Human Rights

Civil Society Should Be Resisting Trump’s Authoritarianism

November 2, 2025 Amy Hagopian, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Higher Education, Human Rights, Public Health, Retaliation, Trump Administration

This November, I’ll be standing outside the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., holding a sign that reads: “Ask me why I’m not allowed inside the APHA meeting.” After more than two decades as a member — serving as editorial board chair of the American Journal of Public Health, as an elected section chair, and as a governing councilor — APHA revoked my membership in September, stripped me of my elected leadership position, and banned me from attending meetings for two years. My offense? In November 2024, I participated in a protest at APHA’s Minneapolis meeting. Three dozen of us donned red latex gloves — signifying “blood on our hands” — and walked through the exhibit hall.

Leaked US State Department Docs Unveil First Formal Acknowledgment Of Israeli Units Committing Gross Rights Abuses

November 1, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Accountability, Human Rights, Israeli Occupying Forces, US State Department, Whistleblowing

A classified US State Department report found that Israeli soldiers committed “many hundreds” of potential violations of US human rights law in the Gaza Strip that would require “multiple years” to review, the Washington Post reported on 31 October. Details of the report prepared by the State Department’s Office of Inspector General were provided to The Post by two US officials. The report has, for the first time, “acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza that fall under the purview of Leahy Laws, the landmark legislation that bars US security assistance to foreign military units credibly accused of gross human rights abuses,” the newspaper wrote. However, the Office of Inspector General report “raised doubts about the prospects for accountability for Israel’s actions given the large backlog of incidents and the nature of the review process, which is deferential to the Israel Defense Forces,” The Post added.

UN Human Rights Chief Condemns ‘Unacceptable’ US Strikes

November 1, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! extrajudicial killing, Human Rights, United Nations, Venezuela

On Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk issued the first clear United Nations (UN) condemnation of US military strikes against small boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, calling them unacceptable and demanding they stop. “These attacks, and their mounting human cost, are unacceptable,” Turk said. “The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.” “Over 60 people have reportedly been killed in a continuing series of attacks carried out by US armed forces against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, in circumstances that find no justification in international law,” he stated.

Chris Hedges Report: Is Israel ‘On The Brink?’

October 30, 2025 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine

Despite the demoralization and destruction produced by Israel’s two-year-long genocidal campaign on the Palestinians, Israel potentially finds itself at its weakest point in its short history. In his new book, Israel on the Brink, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé makes the case that Israel’s current path forward is unsustainable. With a combination of domestic, political, military and international pressures, Israel will continue to destabilize. Pappé writes, “A potential fall of Israel could either be like the end of South Vietnam, the total erasure of a state, or like South Africa, the fall of a particular ideological regime and its replacement by another. I believe that in the case of Israel, elements of both scenarios will unfold sooner than many of us can comprehend or prepare for.”

US Extrajudicial Strikes Kill 14 In Pacific Off The Coast Of Mexico

October 30, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Claudia Sheinbaum, complicity, Due Process, extrajudicial killing, Human Rights, Mexico, Pete Hegseth, US Imperialism

A total of 14 people were killed and one survived after the US government conducted three strikes against four small boats in the waters of the Eastern Pacific near Mexico, in what is being described as another extrajudicial killing. The information was released Tuesday morning by US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who claimed on social media that “three lethal kinetic attacks were carried out against four vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations … A total of 14 narcoterrorists died during the three attacks.” Hegseth claimed that the first attack killed eight people on board two boats, the second killed four men, and the third killed two people. He also claimed that there is one survivor. While writing that “there were no casualties among the US forces,” Hegseth confirmed that the US government had ordered further extrajudicial executions, in flagrant violation of international and US laws.

More Than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held By Immigration Agents

October 17, 2025 Nicole Foy, ProPublica. Educate! Detention, Human Rights, ICE, Immigrants, State Violence

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States,” Kavanaugh wrote, “they promptly let the individual go.” But that is far from the reality many citizens have experienced. Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

Venezuela At UNSC: ‘We Believe We Are Facing Imminent US Attack’

October 11, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! China, Criminalization, Human Rights, International Law, Latin America and the Caribbean, Militarization, Samuel Moncada, UN Security Council, Venezuela, War On Drugs, Zone of Peace

On Friday, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, alerted the UN Security Council that Venezuela strongly believes a US military attack is imminent. He characterized the situation as the latest aggression in decades-long attempts to oust first President Hugo Chávez and now President Nicolás Maduro. “The plan is clear,” he said during an emergency meeting. “It is once again about executing the operation that already failed: overthrowing the legitimate and constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, to install a puppet regime and turn our country into a colony.” When questioned by the press, Moncada elaborated on the sense of urgency.

Is The UN Charter Worth The Paper It’s Written On?

October 8, 2025 Ann Garrison and Dan Kovalik, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Human Rights, Israel, UN Charter, UN Security Council (UNSC), United Nations (UN), US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

Before raining bombs and missiles on Korea, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, the US at least requested authorization from the UN Security Council (UNSC) in accordance with the UN Charter, sometimes getting it, sometimes not. This year it skipped that nicety altogether, bombing Iran without so much as a call to Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Israel didn’t bother to make its case either, knowing that the US had its back. The US did send the Council a ridiculous explanation after the fact. It said it had to neutralize an Iranian nuclear threat and claimed its inherent right of self-defense and collective self-defense with its ally Israel, citing the Charter’s Article 51. However, Article 51 reads, “Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations . . .”

Testimonies Reveal ‘Torture, Humiliation’ Of Flotilla Activists

October 6, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Global Sumud Flotilla, Greta Thunberg, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Prisons, Torture

Pro-Palestinian activists who were on board the Global Sumud Flotilla reported being mistreated by Israeli authorities following their arrest last week. One Spanish activist, Goretti Sarasibar, told Reuters after his deportation that the detainees were forced to watch videos of Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023. “They didn’t give us food all day,” he said. “Now we are super happy eating, as we were starving.” Dutch activist Marco Tesh said he could not breathe at one point “because they put something to my face and they tied my hands to my back.” Another one of the deported activists, Rafael Borrego, said, “At any time that any of us called a police officer, we risked that seven or more fully armed people entered to our cell, as they did on mine, pointing us with weapons at our heads, with dogs ready to attack us, and being dragged to the floor.”

Israeli Authorities Have Beaten Greta Thunberg

October 5, 2025 Alaa Shamali, The Canary. Educate! Global Sumud Flotilla, Greta Thunberg, Human Rights, Israel, Prison, Torture

Reports are emerging that Israeli authorities have abused activist Greta Thunberg while illegally holding her in detention. Greta Thunberg beaten by Israeli authorities On Saturday 4 October, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October. One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention

Moroccans Take To The Streets In Largest Protests In Years

October 1, 2025 Wahid Ben Ali and Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch. Resist! Class Struggle, Healthcare, Human Rights, Monarchy, Morocco, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Unemployment, Youth Activism

Demonstrations swept through 11 cities in Morocco over the weekend, with thousands protesting the government’s corruption and expenditure policies. The government has been slammed for prioritizing international sporting events over basic public services, including health care, education, and employment. Although anti-government protests calling for reform have been on the rise in the Maghreb nation during the past few months, the current rallies are marked by participation of groups representing a wide spectrum of social and political backgrounds, and from different ages. The voices of students blended together with those of trade unionists, and families, forming a holistic protest scene, and reflecting a unifying spirit. This in turn confirms that daily social justice concerns are not confined to a single group, but is rather a popular demand. However, young “leaderless” organizers calling themselves the Gen Z 212, are believed to have organized the nationwide protests via social media networks.

One Dead, Nearly 100 Arrested: Heavy Repression Of Protests In Ecuador

September 30, 2025 People's Dispatch. Resist! Anti-neoliberalism, Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Daniel Noboa, Ecuador, Human Rights, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mass Protests, National Strike, Repression

A week since protests began in Ecuador against the decision by Daniel Noboa’s right-wing government to eliminate the diesel subsidy, nearly 100 people have been detained and one person was killed by police repression. The nationwide protests kicked off after Marlon Vargas, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Ecuador’s most important social movement, called on all sectors of society to take to the streets and reject the move by Noboa. On September 28, the news broke that 46-year-old worker Efraín Fueres died during the protests in Cotacachi, in the province of Imbabura. According to CONAIE, Fueres was killed by the military after being shot three times. “We demand truth, justice, and reparations. This state crime will not go unpunished. There is no turning back or forgiveness for state crimes,” CONAIE wrote on X.

Conscientious Objection Highlighted In Recent United Nations Reports

September 17, 2025 War Resisters' International. Resist! Conscientious Objection, Human Rights, UN General Assembly, United Nations (UN)

These reports reaffirm that conscientious objection is a recognised human right within UN frameworks. Crucially, they link conscientious objection to refugee protection and non-refoulement, underlining that objectors facing persecution must be granted safety. For advocates, these references are valuable tools: they can be cited in policy dialogue, asylum cases, and international advocacy to press governments to respect the right to refuse military service, to provide genuine alternatives, and to end the punishment of objectors. By embedding conscientious objection into the broader UN human rights agenda, these reports strengthen the case for protecting COs everywhere, especially in times of war.

Display Of ‘Humiliation’: Israeli Army Detains Over 1,000 Palestinians

September 13, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Prison, West Bank

Israeli forces arrested at least 1,000 Palestinians in a single day on Thursday during a wide-ranging raid on Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, Abdullah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem area, told local media. The raid came following a roadside bomb attack on an armored Israeli military vehicle earlier in the day, taking place near a checkpoint outside the city. The attack wounded two Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli army radio. Kamil added that Israeli forces imposed a total closure on Tulkarem and conducted a campaign of home searches across the city, describing it as a “systematic policy.” The explosion that targeted the armored vehicle as it exited Checkpoint 104, west of Tulkarem, was the first armed Palestinian action in the northern West Bank since the Israeli army forcibly expelled the residents of the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin from their homes earlier this year.

Trinidad And Tobago Fishermen Fear Being Targeted By US Empire’s Strikes

September 13, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Caribbean, Human Rights, Militarization, Trinidad and Tobago, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The Tobago Fishermen’s Association has expressed deep concern over the “deafening” official silence from Chief Secretary Farley Augustine regarding the recent violent actions of the US empire in the Caribbean Sea. The recent attack on a small boat allegedly carrying drugs has generated fear among coastal communities. Fishermen now worry that future operations could mistake them for criminals, creating an atmosphere of fear and mistrust. They are demanding clear responses and safety guarantees. President of the All Tobago Fisherfolk Association, Curtis Douglas, confirmed this Monday, September 8, that fishermen found debris believed to be from the destroyed boat washed into Trinidadian waters.

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