Human Rights

AFP | — “Conflicts and violence in places like Syria and Ukraine have displaced a record 38 million people inside their own countries, equivalent to the total populations of New York, London and Beijing, according to a watchdog group.” AFP News Agency: “Record 38 million people internally displaced: watchdog”

Apartheid

Palestinians: “”The face of a new form of racist, discriminatory Israel has been revealed”

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By IMEMC Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing religious “government of war” is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, PLO officials said Thursday, vowing to fight it on the international stage. The PLO blasted Israel’s “extremist” cabinet, after Netanyahu announced a coalition government that gave him a slim parliamentary majority and included […]

Barack Obama

HUGE WIN FOR PRIVACY! Court Rules NSA Spying Is Illegal

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John Iadarola, Jimmy Dore, Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) | – “The second circuit court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection and storage of Americans phone records is ILLEGAL, good news when it comes to your privacy. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Ana Kasparian (The Point,) break […]

Apartheid

Israel Slammed Over Treatment of Palestinian Children in Detention

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By Mel Frykberg | – RAMALLAH, West Bank (IPS) – Palestine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council demanding that action be taken against Israel over the abuse of Palestinian children after they have been arrested by Israeli security forces. “Every single day and in countless […]

censorship

Iranian Police Arrest Leading Human Rights Activist Again

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By Golnaz Esfandiari | (RFE/RL) | – Narges Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) co-founded by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arrested on May 5 at her home in Tehran, according to her husband. Speaking to RFE/RL by telephone from Paris, Taghi Mohammadi said the officers […]

Human Rights

Video Shows Ethiopian-Israeli Soldier Beaten By Police – Violent Clashes In Tel Aviv

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AJ+ | — “Clashes on the streets of Tel Aviv. Thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian origin have taken to the streets after a video appeared online. It appeared to show an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier being beaten by two Israeli police officers.” A+: “Video Shows Ethiopian-Israeli Soldier Beaten By Police – Clashes In Tel Aviv”

Buddhism

Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave

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Wochit News / IRIN | – “Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking camp on a hillside deep in a southern Thai jungle. The digging site, in Sadao district in Songkhla province, on Friday yielded four […]

Apartheid

Israeli soldier testimonies reveal ‘shoot to kill’ policy in Gaza war

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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Testimonies from over 60 Israeli soldiers and officers who fought during last summer’s war in the Gaza Strip were released to the public Monday, raising serious concerns over whether Israel’s military adhered to the most basic principles of International Humanitarian Law. The testimonies — collected by Israeli military watchdog Breaking the Silence […]

Human Rights

Daesh in Mosul seeks Child Soldiers, Child Suicide-Bombers

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By Khales Joumah | Mosul | (Niqash.org) – One of the latest inventions by the Islamic State in Mosul is the mobile pulpit. Most recently a caravan for propaganda appeared in a city fun fair. The target for extremist recruitment? The city’s children. It has almost become a joke among the families of Mosul. It […]