2023-12-10: News Headlines

Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Allan Maleche, Chris Beyrer (2023-12-09). Comment] Still relevant: the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. thelancet.com Dec 10, 2023, marks the 75th anniversary of the founding commitment of the modern human rights movement, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).1 75 years on, the world is tested and tormented by an agonising array of conflicts in which human rights violations are not secondary outcomes, but rather central to such conflicts. Ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, apartheid, sexual violence as a tool of state terror, and the deliberate targeting of health-care facilities and workers are part of multiple ongoing conflicts in 2023.

Angela (2023-12-10). Sunday 12/10: Sacramento Rally & March: International Human Rights Day. indybay.org Memorial Auditorium | 1515 J St | Sacramento, CA…

Angela (2023-12-10). Thursday 12/14: Sacramento: Human Rights Day Candlelight Vigil. indybay.org Corner of 16th & J St | Sacramento, Ca…

Palestine Bureau, Mondoweiss. (2023-12-10). 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' Day 63: Israeli Army Strips, Blindfolds Men. popularresistance.org Two months on, it is becoming more and more difficult to summarize in an article the sheer scope of violence, war crimes, and human rights violations being committed in Gaza in the span of a single day. | Horrifying images have emerged of Palestinian men stripped down to their underwear, blindfolded, handcuffed, and made to line up kneeling in the streets or in non descript lots. | Struggling to come up with any credible proof of military success in Gaza besides the slaughter of civilians, Israeli forces have claimed that the men are Hamas fighters who surrendered.

Angela (2023-12-09). Sunday 12/10: Sacramento Rally & March: International Human Rights Day. indybay.org Memorial Auditorium | 1515 J St | Sacramento, CA…

Art Persyko (2023-12-10). Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Monday Dec 11 @ noon outside City Hall! indybay.org Please join the SF Gray Panthers in a public reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declara…) on Monday, December 11, 2023 @ noon on the steps on the Polk Street side of SF City Hall! (In cooperation with the office of SF Board of Supervisor Dean Preston). For more information, please email us at ! -SF Gray Panthers…

ecns.cn (2023-12-10). (W.E. Talk)To Understand China's Success, First Understand Chinese Civilization. ecns.cn According to Martin Jacques, to understand the success of China's development, we must understand the Chinese civilization since China is not just a nation-state, but a civilization-state, with many of its thoughts deeply rooted in Confucianism. Westerners have been brought up to essentially believe that their way of doing things is an exemplar for the rest of the world. One fallacy of that is failing to understand how human rights operate in China.

Report from King Plaza, Palo Alto (2023-12-10). Rally with Youth Voices for Humanity. indybay.org High School students organized to invite people to join hands and stand in support of human rights of all children, regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity.

Angela (2023-12-09). Thursday 12/14: Sacramento: Human Rights Day Candlelight Vigil. indybay.org Corner of 16th & J St | Sacramento, Ca…

Patricia Harrity (2023-12-10). Look at Gaza "Our Political Class Only Pays Lip Service to Human Rights'. expose-news.com Today, Sunday, December 10th, marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations' endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This milestone arrives amidst a period where neglect and disdain for …

The Independent (2023-12-10). US government announces more sanctions for Ugandan officials. independent.co.ug Kampala, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced sanctions against current and former Ugandan officials who committed human rights abuses against opposition leaders and other groups including homosexuals. "After Uganda's flawed 2021 presidential elections, I announced a visa restriction policy targeting those believed to be responsible for, or …

Pavel López Lazo (2023-12-09). Lebanese Democratic Party reaffirms solidarity with Gaza. plenglish.com In a meeting, the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party praised the capacity of Palestinian fighters to face up Israel ¥s genocidal machinery and its allies from the United States and the West. | In this regard, the Democratic Party regretted the shameful failure of the international community after assassinations and crimes against children, women and innocent people in Gaza. | For such a reason, the Party supported the resistance operations in Lebanon and called for the preservation of human rights and international laws and conventions. | At the same time, it called on the Lebanese state to help the…

Staff (2023-12-09). Human rights groups challenge the Met over 'biased' policing of pro-Palestine marches. thecanary.co Twelve British human rights and media organisations have written to the head of the Met Police, sir Mark Rowley, to protest about the force's handling of pro-Palestine demonstrations in the capital. Pro-Palestine demos: bias in the Met's policing? They accuse the Metropolitan Police, which has been beset recently with allegations of racism, of bias in …

Clau O'Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. (2023-12-09). Protests Mark One Year Anniversary Of Coup Regime In Peru. popularresistance.org December 7, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of the US backed right-wing parliamentary coup that ousted democratically elected president Pedro Castillo Terrones. The past 364 days have been some of the bloodiest, most repressive, and tumultuous in recent Peruvian history and the blood continues to be spilled. The US-backed Boluarte regime, led by the Fujimorista right-wing Congress, now has the blood of over 100 martyrs on its hands, with thousands severely injured, imprisoned, and tortured, and many more disappeared. There has yet to be justice in any of these cases as the prosecutor's office becomes mired i…

teleSUR, odr, SH (2023-12-10). Defensores de DD.HH. que dejaron su huella en el mundo. telesurtv.net La Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, es el documento que establece los derechos humanos fundamentales que deben protegerse en el mundo entero.

teleSUR, dcdc, JDO (2023-12-09). COP28 debate sobre futuro de combustibles fósiles. telesurtv.net En los debates también resaltó la idea de que no existe justicia climática sin derechos humanos, por lo que se exigió la detención del avance de la industria fósil, así como el fin al genocidio en Gaza.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2023-12-09). Rechazan liberación del dictador Alberto Fujimori en Perú. telesurtv.net Los familiares solicitaron a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos que sea declarado en desacato al Estado peruano por la liberación de Alberto Fujimori.

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