Human Rights

WaPo Uses Photo Of John McCain Next To Nazi To Praise His ‘Human Rights’ Work

August 31, 2018 Educate! Human Rights, John McCain, Nazis

The Washington Post (8/27/18) published an op-ed by conservative staff opinion columnist Jennifer Rubin praising the late Sen. John McCain for his supposed commitment to “human rights.” Rubin waxed poetic on the ostensible “lost champion” of human rights, who “model[ed] for others the behavior of a free society.” She declared, quite paradoxically, “With the possible exception of the US military…no group was more indebted to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) than the human rights community.” There was an, er, optical problem, however: For the header image on this column, the Washington Post used a photo of McCain speaking next to the notorious Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader Oleh Tyahnybok.

Human Rights And Artificial Intelligence: The Challenge Of An Era

August 23, 2018 Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Opendemocracy.net Create! Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, New Economy

A new set of principles—the Toronto Declaration—aims to put human rights front and centre in the development and application of machine learning technologies. In May 2018, Amnesty International, Access Now, and a handful of partner organizations launched the Toronto Declaration on protecting the right to equality and non-discrimination in machine learning systems. The Declaration is a landmark document that seeks to apply existing international human rights standards to the development and use of machine learning systems (or “artificial intelligence”). Machine learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence. It can be defined as “ provid[ing] systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed.”

Saudi Arabia Threatens To Behead Female Human RIghts Activist

August 22, 2018 By Sondos Asem, Middleeasteye.net Resist! Activists, Human Rights, Repression, Saudi Arabia

Saudi human rights activists have warned against the possible beheading of detained female human rights activist Israa al-Ghomgham, who has been provisionally sentenced to death by a Riyadh court. On 6 August, in a first hearing before the Specialised Criminal Court in the capital, the public prosecutor recommended the death penalty for six defendants, including Ghomgham and her husband, Moussa al-Hashem, who have been jailed for nearly three years on charges of anti-government protests, incitement to disobedience of the ruler, and providing moral support to participants in anti-government protests in the Shia-majority eastern region of Qatif. Ghomgham, 29, and Hashem were arrested on 8 December 2015 in a house raid by Saudi security forces.

The Misleading Role Of Human Rights NGOs In International Politics

August 9, 2018 By Jonathan Sigrist, Globalresearch.ca Educate! Human Rights, International, NGOs

When the media reports on events happening in countries other than their own, the nature of the information they rely on tends to be very different than they otherwise would use when reporting on domestic matters. Although most major news institutions have correspondents on site in different nations, most of them rely on the same information from the same sources in their repots, which can be very dangerous given its one-sidedness. Any journalist with integrity and respect for his profession should know better and check his sources properly before returning the information back home. Questions like “who do I get this information from? are they truly impartial or do they have a clear political bias? who funds them and what are their agendas?” are all very important ones to ask.

Mass Protests Greet Trump As He Lands In Helsinki For Summit

July 16, 2018 Staff, Telesurtv.net Resist! Donald Trump, Finland, Human Rights, Protests

Demonstrators brandished banners that read "Make peace, not war", "Refugees are welcome" and "Make human rights great again!" About 2,500 protesters demonstrated in support of human rights, democracy and the environment in Helsinki on Sunday, a day before U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin hold a summit in the Finnish capital. Demonstrators brandished banners that read "Make peace, not war", "Refugees are welcome" and "Make human rights great again!" Trump arrived in Helsinki later Sunday from Scotland. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against his visit to London on Friday and several thousand more protested on Saturday in Scotland, where he spent much of the weekend playing golf.

Europe Says ‘Go Home’ in Every Language To Migrants

July 8, 2018 By Ramona Wadi, Mintpress News Educate! European Union (EU), Human Rights, Immigration

The EU chose to uphold a punitive stance against migrants, many of whom hail from sub-Saharan Africa and are fleeing the long-term consequences of war, poverty and plunder. Libya, which has become a main departure point for those seeking to escape, is a hub of torture, trafficking and exploitation that the international community aided in creating. Following a summit in Brussels, the EU criticized NGOs that rescued migrants at sea and proposed measures that would keep migrants away from the bloc. It discussed setting up processing centres in North Africa and, for migrants who manage to reach Europe, “controlled areas” for processing. According to the European Commission’s President Donald Tusk, the proposals would form “the most effective mechanism to break the smugglers’ business model — to discourage migrants and smugglers [from taking] this very risky route using vessels on the Mediterranean Sea.”

The United States Has Quit the Human Rights Business

June 24, 2018 By Vijay Prashad, Independent Media Institute Educate! Human Rights, US Regime Change, Wars and Militarism

The United States has decided to formally depart from the United Nations Human Rights Council. This action by the Trump administration has been met, in liberal American and European circles, with righteous indignation. Various rights groups—Human Rights First, Save the Children, CARE—said, in a statement, that the U.S. withdrawal would “make it more difficult to advance human rights priorities and aid victims of abuse around the world.” The European Union said that Washington’s withdrawal “risks undermining the role of the U.S. as a champion and supporter of democracy on the world stage.” These U.S.-based aid groups and the European Union assume that the United States is indeed committed to human rights and to the rule of international law. They see the U.S. as an instrument of peace. These assumptions are false. The United States government is neither committed to international law nor to peace.

Dozens Of Parents With Their Babies Occupy ICE Field Director Office

June 21, 2018 By Ilana Berger, Yotam Marom and Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, Popular Resistance Resist! Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Immigration

On June 21, 2018, dozens of parents and babies took over the offices of Thomas R. Decker, New York field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in protest of the Trump administration’s heartless separation of children from their families. Local children sang together and drew on paper hearts to leave behind in support of the more than 2,000 boys and girls torn from their families as a result of the Trump administration’s horrific “zero tolerance” policy. These parents dismissed President Trump’s executive order as a ploy for whole families to be unjustly and unnecessarily – and potentially indefinitely – detained, noting that thousands of children had still not been reunited with their families, and that just last night dozens of children ripped from their parents’ arms at the border arrived in NYC airports.

Here’s Why Those Who Care About Human Rights Should Not Care That Trump Pulled Out Of The Human Rights Council

June 21, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, ArtKillingApathy.com Educate! Human Rights, Trump Administration

I was a few hours late today to the story about the United States pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. But by the time I got to the party, there was a veritable shit storm of media coverage. You have the usual suspects like Fox News spewing that it’s the right choice because… Israel… and because there are human rights violators on the council. On that latter point, good ol’ boy Brett is not wrong. Although what Brett Schaefer neglected to mention is that we are one of the worst human rights violators allowed to tarnish that council with our membership. To the former point of Israel, pretty much all US media is on board with that fallacy. US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, used this tired anti-Israel drivel as her reason for leaving the council, playing “chronic anti-Israel bias” as her literal Trump card for a purely theatrical, albeit dick move.

ICE’s Military-Style Raid Leaves Immigrant Communities Terrorized

June 14, 2018 By Veronica Isabel Dahlberg, ACLU Educate! Human Rights, Immigrant Rights, Immigration

The chaos and fear that ensued last week have not abated. Lawyers were finally able to initiate contact with the 56 men in detention, but they have still not been able to contact the women, who are being detained in Michigan. The majority of families have still not been able to speak on the phone or have any contact with their loved ones who are in custody. Deportations could begin as soon as today, though no one knows for sure. This lack of information is only creating more terror in the community. Though large-scale immigration raids have happened before, the size and brutality of this particular raid, along with the use of military tactics, have shocked even the most seasoned immigrants’ rights activists. Regardless of citizenship status, for workers — including teenagers, mothers, fathers, and those with medical issues — to be treated like enemy insurgents is beyond disturbing. It is terrible, barbaric, and inhumane.

Stop Using Discriminatory AI, Human Rights Groups Say

May 26, 2018 Dan Robitzski, Futurism.com Create! Algorithms, Human Rights, New Economy

When it comes to developing artificial intelligence, President Trump may want a free-market approach. But a number of experts disagree — we need guidelines to protect people from discriminatory algorithms. Today, a group of humans rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, The Wikimedia Foundation, Access Now, and others called on governments and technology companies to adopt guiding principles to protect human rights. As part of today’s RightsCon Toronto symposium, the organizations joined to pen the Toronto Declaration on Machine Learning, which can be found in full on Access Now’s website. The declaration calls for engineers to develop and revisit algorithms with the explicit goal of promoting transparency and equality while working to end algorithm-propagated racism and discrimination.

Prisoners Organizing National Strike Against ‘Modern Day Slavery’

May 6, 2018 Michael Arria, In these Times. Organize! Human Rights, Prison Industrial Complex, Strike, Worker Rights

Prisoners across the country say they are gearing up for an end-of-summer nationwide strike against inhumane living conditions and unpaid labor—or, in their words, “modern-day slavery.” The strike was announced in an April 24 press release and shared by a number of advocacy groups. According to one of the outside organizers who was contacted by In These Times, the press released was developed and written by prisoners. The strike, which is primarily being organized by the prisoners, will start on August 21 and last until September 9.

Two Officials Of Center For Constitutional Rights Are Detained By Israel, Then Deported

May 5, 2018 Staff, Mondoweiss.net Resist! Deportations, Human Rights, Israel

Vincent Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and Katherine Franke, chair of CCR’s board and Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University, were detained Sunday, April 29, for 14 hours and interrogated at Ben Gurion International Airport, then denied entry into Israel and deported, arriving back in New York early Monday morning. Warren and Franke were questioned about their political association with human rights groups that have been critical of Israel’s human rights record. “The Israeli government denied us entry, apparently because it feared letting in people who might challenge its policies. This is something that we should neither accept nor condone from a country that calls itself a democracy,” Warren said.

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