Staff (2023-07-06). Elena Milashina Attack: Rights Groups Condemn Brutal Beating of Russian Journalist in Chechnya. democracynow.org Press freedom groups around the world have condemned the brutal attack on Russian journalist Elena Milashina, who was beaten by unknown assailants in the Chechen capital of Grozny on July 4. Milashina, a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, was in town to report on Chechnya's ongoing attacks on LGBTQ people when she was assaulted along with lawyer Alexander Nemov. The attackers broke her fingers, shaved her head and doused her in liquid iodine, which leaves long-lasting stains on a person's skin. For more, we speak with human rights monitor Anna Dobrovolskaya, the former executive director of Memorial Human Ri…

Staff (2023-07-06). Ukrainian Writer Andrey Kurkov Recalls Friend Victoria Amelina, Novelist Killed in Russian Airstrike. democracynow.org We remember the acclaimed Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who died as a result of injuries from a Russian strike on a restaurant in Kramatorsk last week, which also killed 12 other people. Amelina was part of a human rights group, Truth Hounds, investigating Russian war crimes. Amelina's friend Andrey Kurkov, a fellow author and the former president of PEN Ukraine, says the young writer's death is just the latest in a long string of artists lost to the Russian invasion. "We don't know when the war is going to end, but it will cost a lot for Ukrainian culture," says Kurkov.

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-06). Tunisia deports hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants across the border to Libya. peoplesdispatch.org Human rights group have expressed concern over the migrants' safety and health in the border areas where they face multiple risks including physical and sexual violence…

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-06). Trans rights are human rights, protesters say. greenleft.org.au

Alan Macleod (2023-07-05). How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America's Training Ground for Global Torture. mintpressnews.com In spite of undergoing several name changes and employing shrewd repackaging strategies under the pretext of human rights advocacy, the notorious School of the Americas remains actively committed to training foreign fighters, steadfastly advancing the cause of the American empire.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-07-06). Países de la Unión Europea firman acuerdo por derechos LGBTIQ. telesurtv.net Las autoridades de España, que asume la presidencia del Consejo de la UE, firmaron este documento junto a otros 15 estados miembros.

James Anderson (2023-07-06). California ICE detainees' hunger strike is part of a long fight for freedom. therealnews.com

Naureen Shah (2023-07-06). The New ICE Chief Should (Finally) Make Good on Biden's Immigration Promises. aclu.org Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has new leadership, with the appointment last week of P.J. Lechleitner as acting director. ICE has not had a Senate-confirmed director since the Obama administration, making Lechleitner's appointment as acting director more significant — and potentially likely to last through the end of Biden's term. | The big question is whether Lechleitner is willing to move forward on a reform agenda that has been stalled for the last year. The good news is that in June, the Supreme Court removed a major obstacle to ICE reforms, shutting down litigation brought by anti-immigra…

Movement Rights (2023-07-06). Tuesday 7/11: Banking on a Safe World: Divest from Nuclear Weapons & Fossil Fuels w/ Indigenous Leaders. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-07-06). Housing rights coalition asks Berlin government to socialize corporate-owned housing properties. peoplesdispatch.org An expert committee constituted to assess the feasibility and legality of implementing the mandate of the 2021 Berlin referendum submitted its final report last month. The report states that the expropriation of properties of real estate firms with 3,000 or more units is legally permissible…

Jeremy Mohler (2023-07-06). Community Schools, Not Conservative Politicians, Expand 'Parental Rights'. progressive.org These schools intentionally listen to parents about what students need to thrive, whether it's dental services or more streetlights.

Chris Walker (2023-07-06). More Than 700K Ohioans Sign Ballot Initiative to Protect Abortion Rights. truthout.org This November, Ohio voters will get to decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution, as organizers have collected more than 700,000 signatures to place the question on a ballot initiative. The signatures have not yet been certified, but any challenges to them are likely to fail, as organizers obtained 710,131 signatures in total — nearly 300,000 more signatures than the… |

Editor (2023-07-06). Behind high court's assault on civil rights. workers.org Protest outside Supreme Court building, June 30, 2023. "Equal justice under law." These words are inscribed above the main entrance to the Supreme Court Building. They are a deception and a lie! Three rulings on June 29 and 30 should have shattered any lingering illusion that the Supreme Court of . . . |

WSWS (2023-07-06). Statements from Britain and Sri Lanka oppose attacks on IYSSE at Sydney's Macquarie University. wsws.org Macquarie University's refusal to affiliate an IYSSE club, despite it having met all the requirements, is receiving international condemnation as an attack on democratic rights aimed at silencing opposition to war.

Zane McNeill (2023-07-06). Lawsuit Uses SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling to Go After Legacy Admissions. truthout.org A Boston nonprofit, Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR), filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple Black and Latinx community groups on Monday, alleging that legacy admissions at Harvard University violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The parties being represented in the lawsuit — the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino… |

Staff (2023-07-05). "Bad for Religion": Gay Baptist Minister with Interfaith Alliance on SCOTUS Ruling on LGBTQ Rights. democracynow.org The Supreme Court has ruled 6 to 3 along ideological lines in favor of a Christian Colorado web designer who refused to create websites for same-sex couples even though the state bans such discrimination. "We're entering into a terrible moment where a Pandora's box has been opened," says president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, who warns "permission has been granted to use religion as a way to discriminate against your fellow people." Raushenbush discusses the use of Christianity to advance discrimination, the importance of the Respect for Marriage Ac…

WSWS (2023-07-06). GM, Stellantis workers support Will Lehman lawsuit. wsws.org Autoworker Rank-and-File Network members support Will Lehman's lawsuit against the Labor Department sanction of the rigged UAW election.

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-05). Trans rights are human rights, protesters say. greenleft.org.au

Jake Johnson (2023-07-04). Human Rights Defenders Slam Nomination of Elliott Abrams to Diplomacy Panel. truthout.org President Joe Biden on Monday quietly nominated Elliott Abrams to serve on a bipartisan diplomacy commission, a move that human rights advocates condemned as outrageous given the longtime Republican official's past as a defender of Latin American death squads and cheerleader for murderous U.S. foreign policy interventions. "A totally indefensible decision from Biden," MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan wrote on… |

Yumna Rizvi (2023-07-04). New UN Report Condemns Guantánamo and Calls on Biden to Close It. truthout.org Last week, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the United Nations special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, released a scathing report on her visit to the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. The report, the first of its kind, once again brought the world's attention to the profound, far-reaching impact that the use of torture and arbitrary detention by the United States has had not just on the minds… |

ecns.cn (2023-07-04). Man detained for stealing personal data. ecns.cn A graduate of Renmin University of China has been detained by Beijing police for allegedly illegally obtaining the personal information of fellow students, police said on Monday.

ecns.cn (2023-07-05). Harvard University urged to drop legacy policy in admissions. ecns.cn A civil rights group is asking the US federal government to make Harvard University drop its "legacy" policy of giving admissions preference to children of alumni because it overwhelmingly benefits white applicants and disadvantages those who are of color.

Trace Mitchell (2023-07-04). Immunity Doctrines Have Made the US Constitution Useless — It's Time to End Them. truthout.org Oklahoma resident Donald Logsdon was fixing his neighbor's generator in March 2020 when three deputy United States Marshals snuck up behind him, kicked him in the head and took turns stomping on his body while he was unconscious. The excessive force was a clear-cut constitutional violation, but when Logsdon tried to vindicate his rights in court, a federal judge decided he had no business being… |

Ann Brown (2023-07-04). Fact Check: Before Malcolm X Was Murdered, J Edgar Hoover Sent Message 'Do Something About Malcolm X'. moguldom.com Civil Rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated at age 39 while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York, on Feb. 21, 1965. Yet to this day the entire story behind his murder has yet to be unfolded. What is known is that for the majority of his activist life, he was under government …

teleSUR (2023-07-04). US Supreme Rules Against Native American Tribe's Water Rights. telesurenglish.net America's shameful tradition of breaking treaties and denying rights to Native American groups continued in Washington with the Supreme Court deciding to ignore protection for water usage in the Colorado River Basin for the Navajo Native American tribe. | RELATED: | In the dispute between the Navajo Nation and the Arizona Department of the Interior, the tribe was asking the federal government to assess the tribe's wa…

WSWS (2023-07-04). IYSSE at San Diego State University demands Australia's Macquarie University reinstate IYSSE as an official club! wsws.org By refusing to recognize the IYSSE at MQ, Macquarie University is violating the fundamental democratic rights of their student body who should be granted their full freedom of political association.

Ann Brown (2023-07-04). Fact Check: Before Malcolm X Was Murdered, J Edgar Hoover Sent Message 'Do Something About Malcolm X'. moguldom.com Civil Rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated at age 39 while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York, on Feb. 21, 1965. Yet to this day the entire story behind his murder has yet to be unfolded. What is known is that for the majority of his activist life, he was under government …

teleSUR (2023-07-04). US Supreme Rules Against Native American Tribe's Water Rights. telesurenglish.net America's shameful tradition of breaking treaties and denying rights to Native American groups continued in Washington with the Supreme Court deciding to ignore protection for water usage in the Colorado River Basin for the Navajo Native American tribe. | RELATED: | In the dispute between the Navajo Nation and the Arizona Department of the Interior, the tribe was asking the federal government to assess the tribe's wa…

WSWS (2023-07-04). IYSSE at San Diego State University demands Australia's Macquarie University reinstate IYSSE as an official club! wsws.org By refusing to recognize the IYSSE at MQ, Macquarie University is violating the fundamental democratic rights of their student body who should be granted their full freedom of political association.

Dave DeCamp (2023-07-04). Report: US Looks to Restrict Chinese Companies Access to Cloud Technologies. news.antiwar.com The US is looking to restrict Chinese companies' access to cloud-computing technology in a move that would further strain ties between Washington and Beijing, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. The Biden administration has significantly escalated the trade war with China by imposing sanctions last year to restrict the export of advanced semiconductors and …

JANET (2023-07-04). Iran joins forces with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to blow back U.S. sanctions. iacenter.org By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell July 3, 2023 This lightly edited article is reprinted from Resumen Latinoamericano English edition which was posted on June 19, 2023. Iran President Ebrahim Raisi The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, concluded, this Friday (June 16) in Havana, a trip to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba that aimed to denounce the U.S. sanctions suffered by the four countries and the imperialist policy — and to create new economic and commercial agreements to promote the development of their peoples. The tour succeeded in uniting forces among these countries, which are under heavy unilatera…

Staff (2023-07-04). Palestinian organisation calls for sanctions on Israel over Jenin attack. thecanary.co Israel's military has launched its biggest attack on a city in the West Bank since the second Palestinian uprising (or 'intifada') in the 2000s. Israeli troops have been attacking the city of Jenin since the early hours of Monday 3 July. The Israeli army had killed ten Palestinians as of Tuesday 4 July at 2pm …

teleSUR (2023-07-04). French President Macron Wants to Sanction Parents of Rioters. telesurenglish.net On Monday night, President Emmanuel Macron once again referred to protesters as criminals and stated that he wishes for their families to face financial sanctions. | RELATED: | "On the first offense, we should be able to financially and easily penalize the families of delinquents," he said during a visit to the Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC). | Without providing further details of this proposal, which was promoted and applauded b…