"UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet"
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"It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history" - Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’"
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"The race to save the #planet is being impeded by a global #economy that is contingent on the #exploitation of #people and #nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and #HumanRights expert.
David Boyd, who served as #UN special rapporteur on human rights and the #environment from 2018 to April 2024, told the #Guardian that states failing to take meaningful #ClimateAction and regulating polluting industries could soon face a slew of lawsuits.
Boyd said: “I started out six years ago talking about the right to a healthy environment having the capacity to bring about systemic and transformative changes. But this powerful human right is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and nature. And unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.”
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Boyd said: “The failure to take a human rights based approach to the #ClimateCrisis – and the #biodiversity crisis and the air #pollution crisis – has absolutely been the achilles heel of those efforts for decades.
... https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
@DemocracyMattersALot Instead of openly withdrawing their mandated ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments, the neo-Confederate subverters of Lincoln's Republican party obviously think it smarter to just torpedo any officially granted right based on a SCOTUS decision referring to any of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Which amounts to rebellious attacks on the Constitution, too.
Today's "GOP" seems to be committed to beam the nation back into times before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then-advocated for by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Militarized police officers assaulting, on camera, an unarmed 65-year-old woman, Annalise Orleck, who also happens to be Chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth, is ensuring Jewish safety on campus.
Campaign in #France to silence, intimidate voices critical of #Israel must be stopped
Geneva - The escalating campaign in France of gagging, repressing, and intimidating pro-Palestinian voices and those critical of Israel entails a flagrant violation of the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to peaceful assembly.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has monitored the intensification, over the past few days, of official and institutional repression against university students in France who are peacefully protesting against Israel’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. The French government has used various forms of intimidation to silence activists speaking out against the genocide, including the targeting of pro-Palestine political figures.
Today In Labor History May 1, 1946: The three-year Pilbara strike began in Australia. In this strike, indigenous Australian pastoral workers demanded recognition of their human rights. They were also fighting for better wages and working conditions. The bosses often treated indigenous workers like slaves. Many didn’t even pay them in cash. Rather, they paid them in tobacco and food. And if indigenous workers tried to quit or leave, the police forced them back. Sometimes they massacred entire families. The strike was one of the longest in Australian history. And it was a major event in the struggle for indigenous rights.
Gaza detainees subject to enforced disappearance... 8,495 detainees from the West Bank and more than 5,328 administrative detention orders since October 7
Isfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced Tomaj Salehi to death
#Amir Raisian, a lawyer, in a conversation with "Shabeke Sharq" announced that "in an unprecedented action, the Revolutionary Court did not implement the ruling of the Supreme Court regarding the case of Tomaj Salehi in 1401, and by reading this ruling as a guideline and emphasizing the independence of the lower court, #Tomaj Salehi He was sentenced to the worst punishment, death, on the charge of corruption in the land.
• According to Raisian, "Isfahan Revolutionary Court has considered the accusations of aiding in sedition, assembly and collusion, propaganda against the system and calling for chaos to be examples of corruption in the world." This is despite the fact that earlier the same branch had not confirmed the extent of the accusation of corruption in the land.
Raisian emphasized: "We will certainly protest against the sentence issued for Tomaj Salehi."
دادگاه انقلاب اصفهان توماج صالحی را به اعدام محکوم کرد
•#امیررئیسیان وکیل دادگستری در گفتگو با «شبکه شرق» اعلام کرد که «دادگاه انقلاب در اقدامی بیسابقه، حکم دیوان عالی کشور درباره پرونده سال ۱۴۰۱ توماج صالحی را اجرایی نکرد و با ارشادی خواندن این حکم و تاکید بر استقلال دادگاه بدوی، #توماجصالحی را به اتهام افساد فیالارض، به اشد مجازات یعنی اعدام محکوم شد.»
•به گفته رئیسیان، «دادگاه انقلاب اصفهان، اتهامات معاونت در بغی، اجتماع و تبانی، تبلیغ علیه نظام و دعوت به آشوب را از مصادیق افساد فیالارض دانسته است. این در حالی است که پیشتر همین شعبه گستردگی اتهام افساد فیالارض را احراز نکرده بود.»
رئیسیان تاکید کرد: «حتما به حکم صادره برای توماج صالحی اعتراض خواهیم کرد.»
"Mass graves found in two hospitals in the Gaza Strip containing 392 bodies, including those of women, children and the elderly, showed signs of torture and executions, officials in the enclave have said."
We are students from universities across Atlanta who are organizing against Cop City and the genocide of Palestinians. We demand total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities.
"We need an exodus from Zionism" - Excellent opinion piece by Naomi Klein in today's #Guardian (actually a transcript from her speech at the 'Emergency Seder' held in front of Chuck Schumer's house a couple evening's ago).
"This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name."
The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."
We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.
Even the BBC is increasing its pejorative reports on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Israel currently holds more than 9,300 security prisoners, the vast majority of whom are Palestinians according to the Israeli rights group HaMoked, including more than 3,600 people in administrative detention. The headline belies the severe beatings and torture.
Who assaults Palestinians on daily basis violating #HumanRights everyday? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force.
Who deliberately targets non combatants men, women, children, toddlers, humanitarian aid workers, UN staff, journalists, food convoys then calls all those killed terrorists? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force ordered by neo Nazi copycat war criminal pedophile netanyahu.
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are surviving in the world's largest open air concentration camp.