Outrage In Canada After Militarized RCMP Arrest 14 Wet'Suwet'en Land Defenders on Sovereign Indigenous Land
Shared by Jocelyn Dombroski | therealnews.com | 2019-01-12
Solidarity protests erupt across Canada while Justin Trudeau faces hostile questions about indigenous rights in British Columbia | The post Outrage In Canada After Militarized RCMP Arrest 14 Wet'Suwet'en Land Defenders on Sovereign Indigenous Land appeared first on The Real News Network.
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Minneapolis protest rejects Trump border wall and attacks on immigrants
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-01-11
Minneapolis, MN – Protesters gathered Wednesday evening, January 9, in frigid weather, on Lake Street in south Minneapolis to say no to President Trump's border wall and his racist attacks on immigrants. The protest was organized on less than a 24-hour notice by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC). | President Trump went on national TV from the Oval Office Tuesday night, spewing a string of lies and racist manipulation in an attempt to pressure congressional Democrats to fund his border wall in order to end the partial government shutdown, which is now the second longest shutdown in U.S. hist…
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Sudan protests: Amnesty decries government attack on hospital
aljazeera | aljazeera.com | 2019-01-11
Rights groups accuse the Sudanese government of using excessive force against demonstrators.
aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/sudan-protests-amnesty-decries-government-attack-hospital-190111151704646.html
Witness Against Torture Activists Hold Sit-In at Senator Mitch McConnell's Office
commondreams | commondreams.org | 2019-01-11
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Myanmar Court Denies Reporter's Appeal, Defense Outraged
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-01-11
A Myanmar court Friday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of breaking the Official Secrets Act. The court saying the defense had not provided sufficient evidence to show they were innocent. | RELATED: | Myanmar Court Green Lights Jailed Reporters' Appeal | The 32-year-old Wa Lone and 28-year-old Kyaw Soe Oo were convicted in September, sparking an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates. | "It was a suitable punishment," said Hi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Myanmar-Court-Denies-Reporters-Appeal-Defense-Outraged-20190111-0012.html
Nicaragua — The Irony of the NICA Act Being Signed into Law by Trump
Lauren Smith | counterpunch.org | 2019-01-11
On December 20, 2018, President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1918, the Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018. It was introduced by Miami based, ardent anti-socialist Congresswomen Ros-Lehtinen in the House of Representatives on April 20, 2017 as the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2017. Its short title was ramped-up to remove some of…
counterpunch.org/2019/01/11/nicaragua-the-irony-of-the-nica-act-being-signed-into-law-by-trump/
America Needs Economic Rights. Now Is the Time to Push for Them
Andrea Flynn, Susan R. Holmberg | thenation.com | 2019-01-11
America Needs Economic Rights. Now Is the Time to Push for Them.
thenation.com/article/franklin-roosevelt-economic-bill-rights/
Exclusive: Angela Davis Speaks Out on Palestine, BDS & More After Civil Rights Award Is Revoked
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-11
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis speaks out after the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded a human rights award for her, reportedly due to her activism for Palestinian rights. In September, the institute announced that it would award Davis the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award, named after the civil rights icon. But last Friday, the institute voted to withdraw the award and cancel this year's gala event. The institute rescinded the award days after the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center sent a letter urging the board to reconsider honoring Davis due to he…
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/11/exclusive…
US-led Coalition Claims Syria Withdrawal Begins
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-01-11
The United States-led coalition against the Islamic State group in Syria has begun the process of withdrawing, a spokesperson said Friday. | RELATED: | Iraq: Children Tortured in Kurdish Jails, Activist Group Says | U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement last month to withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops stunned allies who had joined Washington in an intervention in Syria against the Islamic State group and indirectly against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. | Senior U.S. offic…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-led-Coalition-Claims-Syria-Withdrawal-Begins-20190111-0007.html
"Shameful" Trudeau Accused of Violating First Nations Rights Over Gas Pipeline
Andy Rowell | commondreams.org | 2019-01-11
Members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation argue that they were never consulted about the pipeline and that it violates their constitutional rights.(Photo: Facebook.) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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Deaths of Women in Custody During Hurricane Florence Could Have Been Prevented
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-11
Law enforcement and corrections officials must have emergency plans in place to protect any person in their custody when extreme weather strikes. | Amid rising floodwaters from Hurricane Florence in September, two women in the custody of the Horry County Sheriff's Office were left to drown in the back of a transport van. | The facts are as straightforward as they are damning. The two deputies, Joshua Bishop and Stephen Flood, transporting Nicolette Green and Wendy Newton to a hospital for mental health treatment disregarded roadblocks indicating flooded roadways. Floodwaters quickly overtook the van, and it was s…
aclu.org/blog/prisoners-rights/deaths-women-custody-during-hurricane-florence-could-have-been-prevented
Climate Change Afoot
Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2019-01-11
Climate Change Afoot…
thenation.com/article/children-are-dying-in-ice-detention/
'Not a Good Answer': Privacy Advocates Reject Democratic Proposal for 'Technological Wall' With Expanded Border Surveillance
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-01-11
Progressives in recent weeks have applauded Democrats' refusal to bend to President Donald Trump's demands for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. But on Friday, digital rights advocates called on Democratic lawmakers to expand their fight against the wall into a fight for all human and constitutional rights—instead of suggesting alternative "border security" proposals. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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Ex-President Karzai Betrays Afghan Women
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-11
Former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai speaks at a panel discussion titled 'Disrupting the Established Order' at the TRT World Forum, themed 'Envisioning Peace and Security in a Fragmented World' at the Swiss Hotel The Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey on October 3, 2018. | © 2018 Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images | After former Afghan President Hamid Karzai finished his remarks at the 2019 Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, a voice…
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Malaysia: Law Proposed Against Criticizing Monarchy
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-11
Malaysia's newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad attends a news conference in Pataling Jaya, Malaysia, May 12, 2018. | © 2018 REUTERS/Stringer | (Bangkok) — The Malaysian government's proposed new law to protect the monarchy from "insults" is its latest backtracking on human rights promises, Human Rights Watch said today. On January…
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Why Doesn't Trump Talk about This Man?
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-11
| President Trump's campaign this week to scare up support for a border wall has…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/11/why-doesnt-trump-talk-about-this-man
Syria: Deadly School Attack Was Unlawful
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-11
A photograph taken by a local anti-government media outlet of a remnant of a 240mm mortar projectile used in a deadly attack by Syrian government forces on Jarjanaz on November 24, 2018. | © 2016 Syria Now | (Beirut) — A November 24, 2018 attack by Syrian government forces near an elementary school that killed six children, a teacher, and a student's mother, appears to have been unlawful and indiscriminate. All parties to the conflict, including th…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/11/syria-deadly-school-attack-was-unlawful
Angela Davis Speaks Out on BDS and Palestine After Civil Rights Award Is Revoked
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2019-01-11
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis speaks out after the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute rescinded a human rights award for her, reportedly due to her activism for Palestinian rights. The institute rescinded the award days after the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center sent a letter urging the board to reconsider honoring Davis due to her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Others in the Birmingham area criticized Davis for her support for the Black Panthers and Communist Party. We speak with Angela Davis in her first television interview since the contro…
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AG Nominee William Barr Endorsed "More Incarceration"
Shared by Merula Furtado | truthout.org | 2019-01-11
After the tenure of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, advocates for civil rights, decarceration and police accountability are frustrated and furious. | Sessions jump-started the failed war on drugs, rescinded protections for transgender students and workplace protections for LGBTQ people,…
truthout.org/articles/ag-nominee-william-barr-endorsed-more-incarceration/
Brexit: UK Parliament to debate migration and citizen's rights
aljazeera | aljazeera.com | 2019-01-11
MPs are expected to debate migration and rights of citizens of UK and EU after Brexit.
aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/brexit-uk-parliament-debate-migration-citizens-rights-190111123655362.html
CIA Director Gina Haspel may have run 'black site' at Guantánamo Bay, court docs reveal
RT | rt.com | 2019-01-11
CIA Director Gina Haspel, confirmed by the Senate last year amid accusations of involvement in torture, may have run a so-called 'black site' at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Haspel did not mention this role in her confirmation hearing. | …
rt.com/usa/448618-gina-haspel-black-site/
Dossier 12: India's Communists and the elections of 2019
Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2019-01-10
Ahead of the 2019 elections in India–the largest exercise of electoral democracy in the world–Brinda Karat of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) discusses the current political context in the country and the left-led resistance to the deepening assault on basic human rights led by India's right-wing. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/01/10/dossier-12-indias-communists-and-the-elections-of-2019/
William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-10
The last time he was attorney general, Barr proclaimed that only prisons reduce crime, and that we need a lot more of them. | In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr added to the zeitgeist of "tough-on-crime" policies when he issued the Bush administration's " 24 Recommendations to Strengthen Criminal Justice." Barr's harsh approach, which included expanding capacity for pretrial detention and offsetting the cost of such expansion with the labor of prisoners, was distilled by the Office of Poli…
aclu.org/blog/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/william-barr-was-ardent-champion-mass-incarceration
Brazil's Indigenous Launch Global Campaign Against Bolsonaro
teleSUR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-01-10
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) launched a world campaign of solidarity against the 'ethnocidal' policy of President Jair Bolsonaro, which is threatening their territories and lifestyles. | RELATED: | Brazil's Temer Closed 130 Community Radios Before Leaving | "We ask for the support of all the international community, of people involved in human rights, that can help to block this measure to hand FUNAI over to the evangelical, to the ruralists, and cause a real…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Indigenous-Launch-Global-Campaign-Against-Bolsonaro-20190110-0027.html
The BDS movement salutes Angela Davis
SAMIR | bdsmovement.net | 2019-01-10
The BDS movement salutes Angela Davis : PACBI StatementThe Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), a founding member of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, salutJanuary 10, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
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Rescinding a Human Rights Award to Angela Davis Was Cowardly and Unfair
Stephen Zunes | progressive.org | 2019-01-10
One would think that opposing Israel control of Palestinian territories seized in the 1967 war, which the international community recognizes as a foreign belligerent occupation, would not be particularly controversial.
progressive.org/dispatches/rescinding-award-angela-davis-cowardly-zunes-190110/
An Agenda Unveiled: How Reuters Joined the US Government's Offensive Against Iran
Ivan Kesic | mintpressnews.com | 2019-01-10
A 2013 Reuters report on Iran's Setad has been cited in four books and was recently used to justify more sanctions on Iran by Mike Pompeo, but a look into the report's sources and accuracy reveal questionable journalism and a clear agenda. | The post An Agenda Unveiled: How Reuters Joined the US Government's Offensive Against Iran appeared first on MintPress News.
mintpressnews.com/reuters-joined-us-governments-offensive-against-iran/253681/
What Are Federal Employees' Rights to Protest the Government Shutdown?
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-10
People don't lose their First Amendment rights if they work for the government. | Standing up for your First Amendment right to protest can be challenging — especially if you're a government employee. | Since Dec. 22, nearly 800,000 government employees nationwide have been affected by the partial federal government shutdown, putting a stop to work and paychecks. Despite President Trump's claim that federal workers " agree 100 percent with what I'm doing," many have wond…
aclu.org/blog/free-speech/employee-speech-and-whistleblowers/what-are-federal-employees-rights-protest
Trump's "national emergency" threat and the danger of presidential dictatorship
WSWS | wsws.org | 2019-01-10
Congressional Democrats and the corporate media are deliberately downplaying the danger to democratic rights and constitutional norms embodied in Trump's threats.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/10/pers…
A Bloody Day of Protest in Sudan
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-10
This picture taken on January 9, 2019 shows tear gas fumes erupting during a protest in the Sudanese capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. | © 2019 AFP/Getty Images | Yesterday's protest in the Sudanese city of Omdurman was particularly bloody. Government security forces responded to peaceful demonstrations with live ammunition, rubber bullets, and tear gas, killing at least three protesters and injuring several others, in broad daylight. As in pr…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/10/bloody-day-protest-sudan
Unjustly Jailed Blogger Faces New Charges in Azerbaijan
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-10
Mehman Huseynov. | © 2017 Aziz Karimov | Azerbaijan authorities know no limits when it comes to silencing government critics. As everyone was celebrating the New Year, Azerbaijan authorities were busy pressing new charges against one of the country's most popular anti-corruption bloggers, Mehman Huseynov. | Huseynov has been serving a 2-year prison sentence after he was prosecuted for defaming an entire police station in Baku, because he…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/10/unjustly-jailed-blogger-faces-new-charges-azerbaijan
EU: Postpone Vote on Vietnam Free Trade Agreement
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-10
Deputies attend the opening ceremony of the National Assembly's autumn session in Hanoi, Vietnam October 23, 2017. | © 2017 Reuters | (Brussels) — The European Parliament and the European Council should postpone the ratification of the proposed EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement until the Vietnamese government takes concrete steps to improve its increasingly abusive human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. In Vietnam's latest m…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/10/eu-postpone-vote-vietnam-free-trade-agreement
Thailand: Insurgents Bomb School, Attack Hospital
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-10
(New York) — Separatist insurgents in Thailand's southern border provinces targeted a school and a hospital in renewed attacks, Human Rights Watch said today. Deliberate attacks on civilian structures are war crimes. | Family photo of police medic Capt. Sineenath Kongput, who was seriously wounded in a car bombing in Thepa district, Songkhla province, Thailand, on January 8, 2019. | © Private | On the morning of January 8, insurgents detonated a bomb outside Thairath Wi…
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US: Suit Filed Over Immigration FOIA Request
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-10
An image of the first page of the complaint from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on behalf of Human Rights Watch by Nixon Peabody. | © 2019 Human Rights Watch | (San Francisco, January 10, 2019) — Human Rights Watch filed suit today against the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for their failure to respond adequately to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for detailed immi…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/10/us-suit-filed-over-immigration-foia-request
Resignations rock US civil rights institute after it strips Angela Davis of award over pro-BDS views
RT | rt.com | 2019-01-10
Three members quit the board of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute after its controversial decision to first grant, then to rescind an award for iconic activist Angela Davis, following objections to her anti-Israel statements. | …
rt.com/usa/448507-angela-davis-israel-bds/
Why Trump's Effort to Eliminate Disparate Impact Rules Is a Terrible Idea
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-09
The Trump administration is reportedly looking for ways to do away with disparate impact rules, a move that could hurt millions of vulnerable people. | If no one tells you they're discriminating, is it still discrimination? | According to the Trump administration, the answer is no. In a memo reported by The Washington Post last week, the administration has placed in its cross hairs a civil rights enforcem…
aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-inequality-education/why-trumps-effort-eliminate-disparate-impact-rules
"A Racist, Xenophobic Attack": Immigrant Rights Activist Decries Trump Remarks About Southern Border
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-09
President Donald Trump addressed the nation Tuesday night in his first prime-time speech from the Oval Office. He urged Congress to approve $5.7 billion to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, but he opted not to declare a national emergency to force construction of the wall, in a xenophobic speech riddled with falsehoods. We speak with Oscar Chacón, executive director of Alianza Americas, an immigrant rights group based in Chicago.
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/9/a_racist_x…
Frank Chapman condemns shameful and cowardly decision to revoke award to Angela Davis
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-01-09
Chicago, IL — Longtime leader in the Black liberation movement and the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Frank Chapman, condemned the January 4 decision of the Alabama-based Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to abruptly cancel their plan to present Angela Davis with the Fred Shuttlesworth Award. Fred Shuttlesworth was a prominent leader in the civil rights movement. | Chapman stated, "Angela Davis and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth were dearest friends and co-leaders in the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression at the same time that I served as its executive director."
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/1/9/frank-cha…
William Barr Helped Build America's Surveillance State
ACLU | aclu.org | 2019-01-09
Senators should ask Barr about his support for unconstitutional spying that endangers our rights. | William Barr, President Trump's nominee for attorney general, has a history of getting it wrong. From designing warrantless surveillance programs to justifying the president's power to disregard acts of Congress, Barr has advanced dubious legal theories that have been rejected by the courts, Congress, and the public. | As Barr begins the confirmation process, senators must question Barr on his record regarding the right to privacy and the Fourth Amendment — which raises serious concerns about his suitability…
aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/william-barr-helped-build-americas-surveillance
Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump's Border Wall Address, Debunking President's Lies About Immigration
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-09
After Donald Trump addressed the nation Tuesday in a speech that attacked immigrants and demanded a border wall, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the president for lying to the American people and creating a false crisis at the border. We speak with Oscar Chacón, executive director of Alianza Americas, an immigrant rights group based in Chicago.
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/9/trump_lies…
Chicano leader blasts Trump's racist, anti-immigrant speech
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-01-09
Los Angeles, CA — Longtime Chicano and immigrant rights leader Carlos Montes condemned President Trump's January 8 Oval Office speech, stating, "We are opposed to Trump's attacks on refugees at the border – and his wall. We will continue to oppose his measures, and build the movement to dump Trump." | Trump's push to further militarize the U.S. border has resulted in a prolonged partial government shutdown. | The Los Angeles community organization, Centro CSO, has called for a January 9 bannering in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, at the corner of 4th and Soto, from 4 to 6 p.m.
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/1/8/chicano-l…
Tiffany and Co. Announces New Diamond Transparency
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-09
| Starting today, Tiffany and Co. will begin sharing the origins of its diamonds with its customers, setting a new level of transparency among large jewelry retailers. As part of this welcome initiative, all of Tiffany's stores will now provide the country or region of origin for all newly-sourced diamonds above .18 carat. It's now time for others in the industry to do the same. | Transparency is the first step to improve human rights in a supply chain. When I shop i…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/09/tiffany-and-co-announces-new-diamond-transparency
United Kingdom: Older People Left Without Support
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-09
Older woman leaving a community center with programs for older people in East London. | © 2018 Stephanie Hancock for Human Rights Watch | (London) — Older people in England are at risk of not getting adequate assistance to live independent, dignified lives due to uneven assessments for social services, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In doing so, the United Kingdom government risks failing to secure older persons' rights to health, and to live in the community. | For the 35-page report, "
hrw.org/news/2019/01/09/united-kingdom-older-people-left-without-support
Wall Can't Fix Problems at Southern US Border
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-09
View of a part of the Benito Juarez stadium in Tijuana, Mexico, November 25, 2018. | © 2018 Jonathan Pedneault/Human Rights Watch | In his speech to the American public on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump put forward a nonsensical argument that the construction of some kind of barrier on the US-Mexico border would fix an incredible range of wildly exaggerated problems. There is a crisis on the border and throughout the…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/09/wall-cant-fix-problems-southern-us-border
Venezuela: Suspected Plotters Tortured
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-09
| (Washington, DC) — Venezuelan intelligence and security forces have detained a…
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In speech tonight, Trump won't talk about the real crisis — asylum seekers being denied rights under U.S. law
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2019-01-08
We expect President Trump's speech tonight to be filled with more falsehoods demonizing migrants who are seeking refuge.
splcenter.org/news/2019/01/08/speech-tonight-trump-won%25E2%2580%2599t-talk-about-real-crisis-%25E2%2580%2593-asylum-seekers-being-denied-rights
Rashida Tlaib: The Senate's Anti-BDS Bill Is an Unconstitutional Attack on Free Speech
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2019-01-08
A new Senate bill would allow state and local governments to boycott any U.S. companies which are engaged in a boycott against Israel. We speak with Congressmember Rashida Tlaib, who has come out out against the bill, tweeting, "They forgot what country they represent. This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right & part of our historical fight for freedom & equality. Maybe a refresher on our U.S. Constitution is in order, then get back to opening up our government instead of taking our rights away."
www.democracynow.org/2019/1/8/rashida_tl…
1.4 Million Floridians Get Their Voting Rights Back Today, Whether Republicans Like It or Not
Alice Speri | theintercept.com | 2019-01-08
Some Florida Republicans, including Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, have sought to sow confusion about the validity of Amendment 4, which goes into effect Tuesday. | The post 1.4 Million Floridians Get Their Voting Rights Back Today, Whether Republicans Like It or Not appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2019/01/08/florida-felon-voting-rights-amendment-4-2/
Australia Starts Tackling Modern Slavery
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-08
Women work in the sewing division of a factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Women constitute about 90 percent of the workforce in Cambodia's garment industry, which produces for many international apparel brands. Human Rights Watch has documented that workers in Cambodia frequently experience forced overtime, pregnancybased discrimination, and denial of paid maternity leave. | © 2014 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch | A new law in Australia requires companies of a certain size operating in Australia to pu…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/09/australia-starts-tackling-modern-slavery
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Detained Children Tortured
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2019-01-08
Exterior of the Women and Children's Reformatory in Erbil, where several dozen children are held in pre-trial detention or are serving sentences for alleged ISIS affiliation. | © 2018 Jo Becker/Human Rights Watch | (Beirut) — The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq is torturing children to confess to involvement with the Islamic State (ISIS), Human Rights Watch said today. | Children told Human Rights Watch tha…
hrw.org/news/2019/01/08/kurdistan-region-iraq-detained-children-tortured