(2021-08-14). How the Covid-19 Crisis Affects Individual Rights and Freedoms. A New Crisis in International Law? globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on August 14, 2020 One of the direct impacts of the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 is challenging human rights. The pandemic not only created and still creating health issues, economic challenges, political crises …
(2021-08-14). Council Of The Haida Nation, Feds, And Province Sign Historic Agreement. popularresistance.org A historic new agreement, between the Council of the Haida Nation and both federal and provincial governments, has been signed as a framework agreement setting the stage to reconciliation negotiations, a combined media announcement stated, on Aug 13. | The agreement, signed by the Haida Nation, the Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, as well as Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, recognizes the Haida Nation's inherent Title and Rights with respect to the geographic area. | The GayGñahlda agreement which means "Changing Tide", also includes the intrinsic right of…
(2021-08-14). Saturday 8/28: Woman's Rights Day online event. indybay.org Zoom Event. Register at http: //tinyurl.com/WRD-RW…
(2021-08-14). High Court decision another blow for casual workers. greenleft.org.au In a blow for workers' rights, the High Court has overturned a ruling that some casual workers should be entitled to annual leave and sick pay, writes Isaac Nellist.
(2021-08-14). The path to citizenship is the path to a more democratic America. zcomm.org Citizenship, and the voting rights that go with it, are ultimately issues of agency, power, and voice…
(2021-08-14). Eyewitness Venezuela: Digital Literacy Free to All Students. orinocotribune.com 
By Rachell Tucker — Aug 4, 2021 | As a teacher who has had to struggle alongside thousands of coworkers, students and parents during the pandemic with hybrid education, I was astounded by my visit to the Canaima computer factory that was created to fulfil the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez's dream of "one computer per child." | At the Bicentennial Congress of the People in Caracas hundreds of anti-imperialists worldwide convened to discuss the unity needed to defeat the brutal US sanctions Venezuela and many other countries are suffering under. The "sanctions," or unilateral coercive measures imposed by…
(2021-08-14). United States Imposes Conditions while Venezuela Chooses Dialogue. orinocotribune.com With a new process of dialogue underway between the Venezuelan government and the extreme-right opposition sector of Venezuela, the government of the United States immediately sought to impose conditions on the Caribbean nation's government. | This was made clear by the words of Ned Price, US Department of State spokesperson. The official stated in a press conference that his country insists on holding elections in Venezuela as a requirement for Washington to "ease" the illegal sanctions it imposes. | Faced with this imperialist arrogance of imposing conditions on sovereign countries, the Venezuelan government ha…
(2021-08-13). Has AU Declared War on Member States by Granting Israel 'Observer Status'? orinocotribune.com By Iqbal Jassat — Aug 9, 2021 | In the midst of a full-blown controversy sparked by a decision to allow Israel "observer status" at the African Union, it is crucial to note that the Zionist colonial settler regime hasn't halted its violent plunder of Palestinian rights while relentlessly pushing ahead with illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. | Strange as it sounds, the bizarre fact is that the unauthorized permission by the AU Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat has resulted in leaders of the African continent facing divisive consequences of a rash, unwise and problematic decision.
(2021-08-13). Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians. electronicintifada.net Civil rights group slams "illegal measures" on the pretext of coronavirus.
(2021-08-13). Lawmakers Aren't "Progressive" If They Ignore Palestinian Rights. orinocotribune.com By Souzan Naser & Hatem Abudayyeh — Aug 9, 2021 | Even after years of dedicated judo training, both Mohamed Abdalarasool from Sudan and Fethi Nourine from Algeria refused to compete in the Tokyo Olympics when they were slated to perform against an Israeli athlete. In an official statement, Nourine said to an Algerian TV station, "We worked a lot to reach the Olympics… but the Palestinian cause is bigger than all of this." This gesture of sacrifice and solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel earned Abdalarasool and Nourine hero status in the Arab world and beyond. | In another refreshing move, corp…
(2021-08-13). IDF Veterans Issue Report About Settler Violence Against Palestinians In The West Bank. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by Dr. Leon Tressell. | There is a broad consensus amongst international institutions that Israel remains the occupying power in Gaza and the West Bank. The Hague regulations of 1907 and the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 impose certain rights and obligations upon any nation that is illegally occupying a territory. | In December 1975 the United Nations General assembly passed a resolution which recited that "any military occupation however temporary" constituted "an act of aggression…
(2021-08-13). Cops illegally took his camera … but they weren't ready for what happened next. therealnews.com 
Holding police accountable requires defending the First Amendment right to put them on camera. This is why Philip Turner, known on YouTube as The Battousai, fought to solidify that right in Turner v. Driver, a 2017 case decided by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. However, a shocking video shows Texas police ignoring the law, detaining Turner, and confiscating his video equipment. What the officers didn't realize is that the case law resulting from the Turner v. Driver decision not only protects citizens' right to film the police, but was named after the very man whose rights they were violatin…
(2021-08-13). Heroes or Murderers? Colombian Government Defends its Mercenaries. orinocotribune.com The government of Iván Duque this week spoke up in defense of the Colombian mercenaries who assassinated Haiti's president Jovenel MoàØse at his official residence in Port-au-Prince on July 7. | PSUV deputy Diosdado Cabello, during his television program Con el Mazo Dando, referred to statements issued by Colombian officials who, before multilateral organizations, decided to intercede in favor of the former Colombian military personnel involved in the assassination. | "The latest is that the [Colombian] Ombudsperson's Office asked the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the OAS for precautionary measu…
(2021-08-13). Venezuela Rejects Accusations Of Former ICC Prosecutor. popularresistance.org This Thursday, August 12, Venezuela's Public Ministry (MP) rejected as worthless the accusations issued by the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, after she irresponsibly ignored the collaboration of the Venezuelan authorities in the Venezuela I case filed by the near-defunct Lima Group accusing Venezuelan authorities of human rights violations. | From his Twitter account, the Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab published a statement in which he repudiated the statement of the former ICC prosecutor regarding the preliminary examination underway on Venezuela.
(2021-08-13). Venezuela Rejects Accusations of Former ICC Prosecutor as Worthless. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, August 12, Venezuela's Public Ministry (MP) rejected as worthless the accusations issued by the former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, after she irresponsibly ignored the collaboration of the Venezuelan authorities in the Venezuela I case filed by the near-defunct Lima Group accusing Venezuelan authorities of human rights violations. | From his Twitter account, the Attorney General of Venezuela Tarek William Saab published a statement in which he repudiated the statement of the former ICC prosecutor regarding the preliminary examination underway on Venezuela.
(2021-08-13). Two Years After the Largest Workplace Raid in U.S. History, a Path Forward for Undocumented Workers. ips-dc.org Immigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at a poultry plant in Jackson, Mississippi two years ago in what remains the On the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates are demanding that U.S. officials take action to repair the harms inflicted on the workers and their communities. | Some 230 of the workers have already been deported but another 400 are still waiting for their day in court. And while they wait, many are unable to provide for themselves because…
(2021-08-13). Health workers' right to strike under threat. peoplesdispatch.org Some governments have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to limit people's rights, including workers' right to organize. Across the world, health workers who have organized strikes and other actions have faced repression and threats.