(2023-10-13). Brazil chairs UN meeting to discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict. plenglish.com The headquarters of the Brazilian presidency reported that the meeting at the United Nations was convened by Brazil to address the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, threats to security and world peace, and escalations of conflicts in the Middle East. | President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appealed to UN Secretary General António Guterres and the international community in defense of Palestinian and Israeli children last Wednesday. | "Let us take advantage of all resources to put an end to the most serious violation of human rights in the Middle East conflict. Children never ought to be taken hostage, no m…
(2023-10-13). Israel strikes Gaza Strip using white phosphorus munitions: Monitor. presstv.ir A human rights monitor says Israel is using banned white phosphorus munitions against people in the besieged Gaza Strip.
(2023-10-13). Noura Erakat: Western Leaders & Media Are Justifying Israel's "Genocidal Campaign" Against Palestinians. democracynow.org 
The unfolding crisis in Gaza, where relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 1,500 people since Saturday, is "a humanitarian catastrophe," says Palestinian American human rights attorney Noura Erakat. She says Western leaders and the mainstream media have relied on racist, Islamophobic tropes to build a false consensus "that war is inevitable and that whatever consequences come out is the fault of Hamas, thereby further blaming the victims for their own killing and massacres." Erakat also decries the Israeli order that 1.1 million residents in Gaza relocate under threat of a gro…
(2023-10-13). The Savagery of the War Against the Palestinian People. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Oct 10, 2023 | Israel's brutal and punctual violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza over the last decade, is in violation of all international conventions on war and human rights | Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children. They will have hidden in their homes, listening to the sound of the Israeli F-16 bombers coming closer and closer, the explosions advancing toward them like a swarm…
(2023-10-12). Cuba advocates in making visible impact of coercive measures. plenglish.com United Nations, Oct 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba advocated making the impact of sanctions on human rights visible during the dialogue promoted with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tàºrk.
(2023-10-12). Israel strikes Gaza Strip using white phosphorus munitions: Monitor. presstv.ir A human rights monitor says Israel is using banned white phosphorus munitions against people in the besieged Gaza Strip.
(2023-10-12). Human Rights Lawyer Michael Sfard: "Israelis Must Maintain Their Humanity Even When Their Blood Boils" democracynow.org 
Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer and expert on international human rights, calls for Israel to act within international law in response to Hamas's attack on civilians Saturday. "My government is waging an attack that seems to be using war crimes to retaliate on war crimes," says Sfard. "They want revenge, as if a revenge would bring back the dear ones that are gone." Sfard says Israel should end its bombing and lift the blockade on Gaza because civilians do not deserve punishment for militant attacks. "Modern international law prohibits, with no exception, collecti…
(2023-10-12). La recurrente burla a la ONU por la potencia ocupante en Palestina. globalizacion.ca La declaración universal de derechos humanos de 1948 reconoce que toda acción, política o ley, debe priorizar el respeto por la dignidad humana y a los convenios de ginebra de 1949, dirigidos a aminorar el sufrimiento y recordar que la…
(2023-10-12). Bolivia logra crear el Grupo de Trabajo sobre derechos campesinos. telesurtv.net El vicecanciller Freddy Mamani participó en las negociaciones para la adopción de la declaración sobre los derechos de los campesinos y de otras personas que trabajan en el área rural.
(2023-10-12). Both Israelis and Palestinians Are Victims of Israel's Apartheid System. fpif.org The violence in Gaza and Israel is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. | Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law, and all attacks on civilians must be condemned. But if we're serious about preventing such horrors in the future, we have to go beyond condemnation. | A lesson we ignore at our peril is that oppression undermines not only the rights, dignity, and lives of the oppressed, but eventually the security of the oppressors as well. The apartheid system that's been suffocating Palestinians for so long is now also undermining the safety…
(2023-10-14). Comment] Monitoring workers' health: focus on rights, determinants, and equity. thelancet.com The Lancet Series on Work and Health1—3 recognises that changes in the world of work are causing new occupational hazards to physical and mental health and increasing health inequalities within and between countries. These changes have profound implications for official workers' health data and monitoring systems, which have become a global health priority as the world seeks to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).4,5 These monitoring systems are public goods that provide international organisations, governments, and communities the evidence base for policy and practice that ensures health for all…
(2023-10-13). Decades before Snowden, this American patriot waged war against illegal surveillance in the US By: Robert Bridge. midwesternmarx.com 
In the 1970s, US Army Captain Christopher Pyle blew the lid on government agencies' domestic spying Former undercover agent Christopher Pyle testifies before the Senate Constitutional Rights subcommittee that the Army has spied on politicians and thousands of ordinary Americans on February 24, 1971. © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In 1970, a US Army captain went rogue after he discovered that the military was conducting surveillance on dissidents across …
(2023-10-13). Raeisi: No new order will take hold in region until Palestinian rights upheld. presstv.ir Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says no new order will take hold in the region until the rights of Palestinian people are upheld.
(2023-10-13). Settlers go on killing spree in West Bank. electronicintifada.net Soldiers join in the violence, rights group says.
(2023-10-13). Australian students denounce attacks on Gaza and hypocrisy of Labor's Voice campaign. wsws.org "In the referendum, the media is saying we need to acknowledge indigenous rights. But when something happens in Palestine, they ignore the rights of the Palestinians."
(2023-10-12). Famine looms in Gaza amid Israeli carpet bombing. electronicintifada.net Rights groups call for immediate international intervention to stave off humanitarian catastrophe.
(2023-10-12). There's No Path to Ending Bloodshed If Palestinian Rights Continue to Be Denied. truthout.org Since last weekend I've been glued to the news and frantically checking on my family and friends in Gaza and the West Bank. I grieve for the loss of Palestinian and Israeli lives and I mourn with all those who lost loved ones and those who continue to suffer the consequences of the longest occupation in modern history. This week's violence did not start with Hamas's October 7 act of armed… |
(2023-10-12). Raeisi: No new order will take hold in region until Palestinian rights upheld. presstv.ir Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says no new order will take hold in the region until the rights of Palestinian people are upheld.
(2023-10-12). US, Qatar Agree to Deny Iran Access to $6 Billion of Its Funds. news.antiwar.com The US and Qatar have agreed to deny Iran access to $6 billion of its own funds that were recently released as part of a prisoner swap deal with the US, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The $6 billion was frozen in South Korea due to US sanctions on Iran that were re-imposed …
(2023-10-12). Russian Oil Producers Open New Export Route to UAE. infobrics.org Russian oil producers supplied their first cargoes of CPC Blend crude to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in August and September, opening up a new export route as Moscow looks to find new customers and skirt Western sanctions…
(2023-10-12). IMF Projects Venezuela's Economy to Grow in 2023 and 2024. orinocotribune.com 
The latest report presented by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contains positive forecasts for the economies of Latin America for the end of this year and 2024, largely thanks to the weight of Brazil and Mexico, the two largest economies in the region. | In the case of Venezuela, the IMF predicts, despite the ongoing illegal economic war waged on the country—euphemistically referred to as "sanctions"—the economy will grown by 4% in 2023 and 4.5% in 2024. | : 1.5% | Germany: 0.9% | France: 1.3% | Italy: 0.7% | Spain: 1.7% | Japan: 1.0% | Canada: 1.6% | China: 4.2% | India: 6.3% | Russia: 1.1% | B…
