Human rights

No lockdown Belarus reports COVID mortality rates similar to neighbors that imposed draconian lockdowns

By Paul Joseph Watson | Summit News | August 13, 2021 The country of Belarus, which imposed no legal lockdown at all throughout the entire pandemic, has released COVID mortality figures which are broadly in line with other nearby countries which imposed draconian lockdowns. After authorities in Belarus refused to put their citizens under lockdown, […]

Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism ignores Palestinian rights, narrative

By Kathryn Shihadah | Israel-Palestine News | August 14, 2021 The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism (JDA) was released in March as a progressive variant of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition” of anti-Semitism – a definition that, despite its wide acceptance, is deeply problematic. Progressives agree that JDA is a huge improvement over IHRA. JDA […]

Canada to introduce vaccine passports for crossing provincial borders

By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | August 14, 2021 Canada’s Minister for Transport Omar Alghabra announced the introduction of vaccine passports for transport across provincial borders via plane, trains, and large water vessels. The move underscores the growing adaptation of digital vaccine passports across the globe, particularly in developed countries. “Vaccine requirements in […]

UN official voices concern over Israel’s detention of rights defenders

WAFA | August 12, 2021 GENEVA – Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, expressed concern yesterday over arrests, harassment, criminalization and threats targeting human rights defenders by the Israeli occupation forces. “Arrests and raids on the homes of Palestinian human right defenders [by Israeli occupation forces] form part […]

Canada: Fast-moving proposal creates filtering, blocking and reporting rules – and speech police to enforce them

BY CORYNNE MCSHERRY AND KATITZA RODRIGUEZ | EFF | AUGUST 10, 2021 Policymakers around the world are contemplating a wide variety of proposals to address “harmful” online expression. Many of these proposals are dangerously misguided and will inevitably result in the censorship of all kinds of lawful and valuable expression. And one of the most […]

Guidance on How To Request a Religious Exemption for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace

Rutherford Institute | August 13, 2021 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Responding to concerns from employees in both the public and private sector about workplace requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccines and a desire to express their religious objections to such requirements, The Rutherford Institute has issued guidance and an in-depth fact sheet and model letter for those seeking a religious […]

US Supreme Court declines to block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate, preserving key precedent for compulsory Covid-19 jabs

RT | August 13, 2021 The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from students who sought to strike down Indiana University’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, leaving in place a potentially key legal precedent for forced inoculations. Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the emergency request to hear the case on Thursday, meaning the high […]