Leon Kunstenaar (2022-04-12). Women and Their Allies March For Reproductive Rights – Again. indybay.org Many organizations in spirited march through Berkely in follow up to March 8 action…

ecns.cn (2022-04-12). Commissioner's office of Chinese foreign ministry in HKSAR urges outsiders to write off political shows. ecns.cn The spokesperson said lawful rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents, including freedom of speech and the press, are fully protected, but press freedom is never a passport for crimes.

United We Dream (2022-04-12). Wednesday 4/20: Know Your Immigration Rights, Know Your Power w/ UWD. indybay.org Online teach-in / webinar…

Staff (2022-04-12). Japan approves additional sanctions against 398 Russians. en.mehrnews.com Japan's Cabinet on Tuesday approved additional sanctions against Russia, freezing the assets of 398 Russian individuals including President Vladimir Putin's two daughters and the wife of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

ecns.cn (2022-04-12). U.S. uses sanctions as handy tool to maintain hegemony: Chinese FM. ecns.cn As noted by some media, the US is the only "sanctions superpower" in the world. It used sanctions as a handy tool to maintain hegemony and a convenient means to seek unjust interests.‚ÄÇ…

teleSUR (2022-04-11). Ukraine's Economy to Shrink by 45% in 2022: World Bank. telesurenglish.net Ukraine's economy is expected to shrink by 45.1 percent this year, and Russia's economy is projected to contract by 11.2 percent, according to the latest the World Bank's Economic Update on Europe and Central Asia. | RELATED: | The Russia-Ukraine conflict and sanctions on Russia are hitting economies around the globe, with emerging markets and developing countries in the Europe and Central Asia region expected to bear the brunt. | The economy…

Taroa Zuñiga Silva (2022-04-11). Workers' Rights and Chile's Constitutional Convention. socialistproject.ca On March 13, 2022, two days after Gabriel Boric was

Ann Brown (2022-04-11). Remembering When Cherokee Nation Removed Racist Jim Crow-Like Language Limiting Black Citizenship Rights 'By Blood'. moguldom.com The Cherokee Nation's Supreme Court ruled to remove the words "by blood" from its constitution and other legal doctrines in February 2021, calling them "a relic of painful and ugly, racial past" comparable to the lingering effects of racist Jim Crow laws on Black Americans. A sovereign tribal government, the Cherokee Nation's people established a …

VINS (2022-04-11). Dark Money Fuels Transphobic Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and Equality Act. projectcensored.org The Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) and other women's groups leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Act and the Equality Act are…

Berry Craig (2022-04-11). Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton proves his race-baiting credentials at Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation. peoplesworld.org A wave of smiles and hugs spread across the otherwise somber crowd last Thursday afternoon at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. News had broken, it seemed mainly via iPhone, that the Senate had confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. I got the news on my iPhone …

Andrew Emett (2022-04-11). Former correctional sergeant sentenced to prison for assaulting inmates. nationofchange.org "Corrections officers are expected to safeguard the civil rights of prisoners. These officers ignored their duties and must be held to account for their actions."

Ryan Swan (2022-04-11). Venezuela Seeks Investigation by International Criminal Court (ICC) as to Whether U.S. Sanctions Constitute Crimes Against Humanity. covertactionmagazine.com Adopted as part of regime-change operation, sanctions have killed at least 40,000 Venezuelans. Economic coercive measures, commonly known as economic …

Staff (2022-04-11). EU fails to agree on Russian energy sanctions. en.mehrnews.com The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that the EU's foreign ministers have not agreed on a ban on Russian oil and natural gas imports.

_____ (2022-04-11). NATO Sanctions and the Coming Global Diesel Fuel Disaster. journal-neo.org Amid the ongoing global inflation crisis, NATO heads of state and mainstream media repeat a mantra that high energy prices are a direct result of Putin's actions in Ukraine since end of February. The reality is that it is the western sanctions that are responsible. Those sanctions including cutting SWIFT interbank access for key Russian …

Peoples Dispatch (2022-04-11). Progressive voices demand Assange's release on third year of his imprisonment. peoplesdispatch.org As his extradition to the United States looms large, Julian Assange completed three years of imprisonment in the United Kingdom on Monday, April 11. Held in a high security prison complex in Belmarsh in the outskirts of London, the Wikileaks founder has been in prison since 2019 when he was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London by the police. | Marking the anniversary, Assange's supporters held vigils in London and around the world. Last month, on March 14, the UK Supreme Court rejected Assange's request to appeal against his extradition sanctioned by the High Court in London, making his extradition ver…

teleSUR (2022-04-11). Ukraine's Economy to Shrink by 45% in 2022: World Bank. telesurenglish.net Ukraine's economy is expected to shrink by 45.1 percent this year, and Russia's economy is projected to contract by 11.2 percent, according to the latest the World Bank's Economic Update on Europe and Central Asia. | RELATED: | The Russia-Ukraine conflict and sanctions on Russia are hitting economies around the globe, with emerging markets and developing countries in the Europe and Central Asia region expected to bear the brunt. | The economy…

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-04-11). Women and Their Allies March For Reproductive Rights – Again. indybay.org Many organizations in spirited march through Berkely in follow up to March 8 action…

Atilio Boron (2022-04-10). Russia-Ukraine Conflict and Argentina's Wrong Vote. orinocotribune.com By Atilio Boron — Apr 7, 2022 | This Thursday [April 7] the UN General Assembly approved a resolution suspending Russia's participation in the UN Human Rights Council. The result of the vote disappointed the United States government, the promoter of the initiative, because Washington hoped that the overwhelming majority support for two resolutions voted in March and condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine would be repeated. On that occasion, 141 countries voted in favor of the first one and 140 did so a few days later. | Extreme vagueness | On this occasion, however, Washington's proposal was supported by…

PCHR (2022-04-10). PCHR: "Another IOF Crime, Child Loses Left Eye With Israeli Occupation Fire in Jerusalem" imemc.org The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): On Friday evening, a Palestinian child lost his left eye after being directly shot with a rubber bullet during Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacks on protestors near al-Ram village's northern intersection, north of occupied East Jerusalem. This attack comes 3 days after the Palestinian Child Day, which is observed …

Kamal Iranidoost (2022-04-10). Macron, Le Pen go to a run off in French votes. en.mehrnews.com Protesting the violent physical conduct of Danish police with an Iranian national, Iran's Secretary of Judiciary Human Rights Council urged Danish officials to refrain from imposing double standards on nationals of countries.

Anonymous669 (2022-04-10). Turkish Drone Strike Killed SDF Field Commander In Syria's Al-Hasakah. southfront.org File image. | On April 9, a Turkish combat drone hit Kabz hill some 20 kilometers to the west of al-Darbasiyah in the northern countryside of Syria's al-Hasakah. | The drone strike targeted a position of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) border guards. At the time of the strike, members of the Kurdish-led group were digging trenches around the position. | According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strike claimed the life of an SDF member and wounded two others. | Some Syrian op…

Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam (2022-04-10). Bobi Wine: Karimojongs are killed for supporting me. plusnews.ug The leader of opposition political party, National Unity Platform (NUP) Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine says grave atrocities are being committed on the people of Karamoja Sub-region for the reason that they overwhelmingly supported him. Kyagulanyi made the remarks last week while addressing the Geneva Summit for Human Rights. "It is important for me …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-10). Mayo Clinic earns highest score on LGBTQ Health Equality Index survey. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida and Rochester earned 100 —the highest score possible —on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Health Equality Index survey. These locations have been recognized as "Leaders in LGBTQ+ Healthcare" for 2022. With numerous different locations as a factor, Mayo Clinic Health System did not participate. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation is the largest civil rights organization in the U.S., working to achieve equality for LGBTQ people. The Foundation uses its…

teleSUR, JL (2022-04-10). Indígenas en Brasil evocan consigna Bolsonaro Nunca Más. telesurtv.net Cerca de 176 pueblos indígenas exigen a Bolsonaro respeto a sus derechos territoriales.

teleSUR (2022-04-10). Attempt to Evacuate Nationalist Leaders From Mariupol Fails. telesurenglish.net The Kyiv regime does not abandon attempts to evacuate the leaders of the nationalist Azov regiment and foreign mercenaries from Mariupol. | Another UKR attempt to rescue VIPs from Mariupol this time by sea. The cargo ship "Apache" failed to respond to radio warnings & tried to force its way into the port. It was fired upon & later detained.

Leon Kunstenaar (2022-04-10). Women and Their Allies March ForReproductive Rights – Again. indybay.org Many organizations in spirited march through Berkely…

Editor2 (2022-04-10). Row in Greece Over Neo-Nazi Zelensky Co-Speaker. orinocotribune.com An Azov Battalion fighter addressed Greek lawmakers during the Ukrainian president's teleconference | A number of Greek politicians have expressed outrage after a member of the far-right Azov Battalion gave a speech during a teleconference between the Greek Parliament and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday. | During his address, Zelensky thanked Athens for the sanctions it has imposed on Russia and pleaded for more support, asking the Greeks to use their influence in the EU to help save "our shared heritage" in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. | However, after the first part of his address, in…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-10). Lack of sleep increases unhealthy abdominal fat. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — New research from Mayo Clinic shows that lack of sufficient sleep combined with free access to food increases calorie consumption and consequently fat accumulation, especially unhealthy fat inside the belly. Findings from a randomized controlled crossover study led by Naima Covassin, Ph.D., a cardiovascular medicine researcher at Mayo Clinic, show that lack of sufficient sleep led to a 9% increase in total abdominal fat area and an 11% increase in abdominal visceral…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-04-10). Imperial expert's book uses scientific evidence to help people lose weight. imperial.ac.uk An Imperial researcher specialising in obesity has published a new book aiming to help people reach a healthy body weight.

ecns.cn (2022-04-10). U.S. likely to see COVID-19 surge in fall: expert. ecns.cn There will be an uptick in cases of COVID-19 over the next few weeks in the United States and it is likely there could be a surge in the fall, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said.

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2022-04-10). Lack of sleep increases unhealthy abdominal fat. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — New research from Mayo Clinic shows that lack of sufficient sleep combined with free access to food increases calorie consumption and consequently fat accumulation, especially unhealthy fat inside the belly. Findings from a randomized controlled crossover study led by Naima Covassin, Ph.D., a cardiovascular medicine researcher at Mayo Clinic, show that lack of sufficient sleep led to a 9% increase in total abdominal fat area and an 11% increase in abdominal visceral…

imperial.ac.uk (2022-04-10). Imperial expert's book uses scientific evidence to help people lose weight. imperial.ac.uk An Imperial researcher specialising in obesity has published a new book aiming to help people reach a healthy body weight.