Human rights

Unvaccinated Students Told to Wear Different Coloured Wristbands So They Can be Identified

By Paul Joseph Watson | Summit News | September 29, 2021 First year students at the University of Bath have been given armbands by authorities to signal whether they’ve been double-vaccinated, with unvaxxed students having to wear a different colour. “Freshers have been given wristbands to signal whether they are vaccinated against coronavirus amid anger […]

New York Governor Declares Self-Inflicted State of Emergency

By Stephen Lendman | September 29, 2021 Monday was D-day in New York —the deadline imposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul for state healthcare workers and staff to take at least one kill shot or face unemployment without benefits mandated by law. Staff of home care, hospice, diagnostic treatment centers, school-based clinics and adult care facilities […]

Child Labor: Which Side are Democracies On?

Two years ago, when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro favorably promoted the idea of labor for children as young as eight or nine, his minister for Human Rights, Family, and Women shot back: “Let us be clear that for children to work is a violation of their rights, something that cannot be allowed.” The Brazilian National Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of[Read More...]

The Fallout and Lessons Learnt from HRC and UN September 2021 Sessions

The 48th UN Human Rights Council’s sessions has evoked much interest for Sri Lanka’s Human Rights activists and Government coupled with mixed signals from the Human Rights Commissioner. While the Commissioner appreciates Sri Lanka’s moves which are apparently opportunistic and face saving farcical measures, she has also issued a warning to Sri Lanka that it will remain in the watch[Read More...]

Legitimate resistance: should Hamas and Hezbollah learn from the Taliban?

By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | September 27, 2021 An urgent task is awaiting us: given the progression of events, we must liberate ourselves quickly from the limits and confines placed on the Afghanistan discourse, which have been imposed by US-centred Western propaganda for over 20 years and counting. For a start, we must not […]

COVID-19: Vaccinating kids – the debate heats up

By Maryanne Demasi, PhD | September 23, 2021 5- to 11-year-olds This week, the Australian Federal Health Minister announced a commitment to COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged 5 to 11 years pending TGA-approval, after Pfizer claimed, in a press release, that it had obtained “favourable” results. Pfizer’s ongoing Phase 2/3 trial apparently showed the vaccine “was […]

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff demands Facebook censor “disinformation”

By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | September 26, 2021 Salesforce CEO, and Time Magazine owner, Marc Benioff has criticized Facebook allowing the spread of “disinformation” on its platforms. In an interview on CNN, Benioff said: “This digital revolution really kind of has the world in its grip. And in that grip, you can see […]

Increasing spread of virus infection in Byculla prison is worrisome: Friends & Family of Sudha Bharadwaj

Friends and Family of Sudha Bharadwaj are extremely worried over the alarming and disturbing news of the rising Covid-19 infection in Byculla women’s jail forcing the authorities to seal the premise. Last week, in a prison supervised phone conversation Koel Sen had with her mother Shoma Sen, former professor of English from Nagpur University, arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case[Read More...]