Bangladesh: UN Rights Review Amid Violent Crackdown (Geneva) – The Bangladesh government should seriously respond to concerns regarding grave abuses and the crackdown on civil society raised by member states on November 13, 2023, during Bangladesh’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Human Rights Watch said today. The review took place amid a violent ongoing crackdown by Bangladesh security
Philippine Journalist Shot Dead Live on Air The murder was brazen and swift: two men entered the home of Juan Jumalon in the town of Calamba in the southern Philippines while the radio journalist was broadcasting live on his on Sunday morning show on 94.7 Gold FM. News reports said that one of the gunmen held
The Israel-Hamas War is ALREADY Pushing the Great Reset Agenda A few days ago we published an article discussing how the Great Reset agenda is still moving forward behind the scenes, while the headlines are full of Israel-Palestine. But it’s also true that, in its thirteen days of existence, the war itself has already pushed that agenda forward as
Exclusive: Media Research Center's Censortrack Database Documents 6,000+ Online Censorship Cases The Media Research Center (MRC)’s Censortrack database, which tracks online censorship, has surpassed 6,000 cases.
Award-Winning Polish musician is cancelled for expressing her views on gender ideology An award-winning Polish electronic and noise musician has found herself “cancelled” after speaking out against gender ideology. Polish musician Ewa Justka has been removed from performances and lost her teaching contract for showing support for JK Rowling and Professor Kathleen Stock. As well as persecution in her professional career, she
Israel-Hamas “war” – another excuse to shut down free speech As a brand new war-narrative unfolds, there’s already efforts underway to parlay the conflict into tighter controls on free speech and freedom of expression, both in person and on the internet. The headlines have been filled with nothing but Israel and Hamas since the “surprise attack” on Saturday, with
Figuring Out Their Angle A federal law was recently passed in Canada called the Online News Act, or Bill C-18.
UK quietly passes “Online Safety Bill” into law Buried behind the Brand-related headlines yesterday, the British House of Lords voted to pass the controversial “Online Safety Bill” into law.
How Not to Launch a Global Anti-Censorship Movement So, I’ve been excommunicated from Michael Shellenberger’s global anti-censorship movement.
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Many Ways Our Rights Have Been Usurped Since 9/11 “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its
The Criminalization of Dissent (continued) So, the Berlin State Prosecutor has launched another criminal investigation of me.
Australia: Rights at Core of Voice Referendum (Sydney) – A referendum in Australia on October 14, 2023, is an important opportunity for Australians to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the country’s constitution, Human Rights Watch and the Australian Human Rights Institute at the University of New South Wales said today. A new Questions and Answers document
Brazil has become a guinea pig for the global effort to censor information Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes has censored a shocking number of high-profile people in a surprisingly short period of time.