(2018-09-22). Facebook Brushed Off the U.N. Five Separate Times Over Calls For Murder of Human Rights Worker. theintercept.com A United Nations report said a post about the "Muslim… national traitor" was shared over 1,000 times and that comments called for the person to be killed.
(2018-09-21). Open Letter: Palestinian Environmental and Professional Organizations Urge MedPine to Relocate KKL-JNF Sponsored Forestry Conference from Israel. imemc.org Palestinian environmental networks and professional unions call on MedPine to relocate its conference outside of Israel and urge invited speakers to refuse to lend their scholarship to KKL-JNF's greenwashing of Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights. We are writing from Palestinian environmental organi…
(2018-09-21). Palestinian Environmental and Professional Organizations Urge MedPine to Relocate KKL-JNF Sponsored Forestry Conference from Israel. bdsmovement.net 
Palestinian Environmental and Professional Organizations Urge MedPine to Relocate KKL-JNF Sponsored Forestry Conference from Israel: Open LetterPalestinian environmental networks and professional unions call on MedPine to relocate its conference outside of Israel and urge invited speakers to refuse to lend their scholarship to KKL-JNF's greenwashing of Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights. | Academic BoycottSeptember 21, 2018…
(2018-09-21). PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (13 — 19 September 2018). imemc.org Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for the week of 13 — 19 September, 2018. Israeli forces continued to use excessive force against unarmed civilians and peaceful protestors in the Gaza Strip. 7 civilians, including 2 children, were killed, while a third child succumbed […]…
(2018-09-21). Alt-Right March for Israel, Human Rights Activist Smeared as Anti-Semitic. imemc.org In Canada, Dimitri Lascaris called on B'Nai Brith to disavow a white supremacist who called for Trudeau's execution. He then found himself accused of being an anti-Semite. | Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist, and activist.
(2018-09-21). Will Their Ever be Justice for Rohingya Muslims? counterpunch.org 
There is an image engraved in our minds of a stoic, reserved, elegant Aung San Suu Kyi unbending in her struggle against Burma's generals for democracy, and we assumed for human rights. Last year, when the refugees streamed out of her country in the wake of atrocities, it blocked all UN agencies from delivering food, More
(2018-09-21). Rouhani Should Be Called To Account For Human Rights Abuses In Iran At UN Gathering. iranian.com As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the international community to directly address the worsening human rights situation in Iran with the Iranian president. Diplomats should raise the issue of the arrests of peaceful activists, lawyers and […]
(2018-09-21). Michael Moore: Are We Going to Be Like the "Good Germans" Who Let Hitler Rise to Power? democracynow.org 
In his new documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9," filmmaker Michael Moore interviews the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, who describes President Trump's policy of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border and the large-scale detention of immigrant children as a "crime against humanity." Moore also looks at the rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany and compares it to the rise of Trump in the United States.
(2018-09-21). Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention. mintpressnews.com 
Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the ORR, the Health and Human Services Secretary is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs.
(2018-09-21). New Senate Bill Would Allow Indefinite Detention of Migrant Families. truthout.org Advocates for asylum seekers are lining up against the latest effort to expand detention of migrant children, as congressional Republicans continue searching for a legislative "solution" to the intensified family separation crisis resulting from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policies. | Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican and chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would bolster border security and help the Trump administration to circumvent the 1997 settlement in the major case on immigrant detention known as Flores v. Reno, which has generally prevented the government from detaining children who arrived with their parents longer than 20 days. | The bill is known as the FAMILIES Act. It would embrace President Trump's plan to expand jails for migrant families and allow the indefinite detention of children with their parents — all,…
(2018-09-21). Bernie Sanders to Pompeo: Yemeni Lives Are Worth More Than Contractor Profits. truthout.org American-made bombs are being used to massacre large numbers of civilians in Yemen, and new reporting shows that the Trump administration is allowing this carnage to continue and escalate in order to protect the profits of defense contractors. | Just days after the Yemen-based human rights group Mwatana gave CNN exclusive access to documents showing that US-manufactured bomb fragments have been found at the scene of at least 11 separate Saudi-led attacks on Yemeni civilians since 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opted to continue American military support for Saudi Arabia over the objections of his staff in an effort to preserve $2 billion in weapons sales to the brutal monarchy. | "Pompeo overruled concerns from most of the State Department specialists involved in the debate who were worried about the…
(2018-09-20). Alt-Right March for Israel, Human Rights Activist Smeared as Anti-Semitic. therealnews.com 
In Canada Dimitri Lascaris called on B'Nai Brith to disavow a white supremacist who called for Trudeau's execution. He then found himself accused of being an anti-Semite
(2018-09-19). Apartheid is Always Bitter! A Palestinian Appeal to Chefs to Withdraw from Round Tables in Tel Aviv. bdsmovement.net 
Apartheid is Always Bitter! A Palestinian Appeal to Chefs to Withdraw from Round Tables in Tel Aviv: UpdatePalestinian workers', women's and farmers' associations urge international chefs to cancel their participation in Round Tables 2018 in Tel Aviv. "It is an attempt to whitewash Israel's grave violations of Palestinian human rights." | Cultural Boycott Farming InjusticeSeptember 19, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
(2018-09-18). In Guatemala, a Tireless Search for Parents Separated From Their Children. aclu.org Working with the ACLU, human rights defenders look for missing parents in villages and remote regions of the country. | When Lesly Tayes, a Guatemala City-based tax lawyer, first saw images of children locked in cages inside immigration detention facilities near the southern U.S. border, she was stunned. "It made me very upset and sad," she said. "Later I learned that Guatemala had the highest number of separated families and I felt even worse. I wanted to help." Within weeks, she'd have her chance. | Earlier this summer, the ACLU sued the Trump administration over its policy of separating parents from their chi…
(2018-09-18). Immigrants Seeking Shelter After Hurricane Florence Fear Deportation as FEMA Shifts Funds to ICE. democracynow.org 
While the worst of Hurricane Florence is over, officials say the most dangerous flooding is yet to come for residents of the Carolinas and Virginia, as thousands have been ordered to evacuate their homes and hundreds more have sought rescue from rising floodwaters. But undocumented immigrants have expressed concern they will encounter immigration enforcement if they seek help. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has reallocated nearly $10 million from FEMA's budget to ICE to pay for detention space and deportations. We speak with Laura Garduño García, a DACA recipient and Greensboro-based organizer with Siembra N…
(2018-09-12). Arreaza: Venezuela Will Continue to 'Fully Collaborate' With UN Human Rights Council. venezuelanalysis.com At the U.N., Venezuela's Jorge Arreaza compared the economic blockade to the economic war waged against Chile's socialist government in the seventies.
(2018-09-12). Headlines for September 12, 2018. democracynow.org "Storm of a Lifetime": Hurricane Florence Barrels Down on Carolinas' Coast, Ahead of Florence, SC Officials Say They Will Not Evacuate Ridgeland Prison, Florence Threatens Catastrophic Waste Spills from Pig Farms, Coal Ash Ponds, 6 Years Before Florence, North Carolina Passed Law Banning Studies of Sea Level Rise, Ahead of Florence, Trump Tries to Celebrate Admin Response to Hurricane Maria, Merkley: Trump Admin Diverted $10M from FEMA to ICE to Build Detention Centers, HHS to Triple Size of Texas Tent Camp for Migrant Children, Stephen Miller's Former Rabbi Slams Him at Rosh Hashanah Services over Family Separat…
(2018-09-11). Trump Admin Punishes PLO for Trying to Prosecute Alleged Israeli War Crimes in International Court. democracynow.org 
On Monday, President Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, announced the administration will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington as retaliation for the Palestinians' efforts to bring alleged Israeli military war crimes to the International Criminal Court. Palestinian diplomat Saeb Erekat called the move "an affirmation of the U.S. administration's determination to continue its policies of blackmail and extortion and undermining the peace process and the two state solution." We speak with Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program.
(2018-09-11). John Bolton Threatens International Criminal Court Judges for Probing U.S. Torture in Afghanistan. democracynow.org 
President Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, has threatened U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court judges if they proceed with an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Afghanistan. In 2016 an ICC report accused the U.S. military of torturing at least 61 prisoners in Afghanistan during the ongoing war. The report also accused the CIA of subjecting at least 27 prisoners to torture, including rape, at CIA prison sites in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania. Bolton said in a speech at the Federalist Society Monday, "We will let the ICC die on its own. After…
(2018-08-27). Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights. bdsmovement.net 
Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights: UpdatePalestinian civil society issues a statement urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject IHRA's false, anti-Palestinian definition of antisemitism which seeks to conflate antisemitism with criticism of Israel. This definition aims to silence criticism of Israeli policies that clearly violate Palestinian human rights. | Right To BoycottAugust 27, 2018 | By: | | Palestinian civil society groups