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SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2
Prime Minister Mark Carney ran a campaign on leading Canada through Trump’s tariffs & attacks on sovereignty & a cost-of-living crisis. Instead, his first piece of legislation, Bill C-2, is an attack on migrants & privacy rights straight out of the Trump playbook.
Bill C-2 drastically restricts refugee protection, allows for mass deportations & gives security officials unchecked power to access everyone’s data…

SIGN THE PETITION: PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS. STOP BILL C-2 - Leadnow

Human rights committee blames Guatemala for forcing girl who was raped to carry out her pregnancy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/human-rights-committee-blames-guatemala-024206489.html

Opinion | Trump Is Helping Human Rights Abusers. I’m Suing to Stop Him. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/opinion/trump-lawsuit-icc-suing.html

The UK Conservative Party is in disarray. Since 1979, they have implemented changes with unintended consequences. Water privatisation, sale of social housing, deregulation of building societies, privatisation of railways, and leaving the EU.
Now they are considering withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, born out of the ashes of the 1930s and 40s in Europe and World War 2.
Which of the 16 Articles do they really believe we should not be protected by?

[former top exec at well-known human-rights org] noted the frustration inherent in trying to draw evenhanded distinctions that were once elementary in the human-rights world. “Hamas has an obligation under international law not to use human shields and to distinguish between military and civilian targets,” this person, who asked not to be identified to avoid further alienating former colleagues, said. “But if you bring this up internally, it’s framed as a distraction, an Israeli talking poin…

The Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS/OCR) used to do a fairly good job of protecting patient's sensitive information. They did this by enforcing the HIPAA security rules and penalties for non-compliance included fines, mandatory compliance programs, and CEO liability.
No longer.
HHS/OCR has now been weaponized to enforce anti-DEI initiatives of the current administration. Here is the recent headline from HHS/OCR:
"OCR Inve…

"We are NIH people and we are horrified about the takeover of US scientific and medical research and the damage to future cures for Alzheimer’s and cancer.
But we also believe in human rights and keeping people from starving. The DOGE kids are in far over their heads and they will pay for this." From:
https://bsky.app/profile/altnih4science.bsky.social/post/3lpiquozhsk22