Stop COVID-19 Without Violating Human Rights March 26, 2020 Stop COVID-19 Without Violating Human Rights2020-03-262020-03-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/human-rights-are-not-option-sign.jpg200px200px The COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis. We need to take warnings from medical professionals seriously and do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus and save lives. We must also ensure that governments and corporations do not endanger us further by increasing surveillance, censoring speech, […]
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Authored by Michael Lewis, op-ed via Bloomberg.com, We have so little data for how we’re supposed to live in this social-distancing world… At the same time much of Northern California was ordered to shelter in place, it was granted lots of exceptions to the order. You could go out for groceries and prescription drugs and dog walking. You could go out if you performed an “essential service.” You could […]
Sanctions should be revisited or suspended altogether during the Covid-19 crisis, the UN human rights chief has said, arguing that they might cause healthcare in affected countries to collapse, and harm the situation globally. Any international and unilateral sanctions should be “urgently re-evaluated,” UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said Tuesday. READ MORE: ‘Facts matter!’ Pompeo lectures Iranian govt over ‘conspiracy theories’ as US sanctions deprive […]
China’s Damning US Human Rights Report May Be Propaganda, but It’s Not Wrong By Alan Macleod, Mintpressnews.com March 23, 2020 China’s Damning US Human Rights Report May Be Propaganda, but It’s Not Wrong2020-03-232020-03-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/ap_20077738929320_edited.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A homeless person holds a shoe while camped on a street bench, March 17, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. Ben Margot | AP China just released a 13,000-word report on the state […]
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Seven human rights organisations are holding Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi responsible for the spread of the coronavirus in Egypt, which they assert has resulted in a serious health catastrophe. The organisations also called on the international community to rationalise its support for Al-Sisi and demanded the release of political prisoners. The organisations issued a joint statement on Monday, of which Arabi21 received a copy, stating […]
The coronavirus pandemic has presented a serious test to how different societies and countries can work together to tackle an unprecedented force. Many governments and individuals have grappled the situation by acting selflessly and honourably by breaking down current societal and cultural barriers and indifferences. However, human rights abuses have long preceded widespread diseases and in many cases, the novel coronavirus has intensified many deep rooted […]
The US Health and Human Services Department’s computer system was reportedly hacked on Sunday night, with the National Security Council needing to step in and warn that news of a mass quarantine was fake news. Three people “familiar with the matter” briefed Bloomberg on the hack and said the breach was meant to slow the department’s system down in the middle of the coronavirus response. Though […]
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries on Thursday to “double down” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told diplomats in Geneva that describing Covid-19 as a pandemic “does not mean that countries should give up.” “The idea that countries should shift from containment to mitigation is wrong and dangerous,” the official said. He added that, while […]
“Are they using human skin for their sofas?” online commentators wondered after seeing an ad, in which models of different races were compared to various colors of leather upholstery. The bizarre collage was posted by Home Collection furniture maker on its Russian VKontakte social network page in January, but only made headlines this week after being discovered by one of the popular Telegram channels. It featured […]
John Oliver ripped Donald Trump’s “callous indifference to human life” on Sunday while discussing the president’s conduct throughout the coronavirus pandemic. On Last Week Tonight, Oliver used much of his show to address the misinformation Trump and his advisers have put out as the virus continues to put the world on edge. He started by looking at the recent press conference where Trump said that a […]
Colombia Is Second Most Dangerous Country For Human Rights Defenders By Staff, www.resumen-english.org March 6, 2020 Colombia Is Second Most Dangerous Country For Human Rights Defenders2020-03-062020-03-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/3-4-colombia-1.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A protest against fracking in Colombia. Photo: Esperanza Proxima This Monday, the Business & Human Rights Resource Center presented a report denouncing the relationship between corporations and damages to human rights defenders. According to the report, Colombia is […]
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Two civilian airplanes bound for Qatar were reportedly used as cover by Israeli jets launching missiles from Lebanese airspace against targets near the Syrian cities of Homs and Quneitra. READ MORE: Syrian air defenses engage ‘hostile targets’ over Homs & Quneitra Syrian air defenses engaged incoming missiles shortly after midnight local time on Thursday, both near Homs in central Syria and Quneitra in the south, on […]
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, A video shows a man alleged to be a human trafficker bragging about how he has ‘filled Europe with immigrants’ and how he is making thousands of euros after Turkey opened its borders. The man said he had been trafficking people for 20 years and that he receives 500-600 euros per head for each migrant he successfully exports. […]
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that the Syrian regime and Russia are primarily responsible for the human tragedy in Idlib Governorate, north-western Syria. This came in a press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, on Tuesday, in the capital, Ankara. Raab pointed out that the aim of his visit to Turkey is to show Britain’s solidarity with Ankara, stressing that the friendship between Turkey […]
In a major international survey, only 37 per cent of Israelis said human rights groups should be able to operate freely, as reported by the Times of Israel. The 34-nation poll, conducted by the US-based Pew Research Centre from May-October 2019, focused on views of, and support for, democracy and democratic institutions. Support in Israel is “significantly lower than in most countries for freedom of expression, […]
Randstad, the world’s largest human resources firm, has begun testing a combination of the Cypherium blockchain and Google Cloud to better match talent to corporate needs. The Netherlands-based firm said in a blog post that it believes the blockchain can offer ways to automate bureaucratic tasks associated with workforce recruitment by handling the “nuts and bolts” of day-to-day recruitment activities, making the entire process more efficient. […]
Peter Andrews is an Irish science journalist and writer, based in London. He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Genetics Chinese scientists have reported that the coronavirus ripping through populations worldwide is much more likely than its close cousin Sars to bind to human cells, as it contains unexpected genes which link it to HIV […]
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has issued strong criticism of the lack of accountability for Israeli crimes in the Gaza Strip, stating that “impunity continues to prevail”. According to UN News, the new report was published this week looking at “accountability for alleged violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since 2008, including during large-scale protests beginning in […]
Thousands of activists protested on Sunday in Casablanca, Morocco, demanding the improvement of social and human rights conditions. Participants in the protest march, called by the Moroccan Social Front (including more than 30 organisations and bodies), raised slogans calling for respect of human rights in the country. The protesters in the march, which started from Al-Nasr Square to the end of the neighbourhood of Darb Omar, […]
The Auschwitz Memorial in Poland has criticized Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ for sensationalizing the suffering of inmates at the notorious Nazi death camp, in particular a gruesome game of “human chess” depicted in the new series. The horrors of the Holocaust are extensive and well documented. However, the writers of Amazon’s ‘Hunters’ evidently needed to make the systematic slaughter of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies and homosexuals even more comically […]
A new explosive report from JP Morgan was leaked out this week titled “Risky business: the climate and the macroeconomy” warns climate change poses a significant macroeconomic risk to the world economy and could result in a “catastrophic” event. “The response to climate change should be motivated not only by central estimates of outcomes but also by the likelihood of extreme events (from the tails of the probability […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday arrived in Saudi Arabia where he is scheduled to discuss a number of issues including regional security and ways to confront Iran. Pompeo was received at King Khalid Airport by Princess Reema Bint Bandar Bin Sultan Al Saud, the kingdom’s ambassador to Washington, and John Abizaid, the US envoy to Saudi Arabia. The US Secretary is scheduled to […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to discuss regional security, namely Iran, after the US killing last month of a top Iranian general pushed the oil-producing region closer to an all-out war. In meetings with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the next two days, Pompeo will also raise economic and human rights issues like the case of a Saudi-American physician who remains […]