Misión Verdad Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Hall at the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photo: UN The recent publication of a report issued by the Independent Mission to Determine the Facts in Venezuela of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was positioned, in the media and international opinion, due to its remarks on…
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Water Poverty and the Growing Conflict Between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia
Julian Vigo The Ethiopian government made a strategic decision to control most of the Nile River that flows into Egypt and Sudan. “The GERD will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant when it comes into full operation.” The satellite images are frightening. Prior to this summer’s’s filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), countries downstream from Ethiopia…
The Long, Disgraceful History of American Attacks on Brown and Black Women’s Reproductive Systems
Natasha Lennard In front of a small crowd of activists and media, city workers remove a statue of J. Marion Sims, a surgeon and medical pioneer in the field of gynecology, from its perch on the edge of Central Park on April 17, 2018 in Harlem, New York. Forced sterilization of poor women of color…
The Best Way to Protect Children from COVID-19 is to Avoid Exposing Them to Infection
Leidys María Labrador Although few children develop complications or die as a result of COVID-19, they are not out of danger. In Cuba, as of September 6, a total of 467 patients of pediatric age had tested positive for the SARS-COV-2 virus Although children have clearly demonstrated just how responsible and disciplined they can be…
International Consultations on Libya See a Breakthrough
Suzan El Ghitani Libyan politician Said Rashwan confirmed that the consultations that took place in Morocco, Egypt and Switzerland began to break the political deadlock that dominates the Libyan scene, adding in an interview with the Africa News Portal that there are direct relations and contacts between the Libyan parties that were previously missing. To…
Whistleblower Reports High Number of Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Facility
José Olivares, John Washington An overview of Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. Photo: Google Maps A whistleblower complaint filed this week with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General alleges that high rates of hysterectomies — sometimes without what the complaint called “proper informed consent” — have been performed on…
Israeli Human Rights Group Highlights How Israel Makes Fishing in Gaza Deadly
Kathryn ShihadahThe Gaza Strip, just six miles wide, boasts a twenty-five-mile coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. Fishing is a natural industry in such a location and as recently as 2000, was a lucrative business for ten thousand Gazans. Today, only about 3,700 remain in the fishing trade – and about ninety-five percent of these live…
Schools Reopen: Teachers Fight for Their Lives, Their Students, and the Future of Public Education
Sarah Jaffe The starting place for the unions, noted Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, is that the push to reopen schools as if they could wish the pandemic away, whether it was coming from President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos or from Chicago’s mayor Lori Lightfoot, “was…
Protests Against Police Brutality Spread in Colombia
Santiago Navarro F Protests in Cali, Colombia following the death of Javier Ordóñez in police custody (Photo: Medios Libres de Cali). Anger over police abuses boiled over after officers killed Javier Ordóñez in Bogotá on September 9. It was a night out just like any other. It was around midnight on September 9 in Bogotá…
UNSMIL Condemns al-Marj Security Directorate for Resisting “Peaceful” Arsonists
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) issued a baffling statement on the attack on the Security Directorate in the city of al-Marj and the attempted arson in which it tacitly supported the attack, describing the attackers, one of whom was killed, as “peaceful demonstrators”. In a statement issued Sunday evening, it wrote: “UNSMIL…
“The Number One Demand On the Streets of Colombia is for Justice”
Zoe PC “Who protects me from those who are supposed to protect me” Photo: Javier Jiménez, Colombia Informa On Wednesday, September 9, a video went viral in Colombia. It depicted a man repeatedly being beaten and tased by the police while he kept pleading “please, no more”. In a few hours, the man, Javier Ordóñez,…
The National Guard and the MST in the State of Bahia: Understand What’s Happening
Cristiane Sampaio The operation was initially authorized to take place for 30 days, from September 3rd to October 2nd – MST/Divulgação The conflict began September 2nd, after a court order from the Justice Ministry; the cases relates to land reform Related to a dispute between the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) and agricultural elites, the…
