#HumanRights
As members of the humanitarian family, we are ethically committed to practicing and working tirelessly every day to enhance the principles of Humanity, Neutrality, Impartiality, and Independence. #HumanRights #aid #HumanitarianAid #humanity
#iTHiNKLabs Episode 269🔴https://rb.gy/cq8hk
Focus:
#DNA #Security #TrumpIndictment #Cuba #WiFi #China #Business #Ukraine #ArtificialIntelligence #Japan #VPN #Europe #Ransomware #Risk #Taiwan #CyberSecurity #NovaKakhovka #Health #Russia #Poor #Students #Trump #Learning #USA #Fediverse #Education #BlackMastodon #InfoSec #Genetics #Parents #Tech #War #JackSmith #HumanRights #AI #Travel #Malware #Politics #Hotel #Airport #Technology #Strategy #Science #Hotspot #Migration #Engineering #EU #Law▼
🇷🇺 The chances of being declared not guilty by a #Russian court are as low as 0.15%. There are only three exceptions: charges against law enforcers, trials that involve a jury, and private prosecution.
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2023/06/10/guilty-oriented-justice-en
#russia #repression #censorship #dictatorship #policestate #humanrights
Top stories in my #HumanRights newsletter this week:
📰 #Philippines: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/09
📰 #SaudiArabia: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/08
📰 #Nigeria: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/07
📰 Spying for Human Rights: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/06
📰 International #Justice: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/05
🔊🔊 All of these stories are also in audio format here: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio-series/daily-brief
#ShamEUrope🇪🇺
"Fra le nefandezze previste la possibilità di deportare anche in un “Paese terzo sicuro”[#Libia?#Tunisia? #Egitto?#Turchia?] i richiedenti asilo giunti irregolarmente in #Europa."
#Refugees #migranti
#HumanRights #10GIUGNO
https://www.pressenza.com/it/2023/06/lue-uccide-il-diritto-dasilo/
Feliz #DiaDePortugal! 📷
Happy Portugal Day! 📷
Did you know that:
💚90% of Portuguese surveyed by FRA believe that #HumanRights are important for a fairer society
❤️ Some #EURightsAgency products are also in Portuguese: https://fra.europa.eu/pt/products/search
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EURightsAgency/status/1667426370115497984
Amnesty: Extraditing #Assange would set a dangerous precedent, threatening all of our rights to freedom of expression.
https://twitter.com/AmnestyEU/status/1667126226270531584?s=20
Feliz #DiaDePortugal! 📷
Happy Portugal Day! 📷
Did you know that:
💚90% of Portuguese surveyed by FRA believe that #HumanRights are important for a fairer society
❤️ Some #EURightsAgency products are also in Portuguese: https://fra.europa.eu/pt/products/search
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/09/doctor-republican-trans-gender-affirming-minor-healthcare-lgbtq-rights | Four controversial doctors helping Republicans attack trans healthcare |
"A wave of new restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors relies on a number of doctors with ties to rightwing groups and little experience treating transgender patients" | #law #health #PublicHealth #gender #fascism #lgbtqia #trans #HumanRights
Despite the preponderance of evidence that the #SaudiArabia government is using #sports such as #soccer and #golf #PGATour to clean up their image as one of the most despicable violators of #HumanRights around the world, it remains astounding to see how intelligent people would rather choose a game over blood money. The PGA Tour merger with #LIVGolf is nothing more than a smokescreen to whitewash the killers of journalists and the degradation of #womensrights.
Louisiana governor says he intends to veto anti-LGBTQ+ bills including ban on gender-affirming care
https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-lgbtq-transgender-veto-97d41f770dbac48459c7486136620787
#APNews #Louisiana #LGBTQ #Veto #AntiLGBTQBills #GenderAffirmingCare #TransRights #Equality #HumanRights #Politics #News
It's time for #PodcastFriday !
All Things Palestinian Canadian - Rana Nazzal: Research, Human Rights, Art and Activism
https://podcastaddict.com/all-things-palestinian-canadian/episode/154850641
The CJPME has a podcast, which I've started listening to once in a while. This episode featured Rana Nazzal, a Palestinian-Canadian artist. She discusses making political art, making art for a specific audience, and the difference between how her art is received in Palestine itself and in Canada. I think she could have talked about how "Canadianized" the reaction to her art in Canada is but she was being constructive rather than bitchy ;) She's currently finishing a documentary on cemeteries of numbers, places where Israel keeps dead Palestinian bodies (sometimes under the excuse of continuing to serve prison terms!) since the Israeli supreme court has allowed the withholding of dead bodies in 2015.
Modoweiss article:
https://mondoweiss.net/2022/12/west-bank-dispatch-populating-the-cemetery-of-numbers/
A related article, more broadly about Israel necropolitics and desecration of Palestinian bodies, at Al Jazeera.:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/2/24/israel-slammed-for-necroviolence-on-bodies-of-palestinians
#Podcast #PodcastFriday #Palestine #Necropolitics #CJPME #RanaNazzal #HumanRights #Palestinian #Canadian #Mondoweiss
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#PodcastFriday is a tag where people recommend a particularly good episode from a podcast. The point of this tag is NOT to recommend entire podcasts--there are too many podcasts out there, and our queues are already too long, so don't do that. Let's just recommend the cream of the crop, the episodes that made you *brainsplode* or laugh like crazy.
Timnit Gebru (she/her) wrote the following post Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:47:54 +0200 Here's what I wrote in 2015 when our OpenAI overlords were announced, and after I had a terrible experience at NIPS (a conference now named NeuRIPS after a number of people, mostly women demanded a name change and received death threats for doing so. Interesting to see my reflections from ~8 years ago, not much I'd change except for certain phrases I probably wouldn't use now (e.g. implicit bias).
"I struggle to understand Silicon Valley’s libertarians’ allergic reaction to discussing problems caused by the extreme homogeneity of the research circle. The same is true for many in the AI research community of which I am a part. As this thoughtfully written letter to SCOTUS from physicists explains,
The implication that physics or “hard sciences” are somehow divorced from the social realities of racism in our society is completely fallacious.The exclusion of people from physics solely on the basis of the color of their skin is an outrageous outcome that ought to be a top priority for rectification.
The rhetorical pretense that including everyone in physics class is somehow irrelevant to the practice of physics ignores the fact that we have learned and discovered all the amazing facts about the universe through working together in a community.
The benefits of inclusivity and equity are the same for physics as they are for every other aspect of our world.
The statement holds true for AI and any type of “ism”. One would think that the people trying to “stop AI from harming society” would pay attention to this sort of stuff.
However, amidst the wide acclaim given to Elon Musk and others’ announcement of a “non-profit” venture to “Stop AI from destroying humanity,” only one potential problem has been raised: the fact that all the researchers are working on deep learning.
A White tech tycoon born and raised in South Africa during apartheid, along with an all White all male set of investors and researchers is trying to stop AI from “taking over the world” and the only potential problem we see is that “all the researchers are working on deep learning?”
Google recently came out with a computer vision algorithm that classified black people as Apes. AS APES. Some try to explain away this mishap by stating that the algorithm must have picked out color as an essential discriminator in classifying humans.
If there was even one Black person in the team, or just someone who thinks about race, a product classifying Black people as apes would not have been released. Either the dataset would have been sufficiently augmented, or more research into the algorithm would have been mandated. But a product with this type of misclassification would not have been released. Imagine an algorithm that regularly classifies White people as non-human.
No American company would call this a production ready person detection system.
At this point in these types of conversations people usually mention that there aren’t qualified this-or-that group of people who are deep learning researchers. I can name at least 10 extremely qualified female researchers in my sleep--including one who left the field due to exclusion--and swathes of them can be found here (LINK).
When you ask someone to “recommend” potential researchers in this extremely segregated and homogeneous world, they will recommend other researchers who are their friends, read the same hacker news every day and talk about the same things. They will recommend other boys in the very tight boys network.
Funny enough, the same men feel too uncomfortable to participate in events encouraging women in CS simply because the room might be more than 70% women. Go to the conferences, talk to people, attend the parties and you will see.
As the night proceeds, you will be transported to the Madmen era where drunk old men, professors or company representatives from places such as Google, start unsolicitedly groping some of the handful of women present at the conference parties. And the women are either completely assimilated (a well documented method of survival for minorities) or too uncomfortable to speak up.
But that type of overt caricature of sexism is nothing compared to the covert one bestowed upon us by people who believe they are too objective, rational and intelligent to have biases. Keep in mind they are researchers--researchers who have the skills and resources to learn about most subjects they deem to be worthy of their time. But they are simply not interested in an attempt to understand their implicit biases, read literature or ask questions about it.
These are the people creating AI. And the tasks, values and priorities of the AI agent are reflections of those of its creators. People harm society. We don’t have to project into the future to see AI’s potential adverse effects. It is already happening. However, Silicon Valley does not speak out on atrocities such as the US drone warfare that is illegally killing people.
Because presumably the intelligence occupied by this select group of men (many speak as though they belong to a different species with superior intelligence and rationality), cannot be bothered to think of mundane day to day activities such as war. Even the nuclear bomb was not created by physicists whose day to day life was completely divorced from the complex realities of the world we live in.
They were very much aware of politics and history, and actively engaged in a capacity higher than the abstract futuristic intellectual discussions in vacuum that AI researchers of today seem to be engaged in. By the way, these discussions, once again, are conducted amongst a highly homogenous group of people: see for example the participants in a NIPS panel on the societal impacts of machine learning (#^http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha/NIPS_Symposium_2015.html).
I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.
Concerned AI researcher"
#racism #sexism #humanrights #research #ai
#Cuba gives #China permission to build spying facility on island, #US intel says
#HumanRights #ChinaAggression #Dictatorship #Surveillance #ChinaCrimes #Censorship #BoycottChinaproducts @chinascio
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/08/politics/cuba-china-spying-facility/index.html
Join us at the upcoming #FreedomNotFear conference in #Brussels! Engage in #HumanRights in the digital age and connect with passionate people. Together, let's fight against surveillance, censorship, and discrimination. Curious? check out https://freedomnotfear.org/2023/fnf23-participant-information #FnF23
US bans imports from China-based Ninestar Corp over Uighurs
2/👉#YEAs attended workshops on #genderequality, anti-discrimination, hatred & freedom of expression and media.
They also had the opportunity to take part in a panel on strategic value of EU-@coe to address continent-wide challenges to #HumanRights & #Democracy.
#OneEurope
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/WeBalkans/status/1667165757036285961
🗂️On International Archives Day, let's celebrate the guardians of our collective memory. Archives hold the stories of our past, preserving #knowledge and ensuring #accountability. They are vital for historical research, #humanrights, and transparent #governance. #ArchivesMatter
Is Vietnam backtracking on environmental promises?
@emilygorcenski@indieweb.social A comforting thought. Perhaps many, many straight people now know queer folk, as we live among them, and understand that we are just folk.
#humanrights
The killing continues in the #Philippines. So does the persecution of those trying to stop it.
My newsletter on #HumanRights today: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/09?story=paragraph-5881
"La Nigeria è un caso di studio significativo, in quanto affronta le complessità della povertà nonostante le sue immense risorse."
#povertà #capitalismo #Nigeria #HumanRights #9giugno
https://diogeneonline.info/in-nigeria-la-poverta-come-presente-e-futuro/
£19.3bn of #FossilFuels imported by #UK from authoritarian states in year since #Ukraine war
As #Russian oil and gas imports fell petrostates including #UAE, #Qatar and #Saudi Arabia increased exports to UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/09/193bn-of-fossil-fuels-imported-by-uk-from-authoritarian-states-in-year-since-ukraine-war #ToryPoliciesInAction #Sustainabilitu #Environment #HumanRights
#gesundheit #humanismus #international #international #studien #menschenrechte #salud #health #humanism #spirituality #world #business #model #humanrights
Gegenwärtig liegt die Gesundheitsversorgung der Gemeinschaften in der Verantwortung der Gesundheitssysteme, die sich in der Welt entwickelt haben, jedoch mit einer eingeschränkten und fragmentierten Vision dessen, was unter Gesundheit zu verstehen ist.
https://www.pressenza.com/de/2023/06/eine-integrale-vision-von-gesundheit/
#menschenrechte #presse #whistleblower #europe #humanrights #press #usa
Die US-Regierung darf die Appelle von Menschenrechts- und Pressefreiheitsorganisationen, internationalen Medienhäusern, Regierungen und Parlamenten sowie Abgeordneten des US-Kongresses nicht länger ignorieren und muss Julian #assange freilassen. Das Treffen mit Ilhan Omar hat den Grundstein gelegt für eine stärkere transatlantische Zusammenarbeit progressiver Mandatsträger.“
#menschenrechte #presse #whistleblower #europe #humanrights #press
„Es ist ein wichtiges und ermutigendes Zeichen, dass #abgeordnete des US-Kongresses die Forderung nach #freilassung des #journalisten und #wikileaks -Gründers #julianassange unterstützen und dafür gemeinsam mit Mandatsträgern in #europa aktiv werden. In transatlantischer #zusammenarbeit wollen wir den #druck verstärken, damit US-Präsident Joe #biden die Verfolgung von Julian #assange endlich beendet“
https://www.pressenza.com/de/2023/06/transatlantische-allianz-fuer-freilassung-von-julian-assange/
I've started doing audio versions of the top story in my daily #HumanRights newsletter.
Have a listen, and let me know what you think: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio-series/daily-brief
Thanks @EURACTIV. Just one of promising practices reports contained in this year's #EURightsAgency #RightsReport2023. It explores the #HumanRights impact in the EU of the aggression against #Ukraine.
Read on ⬇️
RT @EURACTIV: EU report highlights Portugal’s practice of offering temporary shelter to non-Ukrainians https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/eu-report-highlights-portugals-practice-of-offering-temporary-shelter-to-non-ukrainians/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EURightsAgency/status/1667086203621982208
The #EYCS @EUCouncil last month emphasized the importance of upholding & guaranteeing the respect for #HumanRights when organising major sport events & beyond.
Among the topic discussed: good governance, transparency, fight against discriminations, & solidarity for Ukraine. 👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EuSport/status/1667077750048292865
#NHS employers are effectively claiming that not a single #healthcare worker died of #COVID caught through their work. Bereaved families of health workers can receive a £60,000 life payment from the government, but “one wonders how many bereaved families who have been denied this payment did not have the benefit of [these reports] to support their case.” https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/06/cover-up-allegations-as-most-nhs-trusts-say-no-staff-died-of-covid-on-their-watch/
#HumanRights
#NHS employers are effectively claiming that not a single #healthcare worker died of #COVID caught through their work. Bereaved families of health workers can receive a £60,000 life payment from the government, but “one wonders how many bereaved families who have been denied this payment did not have the benefit of [these reports] to support their case.” https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/06/cover-up-allegations-as-most-nhs-trusts-say-no-staff-died-of-covid-on-their-watch/
#HumanRights
"Granting a platform to a regime that actively seeks to limit its population’s access to essential #technologies like the Internet [...] should be regarded as a significant concern."
Reza Khabook criticizes #Iran’s appointment as Chair of the UNHRC Social Forum on science, technology, and innovation to promoting #HumanRights.
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/irans-appointment-as-the-chair-rapporteur-of-the-unhrc-social-forum/
#LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #HumanRights #Petition Sign the petition to corporations: Don't cave to bigotry. We won't forget https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-to-corporations-dont-cave-to-bigotry-we-wont-forget-2
#LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #HumanRights #Petition Sign the petition to corporations: Don't cave to bigotry. We won't forget
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-to-corporations-dont-cave-to-bigotry-we-wont-forget
#LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #HumanRights #Petition Sign the petition to corporations: Don't cave to bigotry. We won't forget https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-to-corporations-dont-cave-to-bigotry-we-wont-forget-3?detail=sms&can_id=ddbeab5dc1f0ec1370275b4de6d8c151&source=mobile_message-20230608_petition_corpscavebigots_main&mobile_message_referrer=mobile-message_29844
https://www.euractiv.com/section/migration/news/eu-ministers-reach-historic-deal-on-migrant-relocation/ Deal on migration rules for #asylum seekers in the #EU. A fine of 20.000 euro applies to a state that refuses receiving someone who seeks safety in the EU. #humanrights
Difficult To Assume 'Mob' From Muslim Community Would Chant ‘Jai Shree Ram’: Court Raps Delhi Police For Clubbing Complaints Without Probe, Acquits 3
While acquitting three Muslim men in a case connected to the Northeast Delhi riots, a court in the national capital pulled up the Delhi Police for clubbing several complaints with the case without investigation.
#delhi #DelhiPogrom #DelhiRiots #DelhiPolice #BJP #muslims #HumanRights #CivilRights #hindutva #india
Activist Umar Khalid completes 1000 days in prison without trial or bail
PhD student Umar Khalid completes 1,000 days in jail without a trial, Article 14 revisited the fabrications, inconsistencies and conjectures that vitiate the Delhi riots conspiracy case but are still not enough for him to get bail because judges, as experts point out, interpret draconian laws in unyielding fashion.
#UmarKhalid #DelhiPolice #DelhiPogrom #DelhiRiots #CAA #NRC #UAPA #CivilRights #HumanRights #muslims #dissent #law #justice #hindutva #india
In Kashmir, Army unit booked as young man dies of electric shock
Soldiers of the 22 Rashtriya Rifles unit forced him to climb an electric pole to install a security camera, says his family. He was electrocuted by live wire.
#kashmir #sopore #IndianArmy #22RashtriyaRifles #HumanRights #india
https://scroll.in/article/1050514/in-kashmir-army-unit-booked-as-young-man-dies-of-electric-shock
Chinese censors take aim at AirDrop and Bluetooth
#China #HumanRights #ChinaAggression #Dictatorship #Surveillance #ChinaCrimes #Censorship #BoycottChinaproducts @chinascio
Officials refuse to clarify what activities are legal, reflecting new era of uncertainty under national security law.
Officials are refusing to clarify what activities are legal, reflecting era of uncertainty under national security law.
Hong Kong touted rule of law. Now it won’t say what the law is
Malaysia will ‘not survive’ if it does not change: Anwar Ibrahim
It's a 'crime' to question the military or its actions in Russia under Putin.
> The charges were brought after his article, “They wanted fascism. They got it,” [2] was published by the French edition of Mediapart in November 2022.
#BillS5 was to #modernize #Canadian #EnvironmentalProtectionAct - the right of all people in #Canada to a #HealthyEnvironment is now recognized in law. Although ultimate goal was to have this right enshrined in the #CanadianCharterOfRightsAndFreedoms - getting it into this #law is a great start.
The Environmental Protection Act hadn’t been #updated since 1999.
https://rabble.ca/environment/activism-secures-new-environmental-protections
#environmental #HumanRights #Ecojustice #ActivismWorks #LongBattles #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalJustice
Family & supporters of #Mexican #activist who was #killed after opposing a #Canadian company's #mining project are taking their case to an #international #HumanRights body.
The #JusticeAndCorporateAccountabilityProject - Canadian initiative by #volunteer #lawyers is making a complaint to the #InterAmerican #CommissionOnHumanRights on behalf of the family of Mariano Abarca.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2023/6/7/1_6430747.amp.html
#Canada #Mexico #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #BlackfireExplorations #Legal
@JamesRhodes Never forget:
The Armed Forces LGBTQ+ community stands with its comrades to even defend domestic assholes, who hate them.
#DefendAmerica🌈 #StandWithHumanity #HumanRights #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #PowerOfCommunity #LGBTQ
@persagen Pseudo-religious PAC, indirectly funded by Leonard Leo via "CatholicVote Civic Action", *committed wire fraud*, by sending Kansans deceptive, misleading text messages concealing the facts about a ballot measure in Kansas.
High time to investigate & prosecute Leonard Leo's anti-American subversive Mafia network more or less covertly working to overthrow the authority of the United States & deprive Americans of their constitutionally guaranteed rights & freedoms!
"...
Do Right PAC, a political action committee funded by CatholicVote Civic Action, sent text messages to Kansas voters a day before the election last summer giving the false impression that a “yes” vote on the ballot measure would “give women a choice” and “protect women’s health,” when its passage would have ended state protections for abortion rights.
..."
"Keep the church and the state forever separate."
— President Ulysses S. Grant, 9/29/1875 —
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/leonard-leo-abortion-supreme-court-kansas
#RuleOfLaw #DefendAmerica #DefendTheConstitution #14thAmendment #CivilRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #AbortionRights #SeparationOfChurchAndState #SeparationOfPowers #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateFederalistSociety #OpusDei #Subversion #Insurrection #ConspiracyAgainstRights
A #Winnipeg #SchoolTrustee has been #suspended for #breaching a #CodeOfConduct with #SocialMedia posts the board says have "targeted the #2SLGBTQIA+ #community and been #harmful to our entire community."
The rest of the #LouisRielSchoolDivision board of trustees voted #unanimously on Tuesday to suspend Francine Champagne for three months - strongest #sanction possible under the #Manitoba #PublicSchoolsAct
Ex-TikTok executive says Chinese government used app to locate, identify Hong Kong protesters
Allegations come from wrongful termination lawsuit launched by Yintao Yu, former U.S. head of engineering
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-hong-kong-1.6868141
#TikTok #China #HongKong #privace #surveillance #HumanRights #ByteDance
A leader of the fight to secure #freedom for a #Canadian #HumanRights #activist #detained in #China for 17 yrs is taking latest diplomatic deep-freeze between #Ottawa & #Beijing in stride.
Wilf Ruland, #volunteer #fieldworker w/ #AmnestyInternational #Canada , says sustained, long-term campaign aims to keep Huseyin Celil's case in public eye & in minds of Canadian & #Chinese authorities.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2023/6/8/1_6432355.amp.html
A total of 97 incidents of #hate or #discrimination from across #Waterloo region were #reviewed as a part of the 2nd annual #SnapshotOfHate #report by the #Coalition of #Muslim #Women - #CMW .
All the incidents of hate #analyzed in the report were collected from January - December 2022.
Of the people who reported incidents to CMW, 26 identified as #SouthAsian , 17 as #MiddleEastern & 11 people identified as #Black
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Safe routes’ for refugees so slow that toddler died waiting.
Iraqi refugees who have spent years stuck in Turkey tell openDemocracy they understand why some turn to smugglers
#migration #asylum #Turkey #UK #EHCR #saferoutes #humanrights
“All the money and all the golf tours in the world won’t make people forget #Saudi brutality.”
My #HumanRights newsletter today: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/06/08?story=paragraph-5873
3/7 We call on MEPs to listen to people's voices when they vote on the #AIAct next week
They must maintain the bans on #BMS agreed to by @EP_SingleMarket & @EP_Justice .
The bans are necessary to protect #HumanRights & prevent the EU from descending into a surveillance dystopia.
Campaigners see hope in Japan same-sex marriage rulings
What were some of the key #HumanRights issues in 2023?
- The impact of the war of aggression against #Ukraine
- Rising child poverty
- Widespread hate
- Safeguards as technology advances
Find out more in this year’s #EURightsAgency #RightsReport2023:
https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2023/targeted-support-people-fleeing-ukraine-tackling-rising-child-poverty-and-hate-and
What has been the #HumanRights impact of the aggression against #Ukraine?
This year’s #EURightsAgency #RightsReport2023 focus section explores the issue in the EU underlining the need for targeted support especially for women & girls. Get your copy here:
https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2023/frr-2023-focus-war-in-ukraine
Three shot as Israeli forces raid Ramallah in occupied West Bank
Judge uses Florida legislators' comments against them in a scathing rebuke of their bigotry against trans people in enjoining fascist legislation.
#law #florida #uspol #transrights #humanrights #courts #fascism #GOP #liberty #freedom #1A #freedomofexpression #constitution
https://open.substack.com/pub/erininthemorn/p/florida-judge-blocks-trans-ban-5
Mexico investigating soldiers involved in ‘execution’ of five men
cool project on mapping standards that impact human rights https://almanac.article19.org/ #humanrights #technology #standards
Rep. Becca Balint Models Best Practices For Talking To Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Scumbags #HumanRights #TransRights #EvilGOP https://www.wonkette.com/becca-balint-mandy-gunasekara
By me, from “The Awful 88th” at @TexasObserver:
Although Republicans floated dozens of anti-#LGBTQ+ bills during the regular session, just a handful of them made it to the governor’s desk. Still, each one whittles away at the rights of #queer folks in #Texas in different and distinctly harmful ways. These include: banning medically-necessary #gender-affirming care for #transgender young people, banning transgender athletes from participating in #sports at public colleges and universities, a broadly written bill targeting “sexually explicit” performances (meant to criminalize drag performers), and a bill to ban or restrict public library books that #Republicans deem to be “sexually explicit” or “educationally unsuitable.”
The most immediately harmful bill of the bunch looks to be Senate Bill 14, which prohibits evidence-based, frequently life-saving care for transgender young people under 18, including treatments like hormones and puberty-blockers, a reversible treatment to slow the onset of adolescence. Doctors caught providing these forms of #healthcare to trans kids would be stripped of their medical licenses, even though essentially all of the same treatments can legally be used on cisgender individuals (and most controversially, intersex people) under other circumstances. For example, some cis kids who enter puberty too early may be prescribed the same blockers now banned for trans kids.
A coalition of groups including Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and American Civil Liberties Union (#ACLU) of Texas have pledged to sue to block the bill’s enforcement on the grounds that it creates an illegal double standard. Thanks to Abbott’s signature on Monday, the new law goes into effect September 1, and it’s already becoming harder to access trans healthcare in the state as doctors and clinics move or close.
“In the last two weeks, we have probably gotten somewhere between 40 and 50 phone calls from panicked parents,” a leading New Mexico pediatric physician told the Observer. “What I’m hearing from families is that appointments that they had already scheduled are now gone,” said Dr. Michele Hutchison, chief of pediatric endocrinology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. That leaves families scrambling to secure care in neighboring states to avoid disastrous interruptions in treatment.
Senate Bill 12, the so-called “drag ban” bill, underwent significant changes in its journey through the two chambers. Explicit references to #drag performers were removed but the bill’s scope was broadened to ban so-called “sexually explicit” performances anywhere minors are present. A last-minute addition targets the usage of certain prosthetic body parts, such as the silicone breasts or artificial phalluses sometimes worn by drag performers—and by some transgender people, too.
“There is no good version of this bill,” said Ash Hall, a policy and advocacy strategist at the ACLU of Texas who focuses on queer rights. “Because it’s not limited to business premises anymore, a major concern I have is how this is going to play out in #Pride parades,” they said.
However, Hall suggested Abbott might veto the bill because, as written, it could even affect performances by groups like the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Of course, if this one is vetoed, the next step could be passage of a new version of the bill in special session. Already, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has called for a special session bill to ban drag queen story hours at public libraries.
Despite the record-breaking attacks on LGBTQ+ rights this year, Hall said they find hope in the queer community, which came out by the thousands to oppose the bills.
“They want us all to go back in the closet and be miserable or shut up, but we won’t,” Hall said. “#Trans people have always been here and always will be. They can’t legislate us away.”
Read more at https://www.texasobserver.org/88th-session-texas-legislature-lgbtq-energy-schools/
#politics #transphobia #trans #HumanRights #SB14 #censorship #books #Libraries #FreeSpeech #LGBTQIA+ #TXLege
#EURightsAgency Director @MichaelCJT@twitter.com / FRA staff welcomed @UNHumanRights@twitter.com Chief @volker_turk@twitter.com to the Agency for talks on pressing #HumanRights concerns like migration & digitalisation.
A further opportunity to strengthen ties & join forces as together we #StandUp4HumanRights.
Every day I try to keep up with all the petitions that I want/need to sign, the stories I MUST read, and the sorrow/rage I feel when yet another bigot, politician, or religious zealot (and often they’re a complete, three-in-one) dehumanizes someone just because that person can’t/won’t fit into the traditional binary.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/teaching-queer-kids-at-writing-camp-i-learned-you-cant-prohibit-pride-e754da67ba94?sk=8640356f1969d0b5a7e3cc1e84b1dfbe
#LGBTQ #HumanRights #Equality
What does the shock PGA-LIV merger mean for golf?
Steve is not unique here on Plague Island & I'm reminded of the saying. You can't educate pork. Fuck you Steve.
Adoption of anti-Semitism definition curbs free speech: Report
The #EURightsAgency has a new Scientific Committee!
A warm welcome to all 11 members who will guarantee the scientific quality of our #HumanRights research over the next 5 years.
We look forward to working with you!
Find out more: https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2023/fras-new-scientific-committee
PACIFIC / PAPUA NEW GUINEA /AUSTRALIA
Australia urged to help refugees experiencing 'life and death' situation in PNG
Calls are growing louder for Canberra to bring all refugees - who had sought asylum in #Australia but were detained offshore - into the country for medical treatment and processing.
#AsiaPacific #Pacific #Pasifika #PNG #Australia #Refugees #Asylum #HumanRights
The missus went to a community performance of classical music in a church yesterday, with her mum who has MND. She's a facebook addict (as I once was) and this morning, she shared photos and videos. Facebook, within seconds, Facey's bots had claimed she had posted music for which UME and Sony owned the rights on 2 videos. These were classical favourites, the composers long dead, with a moral right residing solely with the performers, who had, through the MC, expressly waived that moral right for people in the church where the performance took place.
#Capitalism is an abuse of #humanrights and is stealing culture to hoard it. Burn down the recording industry. Burn down Sony, burn down United Music, burn down Spotify, burn down Disney, burn down every fing capitalist bastard stealing our culture. I'm fucking sick of this shit.
“We should not need to be reminded of the value of human life.”
Jamal Khashoggi
Showtime Mysteriously Pulls Documentary on Ron DeSantis’s Role in Guantánamo
A Vice episode was set to dig into DeSantis’s time as an officer at torture camp Guantánamo Bay. It was quietly dropped.
https://newrepublic.com/post/173235/showtime-pulls-documentary-ron-desantiss-role-guantanamo
#SHO #ShowTime #RonDeSantis #Guantanamo #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #UnlawfulIncarceration #persagen #VICE #cowardice
@adamcr The infamous LGBTQ hunt unleashed by today's Putin-licking revisionist "Republican legislators" shows the American people all the mendacity, bigotry, hypocrisy, treasonous potential & willingness to commit insurrection against U.S. authority, assaulting the Constitution's Reconstruction Amendments, especially the Fourteenth Amendment.
#RuleOfLaw #StandWithHumanity #HumanityMatters #HumanRights #CivilRights #LGBTQ #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #Democracy #BanTheGOP #LGBTQHunt #Insurrection #Treason #IncitementToViolence #Discrimination
#EURightsAgency Director @MichaelCJT@twitter.com insists on the importance of getting the upcoming EU #AI regulation right to ensure respect for #HumanRights at today's #Vienna30 event that celebrates 30 years since the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights.
Uganda recently made headlines for adopting one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world. But sadly the country isn't alone.
USA Today presents a guide to where it's a crime to be LGBTQ: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/06/05/safest-countries-lgbtq-rights-travel/70242408007/
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#RenewableEnergy
#Biodiversity
#Overshoot
#WeAreTotallyFscked
#WeAreSelfishCruelBastards
#Nihilism
#FuckAroundAndFindOut
#Fascism
#RWNJs
#StateCapture
#HumanRights
#RightToProtest
#NationStates
#FsckPatriarchy
#fsckALLreligion
#ChangeTheSystem
#DarwinAwards
#Misanthropy
#Atheism
#Whimsy
#DrHelenMagnus
#HHGTTG
#MostlyHarmless
#MontyPythonsFlyingCircus
#MontyPython
#TheSpanishInquisition
#RippingYarns
#Beatles
#EnidBlyton
#FamousFive
#CSLewis
#Narnia
#JRRTolkien
#TheLordOfTheRings
#AusPol
#Greens
#MichaelWestMedia
#LauraTingle
#ProgIndies
#Politics
#Misdirection
#Semantics
#Logic
#Grammar
#FOSS
#Arch
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#ArchLinux
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Unfollowed atm, but might spasmodically post on:
#GenderDysphoria
#Transition
#Transitioned
#Transwoman
#Transwomen
#Trans
#Lesbian
#Lesbians
“Everything we celebrated, hoped for, and dreamed of came crashing down that day.”
We spoke with one of the plaintiffs in the growing lawsuit over #Texas abortion law and it's potential exceptions:
https://www.texasobserver.org/clarify-abortion-pregnancy-lawsuit-texas/
#abortion #healthcare #news #politics #law #HumanRights #TXlege #USpol #pregnancy
June 4th 1989 is a date we should never let the internet forget.
This was a cruel day for thousands of peaceful protesters in China and a horrible day worldwide for everyone who believes in fighting for democracy.
Remember remember,
the Tiananmen Square protesters.
#TiananmenSquare #June4 #Democracy #HongKong #China #HumanRights ☂️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
@arstechnica Restricting right-wing, rabble-rousing, incendiary anti-transgender propaganda on Elon's $44 billion sh*tpool?
Musk likes to object!
#StandWithHumanity #HumanityMatters #HumanRights #LGBTQ #Community #LeaveTwitter #HateSpeech #IncitementToViolence #RightWingNetwork #AntisocialMedia #DSA #DigitalServicesAct #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanCommission @EU_Commission
PLEASE READ AND #BOOST
My little contribution for #wearorange
A ballad against gun violence
Thanks for reading
Only 4 minutes reading time
❤️ si_irini 😘
#betterworld #hope #fediverse #mastodon #writing #ballad #poem #poems #kindness #love #future #toleranc #givethemavoice #love #justice #human #humanrights #humanity
In 1966 Franca Viola bravely defied the Italian tradition of marrying her rapist.
Franca Viola became the first Italian woman to refuse a “rehabilitating marriage” (“matrimonio riparatore” in Italian) with her victimizer after her kidnapping and rape. Her family members were persecuted to the point of having their vineyard and barn burned to the ground.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/franca-viola-marry-rapist-1966/
@anneapplebaum Just one example, that the Lukashenko regime fails to suppress all news about the political prisoners it took, incarcerated & tortured:
https://charter97.org/en/news/2023/6/3/550527/
#StandWithHumanity #StandWithFreedom #StandWithUkraine #FreeBelarus #HumanRights #Democracy #Belarus #Ukraine #StrongerTogether
#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BLABBERMOUTH
PAUL STANLEY On 'LGBTQ+ Pride Month': 'Everybody Has A Right To Be Who They Are'
Earlier this week, TMZ caught up with KISS frontman Paul Stanley in the Beverly Glen neighborhood of Los Angeles, California and asked him about governor Gavin Newsom's proclamation declaring June 2023...
#PaulStanley #LGBTQPrideMonth #Equality #Diversity #Acceptance #SelfExpression #HumanRights #FreeToBe #KISS #Pride2020 #EqualityForAll
From the archives: A Mayo Clinic psychologist and a #gender-therapy specialist (who is also #transgender) weigh in on why gender-affirming care for #trans kids is vital ...
https://www.texasobserver.org/healthcare-for-trans-kids-is-not-abuse/
#Pride #LGBTQIA #transphobia #healthcare #HumanRights #news #sb14
Hong Kong's political refugees continue their fight for political freedom in Taiwan
This came up in the comments earlier in our discussion about #SB14, the #Texas ban on gender-affirming #healthcare for #trans young folks:
With hidden caveats, bans on #transgender kids' healthcare ensure #intersex people continue to be subject to medically unnecessary surgeries in infancy. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-anti-trans-laws-target-intersex-people-too/
#Pride #LGBTQIA+ #TXlege #gender #transphobia #HumanRights #politics #news
Featured story: Like Fast & Furious X, yesterday’s decision by the #Texas Legislature to approve #SB14—a bill banning hormone and puberty-blocking treatments as well as surgeries for #transgender children—is just the latest release from a franchise with a winning box office formula.
Call it Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 2.0: The Saga Continues.
https://www.texasobserver.org/fast-furious-xi-texas-transgender-youth/
#TXlege #transphobia #news #healthcare #politics #HumanRights #LGBTQIA+
Uganda indeed is a sovereign nation. But if Kampala is determined to engage in human rights abuses by persecuting gay and other LGBTQ citizens, the government should expect repercussions from nations which have relations with the East African nation. https://tinyl.io/8hfk
Call for experts for short-term assignment on discrimination in algorithmic hiring from an intersectional perspective. Each expert will receive a gross financial compensation of a maximum of €20,000. For the FINDHR project @findhr https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/funding/call-experts-short-term-assignment-discrimination-algorithmic-hiring-intersectional
#tech #ai #EU #law #discrimination #bias #job #hiring #intersectionality #humanrights #hr
The International #Coaching Federation (#ICF) believes that holding an event in #Florida “is integral to transforming societies,” and believes that “we can create a ripple effect of compassion, support, and empowerment while in Orlando.”
While I understand that as #coaches we don’t run from a challenge, I do not understand why we would support a state that violates #CivilRights or #HumanRights by holding a conference and spending money in that state. I’ve responded with my earnest objection.
"Green Party Baroness Jenny Jones has tabled a Fatal Motion for 13 June to stop the government from using a ‘Ministerial decree’ to overturn a vote in the Lords. This is the first time ever that a Government Minister has tried to use secondary legislation to directly overturn the will of Parliament"
#PublicOrderBill #HumanRights #SuellaBraverman #SecondaryLegislation #Democracy
https://greenworld.org.uk/article/baroness-jenny-jones-tables-fatal-motion-against-public-order-bill
‘Ilker Erdogan, a 20-year-old university student and LGBTQ activist, has known no leader other than Erdogan and AKP-led governments.
"From the moment I was born, I felt that discrimination, homophobia and hatred in my bones," he told AFP before Sunday's vote.
"I feel deeply afraid. Feeling so afraid is affecting my psychology terribly. I couldn't breathe before, and now they will try to strangle my throat," he added.’
Why are concerned citizens only protected, if they are concerned about bullshit, like gay books and inclusive education?
If you're concerned about the #ClimateCrisis you're a dangerous terrorist.
If you're concerned about nazis you're an evil antifascist.
If you're concerned about your kids' safety on their way to school you hate cars and freedom.
If you're concerned about #HumanRights of marginalized people you're a superspreader of the woke mind virus.
A new report from an international human rights group says 20 of the richest countries in the world fuel forced labor, or what they refer to as “modern slavery.” The U.S. alone imports $170 billion of products possibly made with forced labor. Learn more about the report.
#HumanRights #Inequality #Labor
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/26/1178331229/world-modern-slavery-report
A few of the people I enjoy reading on #Mastodon for #FollowFriday
#antifascism & #humanrights
@StillIRise1963 @CherokeeSher
@wdlindsy
According to a landmark ruling, South Wales Police breached #humanrights by deploying live #facialrecognition but after only a few years its use has resumed.
10/15
Supporting the @EP_PegaInquiry@twitter.com, the #EURightsAgency mapped intelligence laws developments across the EU 🇪🇺.
🔎 more bodies now oversee the work of intelligence services
⚖️ but people whose #HumanRights were violated still struggle to get justice
More: https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2023/surveillance-update
