Nike's Bad Air
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2018-09-10
The place is in Honduras, a so-called free-trade zone or maquiladora–little more than a ragged swath hacked out of the rainforest and ringed by a tall fence, tipped with razor-sharp wire. Inside a clump of factories produce cut-rate apparel for American companies. Armed guards, many of them veterans of the Honduran defense forces (accused by human right groups of assassinations, drug-running, and torture of political prisoners), patrol the borders.
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American Psychologists Helped Design Torture Programs — Now They Want to End Them
Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch | alternet.org | 2018-09-10
The American Psychological Association will extend its policy keeping its members out of Guantanamo Bay. | Sometimes the good guys do win. That's what happened on August 8th in San Francisco when the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) decided to extend a policy keeping its members out of the U. S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The APA's. . .
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Holding the Line on Torture One Organization at a Time
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-09-10
Sometimes the good guys do win. That's what happened on August 8th in San Francisco when the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) decided to extend a policy keeping its members out of the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. | The APA's decision is important — and not just symbolically. Today we have a president who has promised to bring back torture and " load up" Guantánamo "with some bad dudes." When healing professionals refuse to work there, they are standing up for human rights and against torture. | It wasn't always so. In the early days of Guantánamo, military psychologists contributed to detainee interrogations there. It was for Guantánamo that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved multiple torture methods, including among others excruciating stress positions, prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation, and enforced nudity.
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Reinforcing US Status As 'Bully And Hegemon,' Bolton To Threaten ICC Over Probes Into America's War Crimes
Jake Johnson | iranian.com | 2018-09-10
Human rights advocates decried the Trump administration's attack on the International Criminal Court as "another low point" in its effort to skirt accountability for war crimes [dropcap]R[/dropcap]einforcing the worldwide perception of the U.S. as "a bully and a hegemon" that will not tolerate attempts by the global community to hold it accountable for its deadly actions overseas, […] | The post Reinforcing US Status As 'Bully And Hegemon,' Bolton To Threaten ICC Over Probes Into America's War Cr…
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China's Crackdown Turkic Muslims Could Be It's Achilles Heel
DJMD | mintpressnews.com | 2018-09-10
China's campaign in Xinjiang is effectively enabled by the silence, driven primarily by a desire of governments, many of which are deeply indebted to China, to preserve economic relations, and allows it to largely ignore criticism by Western nations, human rights groups as well as the Uyghur Diaspora. | The post China's Crackdown Turkic Muslims Could Be It's Achilles Heel appeared first on MintPress News.
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Canada's Yemeni Community Calls on Trudeau Government to End Arms Sales to Saudis
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-09-09
Hamza Shaiban says arms sales to Saudis cannot be reconciled with Canada's commitment to 'stand up for human rights' | The post Canada's Yemeni Community Calls on Trudeau Government to End Arms Sales to Saudis appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Repealing the Death Penalty in New Hampshire Is Personal
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-09-07
The state's legislature has an opportunity to override the governor's veto and finally repeal the death penalty. | New Hampshire is the only state in New England that still puts people to death. The Northeast region, and much of the nation, has recognized capital punishment for what it is: a practice of a bygone era that is inherently unjust, often racially charged, and has resulted in the torture of individuals put to death. | This could change for New Hampshire on Sept. 13, when state legislators have an opportunity to override
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As 400+ Children Remain Separated from Parents, Trump Admin Wants to Detain Kids Indefinitely
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-07
The Trump administration is attempting to remove court-imposed time limits on the detention of immigrant children. The administration's proposal would allow immigrant families to be held in detention indefinitely, ending the long-standing 1997 Flores agreement which says that children cannot be jailed for more than 20 days. More than 400 children remain separated from their parents more than a month after a court-imposed deadline requiring the Trump administration to reunite all of the separated families. The American Civil Liberties Union says it appears ICE officials had access to the phone numbers of hundreds…
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The Kavanaugh Cover-up? Role in Torture & Domestic Spying Policy Remains Unknown as Papers Withheld
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-06
Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing enters its third day today. On Wednesday Capitol Police arrested 73 people protesting Kavanaugh's nomination. The protests began almost immediately when Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley tried to start the hearing. Protesters included Women's March organizers from 26 states. Among them was a teenager who stood on a chair and said, "I'm 18, and I'm here for the youth of the country. You're ruining my future." We speak to Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project, and Vince Warren, executive direct…
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Arundhati Roy: The U.S. Is Growing Closer to India Militarily as Modi Expands Crackdown on Dissent
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-09-06
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are in New Delhi today for talks aimed at deepening military and trade ties between India and the United States. India is the largest weapons importer in the world. The trip comes just a week after the Indian government conducted raids across the country targeting prominent human rights activists, lawyers, poets and critics of the Narendra Modi government. At least five people were arrested. Critics say the arrests are part of a broader attempt by Modi's government to silence dissidents ahead of next year's general election. We speak with the prize-w…
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Hatewatch Headlines 9/4/18
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2018-09-03
Human rights groups urge senators to grill Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as hearings begin today; should Trump's evangelical advisers be exempt from disclosure laws? Mollie Tibbetts family says don't use her death to advance racism, and…
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NAACP Supports Prisoners Across the Nation Protesting Long Sentences, Inhumane Conditions, and Forced Labor
Aba Blankson | naacp.org | 2018-09-03
As the nation celebrates Labor Day, we must recognize those that labor every day for pennies per hour in prisons, jails, and detention centers across the country. Many imprisoned individuals are conducting peaceful protests to call for an end to unnecessarily long sentences, prison conditions that respect human rights, and fair wages for a day's […] | The post NAACP Supports Prisoners Across the Nation Protesting Long Sentences, Inhumane Conditions, and Forced…
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Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara–A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-31
In this exclusive broadcast, Democracy Now! breaks the media blockade and goes to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco's violent crackdown. Morocco has occupied the territory since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Thousands have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation. A 1,700-mile wall divides Sahrawis who remain under occupation from those who fled into exile. The international media has largely ignored the occupation–in part because M…
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From Venezuela to McCain, Media and Human Rights Industry on Same Page
Joe Emersberger | fair.org | 2018-08-31
On August 20, the Economist ran an article on Venezuela saying that "forced migration from the country might surpass the Syria crisis." The magazine reported: The UN's International Organization for Migration estimates that at the end of 2017 approximately 1.6 million Venezuelans were living outside their country. Today that number is likely to be far …
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Update on Prison Strike Demanding End of "Slave Labor": After 10 Days, Protests Spread to 11 States
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-08-30
Prisoners across the country join work stoppages, hunger strikes and commissary boycotts in at least 11 states to protest prison conditions and demand the end of what they call "prison slavery." Organizers report prisoners in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Indiana are demonstrating. Individuals in Texas, California and Ohio have gone on hunger strike, including some in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, at least six people have been hunger-striking inside the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, for more than a week. We speak with Amani Sawari, prison strike organizer working on behalf of Jailhou…
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WaPo Uses Photo of John McCain Next to Nazi to Praise His 'Human Rights' Work
Ben Norton | fair.org | 2018-08-29
The Washington Post (8/27/18) published an op-ed by conservative staff opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin praising the late Sen. John McCain for his supposed commitment to "human rights." Rubin waxed poetic on the ostensible "lost champion" of human rights, who "model[ed] for others the behavior of a free society." She declared, quite paradoxically, "With the possible …
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Labour Party Must Reject Biased IHRA Definition That Stifles Advocacy For Palestinian Rights
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-27
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 …
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Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018
leili | bdsmovement.net | 2018-08-08
Top 70 Moments of Solidarity & BDS for Palestine in 2018: UpdateHere's a short-list of moments in 2018 demonstrating growing recognition of Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people and inspiring efforts around the world to hold Israel accountable for its gross violations of human rights. Support for Palestinian rights has grown in parliaments, city c…
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