(2024-07-01). SCOTUS Overturns 'Chevron' Deference, Massive Transfer Of Power To Courts. popularresistance.org The Supreme Court ruled along ideological lines on Friday to overturn a 40-year-old doctrine known as Chevron deference in a seismic decision that could see a major erosion of federal administrative rule in issues of public health, labor rights, environmental protection, food safety, and more. | The Court ruled 6 to 3 in a pair of decisions that hands a massive amount of control over federal regulatory powers to the courts, overturning the doctrine that allowed federal agencies to have interpretive authority when there was any ambiguity in a law. Chevron deference allowed experts at federal agencies — as pe…
(2024-07-01). Significant Increase In Number Of Wounded Detainees In Israeli Prisons. imemc.org 
The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission and the Palestinian Prisoner's Society (PPS) have reported a significant increase in the number of Palestinians who have been wounded by Israeli soldiers before abducting them since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7, 2023. The Commission and the PPS have emphasized the additional suffering experienced …
(2024-07-01). Guinea: Massacre Trial Awaits Landmark Verdict. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Victims and their families of crimes committed during Guinea's 2009 stadium massacre line up to enter a courthouse in Conakry, Guinea on September 28, 2022 the first day of the trial of those accused of being responsible. | © 2022 Elise Keppler/Human Rights Watch…
(2024-07-01). UN Human Rights Council: Beirut Blast Inquiry Needed. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Smoke rises from the port after the explosion on August 4, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. | © 2020 Fadel Itani/NurPhoto via Getty Images | (Beirut) — The United Nations Human Rights Council should establish an international fact-finding mission into the August 4, 2020 blast at Beirut's port, 18 organizations including Human Rights Watch, and dozens of relatives of the victims of the blast said in a statement released today. Nearly four years after the blast, nobody has been held to account, and the Lebanese authorities have continuously obstructed the investigation, leading to its…
(2024-07-01). Israel/Palestine: All Victims Have Right to Reparation for Abuses. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Children watch airstrikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 13, 2024. | © 2024 AFP via Getty Images | (Geneva) — All victims of gross human rights violations in Palestine and Israel are owed reparation, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch on June 26 submitted recommendations to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, had invited input to inform her October 2024 report to the United Nations General Assembly on the ongoing hostilities.Under inte…
(2024-07-01). Russia Tackles Accumulation of Rupees Through Investments in India. infobrics.org Russia has also taken steps to ensure the flow of crude despite Western sanctions on state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot…
(2024-07-01). Israel besieges Gaza's Shujaiya as Palestinian detainees freed. newarab.com 
Israel released 55 Palestinians on Monday Mohammed Abu Selmia was detained in November when Israeli forces raided Abu Selmia accused Israeli authorities of subjecting Palestinian detainees to "daily physical and psychological humiliation" in a video following his release. | At the same time,…
(2024-07-01). 50 Released Detainees From Gaza Show Signs Of Torture, Abuse. imemc.org 
The Israeli authorities have released around 50 detainees from the Gaza Strip, including Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya, the Director of the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza, showing clear signs of torture and abuse, after the army abducted them during the ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023. Faraj as-Sammouni, one of the …
(2024-07-01). War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya says Palestinian prisoners face unprecedentedly harsh conditions and action must be taken to free them | | Al-Shifa hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya is welcomed by relatives after his release, at N…
(2024-07-01). Israeli forces are detaining pregnant Palestinian women. newarab.com 
(2024-07-01). Israeli military runs over injured mother by tank, uses family as human shields. presstv.ir A rights group documents a new Israeli war crime in the Gaza Strip, where an occupation tank deliberately ran over a Palestinian mother in front of her son.
(2024-07-01). War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention. middleeasteye.net 
War on Gaza: Al-Shifa hospital director released from Israeli detention | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya says Palestinian prisoners face unprecedentedly harsh conditions and action must be taken to free them | | Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya after his release on 1 July 2024 (X) | The director of Gaza City's al-Sh…
(2024-07-01). Pro-Palestine protesters march in Ghent, call for sanctions on Israel. presstv.ir A pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ghent, Belgium, attracted a significant turnout of over a thousand participants on Saturday, advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza and urging for sanctions against Israel.
(2024-07-01). Israel frees hospital chief with prisons 'full' of Gaza captives. aljazeera.com The detainees endured 'almost daily torture', claims al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya.
(2024-07-01). US sanctions harm Iranian victims of chemical attacks: Interim FM. presstv.ir Iran's interim foreign minister says the US keeps harming Iranian victims of chemical warfare through sanctions.
(2024-07-01). Turkey arrests at least 15 protesters at Pride rally. newarab.com 
Turkish police detained at least 15 protesters in Police declined to comment. | The Istanbul Governor's Office said earlier on Sunday that the Pride March would not be permitted. | Turkish police blocked central Istanbul to prevent the march from taking place, shutting down metro stations and blocking traffic on the main streets.
(2024-07-01). Visiting lawyer describes living hell for Palestinian detainees. newarab.com 
A Palestinian lawyer has described conditions at a notorious Lawyer Khaled Mahajneh visited the
(2024-07-01). Algeria police raid book event, briefly arrest French author. newarab.com 
Algerian police briefly arrested a French author and her Algerian publisher along with others during a raid on her book event, the publisher told French news agency AFP on Sunday. | Dominique Martre, author of "La Kabylie en partage" ("Shared Kabylia"), was arrested alongside her husband and the owner of the bookshop, said Arezki Ait-Larbi, director of the Koukou publishing house, who was himself detained. | "The police stormed the bookstore at the start of the book presentation on Saturday afternoon and arrested everyone who was in the hall," Ait-Larbi said. | "We were taken to the police station before we we…
(2024-07-01). Afghanistan pins hopes on UN-led meeting in Doha. ecns.cn The Afghan caretaker government aims to engage with all parties and tackle tough issues such as lifting sanctions at the third UN-hosted meeting on Afghanistan in Doha from Sunday to Monday.
(2024-07-01). Supreme Court overturns Chevron doctrine, progressive democrats push for urgent legislative response. nationofchange.org Supreme Court's seismic decision strips federal agencies of interpretive authority, sparking immediate legislative action from progressive lawmakers to safeguard public health, labor rights, and environmental protections.
(2024-07-01). The Weekly Round-up: Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine, climate litigation on the rise, Assange pleads guilty and goes free. ukhumanrightsblog.com 
In UK news Julian Assange has been released from HM Prison Belmarsh after accepting a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, for communicating with whistleblower Chelsea Manning and receiving and publishing classified information regarding Guantanamo Bay, the Afghan and Iraq war, and US …
(2024-07-01). 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 (…) | – |
(2024-07-01). Myanmar detains 11 accused of rice price gouging. aljazeera.com Amid armed conflict following the 2021 coup, Myanmar's fast-depreciating currency is destabilising the economy.
(2024-07-01). European Union General Affairs Council must address continued rule of law and human rights violations in Hungary and Poland. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and other international NGOs sent a letter to EU ministers ahead of the EU General Affairs Council's meeting on 25 June 2024 where member States will hold a hearing on the situation in Hungary under the Article 7.1 TEU procedure.
In the letter, the signatory organisations point to the continued deterioration of the situation in Hungary, which fails to comply with Europea Union rule of law recommendations. Major concerns include judicial (…) | – |
(2024-07-01). Uzbekistan: 2 Years on, No Justice in Autonomous Republic. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Twenty-two defendants, including blogger and lawyer Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov, listen to the verdict in their trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main city in Karakalpakstan, at a court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on January 31, 2023. | © 2023 Uzbekistan Supreme Court / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images…
(2024-07-01). Former Philadelphia City Councilmember Joan Levy Specter, known for championing human rights, dies at 90. whyy.org This story originally appeared on 6abc. | Former Philadelphia City Councilmember Joan Levy Specter, who was married to Council President Kenyatta Johnson released a statement Sunday confirming her death. She was 90 years old. | In his statement, Johnson wrote, "I remember my aunt sharing with me the work of Councilmember Specter when I was fresh out of college. She spoke of how she was a woman of the people and how she helped thousands of people through constituent servi…
(2024-07-01). Using AI to Fight Trafficking Is Dangerous. hrw.org Click to expand Image | © Shutterstock/Syda Productions | The US State Department has released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIPs) Report ranking nearly 200 countries' anti-trafficking efforts.The report finds perpetrators increasingly use "social media, online advertisements, websites, dating apps, and gaming platforms" to force, defraud, or coerce job seekers into labor and sexual exploitation, and encourages technology companies to use "data and algorithm tools to detect human trafficking patterns, identify suspicious and illicit activity, and report" these to law enforcement.Sweeping calls to col…
(2024-07-01). Fascism, Politics and Terrorism: Lessons From History With Matthew Feldman. fairobserver.com This week's episode of The Dr. Rod Berger Show is a deeply insightful conversation that delves into the complex and often misunderstood world of modern fascism and radical right terrorism. Rod speaks with Professor Matthew Feldman, an esteemed expert in radical rights and lone-wolf terrorism. Matthew explains that fascism today isn't limited to its historically…