed not to harm children, women and the elderly and states that the killing of civilians was systematic, premeditated and deliberate…
(2024-07-17). Torture, hunger, humiliation: Freed Palestinians recount Israeli jail conditions. presstv.ir The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has treated 13 people, including an elderly woman, who were released at the Kissufim checkpoint in central Gaza.
(2024-07-17). Israel charges one, detains two, for Iran intelligence links. newarab.com 
Israeli authorities on Tuesday charged one Israeli and detained two others for The agency said Iran has sought in recent months to recruit Israelis to carry out missions in the country and that the person charged had been asked, but refused, to carry out a murder and set fire to a forest. | "Shin Bet and the police international inquiries unit have arreste…
(2024-07-17). Human Rights Watch Details War Crimes in Hamas-Led Attack on Israel. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-17). Who will stop Israel's illegal annexations of Palestinian land ? fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) condemns Israel's plans to annex and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, actions that constitute war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Third countries must uphold international law for the Palestinian people, or it will eventually cease to exist. FIDH call on all states to deploy all the necessary efforts in order to end Israel's settler-colonialism and apartheid, and work towards the realisation of the Palestinian (…) | – | /…
(2024-07-17). Saudi activist held in Bulgaria announces hunger strike. newarab.com 
"I began an open-ended hunger strike on July 5 in protest of the Bulgarian authorities' violation of my human rights, European laws, and international treaties," Abd al-Rahman al-Khalidi told AFP. | He was speaking by phone from the detention centre in Sofia where he has been held for nearly three years. | He called on Bulgarian authorities to "immediately and unconditionally release" him. | "I will contin…
(2024-07-17). Hamas denounces HRW 'biased' report on 7 Oct. events. newarab.com 
A report published by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday has been slammed as "biased" by Hamas, which was accused by the US-based rights group of committing "war crimes" during the In a statement on Wednesday,
(2024-07-17). Milwaukee Immigrant Rights Advocate Slams "Sickening" Rhetoric at RNC as Trump Vows Mass Deportations. democracynow.org 
Anti-immigrant hate speech and misinformation about the U.S.-Mexico border took center stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention. Donald Trump's campaign screened an ad that scapegoated migrants and asylum seekers for rising crime in the U.S. and falsely claimed Biden's so-called open border policies have facilitated the smuggling of fentanyl. Christine Neumann-Ortiz, executive director of Voces de la Frontera and Voces de la Frontera Action, says Trump's platform is "promoting hateful rhetoric" and the GOP has become a "white supremacist party and is a real…
(2024-07-17). Democracy Now! 2024-07-17 Wednesday. democracynow.org Headlines for July 17, 2024; "Politics of Hate": Writer Jean Guerrero on Anti-Immigrant Lies and Fearmongering at RNC; Trump Is Trying to "Gaslight the Black Community" About His Racist Record: Clarence Lusane; Jury Convicts NJ Senator Bob Menendez of Taking Bribes from Egypt & Qatar; Samuel Sharpe Shooting: Ohio Cops in Wisconsin for RNC Kill Unhoused Black Veteran; J.D. Vance Praised 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones as Truth-Teller in Private 2021 Speech; Milwaukee Immigrant Rights Advocate Slams "Sickening" Rhetoric at RNC as Trump Vows Mass Deportations; DNC Makes Moves…
(2024-07-17). Our Turn To Speak. indybay.org Dr. Jill Biden discusses that democracy and our Constitutional Rights could be in jeopardy if the racist, colonial RNC and MAGA regime of T**** wins the election and commentary by the writer of this article .
(2024-07-17). Paris Olympics 2024: Amnesty denounces France's hijab ban as 'discriminatory' against Muslim athletes. middleeasteye.net 
Paris Olympics 2024: Amnesty denounces France's hijab ban as 'discriminatory' against Muslim athletes | The rights group criticised the International Olympic Committee for failing to urge French sporting authorities to lift the headscarf ban on athletes | | Despite being authorised by the International Olympic Commit…
(2024-07-17). Egypt: Six detainees die in one week at detention centre. middleeasteye.net 
Egypt: Six detainees die in one week at detention centre | Egyptian rights group says detainees suffered from 'suffocation' due to overcrowding and poor ventilation | | Mohamed Farouk Hussein, aged 49, died on Monday after suffering from chest pains and breathlessness (Facebook) | Six detainees have…
(2024-07-17). Trump and MAGA plow ahead with plan for abortion ban. peoplesworld.org 
Trump and MAGA Republicans are plowing ahead full throttle with their fascist agenda to create an authoritarian Christian nationalist theocracy that bans abortions, in vitro fertilization (IVF), and contraception and runs roughshod over the privacy rights of Americans. The full-blown mass fascist party is on open and ugly display. Its embrace of the Project 2025 …
(2024-07-17). Iranian cleric, media activist detained in Saudi Arabia released. presstv.ir Saudi authorities release Iranian cleric and media activist Seyyed Kazem Rouhbakhsh, whom they detained in the kingdom during his Hajj pilgrimage.
(2024-07-17). Hamas rejects HRW report citing 'lies and blatant bias'. presstv.ir The Palestinian resistance movement demanded that Human Rights Watch (HRW) withdraw its report and apologize.
(2024-07-17). More human rights: Protocol 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
The ECHR's Additional Protocols 4, 7 and 12 have never been ratified by the UK and are not included in the schedule to the Human Rights Act 1998. This post suggests that the new government remedy this. It also sets out part of the history to the Additional Protocols, what the rights in those Protocols …
(2024-07-17). More Kenyan police deploy to tackle Haiti violence. aljazeera.com The deployment has been unpopular in Kenya, and rights groups have raised concerns over the UN-backed mission.
(2024-07-17). Belarus: Three years after their arbitrary arrest, Viasna members must be immediately released. fidh.org On July 14, 2021, the Belarusian authorities detained Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Viasna chairperson Ales Bialiatski, FIDH Vice President Valiantsin Stefanovic and Viasna lawyer Uladzimir Labkovich in an unprecedented raid against Belarusian civil society. Convicted on fabricated charges to heavy prison terms, to this day, the three human rights defenders remain unlawfully imprisoned, and are regularly subjected to severe harassment and ill-treatment. On the third anniversary of their (…) | – |
(2024-07-17). Reform and its Perils in Contemporary Islam. fairobserver.com In the latest episode of FO ∞ Podcasts, Nadia Oweidat, an intellectual historian, introduces the ideas of a prominent scholar of Islamic thought, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (1944—2010). Abu Zayd believed that Islam's trust interpretation must be one that champions universal human rights values as well as liberal democratic political norms. Oweidat's book, Reform and Its…
(2024-07-17). Cambodia: Convictions and prison sentences of ten members of Mother Nature Cambodia. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). Hamas committed numerous crimes against humanity on October 7: HRW. aljazeera.com Palestinian armed group slams the Human Rights Watch report as full of 'lies and blatant bias'.
(2024-07-17). Iran: Report on the human rights situation for the Universal Periodic Review. fidh.org On 17 July 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) submitted a report for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran.
The report, jointly prepared with the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), highlights the deteriorating human right situation in Iran since the previous UPR in November 2019.
| The report covers the following thematic areas: the judiciary and fair trial rights; the death penalty; civil society and human rights defenders; (…) | – |
(2024-07-17). Media Freedoms Should Not Be a Target in DR Congo. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Journalists attend an election rally for president President Félix Tshisekedi in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 10, 2023. | © 2023 ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images…
(2024-07-17). Thailand: Killing of prominent human rights defender Roning Dolah. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). Russia: Oleg Orlov's appeal rejected. fidh.org
(2024-07-17). Atención a las personas en situación de vulnerabilidad: Prevenir, proteger y transformar. cubadebate.cu Con la presencia de Esteban Lazo, presidente de la ANPP y del Consejo de Estado, en las comisiones de Atención a la Juventud, la Niñez y la Igualdad de Derechos de la Mujer y de Atención a los àìrganos Locales del Poder Popular, se abordaron cuestiones relacionadas con el desarrollo de la política social y los mecanismos de protección a personas, familias y hogares en situación de vulnerabilidad.