(2023-05-27). Obituary] Mathura Prasad Shrestha. thelancet.com Public health expert, human rights activist, and former Health Minister of Nepal. Born on May 6, 1936 in Kathmandu, Nepal, he died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Feb 20, 2023 in Kathmandu, aged 86 years.
(2023-05-26). People's Health Tribunal Finds Shell And Total Energy Guilty. popularresistance.org A panel of environmental and human rights activists acted as judges in a People's Health Tribunal organized by African communities impacted by the operations of extractive corporations Shell and Total Energy. Supported by organizations like Medact, We the People, the People's Health Movement, #STOPEACOP, and others, they found the corporations guilty of harming the health of people across Africa. Nnimmo Bassey, Jacqueline Patterson, Kanahaus Manuel, and Dimah Mahmoud condemned Shell and Total's activities, stating that they were "extremely harmful to the livelihoods, health, right to shelter, quality of life, rig…
(2023-05-27). Correspondence] An open letter from Syrian to Ukrainian war-displaced medical students. thelancet.com In my fifth year of medical school, staying in Syria was no longer safe. Medical facilities, including teaching hospitals, were systematically targeted and health-care providers were detained, tortured, and subsequently killed. The theme of those days was waiting for the unknown. I spent every minute preparing my mind for the worst. In the recollection of the why, when, and how, the recurring memory was the moment when I was forced to leave the only home I had ever known. The theme thereafter became foreignness.
(2023-05-26). Judge sentences Anthony Gay to 7 years of torture; Anthony's fight continues. fightbacknews.org Peoria, IL – Activists, family members and supporters of Anthony Gay rallied outside the U.S. Central District Court in Peoria, Tuesday morning, May 23. Members of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression led the group in chanting, "Free, free Anthony Gay" and "The people united will never be defeated" before entering the courthouse for Anthony's sentencing hearing. | Anthony Gay is a political prisoner. He was incarcerated at 21 years old for a minor offense and held in solitary confinement for 22 years in Illinois prisons. Much of that time was spent in Tamms Correctional Center, a torture…
(2023-05-27). Transportistas italianos realizan huelga por derechos laborales. telesurtv.net La manifestación afecta los servicios ferroviarios, marítimos y de taxis.
(2023-05-27). Comisión de DD.HH. investigará asesinato de periodista mexicano. telesurtv.net La CNDH, indicó que se comunicaron con la Comisión estatal para que presten atención a las investigaciones sobre el asesinato del periodista Marco Aurelio Ramírez Hernández.
(2023-05-26). US Troops To Train Peruvian Armed Forces, Proves US Behind Coup. popularresistance.org Amid continuing social upheaval five months after the parliamentary coup against Pedro Castillo, the Peruvian Congress, controlled by the hard right, has approved the entrance of US troops into national territory to train the Peruvian military and National Police beginning June 1st through the end of the year. This comes after the Supreme Court ruled that protest is not a protected right under the 1993 Fujimori dictatorship era constitution. This also comes after a visit from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Peaceful Assembly and Association Clément Nyaletsossi Voule stated that there was no evidence of…
(2023-05-26). HDP, pseudo-left back anti-refugee, anti-Kurdish candidate Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu in Turkish elections. wsws.org The Kurdish-nationalist HDP is backing Kƒ±lƒ±àßdaroƒülu's right-wing campaign even after he pledged to attack the democratic rights of Kurds and refugees.
(2023-05-26). Fact Check: 1964 Civil Rights Act Was Bipartisan And More Democrats Voted Against It Than Republicans. moguldom.com On June 9, 1963, President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, introduced civil rights legislation to Congress. Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. strongly advocated for its passage—but it was a challenging battle. In a political landscape different from modern day, the act while the act was ultimately bipartisan, key Democrats were against it. Southern …
(2023-05-26). U.S. Claims Wagner Supplied Anti-Aircraft Missiles To Sudan's Rapid Support Force. southfront.org 
RSF fighters with Chinese-made FN-6 systems. Via Twitter. | Russia's Wagner Group has supplied anti-aircraft missiles to the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in Sudan, the United States Department of Treasury said on May 25. | The accusations came in a statement announcing new U.S. sanctions against the head of Russia's Wagner Group in Mali, Ivan Aleksandrovich Maslov."Most recently in Sudan, the Wagner Group has been supplying Sudan's Rapid Support Forces with surface-to-air…