Tag: human rights
Dr. Julie Ponesse has joined The Democracy Fund as the Pandemic Ethics Scholar and she joined The Faith and Democracy Series on October 28, 2021. #freedom #sovereignrights
Utilitarianism, which is now being increasingly promoted, is a discredited pseudo-ethic that has repeatedly been used to justify horrific human rights abuses. It is based on a mathematical equation that some individuals can be sacrificed for the greater good of the majority #vaccinepassport
While the casualties of government-imposed COVID-19 countermeasures are manifold, the biggest and most tragic of them all is the loss of individual freedoms #lossoffreedom
The former Secretary-General of the Governorate of Vatican City State, Carlo Maria Viganò, wrote a second letter to Donald Trump concerning the “The Great Reset” initiative, expressing that it’s being used to take away our rights and freedoms #greatreset
Governments around the world are using the ongoing pandemic to crack down on online dissent according to a human rights watchdog. #censorship
Some law enforcement officers are taking advantage of new regulations, imposing unreasonable force in their zeal to contain citizens. Human rights violations are happening worldwide, as tens of thousands are detained and arrested for ignoring confinement measures #policestate
The third annual Global Slavery Index, which gathers and analyzes surveys conducted by Gallup, reported that the number of people forced into “modern slavery” rose from 35.8 million to 45.8 million since 2014 — a 28 percent increase. #slavery
By supporting human rights globalization as a counter-movement to corporate globalization, we can advance people-centered policies and build upon earlier work of transformative movements worldwide. #humanneeds
A new report from Amnesty International accuses Facebook and Google of having a “surveillance-based business model” that threatens users’ right to privacy and other human rights. #surveillance
A national network of cities files reports to the UN Human Rights body on corporate power and local human rights challenges. #humanrights
Federal prosecutors in Arizona announced Tuesday that they will seek a retrial in the case of humanitarian aid volunteer Scott Warren, who could face several years in prison for providing food, water, clean clothes, and beds to migrants in the desert. #nomoredeaths #humanitarianaidisneveracrime #waternotwalls
The very values that America upholds are the ones that they use to break up immigrant families and asylum seekers, both physically and emotionally.
If Dr. Warren were convicted and imprisoned on these absurd charges, he would be a prisoner of conscience.
The CLOUD Act will also allow the U.S. to enter into agreements that allow the transfer of private data from domestic servers to investigators in other countries on a case-by-case basis, further globalizing the ever-encroaching surveillance state. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has strongly opposed the legislation, listed several consequences of the bill, which it called “far-reaching” and “privacy-upending”:
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For over 16 years—a time period spanning the George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations—the executive branch has leaned on that Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to justify wars across the world—from the Philippines to Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia—in the name of defeating supposed terrorist organizations, without prior congressional approval.
