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💡Mis- and disinformation in national, local and social media can be used as threats for and defamation of environmental and human rights defenders, as well as journalists.  📖 In an article in the KOFF à propos, Emiliana Rickenmann Montes (Peace Brigades International - Schweiz/Suisse) describes the challenging situation in Guatemala for human rights defenders in the light of online defamation and highlights their resilience.  Learn more here (DE/FR/EN) 👇 https://lnkd.in/dXXHpZ64 

We are seeing a dangerous and overtly racist strategy unfold, one meant to halt the implementation of Indigenous rights by right wing political parties in BC and by the Federal Conservstives. It involves inverting the dispossession of First Nations and denial of their rights to suggest that the return of land and transfer of jurisdiction will lead to dispossession of private land owners. That is a lie. What this is really about, beyond a crass political wedge that trades on anti-indigenous racism, are powerful corporate interests opposed to any barriers to resource extraction.

Germany: Two German Court stands with Justice and Truth, not with untruth and Genocide. It is the holiest duty of every court to stand with the heritage of Truth and Justice to empower the resolutions of the United Nations. Long live Truth. Long live true Judaism, but not the untruth. Note: For further clarification, check Laith Mohammad's comment on this post or click the link below: https://lnkd.in/gTSijvaJ

What would you do if someone stole your house and livelihood, killed some of your family members in the process, left the rest of you with nothing, and forced you to live in the squalor of a refugee camp? That is what Israel did to over 750,000 Palestinian in 1948, over 300,000 in 1967, and over 250,000 since then, and more every year. Most of the families in Gaza owned homes and farms where Israeli cities and towns now stand, which Israel literally stole from them. Many still even have the keys, and some homes still stand with Jewish immigrants living in them now. I also cry for the 36 innocent Israeli children killed on October 7th, but this horrible conflict did NOT start on that day. The proof is the nearly 2300 Palestinian children Israeli soldiers and settlers killed between the year 2000 and October 2023, including 43 children during the 9 months just before October 7th (all names & details documented on BTselem.org). Not to mention Israel’s brutal 57 year occupation/apartheid, and the blockade of Gaza since 2005 — both illegal under international law, and simply immoral and inhumane.. And now Israel is committing genocide and our government is helping them do it. Israel has killed over 12,000 Palestinian children in under 5 months, has orphaned over 25,000 more children, and has made over 900,000 children homeless during winter. And Israel is still blocking international aid to these children, increasingly killing them with starvation, dehydration, and disease, in addition to killing them with U.S. supplied bombs and ammunition. They’ve literally been amputating children’s legs without anesthesia. Can you imagine if that happened to your child? Aid agencies have even had to come up with a new acronym: WCNSF, which stands for Wounded Child No Surviving Family. Do you really think Hamas will need to teach the children who survive this hell to hate Israel, or is Israel’s indiscriminate brutality doing it for them, as it has for 75 years? PLEASE WRITE & CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & the White House to demand that they stop helping Israel kill and starve children, commit war crimes, and maintain its brutal and racist apartheid, with our tax dollars. Our government has the power to end this unimaginable cruelty by simply refusing to send more weapons and ammunition to Israel, and by also not vetoing any more UN Security Council resolutions for a ceasefire. And if you still believe the lie that this ethnic cleansing and genocide by Israel is the only way it can beat Hamas and ensure its security, please read and share this article that explains the much more effective way that Israel has been ignoring: https://lnkd.in/gY98T9mc

South Africa will change the discourse on human rights. Power to the people 

Dear all, Here I am sharing my column in British newspaper regarding protests and developments in Georgia. Here you can read about analysis, reflections, consequances of Russian law and Georgian people's aspiration to the EU. Thi Once again #NoToRussianlaw #GeorgiaisEurope https://lnkd.in/dYNi6VW4

August 2024 Dear High Commissioner, We, current and former UN and international human rights and legal experts and organisations as well as Nobel laureates and statesmen serving democracy and human rights, write following the publication of a landmark report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding Iran’s atrocity crimes over the past 45 years…

Based on the above, we invite the attention of international human rights organizations to the flagrant cases of violation of democracy and human rights in Armenia. We call on the Council of Europe to strongly condemn the continuous decline of democracy in Armenia and gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms.” https://lnkd.in/d_cAZtx2

I have been asked to write an explainer on identity conflicts and how South African opposition parties generally continue with ineffective strategies to convince and persuade voters, the costs and consequences of that, and how to implement more effective strategies. I will do a brief summarized article on that, and try to get that published by tomorrow

🌍 U.S. History: On September 25, 1789, the United States Congress passed twelve constitutional amendments. Ten of these would later become known as the Bill of Rights, enshrining fundamental civil liberties such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. Additionally, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment and the Congressional Compensation Amendment were proposed, though only the latter was eventually ratified—becoming the 27th Amendment in 1992. ⚖️📜 #USHistory #BillOfRights #ConstitutionalAmendments #CivilLiberties #Congress HaJunk - Business Development