2019-06-13: Social Media Postees

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Sexual abuse of elderly likely to 'grow dramatically', UN expert says
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-13
As the world prepares to mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day this Saturday, the UN independent human rights expert mandated with defending the rights of older persons, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, has stressed that they are often victims of sexual abuse and rape, although it remains rarely detected, reported or exposed.
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TROUBLE BREWING IN LIBERIA FOR PRESIDENT WEAH
By Global Information Network | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-13
June 10, 2019 (GIN) — Liberian President George Weah is having a few bad days. And more may be on their way. | A citizen action group — the Council of Patriots (COP) — has a long list of demands covering governance, human rights and the rule of law, national peace and reconciliation, integrity and accountability, among others. | The group has called on President Weah to part ways with some of his close lieutenants they believe are not up to the task and may cause him more harm politically. | Thousands of Liberians turned out on June 7 to protest corruption and economic decline that many blame on…
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China Invites UN To Visit 'Education Centers' in Xinjiang
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
The Chinese envoy to the United Nations has formally welcomed U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to visit China, including Xinjiang, where Beijing has been accused of putting more than one million ethnic Uyghurs in mass detention centers. | RELATED: | Floods Kill 16, Affect Millions in China, With More Rain To Come | According to the Chinese envoy, the U.N. human rights chief is more than welcome to visit their "education training centers", which Beijing claims is helpin…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Invites-UN-To-Visit-Education-Centers-in-Xinjiang-20190613-0004.html

TROUBLE BREWING IN LIBERIA FOR PRESIDENT WEAH
By Global Information Network | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-13
June 10, 2019 (GIN) — Liberian President George Weah is having a few bad days. And more may be on their way. | A citizen action group — the Council of Patriots (COP) — has a long list of demands covering governance, human rights and the rule of law, national peace and reconciliation, integrity and accountability, among others. | The group has called on President Weah to part ways with some of his close lieutenants they believe are not up to the task and may cause him more harm politically. | Thousands of Liberians turned out on June 7 to protest corruption and economic decline that many blame on…
www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/af…

Oceana Shines Light on Possible Illegal Fishing and Human Rights Abuses at Sea
commondreams.org | 2019-06-13
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Despite Police Crackdown, Historic Hong Kong Protests Against New Extradition Law Continue
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-13
Authorities in Hong Kong have shut down government offices and postponed debate in the Legislative Council, one day after riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray at tens of thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets to protest a bill that would allow the extradition of Hong Kong residents to mainland China. On Wednesday, demonstrators attempted to storm the Legislative Council Building, where lawmakers are debating the extradition bill. Human Rights Watch criticized Hong Kong authorities for using what it described as "excessive force" to suppress peaceful demonstrations. Protesters de…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/despite_p…

US Coalition Demands the End of Sanctions against Cuba
plenglish.com | 2019-06-13
Washington, June 13 (Prensa Latina) In Washington, Metro DC Coalition in Solidarity with Cuban Revolution demanded on Thursday the end of all US sanctions against Cuba, including the new travel restrictions imposed last week.
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Israeli Intel Agents Key Part of Anti-BDS Activities: Documents
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-13
Israeli government documents disclosed Wednesday have revealed that the national intelligence agency of Israel, Mossad, has collaborated over the past years with Israeli government through its Strategic Affairs Ministry, to sabotage the international pro-Palestinian Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement on a global scale. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC Sign Bill to Stop US Aid to Israel over Children Detention | The Strategic Affairs M…
telesurenglish.net/news/Intelligence-Agents-From-Israeli-Mossad-Key-Part-of-Anti-BDS-Activities-Documents–20190613-0016.html

US Gov't Plans to Detain Migrant Children at WW2 Japanese Internment Camp
Jake Johnson | theantimedia.com | 2019-06-13
(CD) — Lending even greater significance to the parallels commentators and historians have drawn between U.S. migrant detention centers and concentration camps of the past, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to hold more than a thousand immigrant children at an Oklahoma army base that was used as an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. …

US Gov't Plans to Detain Migrant Children at WW2 Japanese Internment Camp

US to Jail 1,400 Immigrant Children at WWII Japanese Internment Site
Eric London | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
The Pentagon announced yesterday that the Trump administration will detain 1,400 immigrant children at the site of a World War II-era Japanese internment camp, Fort Sill Army Base in Lawton, Oklahoma. | The decision, announced Tuesday as Trump denounced immigrants and …
globalresearch.ca/us-jail-1400-immigrant-children-wwii-japanese-internment-site/5680478

Overcrowding, rotten food & nooses: DHS watchdog confirms horrific conditions at immigrant jails
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez | nationofchange.org | 2019-06-13
Now Homeland Security's own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets.
nationofchange.org/2019/06/13/overcrowding-rotten-food-nooses-dhs-watchdog-confirms-horrific-conditions-at-immigrant-jails/

REPRESSION FAILS TO QUELL OPPOSITION TO CAMEROON REGIME
By Global Information Network | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-13
June 10, 2019 (GIN) — Facing a growing pro-democracy movement, Cameroon is resorting to an old formula — namely unleashing government power in the form of threats, arrests and excessive force. | This week, hundreds of supporters of Maurice Kamto, leader of the opposition Cameroon Resistance Movement, filled the streets, demanding his release from detention but were detained themselves by security forces. | According to his lawyer, Kamto could be charged with: insurrection, hostility against the homeland, criminal association, threats to public order, rebellion, group rebellion, and inciting insurrecti…
www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/af…

Wyden Bill to Strip Tax Breaks From Private Prison Industry Profiting From Child Detentions
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-13
"Companies that profit off of putting children in cages shouldn't get tax breaks." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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Syrian Families Released from the Infamous Rukban Concentration Camp
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-13
Dozens of Syrian families have been released from the US-controlled Rukban Concentration Camp in Al-Tanf, southeast of Syria. | The released families arrived at the Jaligam crossing in Homs eastern countryside after spending years in forced displacement and detention by the …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-families-released-infamous-rukban-concentration-camp/5680438

Chicago Police Tortured Victims With Electric Shocks, Burns and Beatings
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
Flint Taylor, a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago, has spent almost 50 years defending some of the most vulnerable people within the criminal legal system. In his new book, The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, Taylor describes the history of systemic violence running rampant within the Chicago Police Department. It's a history he knows all too well from his work with the Fred Hampton assassination case, among many others. This excerpt recounts some of the torture unleashed by police in Chicago during the 1980s, under Police Commander Jon Burge. During this time, Burg…
truthout.org/articles/chicago-police-tortured-victims-with-electric-shocks-burns-and-beatings/

Bernie Sanders Proposes New Economic Bill of Rights
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered a full-throated defense of democratic socialism in his June 12 speech at George Washington University. Sanders quoted FDR's 1944 State of the Union address: "We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without e…
truthout.org/articles/bernie-sanders-proposes-new-economic-bill-of-rights/

Trans communities are being left out of abortion debate
Michelle Zacarias | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-13
Trans men and non-binary individuals are being left out of reproductive rights conversations. During the last four months, a number of draconian bills have swept the nation. States like Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and Ohio voted on and passed near-total abortion bans. Since then, several of the bills have been challenged in lower courts. But it's …
peoplesworld.org/article/trans-communities-are-being-left-out-of-abortion-debate/

New York Activists Are Leading the Charge on Sex Work Decriminalization
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
The struggle for sex workers' rights is ramping up around the U.S. Over the winter, the Decrim NY coalition came together in New York City to win sex workers the right to survive and not be harassed by state law enforcement. In May, 100 current and former sex workers, trafficking victims and advocates who were part of the coalition traveled to Albany, where they spoke to legislators about how the existing laws governing the industry enable the profiling of trans people for allegedly selling sex. They also pushed for expanding relief for those with criminal records. | Thi…
truthout.org/articles/new-york-activists-are-leading-the-charge-on-sex-work-decriminalization/

New Zealand protest opposes persecution of Julian Assange and Australian journalists
wsws.org | 2019-06-13
Tom Peters of the Socialist Equality Group warned that press freedom and democratic rights are "not compatible with endless war and endless attacks on living standards."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/13/asnz…

Community Demands Answers After Trans Black Latinx Woman Died at Rikers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-13
Outrage is mounting over the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender Afro-Latinx woman who was found dead in a cell at Rikers Island on Friday. Polanco was arrested on misdemeanor charges and jailed on Rikers in April when she was unable to post $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was dead. Her family, friends and transgender rights activists are now demanding answers for the conditions that led to the 27-year-old's death. The city says the cause of death has not yet been determined. Polanco was held in a unit for transgender women while jailed at Rikers, but a week before her death she was transferred to…
truthout.org/video/community-demands-answers-after-trans-black-latinx-woman-died-at-rikers/

Germany Passes Deportation Legislation
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-06-13
Germany's parliament adopted the first part of a new legislation packet to restrict the rights of asylum-seekers and refugees in Germany, denying them the right to work, sending them to prison once room in the deportation centers runs out, and even allowing apartment raids in search of "illegal" immigrants…
therealnews.com/stories/germany-passes-deportation-legislation

Invoking FDR, Sanders lays out his agenda for "democratic socialism"
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-06-13
WASHINGTON–Invoking the "unfinished business" of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders laid out a comprehensive "democratic socialist" platform of an "Economic Bill of Rights" to benefit the entire country, rather than the oligarchs, right-wing politicians, and corporate elite at the top. That platform would mandate "quality health care for all," …
peoplesworld.org/article/invoking-fdr-sanders-lays-out-his-agenda-for-democratic-socialism/

Justice for Layleen Polanco: Community Demands Answers After Trans Black Latinx Woman Died at Rikers
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-13
Outrage is mounting over the death of Layleen Polanco, a transgender Afro-Latinx woman who was found dead in a cell at Rikers Island on Friday. Polanco was arrested on misdemeanor charges and jailed on Rikers in April when she was unable to post $500 bail. Nearly two months later, she was dead. Her family, friends and transgender rights activists are now demanding answers for the conditions that led to the 27-year-old's death. The city says the cause of death has not yet been determined. Polanco was held in a unit for transgender women while jailed at Rikers, but a week before her death she was transferred to so-…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/13/justice_f…

New York's Top Leaders, De Blasio and Jumaane Williams, Hail Rent Bill Boosting Tenants' Rights
Special To The Black Star News | blackstarnews.com | 2019-06-13
Jumaane Williams. Photo: Twitter | | New York City's top elected officials including Mayor Bill de Blasio and Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams have hailed the bill that will significantly increase tenants rights. | | The new bill which could be voted on as early as Friday includes several protections such as: protection against evictions from apartments so long as a tenant occupies the unit in a preferential unit and blocking landlords from exponentially increasing rents; the so-called vacancy bonus whereby landlords could increase rent by as much as 20% when a unit is vacant has been eliminated; lan…
www.blackstarnews.com/ny-watch/politics/…

Six new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-13
System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis | Edited by Martin Empson | Bookmarks, 2019 | Marxist essays on the global crisis. It includes Ian Angus on Metabolic Rift; Kohei Saito on Marx's Ecosocialism; Camilla Royle on the Anthropocene; Martin Empson on agriculture; Amy Leather on plastic; Sarah Ensor on biodiversity; Ian Rappel on 'Natural Capital'; Suzanne Jeffery on social movements; Michelle Robidoux and Carolyn Egan on tar sands and Indigenous rights. It is availabl…
greenleft.org.au/content/six-new-books-ecosocialist-bookshelf-0

Six new books for an ecosocialist bookshelf
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-06-13
System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis | Edited by Martin Empson | Bookmarks, 2019 | Marxist essays on the global crisis. It includes Ian Angus on Metabolic Rift; Kohei Saito on Marx's Ecosocialism; Camilla Royle on the Anthropocene; Martin Empson on agriculture; Amy Leather on plastic; Sarah Ensor on biodiversity; Ian Rappel on 'Natural Capital'; Suzanne Jeffery on social movements; Michelle Robidoux and Carolyn Egan on tar sands and Indigenous rights. It is availabl…
greenleft.org.au/content/six-new-books-ecosocialist-bookshelf-0

Watch Bernie Sanders Deliver Speech on Why Democratic Socialism 'Only Way to Defeat Oligarchy and Authoritarianism'
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-12
"We must recognize that in the 21st century, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights. This is what I mean by democratic socialism." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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ACLU Asks US Court To Delay Census Citizenship Question Ruling
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-12
Human rights groups challenging the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to consider delaying a ruling on the issue in light of new evidence. | RELATED: | Trump: Dictators' Kids Will Benefit From Birthright Citizenship | In a court filing, immigrant advocacy groups repre…
telesurenglish.net/news/ACLU-Asks-US-Court-To-Delay-Census-Citizenship-Question-Ruling-Based-on-New-Evidence-20190612-0025.html

How Venezuela's US-backed opposition distorts 'human rights' to push regime change
Ajit Singh | thegrayzone.com | 2019-06-12
Venezuelan lawyer Lucrecia Hernández, director of the NGO Sures, discusses how US-funded opposition groups have politicized and weaponized "human rights"…
thegrayzone.com/2019/06/12/venezuela-opposition-human-rights-regime-change/

Colombians Victimized by Delays in Peace Process: UN Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-12
The United Nations (U.N.) denounced on Wednesday the numerous human rights violations and extrajudicial killings in 2018 in Colombia as consequences of poor implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement in the region. | RELATED: | Colombia: 3 Indigenous Social Leaders Murdered | The representative of the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights in Colombia (Acnudh), Guillermo Fernandez Maldonado, released the organization's annual report, along with a list of homicide victims killed in 2018. | The r…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombians-Victimized-by-Delays-in-Peace-Process-UN-Report-20190612-0022.html

UN calls for investigation into Sudan's slide into 'human rights abyss'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-06-12
UN experts are concerned that Sudan is sliding into a "human rights abyss" in the aftermath of the Sudanese authorities' deadly break-up of the main protest sit-in in the capital, Khartoum. Military forces reportedly killed at least 100 people. | The experts, appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, called on Wednesday for an independent investigatio…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/06/12/un-calls-for-investigation-into-sudans-slide-into-human-rights-abyss/

Bernie Sanders Makes Impassioned Case for Democratic Socialism
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-06-12
In a speech at George Washington University on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders laid out his vision of a democratic socialist society and made the case for why an ambitious agenda centered on economic rights for all is the only way to confront America's deep inequities and defeat far-right authoritarianism. | "We must recognize that in the 21st century, in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, economic rights are human rights," said Sanders, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. "And that is what I mean by democratic socialism." | Decrying an economic system that has left millions of families one…
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-makes-impassioned-case-for-democratic-socialism/

Understanding of LGBT realities 'non-existent' in most countries, says UN expert
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-12
Policymakers in most parts of the world are taking decisions in the dark when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity, an independent UN human rights expert said on Wednesday.
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Europe has no freedom but to choose "freedom gas"
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-06-12
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently renamed U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports "freedom gas." But freedom for who? For Europe who already has a cheap and reliable source of natural gas, but is being forced to switch over to more expensive U.S. gas under the threat of sanctions? Certainly not. Or freedom for […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/12/europe-has-no-freedom-but-to-choose-freedom-gas/

Europe has no freedom but to choose "freedom gas"
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-06-12
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently renamed U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports "freedom gas." But freedom for who? For Europe who already has a cheap and reliable source of natural gas, but is being forced to switch over to more expensive U.S. gas under the threat of sanctions? Certainly not. Or freedom for […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/06/12/europe-has-no-freedom-but-to-choose-freedom-gas/

Trump Administration Plans to Detain Children at Former Japanese Internment Camp
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-12
Lending even greater significance to the parallels commentators and historians have drawn between U.S. migrant detention centers and concentration camps of the past, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to hold more than a thousand immigrant children at an Oklahoma army base that was used as an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. | According to Time, Fort Sill "
truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-plans-to-detain-children-at-former-japanese-internment-camp/

DHS Watchdog Confirms Horrific Conditions at Immigrant Jails
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-12
We look at horrific conditions for some 52,000 immigrants held in for-profit jails around the country. At least 24 immigrants have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, and at least four more died shortly after being released. Now Homeland Security's own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets. This comes as a separate report recently documented "dangerous overcrowding" at a Border Patrol processing facility in El Paso, Texas. Meanwhile, the Trump admin…
truthout.org/video/dhs-watchdog-confirms-horrific-conditions-at-immigrant-jails/

'This Is Sick': Horror as Trump Administration Plans to Detain Migrant Children at Former Japanese Internment Camp
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-06-12
"It feels as though history can't yell any louder than this." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
commondreams.org/news/2019/06/12/sick-horror-trump-administration-plans-detain-migrant-children-former-japanese?cd-origin=rss

US: Police Remove 'Haunting' Artwork of Caged Migrant Children
telesurenglish.net | 2019-06-12
New York police are disassembling a collection of 24 pop-up art installations meant to bring awareness to the treatment of migrants in United States0 immigration detainment centers. | RELATED: | US State Sues Trump for Violating 'Safe Release' Migrant Policy | Wire cages containing life-size models of children wrapped in silver blankets dotted New York city streets Wednesday as recordings of sound of wailing echoed from the cage. Measuring 5 feet by 3 feet, the mannequin childre…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Police-Remove-Haunting-Artwork-of-Caged-Migrant-Children-20190612-0019.html

Overcrowding, Rotten Food & Nooses: DHS Watchdog Confirms Horrific Conditions at Immigrant Jails
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-12
We look at horrific conditions for some 52,000 immigrants held in for-profit jails around the country. At least 24 immigrants have died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump, and at least four more died shortly after being released. Now Homeland Security's own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets. This comes as a separate report recently documented "dangerous overcrowding" at a Border Patrol processing facility in El Paso, Texas. Meanwhile, the Trump administ…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/12/overcrowd…

New York Teachers Fight for Divestment From Prison Industry
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-12
Teachers in Rochester, New York, recently discovered, to their horror, that their pensions are invested in the private prison and immigrant detention industry. After learning this from Basma Eid, an organizer with the group Freedom to Thrive, one teacher, Michelle Sapere, spearheaded the formation of a rank-and-file organization in her union called Teachers Against Student Exploitation ( TASE)…
truthout.org/articles/new-york-teachers-fight-for-divestment-from-prison-industry/

Amid Record Homelessness, New York Passes Landmark Rent Protection Law
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-06-12
In New York, housing rights advocates are celebrating after state lawmakers announced an agreement that would provide the strongest tenant protections in over a quarter of a century. The deal came just days ahead of the expiration of the current rent laws at the end of this week. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González explains how lawmakers agreed to abolish laws allowing landlords to deregulate rents on apartments after they exceed a certain limit, and to curb provisions allowing landlords to raise the rent of rent-controlled apartments after renovations. The law is one of several similar efforts nationw…
truthout.org/video/amid-record-homelessness-new-york-passes-landmark-rent-protection-law/

German parliament passes draconian deportation law
wsws.org | 2019-06-12
The new law against refugees and immigrants is an integral part of an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/12/ger2…

Facing Affordable Housing Crisis & Record Homelessness, New York Passes Landmark Rent Protection Law
MAIL | democracynow.org | 2019-06-12
In New York, housing rights advocates are celebrating after state lawmakers announced an agreement that would provide the strongest tenant protections in over a quarter of a century. The deal came just days ahead of the expiration of the current rent laws at the end of this week. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González explains how lawmakers agreed to abolish laws allowing landlords to deregulate rents on apartments after they exceed a certain limit, and to curb provisions allowing landlords to raise the rent of rent-controlled apartments after renovations. The law is one of several similar efforts nationwide and is…
www.democracynow.org/2019/6/12/facing_af…

Burma's Suu Kyi joins Hungary's Orbán in promoting anti-Muslim chauvinism
wsws.org | 2019-06-12
Aung San Suu Kyi's meeting with Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán is an indictment of all those who promoted Suu Kyi as a defender of democratic rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/12/pers…

German parliament passes draconian deportation law
wsws.org | 2019-06-12
The new law against refugees and immigrants is an integral part of an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/12/ger2…

Wednesday's Daily Brief: mental health, conflict prevention, Ebola in Uganda, Sudan protests, child labour
United Nations | un.org | 2019-06-12
This Wednesday's top stories are: one-in-five conflict-affected people suffer from a mental illness; the Security Council holds a special session on conflict prevention; 5-year-old Congolese boy is first to die from Ebola in Uganda; Sudanese protestors' rights baffled; the decline of foreign investment; and tackling child labour.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/06/1040371

The Human Rights Film Festival, 2019
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-11
Now in its tenth year, the week-long New York Human Rights Film festival that opens on Thursday, June 13th is the most important venue for leading-edge politically and socially aware films, both narrative and documentary. It is a project of Human Rights Watch that some on the left write off as little different from the…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/11/the-human-rights-film-festival-2019/

Asylum-Seeking Children from Central America Suffer Multi-Dimensional, Recurrent, Sustained Trauma
Physicians for Human Rights | globalresearch.ca | 2019-06-11
Since 2014, the number of children arriving at the U.S. border has risen dramatically, as unaccompanied children, adolescents, and young families have fled gang and other forms of violence in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. …
globalresearch.ca/asylum-seeking-children-northern-triangle-suffer-multi-dimensional-recurrent-sustained-trauma/5680317

The Human Rights Film Festival, 2019
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-06-11
Now in its 30th year, the week-long New York Human Rights Film festival that opens on Thursday, June 13th is the most important venue for leading-edge politically and socially aware films, both narrative and documentary. It is a project of Human Rights Watch that some on the left write off as little different from the…
counterpunch.org/2019/06/11/the-human-rights-film-festival-2019/

Last Process: 50 Postees: 2019-06-14 00:53 GMT (20:53 EST)

2019-06-12: News Headlines

WSWS (2019-06-12). Burma's Suu Kyi joins Hungary's Orbán in promoting anti-Muslim chauvinism. wsws.org Aung San Suu Kyi's meeting with Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán is an indictment of all those who promoted Suu Kyi as a defender of democratic rights.

WSWS (2019-06-12). German parliament passes draconian deportation law. wsws.org The new law against refugees and immigrants is an integral part of an attack on the democratic rights of the entire working class.

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-06-12). 'This Is Sick': Horror as Trump Administration Plans to Detain Migrant Children at Former Japanese Internment Camp. commondreams.org "It feels as though history can't yell any louder than this." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Louis Proyect (2019-06-11). The Human Rights Film Festival, 2019. counterpunch.org Now in its tenth year, the week-long New York Human Rights Film festival that opens on Thursday, June 13th is the most important venue for leading-edge politically and socially aware films, both narrative and documentary. It is a project of Human Rights Watch that some on the left write off as little different from the More

ACLU (2019-06-11). Patients' Needs, Not Personal Beliefs, Come First in Health Care. aclu.org We're suing the Trump administration today over a rule that allows health care providers to refuse care based on religious or moral beliefs. | Since taking office, the Trump administration has launched a systematic attack on laws that exist to protect all of us from discrimination when we seek basic health care. Today, we're taking them back to court over it. | Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) resurrected a policy that allows health care providers — including hospitals, clinics, and doctors' offices — to use their religious beliefs to withhold critical information and obst…

Physicians for Human Rights (2019-06-11). Asylum-Seeking Children from Central America Suffer Multi-Dimensional, Recurrent, Sustained Trauma. globalresearch.ca Since 2014, the number of children arriving at the U.S. border has risen dramatically, as unaccompanied children, adolescents, and young families have fled gang and other forms of violence in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. …

Special to People's World (2019-06-11). Communist Party USA to hold 100th anniversary convention in Chicago. peoplesworld.org CHICAGO— Meeting here, in the city where May Day was born, members of the Communist Party USA will celebrate a century in the struggle for workers' rights and socialism at their organization's 31st National Convention later this month. Hundreds of delegates, allies, and international guests will convene in Chicago, June 21-23, to commemorate the CPUSA's …

Ashley Curtin (2019-06-11). 'It's bad for business:' CEOs speak out against attacks on reproductive rights, abortion bans. nationofchange.org "As anti-choice politicians are escalating attacks on these fundamental freedoms we encourage the entire business community to join us in protecting access to reproductive healthcare in the critical months and years to come."

barry_h (2019-06-11). Tony Award for refugees rights musical. greenleft.org.au The highly topical musical Hadestown won eight awards at this year's annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York on June 9. The Tony's recognise excellence in live Broadway theatre. | The stage adaption is of the 2010 concept album by US singer Anais Mitchell. It uses the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus in the underground as a template for ripping open contemporary US life, particularly the racist treatment of Central American refugees. | The most powerful political and musical piece in the show is The Wall, which demonstrates the hypocrisy and shallowness of US demagogy about refugees. | While it is perfectly in…

Blake Stewart (2019-06-11). Tennessee Republicans Take Voter Suppression a Step Further. progressive.org The new law is already having a chilling effect on voting rights groups' work to register voters in underrepresented communities.

United Nations (2019-06-11). Tuesday's Daily Brief: Disability inclusion, minimum wage, and LGBTI rights in Botswana. un.org This Tuesday, we cover: a new strategy for disability inclusion; continued talks on social justice at the international labour conference; an update on Yemen; a historic Security Council resolution on missing persons in conflict; and same-sex rights in Botswana.

United Nations (2019-06-11). New Disability Inclusion Strategy is 'transformative change we need', says Guterres. un.org Disability inclusion is not only a fundamental human right, it is "central to the promise" of the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the annual conference on the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which began on Tuesday.

teleSUR (2019-06-11). Bikini Kill's Riot Grrrls Reunite 22 Years After Separation. telesurenglish.net As a political assault on reproductive rights rages in the United States (U.S.), Bikini Kill, one of the groups credited for sparking the legendary riot grrrl movement is back, reuniting Monday for a London show to spread their message of empowerment and equality, protesting violence against women and normalizing female anger. | RELATED: | US: Straight Pride Organizers Linked to White Supremacists | Before London, Bikini Kill delivered a thunder…

Media Lens (2019-06-11). "Mirthless Laugh": The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange. dissidentvoice.org For anyone persuaded by the state-corporate campaign of sneers and smears depicting Julian Assange as a shit-smearing narcissist and rapist, the comments made by Nils Melzer, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, must be deeply shocking. The BBC headline: Julian Assange subjected to psychological torture, UN expert says Melzer is Professor of International Law at …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-11). India Complies with US Sanctions against Iran, Iran Keeps Begging It to Reconsider. globalresearch.ca India capitulated to American pressure and complied with the anti-Iranian sanctions regime, yet Iran keeps begging it to reconsider and continue investing in the Islamic Republic anyhow, with its humiliating behavior revealing just how desperate it is for economic relief …

Janine Jackson (2019-06-11). 'It's Seen by Indigenous Activists as a Template for Similar Confrontations Around the Globe' – CounterSpin interview with Reynard Loki on indigenous oil victory. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Reynard Loki about an indigenous environmental victory in Ecuador for the June 7, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…

Janine Jackson (2019-06-11). 'The US Has No Real Moral Authority to Talk About Freedoms' – CounterSpin interview with Netfa Freeman on Cuba sanctions. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Netfa Freeman about Cuba sanctions for the June 7, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…

teleSUR (2019-06-11). Israel Will Not Allow Iran To Have Nuclear Weapons: Netanyahu. telesurenglish.net Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning to Iran about producing a nuclear warhead on Monday, vowing to prevent them from attaining this weapon by any means necessary. | RELATED: | Iran Says New US Sanctions Show Offer To Dialogue 'Hollow' | The Israeli premier issued the warning after the comments made by the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano on Iran's increased uranium enrichment. | "Israel will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons," Net…

Kevin Gosztola (2019-06-11). Supreme Court Rejects Prisoner's Case, Won't Address Perpetual Detention At Guantanamo. shadowproof.com The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case brought by a Guantanamo Bay captive against his perpetual detention, even though war on terrorism has no end in sight.

RT (2019-06-11). Supreme Court justice questions endless detention at GITMO prison. rt.com After the Supreme Court shot down an appeal from one of the few remaining captives in America's military prison in Guantanamo Bay, one justice has broken ranks and questioned the ongoing policy of indefinite detention.

teleSUR (2019-06-11). Marine Life at Risk If Mexican Gulf 'Dead Zone' Might Expand. telesurenglish.net A near record-sized "dead zone" of oxygen-starved water could form and expand in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, threatening its huge stocks of marine life, researchers warned on Monday. | RELATED: | Mexican Defender of Howler Monkey Sanctuary KIlled | The area could spread to about 20,577 square kilometers, scientists at Louisiana State University said, or about 2,900 football fields, and larger than the five-year average of 14,944 square km. | "A major…

teleSUR (2019-06-11). Saudi Teen Faces Death Penalty for Protesting When He Was 10. telesurenglish.net Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty of a teenager for taking part in a Shia-led protest when he was 10-years-old. | RELATED: | Saudi Arabia to Execute 3 Dissident Scholars After Ramadan | Murtaja Qureiris, now 18, was detained when he was 13-years-old. Since then he has been on trial for charges like joining a "terror group" and "sowing sedition." | He was also charged for taking part in an anti-government rally in 2011 when he was 11-years-old. The rally…

Norman Solomon (2019-06-10). Joe Biden's Political Glory Days Are Finally Over. truthdig.com Dear Mr. Biden: | News outlets are reporting that you're determined to prevent your campaign from turning into an "apology tour" this summer. But your only other option is a campaign of denial — sinking deeper into a quagmire of unsustainable pretense. | After your flip-flop late last week that finally renounced your 40 years of support for the Hyde Amendment's discriminatory limits on reproductive rights for low-income women, the New York Times reported that your campaign's "larger concern" has been "the implications of Mr. Biden spending too much time reversing or expressing remorse for his past policy st…

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-06-10). 'Truth Will Prevail,' Says Lula, After Leaked Documents Suggest He Was Imprisoned to Prevent Victory in Brazil's Presidential Election. commondreams.org "There is no question the procedures against former President Lula are tainted by extremely serious issues when it comes to violations of fundamental guarantees and denial of one's rights." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

plenglish (2019-06-10). Argentinean Soldier Killed in Malvinas Identified. plenglish.com 10 de junio de 2019, 19: 16Buenos Aires, Jun 10 (Prensa Latina) The Secretariat of Human Rights of Argentina announced on Monday a new positive identification of another soldier fallen in Malvinas buried as N.N. in the Darwin Cemetery under the legend of Argentine Soldier known only to God.

Staff (2019-06-10). Racist Gerrymandering Created a GOP Stronghold in the South. We Must Fight Back. truthout.org Longtime civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William Barber joins us to respond to his conviction Thursday for trespassing during a 2017 protest against gerrymandering and attacks on health care at the North Carolina Legislature. Barber had refused to leave the General Assembly as ordered, after he organized a sit-in at the legislative building when Republican leaders refused to meet with him about concerns with voter ID requirements and redistricting plans that would weaken the power of the black vote. "We must start connecting systemic racism, most seen through systemic voter suppression and gerrymandering, poverty…

Global Research News (2019-06-10). Selected Articles: America's Intent is to Dominate China, Russia and the World. globalresearch.ca Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corporate greed, civil rights and fraudulent monetary transactions is invariably relegated to the bottom rung of search engine results. | As a result we presently do not cover our monthly running costs which …

MAIL (2019-06-10). Rev. William Barber: Racist Gerrymandering Created a GOP Stronghold in the South. We Must Fight Back. democracynow.org Longtime civil rights leader Rev. Dr. William Barber joins us to respond to his conviction Thursday for trespassing during a 2017 protest against gerrymandering and attacks on healthcare at the North Carolina Legislature. Barber had refused to leave the General Assembly as ordered, after he organized a sit-in at the legislative building when Republican leaders refused to meet with him about concerns with voter ID requirements and redistricting plans that would weaken the power of the black vote. "We must start connecting systemic racism, most seen through systemic voter suppression and gerrymandering, poverty, th…

teleSUR (2019-06-10). Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Identify 130th Missing Grandchild. telesurenglish.net Argentine organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Monday it has found the 130th missing grandchild whose identity was stolen during the country's last military dictatorship (1976-1983). | RELATED: | Argentine Court Begins Joint Process of 322 'Dirty War' Cases | "We happily announce a new restitution of identity," said the organization on its website. | Although the identity of the new grandchild has not been revealed yet, the human rights group said "the individual…

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2019-06-10). Denouncing US Bullying of ICC, Rights Groups Demand Afghan War Crimes Victims Get Their Day in Court. commondreams.org Appeal filed against International Criminal Court's rejection of war crimes probe | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

Kevin Gosztola (2019-06-10). ICE Shackles Terminally Ill Patients, Uses Therapy Sessions Against Children During Immigration Hearings. shadowproof.com When a man in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who had metastatic cancer, was brought to a hospital in Houston, a doctor was not able to conduct a proper examination. ICE would not let the doctor remove restraints that ran across his body, and he died after a…

Prof. Jeff Noonan (2019-06-10). Neoliberal Economics and Workers Rights in Ontario: One Million More Reasons to Mobilize Against Ford. globalresearch.ca The public sector "salary restraint" legislation expected by public sector union leaders was formally introduced on June 5th ( Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act, 2019). I will get to the criticism in a moment. First, …

WSWS (2019-06-10). Mass protests erupt in Hong Kong. wsws.org The fight for democratic rights in Hong Kong will go forward only to the extent that it turns to and champions the struggles of the Chinese workers for their democratic and social rights.

Yves Engler (2019-06-10). Quebec Movement for Peace disrupts a Speech by Irwin Cotler on "Canada as a Human Rights Leader" dissidentvoice.org Last week members of Quebec Movement for Peace disrupted a speech by Irwin Cotler on "Canada as a Human Rights leader" (at the last-minute 'deputy' foreign minister, Rob Oliphant, canceled his participation). With "Free Palestine" signs in hand, filmmaker Malcolm Guy and I took the stage to denounce Cotler's anti-Palestinian positions and support for intervention …

Morning Star (2019-06-10). Human rights group wants investigation into worker safety at Tokyo Olympics. peoplesworld.org A former Olympian and head of a human rights group is asking the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo Olympic organizers to investigate worker safety at venues being built for next year's games. Mary Harvey is the CEO of the Geneva-based Centre for Sport and Human Rights, the type of organization that pressed Qatar to …

Andrew Korybko (2019-06-10). The US-Mexican Deal Advances "Fortress America", Softens China's "Counter-Sanctions" globalresearch.ca The deal that Trump struck with Mexico late last week in order to prevent the imposition of 5-25% tariffs on all of its exports to the US marketplace simultaneously advances his vision of "Fortress America" and softens the blow of …

Eds. (2019-06-10). They cannot stop us. We will live and triumph. mronline.org Yesterday the U.S. Treasury Department added to sanctions announced April 17, and the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, the prohibition of "people to people" cultural and educational trips, plus others related to travel and transportation services, remittances, banking, commerce, and telecommunications | Source

Sarah Cowgill (2019-06-10). Homelessness and The Los Angeles "Disease Renaissance": Typhoid and Typhus Make a Comeback. globalresearch.ca A parable for US times. So busy with bombs, wars, sanctions, walls, that humans are relegated to the 15th century. — Felicity Arbuthnot | Despite hundreds of millions of dollars flowing through Los Angeles to stem the rising tide of homelessness…

CGTN Africa (2019-06-10). Sudan releases rebel leader, Yasir Arman after five days. cgtn.com Sudan opposition leader Yasir Arman arrived in Juba, South Sudan on Monday after he was released together with two other rebel leaders by the military junta | Arman, a high-ranking member of the rebel group, Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, was arrested in his home in Khartoum on June 5 and was detained for five days. | He had just recently returned to Sudan after spending several years in exile. | The Sudanese government convicted and sentenced Arman to death in absentia in 2011 for his involvement in an uprising in the Blue Nile State. | The government today also freed SPLM secretary, Ismail Jalab,…

Workers World Boston bureau (2019-06-10). 'No Walls in the LGBTQ2S Struggle'. workers.org Workers' Solidarity Day was marked by a May 31 meeting titled "No Walls in the LGBTQ2S Struggle," sponsored by Stonewall Warriors, International Workers' Solidarity Network and Workers World Party. The meeting was dedicated to Roxanna Hernandez, a Honduran trans woman who died in detention at the border. Speaking about the . . . | Continue reading 'No Walls in the LGBTQ2S Struggle' at Workers.org

Staff (2019-06-09). Tennessee Passes Law Designed to Intimidate Black Voters. therealnews.com Successful voter registration drives among Blacks have motivated Tennessee lawmaker to pass bill with onerous fines for simple registration mistakes, which will cause voters to think twice about registering. We speak to Ezra Rosenberg of the Voting Rights Project…

Staff (2019-06-09). How Powerful Mining Corporations Plunder the Global South Without Consequence. truthout.org This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute."The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights." —J. Paul GettyThe big driver of the world economy is a plundering process where powerful corporations loot the natural resources of low-income countries. | These highly influential multinational corporations (MNCs) facilitate the expatriation of profits and natural assets from resource-rich but capital-poor countries by engaging in a wide range of morally egregious profit maximization prac…

Juan Cole (2019-06-09). No, WSJ, Palestinians Have Not Given Up On National Rights. commondreams.org The Wall Street Journal yesterday trolled the Palestinians with a breathless headline that "some" Palestinians are giving up on having their own state.

Staff (2019-06-09). Critics Blast Trump Backing of Israel's Plan to Commit 'War Crime'. truthdig.com The president's envoy to Israel says the U.S. supports Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank, angering human rights advocates.

plenglish (2019-06-09). Venezuela, Russia to Use Rubles in Trade to Bypass US Sanctions. plenglish.com 09 de junio de 2019, 08: 49Caracas, Jun 9 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela and Russia are working nowadays on the creation of a trade mechanism with payment in rubles to bypass the blockade imposed by the United States, Tareck El Aissami, Vice President of Economy, pointed out.

Bertha Mojena Milián (2019-06-09). US Sanctions against Cuba. US Cruise Lines Begin to Withdraw. Sea Crossings to Cuba from the US are Declared "Illegal" globalresearch.ca As international condemnation of the latest U.S. sanctions continues to grow, three cruise lines operating on the island began to withdraw and apologize to their guests for changes in itineraries, with some 800,000 passengers affected | *** | As international condemnation of …

teleSUR (2019-06-09). Iran Says New US Sanctions Show Offer To Dialogue 'Hollow'. telesurenglish.net Iran said Saturday that new U.S. sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of President Donald Trump's claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehran. | RELATED: | The Spoils of Economic War: How the US, Saudis Profit From Sanctions on Venezuela and Iran | "Only one week was needed for the U.S. president's claim that he was ready to negotiate with Iran to be proven hollow," foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said. | Tr…

Julia Conley, staff writer (2019-06-08). As Trump Signals Support for Israel's Proposed West Bank Annexation, Lawmakers and Rights Advocates Condemn Plan to Commit 'War Crime'. commondreams.org A top Trump administration signaled Saturday that the U.S. would welcome Israel's reported plan to break international law by annexing parts of the West Bank, angering advocates for Palestinian rights. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……

teleSUR (2019-06-08). French Animal Rights Activists Protest Against Slaughterhouses. telesurenglish.net Thousands of animal rights campaigners from a range of groups marched through Paris Saturday calling for the closure of all animal slaughterhouses, also known as abattoirs. | RELATED: | First Mammal Extinction Due to Man-made Climate Change | Activists wearing red T-shirts sounded drums and shouted slogans, in what organizers called the Red March to denounce the slaughter of animals for human consumption. | Placards carrying images of farm animals and poultry highlighted the suffering…

WSWS (2019-06-08). Trump ends federal funding of fetal tissue research. wsws.org The ban is the Trump administration's latest attack on science and reproductive rights.

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