(2024-07-10). After violent crackdown, UC Santa Cruz continues to trample student and faculty rights. indybay.org In a June 12 account in Mondoweiss, Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Santa Cruz detailed the brutal, nine-hour, multi-agency police assault against unarmed protesters on their campus.
(2024-07-10). It was the Media, Led by the Guardian, that Kept Julian Assange behind Bars. dissidentvoice.org 
It is only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange's release from 14 years of detention, in varying forms, to be united, finally, with his wife and children — two boys who have been denied the chance to ever properly know their father. His last five years were …
(2024-07-10). 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 (…) | – | /…
(2024-07-10). UN says Gaza children dying in Israel's 'starvation campaign'. newarab.com 
UN rights experts on Tuesday accused Israel of carrying out a "Israel's intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in
(2024-07-10). Iran leads joint statement to recognize Zionism as racism. presstv.ir It cited the Israeli regime's extensive and systematic violation of the rights of the oppressed Palestinians.
(2024-07-10). Palestinian released from Israeli jail with signs of torture. newarab.com 
(2024-07-10). Detained Saudi royal suffers heart attack: source. newarab.com 
A detained Abdulaziz Al Saud and his son Salman have been held for six years without formal charges since Crown Prince
(2024-07-10). UAE sentences 43 to life for 'terror' links in mass trial. newarab.com 
Government critics and human rights activists were among the 84 defendants brought before the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal, most of whom have been in jail since a similar trial of 94 people i…
(2024-07-10). A.I. Systems Which Manipulate The Human Nervous System (Thoughts, Emotions, Perceptions) and Derogate Fundamental Human Rights. globalresearch.ca When masses of people's brains are controlled, the AI systems can be "used to influence the outcome of elections and voter behavior". Legislation is required which prohibits governments to manipulate at a distance human thoughts, emotions, etc.
(2024-07-10). UAE84: 43 defendants sentenced to life in second-largest trial in UAE history. middleeasteye.net 
UAE84: 43 defendants sentenced to life in second-largest trial in UAE history | Verdicts for 84 defendants were handed down in a seven-minute sentencing hearing in Abu Dhabi, according to a human rights group | | Muhammad al-Siddiq, pictured in the portrait held by an activist at the COP28 sum…
(2024-07-10). Justice for Gaza will come, assures UN Special Rapporteur. peoplesdispatch.org In a conversation with health rights organizations, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, discussed the ongoing efforts of health workers and activists to ensure justice for the Gaza Strip…
(2024-07-10). Black and progressive lawmakers ring alarm on Trump's Project 2025. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—A progressive political group is sounding the alarm on the details of Donald Trump's plans to abolish worker rights should the prospective Republican nominee triumph over Democrat Joe Biden in this fall's election. And the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists declares civil rights are threatened, too. Specifically, Trump's "Project 2025," would "curtail unions and eliminate …
(2024-07-10). Project Paglingap and Zambales Ecological Network Engage PNP & AFP to Protect Environmental Advocates. pressenza.com The Zambales Ecological Network (ZEN), in collaboration with Project Paglingap—a joint initiative of Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) and Balay Rehabilitation, funded by the European Union—organized separate meetings with the AFP Center for Law of Armed Conflict (AFPCLOAC) and the Human Rights Affairs Office of the Philippine National Police (PNP-HRAO) last June 27, 2024. The meetings aimed to introduce Project Paglingap to the security forces as a civil society undertaking that promotes 'protective care' for environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) and to secure protective support f…
(2024-07-10). UAE: Unfair Trial, Unjust Sentences. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Ahmed Mansoor plays with his children as he speaks to Reuters in Dubai November 30, 2011. | © 2011 REUTERS/Nikhil Monteiro | (Beirut) — The convictions of at least 44 defendants in the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) mass trial of at least 84 human rights defenders and political dissidents were based on a fundamentally unfair trial, a coalition of human rights groups said today. On July 10, 2024, the Abu Dhabi Federal Appeals Court meted out sentences ranging from between 15 years to life in prison in the UAE's second largest unfair mass trial.In December 2023, while hosting the…
(2024-07-10). EU Should Add Xinjiang, Aluminum to Forced Labor Database. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A guard stands in a tower on the perimeter of the Number 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. | © 2021 AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein…
(2024-07-10). TX woman who sued state over abortion ban campaigns for Democrats in Pa. whyy.org From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Amanda Zurawski, a Texas woman who nearly died carrying a nonviable fetus after she was refused an abortion under Texas's abortion ban, will be in Pennsylvania campaigning for Joe Biden this week. | Her visit is part of the Democratic Party's strategy to raise reproductive health rights as a key issue in the 2024 election. |
(2024-07-10). Labour Ministry, CSOs demand strict laws against foreign investors on human rights. independent.co.ug 
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has been called out on its failure or reluctance to act on the violation of the rights of Ugandans, environmental degradation, and poor competition practices by foreign investors especially in the extractives industry. It comes amidst persistent complaints by local workers and communities where such investments like oil …
(2024-07-10). Kazakhstan Should Reject Attempt to Curtail LGBT People's Rights. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A rainbow LGBT pride flag. | © Wikimedia Commons | In June, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Culture and Information said it was reviewing a petition, "We Are against Open and Hidden LGBT Propaganda in Kazakhstan!" initiated by the head of Kazakhstan's Union of Parents, a public association, after the petition met threshold requirements to be considered by the government.The government of Kazakhstan should reject this discriminatory and stigmatizing petition, whose proposal would violate human rights across the country.The petition, seen by Human Rights Watch, calls on Kazakh authorities t…
(2024-07-10). Labour Ministry, CSOs Demand Strict Laws Against Foreign Investors on Human Rights. plusnews.ug 
The government has been called out on its failure or reluctance to act on the violation of the rights of Ugandans, environmental degradation, and poor competition practices by foreign investors especially in the extractives industry. It comes amidst persistent complaints by local workers and communities where such investments like oil and gas, mining, energy, and …
(2024-07-10). Alarming surge in crimes against Muslims after 2024 LS Polls: APCR. ummid.com Crimes against Muslims have increased in India after the conclusion of the Lok Sabha election on June 4, 2024, Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) said in a report.
(2024-07-10). China: Government manipulates human rights review. fidh.org
(2024-07-10). China: Oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council. fidh.org On 4 July 2024, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) delivered a statement at the 56th session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council for the adoption of the report of China's Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The statement expressed disappointment over the Chinese government's rejection of numerous key recommendations made by UN member states. Read the statement below.
UN Human Rights Council — 56th session
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(2024-07-10). Georgia : Serious deterioration of the situation of human rights defenders. fidh.org In recent years, human rights defenders in Georgia have faced escalating threats and violence, exacerbated by hostile rhetoric from the government and high-ranking officials in the country. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and the Human Rights Center denounce the worsening conditions for civil society in Georgia and call on the authorities to ensure effective, timely, and objective investigations into attacks against human rights defenders and to put (…) | – |
(2024-07-10). Myanmar: Oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council. fidh.org
(2024-07-10). Refugees in Eastern Sudan at Risk. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Umm Rakouba refugee camp, hosting people who fled the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, December 14, 2020. | © 2020 Nariman EI-Mofty/AP Photo…
(2024-07-10). Burkina Faso: Journalist, Junta Critics Feared Disappeared. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Serge Oulon signing his books at the Norbert Zongo press center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 2023. | © 2023 Private | (Nairobi) — Burkina Faso authorities should urgently investigate and publicly report on the whereabouts of a journalist and two prominent critics of the country's military junta, Human Rights Watch said today.The abductions since June 18 of Serge Oulon, director of an investigative newspaper, Adama Bayala, and Kalifara Séré, both working as television commentators, raise concerns about enforced disappearances and possible unlawful conscriptions into t…
(2024-07-10). Thailand: Arbitrary arrest and imminent risk of extradition of Vietnamese human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap. fidh.org