Beijing has promised to respond in kind unless the US revokes the blacklisting of Chinese officials it said were guilty of human rights violations. Speaking at a regular press conference on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin accused the US of “smearing China, oppressing Chinese officials for no reason, violating …
Read More »Migrant rights activists clash with police (VIDEO)
The initially peaceful migrant rights protest in western Poland descended into clashes with police in riot gear on Saturday. Around 100 people gathered outside an immigration detention center in Krosno Odrzanskie near the German border. The regional police authority said 11 people were detained for attacking officers, while 21 will …
Read More »Biden pushes ‘voting rights’ legislation in MLK speech
US President Joe Biden marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a speech linking the civil rights leader’s efforts to unite Americans to his own party’s voting rights legislation, all but dismissing those against it as racists. Biden called Americans to “commit to [King’s] unfinished work” on Monday, describing that …
Read More »Putin comments on transgender rights
Russia should import concepts from the rest of the world, such as the best technological and economic ideas, but it should reject the view that men and women are the same thing, Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed. Speaking to journalists at his annual end-of-year press conference, Putin also said …
Read More »Latino rights group wants to drop ‘Latinx’ term
Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), sent an email on Wednesday to other members of the group’s management, suggesting that they should stop using “Latinx” because it was “very unliked” by the very people they serve. He added a link to a Miami Herald …
Read More »Largest US city grants non-citizens voting rights
The controversial bill passed New York City’s overwhelmingly Democrat council by 33-14 on Thursday, meaning it will now be sent to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has expressed opposition to the proposed changes but is not expected to veto them. In a statement, the council said that …
Read More »Russia rejects rights of sexual minorities & gender diversity – Putin ally
Speaking on Sunday at a meeting with Fawzia Zainal, the head of Bahrain’s Council of Representatives, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko said that it is unacceptable to put foreign values on a country without taking into account its history, faith, religion, and national characteristics. According to Matvienko, who is …
Read More »The politician who’s used Covid to restrict people’s rights to an unprecedented level strikes again
The pandemic has generated a series of political crises in many Western liberal democracies over the past two years. Leaders who have failed to deal with it effectively have been brutally punished by voters. It was arguably one of the key reasons Donald Trump lost office and, in Australia, Prime …
Read More »New US Navy ship named after gay rights icon & christened by transgender veteran receives mixed reception
The USNS Harvey Milk was christened in San Diego, California in a traditional Navy ceremony, with Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, in attendance. Milk, who became an American LGBT icon as the first openly gay official elected in the state of California, served in the US Navy in the 1950s before …
Read More »Here’s what’s wrong with Israel branding human-rights groups ‘terrorists’
On October 22, Israel branded six respected Palestinian human-rights groups “terrorist organisations,” outraging the UN and the wider global community. This, coming from a state that imprisons and kills Palestinian children, and murders uniformed medics. On the Israeli Defense Ministry’s list were Addameer, Al-Haq, Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP), …
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