Sharon Zhang (2023-07-18). House Wastes No Time Crafting Pro-Israel Resolution After Jayapal Criticism. truthout.org The House is set to vote on a resolution today pledging the U.S.'s allegiance to Israel in perpetuity and outright denying Israel's human rights violations, seemingly in order to isolate and punish Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) over a comment criticizing the state over the weekend. The one-page resolution, introduced by Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas), states that "Israel is not a racist or… |

Editor (2023-07-18). UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine Into 'An Open-Air Prison' to Further Annexation Plans. scheerpost.com Francesca Albanese's June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to "de-Palestinianize" the occupied territory, threatening "the existence of the Palestinians as a people."

Orinoco Tribune 2 (2023-07-18). Persecution of Protesters Intensifies in Argentina's Jujuy: Police Raid Homes, Break Into University, and Arrest Protesters. orinocotribune.com The police raids of activists' homes, the university, and arrests have been condemned by human rights organizations across Argentina who have raised concerns about respect for human rights in the Jujuy province | The judiciary of Argentina's Jujuy province, on Wednesday, July 12, ordered the arrest of over 40 people, who participated in a massive march in the city of Humahuaca on June 30. The march was organized in rejection of the reforms to the Provincial Constitution, promoted by conservative Governor Gerardo Morales of the right-wing Radical Civic Union party. | According to reports from provincial human righ…

_____ (2023-07-17). The Weaponization of Human Rights at the Human Rights Council. transcend.org 3 Jul 2023 – Alas, the Human Rights Council has become predominantly a platform for those who engage in war-mongering and incitement to hatred. Notwithstanding the clear language of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, many states practice flagrant Russophobia, Sinophobia and other phobias. Article 20 stipulates:…

Kit Klarenberg (2023-07-18). Guantanamo. "Enhanced interrogation" Techniques: British Intelligence in the Dock for CIA Torture. globalresearch.ca

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-18). Ten years too long: End offshore detention. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-18). Federal Court judge rules hotel detention inhumane but legal. greenleft.org.au

_____ (2023-07-17). El Salvador's Secretive Mega-Jail. transcend.org 14 Jul 2023 – El Salvador's mega-jail, Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), opened in Jan 2023. It has become a symbol of President Bukele's "war against gangs", which has resulted in the detention of at least 68,000 people since Mar 2022.

ecns.cn (2023-07-18). Nation to beef up IPR protection efforts. ecns.cn China will strengthen efforts to protect intellectual property rights and team up with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states to crack down on infringement and counterfeiting.

Zane McNeill (2023-07-18). TV Ad in Ohio Tries to Scare Voters With Drag Queens to Thwart Abortion Rights. truthout.org In response to a ballot initiative that would enshrine abortion rights in Ohio, the GOP has called a special election to take place in August as a last-ditch effort to raise the threshold for any ballot measure to pass from a simple majority to a supermajority. Protect Women Ohio, a group which aims to thwart the ballot measure on abortion, recently released its first TV ad, which doesn't mention… |

Art Persyko (2023-07-18). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-18). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…

Brett Wilkins (2023-07-18). 'Five-alarm fire': GOP adds over 200 poison pills to House spending bills. nationofchange.org "We cannot allow policy that harms regular people, threatens our rights, hurts the environment, and does any number of other terrible things to ride along with the appropriations package," said Public Citizen's Lisa Gilbert.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-18). Egyptian court sentences activist and scholar Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison. peoplesdispatch.org Patrick George Zaki has been accused of disseminating false news about the country's internal conditions to disturb security and social peace. His case is emblematic of the large-scale crackdown by the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi government on rights and freedoms in Egypt…

Editor (2023-07-18). Catching heat from Big Brother: Education and climate in MAGAland. mronline.org "In Real Time" is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America's unfolding crisis of democracy. Read previous "In Real Time" dispatches here. Listen to the "In Real Time" …

Hal McNulty (2023-07-17). The Weekly Round-Up: Illegal Migration Bill, Huw Edwards, Striking Regulations. ukhumanrightsblog.com In the News Concluding five days of speculation, Huw Edwards was named on Wednesday as the BBC figure at the centre of the Sun's allegations of sexual impropriety. The newspaper claimed the presenter had paid a young person for 'sordid images,' suggesting a criminal offence may have taken place if the teenager had been under …

Guest Contributor (2023-07-17). R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate. ukhumanrightsblog.com Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 — the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a year later, back in the UK, last month saw the conviction of Carla Foster for the late …

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-17). UN experts ask Bangladeshi authorities to end persecution of rights organization Odhikar. peoplesdispatch.org Odhikar has been facing judicial persecution with charges filed against its secretary Adilur Rahman Khan and director ASM Nasiruddin Elan for allegedly publishing "fake, distorted and defamatory" information…

José Luis Granados Ceja (2023-07-18). CELAC and EU Hold Summit After Eight-Year Absence Amid Strong Disagreements. venezuelanalysis.com Venezuelan delegation leader Delcy Rodríguez said Europe's energy crisis was due in part to its support for sanctions.

C.J. Polychroniou (2023-07-17). Is the US Dollar on the Verge of Being Dethroned as the World's Currency? truthout.org Since Russia invaded Ukraine, and especially after Washington imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow, a number of countries across the world — including Brazil, China, India, Iran, Saudi Arabia and South Africa — have been pushing back against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar in the global economy. As this de-dollarization movement picks up steam we are forced to ask: Is the U.S. |

_____ (2023-07-17). Biden's Corruption Led to Ukraine's Destruction: Former Kiev Diplomat. strategic-culture.org Former Ukrainian diplomat and political insider Andrii Telizhenko — now under US sanctions on what he says are false grounds — speaks out. | Join us on , , and . | By Aaron MATÉ | Former Ukrainian government offi…

Ana Perdigón (2023-07-17). Cabello Slams Venezuelan Opposition's Hypocritical Labeling of Outraged Citizens as 'Violent'. orinocotribune.com Diosdado Cabello, the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), expressed disbelief that the Venezuelan opposition, after having requested sanctions be placed upon the country, would label Venezuelan citizens who were outraged by their actions as "violent." | Taking to his social media accounts, Cabello criticized the hypocrisy of those who had advocated for invasion; invoked the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), a treaty imposed on the region by the US during the Cold War with functionality similar to that of NATO; and resorted to burning people alive, only to now bra…

krish-rad_ind (2023-07-18). Tallahassee Community Pushes For LGBTQ Sanctuary City. popularresistance.org

Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-17). The UK-Rwanda Pact To Keep Migrants From Crossing The English Channel. popularresistance.org UK officials have been trying to ship African and Middle Eastern migrants to Rwanda since June 2022 despite successful legal challenges mounted by immigrant rights advocates, including intervention by the European Court of Human Rights . | At the end of June, three UK Court of Appeal judges said Rwanda could not be considered a "safe third country" where migrants from any country could be sent, but the government has vowed to appeal . | One thing is clear about this policy. Its real purpose is to stop migrants from crossing the English Channel for fear of being deported to Rwanda.

mforinoco (2023-07-16). Peru: Boluarte Embroiled in Plagiarism Scandal. orinocotribune.com According to reports from Lima, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has faced accusations of plagiarizing a book that she included as her own work on her resume back in 2007 when applying for a job in the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status. | The TV show Punto Final reported on Sunday that 55% of Boluarte's "Reconocimiento de los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario" (Recognition of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) from 2004 consisted of theses, monographs, and academic articles published in Mexico, Argentina, and Costa Rica. Additionally, the show explained that…

mforinoco (2023-07-16). Peruvian President Involved in Plagiarism Scandal. orinocotribune.com Peruvian President Dina Boluarte Has been accused of having plagiarized a book she included as her own work in her resume in 2007 when applying for a job in the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status, it was reported in Lima. | The TV show Punto Final said Sunday that 55% of Boluarte's "Reconocimiento de los Derechos Humanos y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario" (Recognition of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) work from 2004 consisted of theses, monographs, and academic articles published in Mexico, Argentina, and Costa Rica. She co-authored that work with six other people, it was…

Editor (2023-07-16). British Intelligence In the Dock for CIA Torture. scheerpost.com

teleSUR, JDO (2023-07-16). Rusia exige a Ucrania liberar a abad del Monasterio de las Cuevas. telesurtv.net Cancillería rusa considera su arresto como arbitrariedad jurídica y otra violación por el régimen de Kiev de los derechos de los cristianos ortodoxos.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-17). Federal Court judge rules hotel detention inhumane but legal. greenleft.org.au

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-17). Ten years too long: End offshore detention. greenleft.org.au

Art Persyko (2023-07-17). Tuesday 7/18: Voting Rights & Fighting Fascism, an SF Gray Panther Forum. indybay.org Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/86465752525?pwd=Tzh1YV… | MEETING ID: 864 6575 2525; PASS CODE: 465295 | PHONE IN: 699-900 9128 US…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-17). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2023-07-17). The 'Disinformation Industry' Lands In Court. popularresistance.org What kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom of speech, illegal government infringements on our constitutional rights, and, amid it all, the complicity of our most powerful media in these illegalities? For a brief while it looked as though it was a very fine week. On July 4, an excellent day for this, a district court in Louisiana ruled that the White House and a long list of other federal agencies are barred from all contacts with social media companies if the intent is to intimidate or otherwise coerce Twitter, Google, Facebook,…

Guest Contributor (2023-07-17). R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate. ukhumanrightsblog.com Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 — the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a year later, back in the UK, last month saw the conviction of Carla Foster for the late …

Andy Kroll (2023-07-16). Hunting the Military Extremist. tomdispatch.com In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material? What I wanted to know was: How did he ever get accepted into the Air Force in the first place? Teixeira seems to have leaked that secret information for online bragging rights rather than ideological reasons, so his transgression probably wouldn't have fallen under the military's ne…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2023-07-17). Mayo Clinic named a 'Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion'. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic has been named one of the best places to work for people with disabilities by the American Association of People with Disabilities, the nation's largest disability rights organization, and Disability: IN, the global business disability inclusion network. Mayo Clinic received a score of 100 — the highest score possible — on the Disability Equality Index to achieve the recognition. The Disability Equality Index survey includes new questions each year to evaluate whether companies are adopting emerging…

Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post. (2023-07-17). The 'Disinformation Industry' Lands In Court. popularresistance.org What kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom of speech, illegal government infringements on our constitutional rights, and, amid it all, the complicity of our most powerful media in these illegalities? For a brief while it looked as though it was a very fine week. On July 4, an excellent day for this, a district court in Louisiana ruled that the White House and a long list of other federal agencies are barred from all contacts with social media companies if the intent is to intimidate or otherwise coerce Twitter, Google, Facebook,…

Guest Contributor (2023-07-17). R. v. Foster: Reigniting the UK Abortion Law Debate. ukhumanrightsblog.com Last month marked one year since the startling repeal of Roe v Wade on the 24th June 2022 — the day the US Supreme Court rowed back the right of American women to obtain an abortion. Almost exactly a year later, back in the UK, last month saw the conviction of Carla Foster for the late …

Andy Kroll (2023-07-16). Hunting the Military Extremist. tomdispatch.com In April, when Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman with a top-secret clearance, was arrested for posting a trove of classified documents about the Russia-Ukraine war online, the question most often asked was: How did such a young, inexperienced, low-level technician have access to such sensitive material? What I wanted to know was: How did he ever get accepted into the Air Force in the first place? Teixeira seems to have leaked that secret information for online bragging rights rather than ideological reasons, so his transgression probably wouldn't have fallen under the military's ne…

Lauren Rankin (2023-07-16). The Abortion Justice Act Is the Reproductive Rights Legislation the US Needs. truthout.org Marking the tragic one-year anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in which the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled their latest attempt to protect abortion rights: the Abortion Justice Act. Introduced by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus's Abortion Rights and… |

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2023-07-16). The State's Constant Attack On Black Liberation. popularresistance.org Black people who assert their rights to be sovereign and liberated have always been treated as enemies to be silenced or destroyed. Even enslaved people who sought to escape from bondage were labeled as sufferers of "drapetomania." The effort to pathologize and stigmatize the fight for freedom never ended. To this very day Black liberation is diminished and discredited as being wrong headed or dangerous. | The descendants of those who bravely attempted to escape chattel slavery were treated in the same manner. Black radicals such as Paul Robeson, Claudia Jones, and W.E.B. Dubois were destroyed by McCarthyite witc…

WSWS (2023-07-17). New Zealand Prime Minister Hipkins "unwavering" in support of US-NATO war in Ukraine. wsws.org The New Zealand prime minister met with the Ukraine president and announced another $NZ4 million support package for Kiev, along with upgraded sanctions against Russian individuals and entities.

Andreína Chávez Alava (2023-07-16). Venezuela: Oil Output Increases, Russian Firm Seeks Chevron-type Deal. venezuelanalysis.com The Petromonagas crude upgrader was recently reactivated in eastern Venezuela as part of efforts to recover the oil sector under US sanctions.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-07-16). Cuban, Venezuelan foreign ministers condemn US sanctions. plenglish.com Brussels, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) The foreign ministers of Venezuela, Yván Gil, and Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, met here on Sunday and expressed their anti-imperialist position by condemning the unilateral coercive measures and blockade imposed by the United States on the two countries.

Juan M. Garcia (2023-07-16). No more sanctions against Cuba, claim in front of White House returns (+Photos). plenglish.com Washington, Jul 16 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of social movements and organizations in the United States held a peaceful protest in front of the White House on Sunday to demand an end to the illegal and cruel sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.

Fight Back (2023-07-16). Tallahassee community pushes for LGBTQ sanctuary city. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On July 13 Tallahassee community organizers and experts gave presentations at the Mayor's LGBTQ+ Advisory Council at City Hall. The presentation's focus was the demand to transform Tallahassee into an LGBTQ sanctuary city. | The Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC), represented by its president, Delilah Pierre, and communications director, Regina Joseph, led the program. | The presentation was created in response to the anti-LGBTQ policies enacted under Governor Ron DeSantis' administration. These laws include the anti-trans law that forces people to use the bathroom as…