Accountability

ICC Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Gallant

November 21, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Accountability, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Genocide, ICC, International Criminal Court, Starvation, Torture, War crimes, Yoav Gallant

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued on 21 November arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza, in a landmark move coming several months after the court’s top prosecutor filed applications for their arrest. “Today … Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejecting challenges by the State of Israel (‘Israel’) brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute (the ‘Statute’).

Three Years After The Fuel Spill, Community Members Continue To Demand Accountability

November 20, 2024 Marti Townsend, Popular Resistance. Resist! Accountability, Hawaii, health, pollution, Red Hill, US military, Water Defenders

Today, November 20, 2024, marks the third anniversary of the catastrophic 2021 Red Hill fuel spill, which contaminated the drinking water for thousands of our families and exposed deep flaws in the Navy’s management of its fuel storage facilities. On this solemn occasion, the Community Representation Initiative (CRI) reflects on the ongoing harm caused by the spill and calls for decisive action in light of recent Department of Defense Inspector General (DoD IG) and Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that confirm widespread mismanagement by the Navy and Department of Defense.

From Guantanamo To Abu Ghraib: Female Participation In Prisoner Abuses

November 18, 2024 Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Abu Ghraib, Accountability, Guantanamo, Legal System, Torture, US military, Women

As a retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel with 13 years on active duty and 16 in the Reserves, I became interested in the topic of women involved in prisoner abuses when so many U.S. women at all levels were linked to the prisons or prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Iraq. In reading press articles about detentions, incarcerations, and the abuse and torture of prisoners identified as threats to national security, I was struck by the number of women who had some role in the detentions -- women in the U.S. military, civilian women in various U.S. government agencies and civilian women contractors.

UCSF Health Professionals Charge Leadership With Complicity In Genocide

November 11, 2024 UC People’s Tribunal For Palestine, Mondoweiss. Resist! Accountability, California, Genocide, Health Professionals, Israel, Palestine, People's Tribunal, Student Activism, University of California

Almost a year ago, on October 31, 2023, faculty held a press conference in front of the Helen Diller Medical Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), in order to amplify the warnings of Palestinian colleagues at al-Ahli Hospital who predicted that Israel’s bombing of the hospital would be the first in a campaign that would decimate Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure. At the time, British-Palestinian surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, addressing the world while standing among the dead, stated that Israel’s targeting of al-Ahli Hospital signaled a decisive shift, marking the moment when its assault on Gaza “stopped being a war, and became a genocide.”

Former Rikers Detainees Urge NYC Officials To Address Sexual Abuse

November 1, 2024 Samantha Max, Gothamist. Educate! Accountability, Criminal Justice and Prisons, New York City (NYC), Rikers, Sexual Abuse

Women who say they were sexually abused by staff at the Rikers Island jail complex urged officials to take their allegations seriously at a City Council oversight hearing on Thursday. “You hear our stories, you hear our pain, you hear our trauma. We tell it over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again,” said Donna Hylton, who alleges a female captain raped her when she was a teenager at Rikers in the 1980s. “When will we be heard? When will we be believed?” Hylton is one of more than 700 women who have sued New York City, alleging they were fondled, raped or otherwise sexually abused while in custody over the last 50 years.

What Is Going On At The International Criminal Court?

October 29, 2024 Mohammad Jamel, Middle East Monitor. Educate! Accountability, International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Palestine, Racism, Western imperialism

The International Criminal Court has never faced such scandalous pressure since its establishment. Even when an arrest warrant was issued against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the head of a nuclear state, we did not see major threats being made against the ICC and its staff as we are seeing now. The court has been rightfully criticised for its procrastination and slowness over issues linked to Palestine. Since the referral of numerous crimes to the ICC in June this year, the Office of the Chief Prosecutor has not acted at the same level that it has done in other situations, especially in cases related to African countries and Ukraine.

United Kingdom Snubs Council Of Europe Over Assange Inquiry

October 26, 2024 Mark Curtis, Consortium News. Educate! Accountability, Europe, Human Rights, Investigation, Julian Assange, Press Freedom, United Kingdom (UK)

Britain’s Home Office is making a “grave mistake” by ignoring a call from the Council of Europe to review its treatment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has warned. The council’s parliamentary assembly, of which the U.K. is a member, passed a resolution earlier this month designating Assange as a “political prisoner”. Assange endured five years in Belmarsh maximum security prison in London before being released in June, and flying to his native Australia. The U.K. government had incarcerated him while the U.S. pursued extradition proceedings in the British courts. His treatment has outraged the Council of Europe.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 339: Israel Withdraws From West Bank

September 10, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Accountability, Aysenur Eygi, Genocide, Israel, Israeli Occupying Forces, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

Israeli forces withdrew from Jenin and Tulkarem after almost two weeks of raids as part of “Operation Summer Camps,” targeting the cities of Tubas, Jenin, and Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. The Israeli army maintained its blockade of both cities by shutting down roads leading in and out of them. On Monday, Israeli forces raided Tulkarem again after several days of relative calm, only to withdraw later in the day. Israel’s latest military assault concentrated on the refugee camps adjacent to the three northern West Bank cities. For almost two weeks, Israeli troops destroyed large parts of camp and city infrastructure, bulldozing storefronts, tearing up streets, and unearthing electricity and water lines.

What Will It Take To Make Black Lives Matter?

September 3, 2024 Detroit Will Breathe, Left Voice. Strategize! Accountability, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Capitalism, Police abuse, Racism, Socialism

This summer, the American Midwest has been the epicenter of several notable police murders of Black people including John Zook, Jr. of Wayne, Mich., Sonya Massey of Springfield, Ill., Sherman Butler of Detroit, and Samuel Sharpe of Milwaukee. While most of these tragedies occurred many miles from one another, they all share common threads in that the victims were poor, Black, and suffering from some version of a mental health crisis at the time of their deaths. Samuel Sharpe, a veteran and well-known resident of an unhoused community in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Milwaukee, was gunned down without hesitation, just blocks from the Republican National Convention (RNC), as he turned to run away from police after being approached by officers in the midst of an argument with a neighbor.

Do Civilian Review Boards Work?

September 1, 2024 Zina Hutton, Governing. Educate! Accountability, Civilian Review Boards, Police, Police abuse, Rebellion2020

In the years following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, states and localities across the country introduced hundreds of pieces of legislation meant to address police violence. Many of those new laws included the creation of civilian police accountability boards: civilian-led groups that receive complaints about police misconduct and have the power to advise police departments on potential consequences. These boards were a kind of low-hanging fruit for people looking to make immediate changes to policing, says Rachel Moran, founder of the University of St. Thomas School of Law’s Criminal and Juvenile Defense Clinic.

Workplace Safety Is Not A Game

August 24, 2024 United Electrical Workers Education Department, Labor Notes. Strategize! Accountability, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs, Workplace Safety

Employer-sponsored “safety games” or “safety contests” may seem benign on the surface, but there’s a deadly motive. Employers are rediscovering an old scheme to con workers into undermining their own job safety. These games are designed to reward employees for not reporting accidents. In one United Electrical Workers (UE) shop, management (without consulting with the union) announced a new safety game. Each month the names of employees are put into a pool for a $100 prize drawing, but only if their department has not reported any accidents. If your department has reported an accident, you’re not eligible. If more than three accidents are reported in the plant, the drawing is not held.

The Path For Abolishing The Police Already Exists

August 18, 2024 Joe Mayall, Scheer Post. Create! Accountability, Community Safety, Defund the police, Police, State Violence

America watched in horror this spring as armed phalanxes of police assaulted peaceful pro-Palestine protesters on campuses across the nation. The raids on student encampments ranged from dubious arrests to snipers on campus rooftops. This most recent episode of widespread police aggression only reinforced Americans’ belief that law enforcement is quick to violent escalation. Last year, a nationwide ABC News-Washington Post survey of 1,003 adults found that only 39% of Americans polled were confident police were adequately trained to avoid excessive force, and only 41% believed they treated Black and white people equally.

Community Holds Public Hearing For Police Murder Of John Zook Jr.

August 4, 2024 Emma Boyhtari, Left Voice. Resist! Accountability, Black America, Michigan, murder by police, Police

On Wednesday, July 10 in Westland, MI, several organizations, along with family and community members, organized and attended a public hearing about a young Black man — John Zook Jr. — who was killed by police on June 18 after he called emergency services on himself in the midst of a mental health crisis. The event, organized and sponsored by several groups, including Survivors Speak, Black Coffee, Detroit Will Breathe, Washtenaw County General Defense Committee, and others, began with speeches by family members. Attendees heard from John’s sister, his brothers, and his father. John’s brothers were the first to arrive at the scene of the shooting.

Corporate Social Responsibility Leader Convicted Of Funding Death Squads

July 2, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Accountability, Chiquita, Colombia, Colombian Death Squads, Human Rights, Legal System

In a landmark legal case, Chiquita Banana was convicted by a federal court in Florida of funding a paramilitary death squad, the United Self Defense Force of Colombia (AUC in Spanish), in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The AUC murdered thousands of workers and used Chiquita ports and boats to move cocaine and weapons. This is the first time a US corporation has been held accountable for committing human rights abuses in another country. Clearing the FOG spoke with Professor Terry Karl, who was an expert in the case, about what happened, how Chiquita will now work to cover up its misdeeds and the impact this case will have.

Chiquita Case Exposes Failure Of Voluntary ‘Social Responsibility’

June 21, 2024 Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning, In These Times. Educate! Accountability, Bananas, Chiquita, Corporate Responsibility, Human Rights

Last week, Chiquita Brands International — one of the world’s largest banana distributors — was found liable in a Florida court for financing a Colombian paramilitary group. The ruling marks a landmark moment for corporate accountability: It is the first time a U.S. corporation has been held liable for human rights violations abroad in connection to their business operations. As momentous as this victory is in its own right, it also illustrates the ineffectiveness of voluntary corporate social responsibility initiatives — and the need for strong civil society institutions to protect human rights. Chiquita Brands International has vast banana plantations throughout Colombia.

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