Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say. Source
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Mass Arrests Target LGBTQ+ People In Nigeria As LGBTQ Abuses Are Ignored, Activists Say
Palm oil: the ingredient behind human rights abuses and eco-destruction that’s probably in your home right now
Palm oil is found in 50 percent of all consumer goods. And it’s killing the environment. Source
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Takes Helm In Philippines, Silent On Father’s Abuses
Activists and survivors of the martial law era under his father protested Marcos Jr.’s inauguration. Source
New Report Exposes Years of Human Rights Abuses by Wealthy Nigerian Governor
Governor El-Rufai is not who he tries to make the world believe he is 12/02/2021 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Human rights watchdog group International Christian Concern (ICC) released a report earlier today profiling Nigerian Governor Nasir El-Rufai and analyzing his years-long pattern of punishing Christian communities in Kaduna State. While militant groups contribute to religious persecution in Nigeria, No […]
Race As A Factor In Human Rights Abuses
Above Photo: Thousands of people protest against racism, injustice and police brutality. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press via AP) Black America And White Supremacy. The United States is a contradiction. From the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution to the Statue of Liberty beckoning the “huddled masses […]
Preschool Teacher Psychologically Abuses Toddlers with Terrible Song About Wearing Masks
They are planning to have school children in masks for the foreseeable future. They are not going to stop this abuse until they are made to stop. Link Share now! Source
Whistleblowers Step Forward With New Complaints Of Abuses At Site For Immigrant Children
Today, Government Accountability Project, filed its second complaint with federal oversight agencies detailing abuses at the Fort Bliss, Texas Emergency Intake Site (EIS) for unaccompanied immigrant children. Government Accountability Project’s first complaint, dated July 7, 2021, is attached as an exhibit to this second complaint. The Fort Bliss EIS is run by the U.S. Department […]
Violent protests over police abuses continue in Tunisia’s capital
Violent protests erupted in the streets of Tunisia’s capital again on Saturday night, adding to the pressure on Prime Minister’s Hichem Mechichi’s government to crack down on police abuses, reports Reuters. The clashes occurred in the Sejoumi neighbourhood of Tunis and followed protests earlier in the day in the center of the city during which […]
California Assembly Condemns CCP’s Human Rights Abuses Against Uyghurs
The California Assembly adopted a resolution May 20 denouncing the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs, a persecuted religious and ethnic minority. Assemblyman Chad Mayes (I-Yucca Valley) authored House Resolution 41 (HR 41), which demands “that the People’s Republic of China should release the estimated 2,000,000 imprisoned Uyghurs and grant access to foreign press […]
US Government Report On Iraq Hypocritically Slams Human Rights Abuses
Last Week the United States State Department released its annual report on Human Rights practices in Iraq, completely ignoring US violations and how the US created the current circumstances leading to the violations they criticize. As with most reports of their kind, the 59 page report leaves out US involvement and context which may incriminate […]
EU set to sanction more Iranians for rights abuses, first since 2013, diplomats say
The European Union is set to agree to sanction several Iranian individuals on Wednesday for human rights abuses, the first such measures since 2013, three EU diplomats said, Reuters reported. EU envoys are expected to agree to impose travel bans and asset freezes on the individuals, the diplomats said, and their names would be published […]
Qatar under fire for human rights abuses as World Cup nears
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
U.S. And Allies Sanction Senior Chinese Officials Over Uighur Abuses
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union, Britain, Canada and the United States on Monday launched coordinated sanctions against officials in China over human rights abuses in the far western Xinjiang region, provoking swift retaliation from Beijing. The EU targeted four senior officials in Xinjiang. The sanctions involve a freeze on the officials’ assets and a ban on […]
Netanyahu abuses democracy as Biden tacitly nods in agreement
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
U.S. joins West in rare criticism of Egypt on human rights abuses
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source
US joins West in rare criticism of Egypt on human rights abuses
Western countries on Friday called on Egypt to end the prosecution of activists, journalists and perceived political opponents under counter-terrorism laws, and to unconditionally release them.The United States, which has observer status at the UN Human Rights Council, was among 31 signatories of the joint statement on Egypt, the first since 2014, which called on […]
Fitton: Big Tech Censorship Out of Control as Left Abuses Donald Trump with Sham Impeachment
I’ve joined many others, including the President of the United States, in being locked out of Twitter for posting a tweet about hydroxychloroquine that I posted time and time again and that Twitter had already found to be in compliance with its rules. Without warning, Twitter told me that not only did I have to […]
Why should not government and people hold corporate abuses to account?
Written by Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant and Sandeep Pandey Think about this: Should a government come up with laws to protect a corporation against liability lawsuits, or should it come up with laws to regulate corporations and empower citizens so that corporations can be held to account for any kind of abuses or exploitation? A […]
Major banks, food and cosmetics brands linked to massive abuses in palm oil industry
The Most Revolutionary Act RT | September 27, 2020 Renowned food and cosmetics firms could have used palm oil produced by workers suffering from various abuses – from threats to rape – while global lenders finance the exploiting companies, AP reported, citing its investigation. According to the report, based on accounts of over 130 current […]
BLM Outright Abuses Elderly Woman in Portland, Harasses Another with Walker
© Twitter More Black Lives Matter protests turned to rioting in Portland as two elderly women were targeted by demonstrators as the pair tried to stop them from attacking a police precinct and setting a fire. Portland police tweeted a photo of one elderly woman targeted by the protesters who was doused in what appears […]
OAS Panel Dutifully Ignores Zionist Abuses, Pushes Venezuela Regime Change
WASHINGTON — Venezuela is in the vise-grip of a deep crisis; this much was undeniable even prior to the release of a 400-page report by a dubious “independent panel of experts” at the Organization of American States (OAS). For the past several years, the South American country has been mired in crippling inflation, major shortages […]
James Bovard: Gun Control Has Already Led to Many Abuses
James Bovard: Gun Control Has Already Led to Many Abuses By ns_adminhttp://www.campaignforliberty.org/james-bovard-gun-control-already-led-many-abuses James Bovard, Writing in The Hill, examines how gun control leads to civil liberties aches. Read his article here and below. Click here to help Campaign for Liberty fight the gun grabbers by joining the Patriot Club and being automatically enrolled in our […]
israel egregiously abuses and mistreats Palestinians the way Nazis brutalized Jews
Murdering Palestinians by Israel Is OK by Stephen Lendman Israel egregiously abuses and mistreats Palestinians the way Nazis brutalized Jews. They were condemned and punished for their high crimes. The world community lets Israel get away with cold-blooded murder and much more. On Thursday, Jericho resident Yassin al-Saradih died hours after Israeli soldiers lawlessly arrested […]
Goofy Indictments Divert Attention From Criminal Abuses At FBI And DOJ
Goofy Indictments Divert Attention From Criminal Abuses At FBI And DOJ Above Photo: Jenny P./ Flickr “If the election is ‘disrupted’ by voters changing their votes due to Russians posting on Facebook, then the problem is not that Russians are posting on Facebook, the problem is that voters are changing their votes based on posts they […]
SHAMELESS: No Democrats or left-leaning publishers denounce shocking abuses of power detailed in FISA memo release
About the author: Mike Adams (aka the “Health Ranger“) is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com called “Food Forensics“), an environmental scientist, a patent holder for a cesium radioactive isotope elimination invention, a multiple award winner for outstanding journalism, a science news publisher and influential commentator on topics ranging from […]
Year In Review: Worst Abuses Against Palestinian Children
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported at least 961 child injuries at the hands of Israeli forces in 2017. At the time of publication, DCIP had documented 61 child injuries by Israeli forces from a mix of live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, and crowd control weapons in the West Bank, […]
Global medical watchdog complicit with israeli abuses/torture
It is now more than 20 years since Amnesty International first concluded that Israeli doctors working with Israel’s security services “form part of a system in which detainees are tortured, ill-treated and humiliated in ways that place prison medical practice in conflict with medical ethics.” Since then there have been repeated attempts – of which […]
‘Felt like a slave’: Cleaner sues over alleged abuses at Netanyahu home
Netanyahu to Putin: Iran must withdraw from Syria or Israel will ‘defend itself’ The prime minister’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, is the subject of a civil suit by a 24-year-old former cleaner employed at the Beit Aghion residence between August and September, Yedioth Ahronoth reports. During the month of employment, the woman alleges that she was […]
Who is Behind “Human Rights Abuses” in Syria? Blaming Assad for Crimes Committed by US Sponsored Terrorists
57 rights organizations urge UN inquiry into abuses in Yemen
Press TV- Dozens of rights groups from around the world have urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to launch an independent investigation into the rights violations committed in Yemen since a Saudi-led military coalition invaded the country. In a letter to members of the Human Rights Council, 57 Yemeni and international rights groups urged […]