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"Billions live in environments that violate human rights, global analysis finds"
#Environment
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-billions-environments-v…

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

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.

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/

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…

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…

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

Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch
an “undesirable organization”
on Nov. 28,
effectively banning the group from operating in the country.
Human Rights Watch noted that Russia had already forced the closure of its Moscow office in 2022.
“Our work hasn’t changed, but what’s changed, dramatically, is the government’s full-throttled embrace of dictatorial policies,
its staggering rise in repression,
and the scope of the war crimes…

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.

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

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…

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/

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

The New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes

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

Mondelēz: Sugarcoated Suffering #environment

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.”

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

The Chinese side of AI safety is glimmer than Musk's dreams
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/the-partys-ai-how-chinas-new-ai-systems-are-reshaping-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!

Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days
as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
However, the border will only open in one direction:
for Palestinians to exit.
Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that
Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that …

"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
<…

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

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…

I think the root of the “AI” evil is when AI researchers in the 1960s recognized that they outrageously underestimated the complexity of the human mind.
They became humiliated by their promises that AGI was just a few years away—and then went full goblin mode that’s lasting to this day.
Some of the OG researchers took it quite badly that they stalled and weren’t in the limelight anymore.
‣ Marvin Minsky (co-founder of MIT AI lab and arguably the most important early AI bro) went on to visit Epstein’s island multiple times.
‣ Karl Steinbuch, who came up with the German term for computer science ("Informatik")—who also was a literal Nazi (and likely war criminal) in World War II—later wrote articles in ultra-right magazines about things like “equal rights rob women of their children”.
‣ John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp, co-authored document that coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”) was a staunch Republican who years later claimed (in a serious article) that “thermostats have beliefs”.
[one moment, I am receiving more information]
‣ There’s a second Epstein Island AI pioneer? Who also was Chief Learning Officer at… Trump University? That would be Roger Schank (founded one of the first AI companies in the 1980s AI boom, it even had an IPO. Of course the 1980s AI bubble burst).
Obviously all of the above received all the awards in computer science and are very revered people.

"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…

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

"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the State Department that will impact how the agency conducts its annual Human Rights Report."
**Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says**
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/11/21/abortion-dei-now-considered-violations-of-human-rights-us-officials-say/

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.

You’re not an ally if your freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy event is sponsored by surveillance capitalists like Google that are complicit in Israel’s genocide and pose an existential threat to human rights and democracy.
#FOSDEM #etc

TRAHRSL
The trans rights are human rights software license
You have to agree that trans rights are human rights to be granted a license to use the software

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…

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

AI and human rights. Video, slides and transcript from my January 2022 talk.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

#HumanRights

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

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-…

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

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

Women's Rights Are Human Rights 😉 🏳️‍⚧️

The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention,
has been gutted so thoroughly that it could be laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to
“abuse people with impunity”, experts warn.
Former federal oversight officials have sounded the alarm at the rapid dismantling of guardrails against human rights failures
– at the same time as the gov…

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/

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

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…

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…

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

Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn (José Olivares/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/us-watchdog-human-rights-department-homeland-security
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p52#a251130p52

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

If only there were some clue about why the Democrats keep losing to Trump…
…It couldn’t possibly be that denying the basic humanity of Palestinians and going all in on genocide doesn’t resonate with people who aren’t fascists, could it? https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/1156562588…

“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

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…

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

In one of my first talks about human rights and AI (2022) I used the widespread printing press reference to emphasise that in many cases it supported colonialism.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

This text by Sonja Drimmer really breaks down common printing press misrepresentation. Love it!

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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…

Lately, I’ve been feeling burned out by how much people in my life assume things about me and my beliefs, so let's talk about it.
I spend some parts (not all) of my evenings online, usually from around 20:00 to 22:00 or sometimes even until midnight (00:00), not because I am consumed by politics but because I like to learn and reflect on how society could be better. I enjoy exploring ideas about justice, solidarity, and human rights in a way that feels meaningful to me. For me, spe…

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/

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…

#DemocracyNow

"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

The National Press Club is deeply troubled by President Trump’s comments today regarding the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Mr. Khashoggi’s murder inside a diplomatic facility was a grave violation of human rights and a direct attack on press freedom.
That fact is not in dispute.

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
has provoked international outrage
after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday.
Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers
and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions.
They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garag…

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…

"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.

To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos

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

Over the past two months the U.S. has blown up at least 20 boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.
“80 people have been killed in what are extrajudicial executions under international law,” says Juan Pappier, Americas deputy director at Human Rights Watch.
The Pentagon claims the boats were carrying drugs but officials have acknowledged they don’t know who has been killed.
The U.S.now has 15,000 military personnel in the region.

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…

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…