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Attention, this is not a joke but a killing joke,
Saudi Arabia takes over chairmanship of UN Commission on the Status of Women - human rights activists appalled.
Louis Charbonneau of Human Rights Watch made it clear on X (formerly Twitter): "Saudi Arabia's election to head the UN Commission on the Status of Women shows a shocking disregard for women's rights everywhere." A country that already imprisons women for fighting for women's rights has no right to such a post, Charbonneau continued.
He also criticised the other countries in the Commission for not preventing the change. "If everyone had stood up straight, this wouldn't have happened. But everyone kept quiet."
How can something like this go so wrong?
Abdulaziz Alwasil, Saudi Arabia's UN envoy, will be the chairman. According to the Guardian, none of the envoys from 45 countries raised any objections to his nomination at the CSW's annual meeting. There were also no opposing candidates.
The Philippines actually held the chairmanship for two years. However, other members from Asia had urged the country to hand over the seat after one year. Bangladesh had actually been intended as the successor, but instead Saudi Arabia pushed its way to the top with a lot of lobbying.
Let's put it plainly: everyone has let themselves be bought by a world of greed and corruption! That's what the nice, generous Saudis love. They simply buy influence and culture, football, golf, ...... pukes sorry
Saudi Arabia is trying to polish up its image to the outside world with reforms such as allowing women to drive.
What a charade, makeup on the ugly face of the unjust state.
Hooray, the goat has been declared a garden.
And they are about to prove to the saudis what they think of women's rights.
Completely nothing
Case: Manahil al-Utaibi
Fitness trainer faces eleven years in prison in Saudi Arabia
There have been some makeup reforms in Saudi Arabia recently. The country wants to appear cosmopolitan. At the same time, critics are silenced with long prison sentences. The case of a young fitness trainer is apparently no exception.
According to human rights activists, a female activist in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for her choice of clothing and support for women's rights. Manahil al-Utaibi was sentenced in January - more than a year after her arrest - by a special court for terrorism, the organisation Amnesty International announced on Tuesday evening.
The accusations against the 29-year-old fitness trainer related to her clothing and her calls on social networks to end the male guardianship system in the kingdom. She had also published videos of herself without the traditional Abaja overdress.
Saudi Arabia's government confirmed the arrest in December following an enquiry into the case by a UN special rapporteur. Al-Utaibi had been convicted of "terror offences", it said. The country's laws would protect the right to freedom of expression unless actions could "violate or exceed the limits of public order or social norms".
The last sentence immediately made us think of George Orwell! Freedom of expression with limits is good!
Amnesty International and the human rights organisation ALQST urged the kingdom to release Al-Utaibi immediately and unconditionally. According to them, she was physically and psychologically abused in detention following her arrest in November 2022. In addition, she was held in an unknown location for several months.
Well, chairmanship of UN Commission on the Status of Women
How is the status of Al-Utaibi ?
One of the representatives of nice Mohammed bin Salman, who simply had a journalist killed and dismembered in Turkey.
Shit, nobody would believe that in a novel, if you want to write a novel like that at all.
The new human injustice game for women's rights only. Now new from the nice grinning man who rules Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia rights vs women's rights
The New Game
There is only one dice with over all one on it for the women
A stack of cards with a card for women on it say go to jail for a long time and lose your wife and even your bonus human rights.
The Saudis always have one more bonus card when they need it where it says we always win.
A board of politicians, police, special courts, torturers, prison and just an absolute terrorist suspect wife.
Start of the game: The woman catches and does something really stupid she thinks she's women right, and Saudi Arabia wins.
Game idea from the makers I have a journalist killed in Turkey and nobody can catch me : Moammed bin Salman.
Julian Assange is finally free again!
The founder of the Wikileaks whistleblowing platform left prison in London today and is on his way to the US Mariana Islands in the Pacific. He is due to appear before a US court there on Wednesday. A deal with the US Department of Justice ensures that he will then be allowed to return to his home in Australia as a free man.
Julian Assange's release from prison is an incredibly important success for freedom of expression and freedom of the press worldwide. The following applies to media professionals all over the world: Anyone who reports on human rights violations and possible war crimes must not be penalised for doing so!
The USA should never have made the espionage allegations. Imprisoning Assange in a high-security prison for five years should never have happened. People all over the world have been protesting against this for years - on the streets and online. Without this campaign, Assange would not be on his way to freedom today.
The picture shows people holding up signs for Julian Assange and a woman speaking into a microphone
Many thanks to everyone who stood up for Julian Assange!
We need your support to continue to fight for the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the press worldwide!
It is not a crime to publicise war crimes.
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We call ourselves civilised, and we should be proud of that! But anyone who legitimises injustice in any way, for any reason, is in truth without civilisation.
From Greece to Germany, volunteers are joining forces to help newly-arrived refugees and migrants get food, clothes and medical attention - plugging glaring gaps in the EU’s broken asylum system while Europe’s leaders still grapple for a common solution to the growing crisis.
“There was this Syrian family: a father with a small girl. She tried to open the door of my car. I thought she must be after the food, so I asked her father what they need. ‘You have the same car as us,’ he responded, ‘but ours exploded back in Syria. Her mother died in it.’
“And then I understood what the little girl was looking for.“
Konstantinos, a volunteer, looks away as he shares this story with me. Locals on the Greek island of Kos call him ‘The Hardcore One’, because he juggles two jobs with daily deliveries of food, supplies and support for refugees.
New research conducted by Amnesty International shows that women and girl refugees face violence, assault, exploitation and sexual harassment at every stage of their journey, including on European soil.
Read more.
Iran is currently sentencing kids, as young as 9, to death. This MUST stop now. Click here to read more.
Settlements (in the West Bank) are war-crimes
SC# 29 : Let me just clarify something. I am not usually one to poke fun at shorties. Why? Because I'm a shorty myself. 5'5. 5'6. It's debatable. But anyway, sometimes you gotta poke fun at these things. All that frustration pent up and you go a lil' crazy, you know? Sure, its an exaggeration, but look brother, no one will deny that the shorties have it tough on many levels. So just laugh with me a little man! Oh shit, that was some kind of pun or something, wasn't it? Ho ho ho! Dat feel gooood. ;)
Amnesty International has published my short film Protagoniste.
sorry if this is a dumb question and i understand if you don't want to answer but do you have links to posts explaining why israel isn't an apartheid state? i swear i read posts like that on your blog before but i don't know how to refind them
Israeli Arabs have legal equality with Jews. Same restaurants, same pools, same seats on the bus, same voting rights. I would favorably compare the treatment of Israeli Arabs with that of any minority group in any country on Earth.
The West Bank has a military occupation, with (pretty fast) checkpoints and no right to vote about the government running that military. Military occupations are bad and some of us have been against this particular one for decades. The anti-occupation movement hasn't gotten anywhere, they've just been stuck. Being stuck in a military occupation for X more years doesn't make it apartheid, just like being stuck in a bad marriage for X more years doesn't make you divorced. Meanwhile, the 2020 Abraham Accords showed that multiple Arab states were willing to accept this unchanging status quo and deal with Israel as it is. Those two factors - the stagnant, unchanging nature of the occupation, and the clear loss of interest in the Palestinian cause - combined to have the latest crop of awareness-raising college interns at some shifty NGOs try to force change by abracadabra'ing together a new concept of "apartheid" that exists solely for Israel. And it is working, just like "Christ-killer" and "stabbed Germany in the back" worked.
In 2010, Human Rights Watch published an extremely critical report on Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Dragged them up one wall and down the other. Yet there was no accusation of "apartheid" there. In the report, page 33, they cited a lawsuit by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel that had said it was apartheid for the West Bank military occupation authorities to ban Palestinians from driving on Highway 443 after repeated firebombings / shootings against Israelis. The Israeli High Court ruled that it was inappropriate to ban Palestinians from the road, and it re-established their equal driving access - they have had it ever since. The court also said that the accusation of apartheid behind that now-ended ban was dishonest, because the security concerns were not based on race; there were and are no "Jewish-only" roads anywhere, even when WB Palestinians were denied road access, Israeli Arabs could and did drive there. The HRW 2010 report included a long summary of that finding, without challenge. As bad as they saw Israel, they agreed it wasn't apartheid.
Then in 2020 came the Abraham Accords, so while nothing at all had changed in the administration of the West Bank, in 2021 HRW said it actually was apartheid. It really is that simple. The most famous legal convention banning apartheid specifies that it is race-based. HRW instead went with a different legal convention on apartheid, one that says it could be based on national origin if it involves discrimination among citizens of the same country.... and then they up and added their own twist to that, saying they will consider it apartheid if there is discrimination based on national origin AMONG PEOPLE WHO AREN'T CITIZENS OF THE SAME COUNTRY. In a very real sense, HRW declared Mexico is an apartheid state because Americans can't vote in its elections.
In 2022, Amnesty International followed with their own report, saying that not only was the military occupation now "apartheid," but that Israel itself had been an apartheid state ever since it was established in 1948. This moral perversion had the effect of saying Israel literally INVENTED apartheid since in May 1948 it didn't even exist in South Africa yet. It also said that Amnesty International - founded 1961 - had been looking at an apartheid the whole time but never recognized it. To make things even more dishonest, Amnesty said they "are not claiming Israeli conditions are analogous to South Africa," meaning anything that shows how Israel is different from South Africa doesn't count. They're using the South African word for the South African policy but it's actually not like South Africa at all so be quiet, neener neener no backsies.
I shouldn't have to take that seriously. Neither should anyone. Palestinians and their advocates should be ashamed to have to lean on such an obvious bad-faith lie.
Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013, never once accused Israel of apartheid, and instead repeatedly said he supported Zionism and a 2-state solution. Mandela's lawyer, still alive, says the accusation is a lie. Mansour Abbas, leader of the Arab Islamist party that joined Israel's governing coalition in 2021, says the accusation is a lie. And if people want to bandy around NGO business cards, here is the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2017:
“The Red Cross was very familiar with the regime that prevailed in South Africa during the apartheid period, and we are responding to all those who raise their claim of apartheid against Israel: No, there is no apartheid here, no regime of superiority of race, of denial of basic human rights to a group of people because of their alleged racial inferiority. There is a bloody national conflict, whose most prominent and tragic characteristic is its continuation over the years, decades-long, and there is a state of occupation. Not apartheid.”
There's a lot more you can see about the shifty terminology, unreliable sourcing, and longstanding culture of antisemitism and racism within Amnesty International. People who can cite chapter and verse of why the Salvation Army, Autism Speaks, Chik-Fil-A and Harry Potter are problematic should not be shocked.