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Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and Richard Branson among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration (Jared Perlo/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/-human…

Pro-human AI declaration brings together unlikely group calling for trustworthy tech
An unlikely band of prominent business, religious, government and academic leaders have set aside their political differences and signed onto a new declaration of human rights for the AI age

Ukrainians warned for years that Europe's human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right. - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/04/ukrainians-warned-for-years-that-europes-human-rights-chief-was-a-kremlin-conduit-the-epstein-files-just-proved-them-right/

Human rights groups hail ‘huge victory’ as six Filton 24 defendants acquitted
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/human-rights-groups-hail-huge-victory-six-filton-24-defendants-acquitted
AND, as a re…

Mondelēz: Sugarcoated Suffering #environment

Oreo: Defend Human Rights!
Tell Oreo-maker Mondelēz International to protect rainforests and defend human rights!

Rassistisch-weisse Ideologie durch #Trump
#HumanRightsWatch
www:hrw.org
…

HRW-Bericht: Trump gefährdet Menschenrechte weltweit
Die harte Einwanderungspolitik bewirke einen schnellen Verfall der Demokratie, schreibt die Menschenrechtsorganisation.

Dutch front pages today:
@…: In the year 2026, imperialism seems to become the norm again.
@… : Human rights? Oil is Trump's driver.

"How do you acknowledge that the father of the computer was a homosexual, brutally bullied by the state into suicide, and then fund groups that want to deny gay people fundamental human rights?
The ARM processor which powers the modern world was co-designed by a #trans woman. When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history a…

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights | Julianne Schultz | The Guardian
#Australia #BillOfRights #AusPol

The ‘pleasant fiction’ of a rules-based order has been blown apart. It’s time for Australia to codify a bill of rights
What’s happening on American streets makes clear that a charter of rights does not prevent state overreach. But human rights must be more than a debating point

The global economy must be reordered to ensure it serves ordinary people around the world
rather than the “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”, according to a leading UN figure.
Olivier De Schutter,
the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights,
says politicians must stop prioritising
“socially and ecologically destructive growth” that only increases the profits
– and serves the consumption demands
– of the world’s ri…

“This is illegal. The occupation is illegal.” The International Court of Justice agrees, as has the United Nations, according to numerous resolutions passed starting in 1967. And yet now the Security Council has effectively given Israel’s occupation of Gaza the force of international law."
Opinion | In Gaza and the West Bank, Human Rights Work Changes Course - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NnUaf#selection-993.114-993.404

We ARE judging you on what you do. That’s what you don’t seem to like…
https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-0NQ8YJCoRie8SeoBl-flsA:a:2382343751-/0

New EHRC chair tells trans people to ‘judge me on what I do’ following criticism
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC’s) new chair has asked trans people to “judge me on what I do” after receiving criticism. Dr May-Ann …

It was only a matter of time: transnational repression to support #China overseas business interests, this time in #Australia.

I want to sell scented candles that are topical to the times 🕯️
Like “AI infused nightmare” and “autocratic breakthrough” and let’s not forget “soupçon of human rights lost.”
I’ll call them Zeitgeist Scented Candles.
And in future years, their scents can really take you back to the halcyon days of 2025 😳
#HappyNewYear

Human Rights groups warn an immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss has reached a “breaking point”
Human rights experts are sounding the alarm about living conditions at the immigration detention camp that houses hundreds of people.
“Fort Bliss is a human and civil rights disaster,”
said Eunice Cho Senior Counsel for the American Civil Liberty Union’s prison program.
The ACLU and other organizations allege physical abuse,
unsanitary conditions and medical negle…

Human Rights groups warn immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss reaching “breaking point”
Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115963303958988100
Our soldiers and many others sacrificed an awful lot for 20 years... and for all intents and purposes the overall mission of creating a human rights respecting government in Afghanistan completely failed.
Lesson: Wars don't make human rights happen.

"According to the report, the spearphishing emails relied on links that appeared trustworthy because they passed through legitimate online advertising and click-tracking systems commonly used to track user engagement."
North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says
<…

North Korea-linked hackers pose as human rights activists, report says - UPI.com
North Korea-linked hackers are using emails that impersonate human rights organizations and financial institutions in phishing attacks, according to a report released Monday.

Brooker Ngesa Omole, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Kenya, has just been detained in Nairobi. He is held in a prison known for extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses. All progressive forces should unite and pressure Kenya's government for his immediate release! #FreeBrooker

A 5-year old boy should not be in a detention centre but at school (where he was), regardless the facts/circumstances. These are violations of basic human rights of children.
https://www.startribune.com/lawmakers-visit-…

Guardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian

Spyware maker is hijacking diplomatic efforts to limit commercial hacking, civil society warns https://therecord.media/spyware-maker-pall-mall-process-reputation

I want a city on Mars
I want a city on the Moon
I want artificial life with the same rights as biological life
That should not prelude providing basic necessities to all human being:
Water
Food
Shelter
Knowledge
A dream of tomorrow at the expense of today and the actual tomorrow is stupid.
Even more stupid if the dream is simply "more money"

"Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here’s why you should care."

Internet shutdowns in Africa: A human rights and democratic crisis
Internet shutdowns have become a growing threat to Africa’s democracy. They are an increasingly common part of the authoritarian toolkit used by governments to control information and suppress dissent. Here's why you should care.

Gavin Newsom accused the Trump administration official
Dr Mehmet Oz
of discrimination in a civil rights complaint filed with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently visited Los Angeles
and filmed a video alleging that members of the city’s Armenian community orchestrated large-scale healthcare fraud.
The post set off a days-long public quarrel that culminated in the Ca…

2025 deadliest year for civilians in Ukraine since 2022, UN human rights monitors find (Kris Janowski/admin)
https://ukraine.ohchr.org/en/2025-deadliest-year-for-civilians-in-Ukraine-since-2022-UN-human-rights-monitors-find
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p11#a260113p11

PEACE for Ukrainians is not a compromise with Russia at the expense of values and human rights: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/25/peace-for-ukrainians-is-not.html

A few pictures from yesterday night at the #39C3
(License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

My thoughts are with the incredibly brave people who stand up for democracy and human rights Thank you.

Coalition of Human Rights Organizations Issues a Statewide Travel Alert for Florida Ahead of FIFA World Cup
A coalition of civil rights, community leaders, and human rights leaders is coming together to issue a travel alert today to warn international travellers, tourists, and visitors of the potential dangers that exist in the United States, particularly in Florida, to their rights, liberty, and physical security.

40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/40-years-of-copyright-obstruction-to-human-rights-and-social-justice/

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115745279326032857
The folks, here on the fediverse, who malign those of us that speak up for the human rights of Palestinians and against Israel’s ongoing genocide, who label us “antisemitic” for rejecting the antisemitic co…

"In his aping of Farage, Starmer is now contemplating a ‘review’ in the new year of how the European Convention of Human Rights — drafted by British lawyers to enshrine in law fundamental basic rights after the Second World War — is implemented in the uk. That is, watering it down."
As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
htt…

As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
Despite his apparent respect for so-called liberal norms, Keir Starmer is likely to go down as one of the most authoritarian prime ministers in modern history. Is he trying to eradicate popular dissent entirely?

How can it be that a president of the United States, Darth Donald #Trump, decides for himself who should be killed? He murders people on boats and now in a faraway country.
He doesn't believe in courts, human rights, or international law. He thinks he's an absolute ruler and is only accountable to himself. What a jerk!
Why isn't the ICC officially launching an investigation? Trump…

Women's Rights Are Human Rights 😉 🏳️‍⚧️

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg/115860244124414204
Ah, yes, the Nazis are against human rights.
(As defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by the way -- hardly something of "the West")
Such a surprise!

Supreme Court Will Consider New Curbs on Human-Rights Suits (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/supreme-court-will-consider-new-curbs-on-human-rights-suits
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p117#a260109p117

A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_a-rogue…

AP: Activists say the death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran spiked Sunday to at least 538 people. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency also warns the toll is likely to go up. And with the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult as AP’s Jon Gambrell explains

Wir müssen reden. Public Eye spricht Klartext.: Zucker im Babybrei: Nestlés Doppelstandard in Afrika | Mit Manuel Abebe
Webseite der Episode: http://publiceye.ch
Mediendatei:

Public Eye
Focus on Global Justice! We fight against injustices with a significant link to Switzerland and demand the respect of human rights throughout the world.

For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world

Meet the team that hunts government spyware
For years, Access Now’s Digital Security Helpline has been aiding journalists and dissidents who have been targeted with government spyware. This is how they operate.

Worth a read on the broad opposition to the CAQ's proposed Quebec constitution. It's great to see lengthy quotes from my colleague and friend Paul-Étienne Rainville, who works at the Ligue des droits et libertés.
“The government has not respected any of the criteria established by the United Nations for the adoption of a democratic and legitimate constitution.”

'Authoritarian and undemocratic': 300 groups unite against Legault's proposed Quebec constitution
Groups that focus on human rights, immigration issues and the environment join unions in calling the CAQ's plan deeply flawed.

Georgetown removes ]UN human rights and international law expert] Francesca Albanese from scholar roster
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/28/georgetown-deletes-albanese-from-roster/

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a Kenyan presidential candidate’s phone
https://cyberscoop.com/citizen-lab-kenya-cellebrite-phone-cracking-boniface-mwangi-forensic-evidence/

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a Kenyan presidential candidate’s phone
Researchers have found forensic evidence suggesting that Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite’s phone-cracking technology on the device of a prominent human rights activist after arresting him, according to a report published Tuesday.

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

Pro-Palestinian influencer Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj fired following Zionist smear campaign
Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by discussing the Gaza genocide. She was fired after a pressure campaign from Israel lobby groups that she believes aimed to silence her. Despite this, she remains unbowed.

I've been giving some thought to what needs to happen in the US once the current political and human rights nightmare comes to an end. It's pretty obvious that all of the guard rails we had in place to keep power from concentrating into one person's hands failed, miserably. It will eventually end, history kind of shows that, but the big question is will it end peacefully or violently?
A symbolic source of contention is the way that Trump has slapped his name and image on ev…

An uncomfortable conversation to have: Considering the U.S.' track record on human rights violations, invading sovereign nations, and committing war crimes during those efforts, should we truly remain in the same defense pact with them?
Considering the U.S. is currently openly discussing invading one of their NATO allies, bringing into question what being an ally means to the United States, does it makes any sense at all to view them as one?
I believe the nations of Europe should…

Doctors are being arrested in Iran
for helping save the lives of some of the tens of thousands injured
during Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests,
with at least one surgeon now at risk of being sentenced to death.
The arrests and death sentence are part of a campaign of “revenge”,
say human rights groups,
after healthcare workers and doctors refused to ignore the plight of badly injured protesters shot or stabbed at close range,
and in so…

This CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/

Call for the Suspension of Irresponsible Nickel Development in Palawan, the Philippines — More Than a Decade Without Effective Environmental Measures, Leaving Community Rights at Risk — International Petition (8,411 Signatories from 36 Countries; 90 Organizations from 40 Countries) Submitted to Sumitomo Metal Mining | Friends of the Earth Japan
Ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, an international petition calling for the suspe...

A report from House Oversight Committee Democrats delivers a damning recounting of the varied ways Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated cybersecurity protocols across nearly every executive branch agency.
Check out today's Metacurity for more on this crucial development and other infosec news you should know, including
--Palo Alto: attackers have moved from AI experimentation to AI operationalization,
--Dragos discovered three new ICS threat g…

DOGE linked to potential Russian, Chinese access to OPM systems, report
Palo Alto: attackers have moved from AI experimentation to AI operationalization, Dragos discovered three new ICS threat groups, European Parliament disabled AI features over cybersecurity concerns, Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite on human rights activist's phone, much more

Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel's violations of human rights https://eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

"The attorneys general of California and nearly 20 other states to submit a comment letter on the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed rule that would reverse HHS regulations concerning the definition of “disability” under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to exclude gender dysphoria, which is the underlying diagnosis for transgender individuals."
‘We Strongly Support The Rights Of Transgender People’
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/we-strongly-support-the-rights-of

I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷‍♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba

Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Black Basta suspects’ homes raided; gang leader added to most-wanted list,
--Jordanian national pleads guilty to access broker charges,
--Acting head of CISA was blocked by colleagues from removing CIO,
--Iranian campaign sought to steal Gmail and other account credentials,
--Man pleads guilty to hacking US S.Ct.,
--DPRK hackers impersona…

Black Basta suspects’ homes raided; gang leader added to most-wanted list
Jordanian national pleads guilty to access broker charges, Acting head of CISA was blocked by colleagues from removing CIO, Iranian campaign sought to steal GMail and other account credentials, Man pleads guilty to hacking US S.Ct., DPRK hackers pose as human rights orgs, much more

Israel wants to execute Palestinians and the world will allow it | Human Rights | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/21/israel-wants-to-execute-palestinians-and-the-world-will-allow-it?traffic_source=rss

"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.

December 10, 2025 -- Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-10-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p32#a251211p32

Dozens of unions, community and faith organizations are calling on every Minnesotan to take a stand on January 23rd.
The ICE “surge” that cost the life of Renee Nicole Good is violating the Constitutional and human rights of Americans and our neighbors.
On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity.
We are demanding:
🔸ICE must leave Minnesota now.
🔸The officer who killed Good must be held legally accountable.
🔸No additiona…

Friday’s hearing stems from a class action filed by the "Advocates for Human Rights"and a detainee,
-- who say immigration agents in Minnesota pressure detainees to waive their rights and restrict attorney access to the facility.
Attorney Jeffrey Dubner, representing the advocates, said this environment chills protected legal speech
and leaves detainees in a communication “dead zone” until they are “booked”
— a process that often leads to out-of-state transf…

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to push the Overton window a bit more to the right by curbing ECHR
No respect for #HumanRights |
Fuckwit.
https://www.theguard…

Germany is constitutionally fine with committing genocide. (I guess some things never change.)
#germany #israel #Gaza #genocide