Can the G20 Agree on Human Rights?
Foreign ministers of Group of Twenty (G20) countries are meeting in New Delhi on March 1-3.
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Don’t Rush to Normalize Relations with Assad’s Syria
Since earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria on February 6, claiming the lives of more than 5,900 people across Syria and exacerbating the country’s humanitarian crisis, several Arab countries have rushed to further normalize ties with the government of President Bashar al-Assad. And they are doing so without pressing
US court demands release of report on toxicity of fluoride
After numerous delays, and interventions by Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, the US National Toxicology Program’s review of Fluoride’s toxicity will soon be released to the public. The move is the latest development in the nearly decade-long legal battle between the Fluoride Action Network, Food and Water Watch,
Rights Groups Urge UN Human Rights Council to Act on Egypt
(Geneva)—The following letter was sent to Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on February 24, 2023, by seven organizations including Human Rights Watch: Excellencies, The upcoming session marks two years since a group of 32 states delivered a joint statement
El Salvador Fails to Meet Deadline for Trans Rights Ruling
(New York) – El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has brazenly ignored the one-year deadline that the Supreme Court gave it to create a legal gender recognition procedure that would prevent discrimination against transgender people, Human Rights Watch and COMCAVIS TRANS said today. In February 2022, the constitutional chamber of El Salvador’
Iraq: Environmentalists Face Retaliation
(Beirut) – Iraq’s environmental activists are facing threats, harassment, and arbitrary detention by government officials and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today.
Joint Letter to Secretary Blinken Regarding US State Department Withdrawal of Leading Human Rights Expert’s Candidacy to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Dear Secretary Blinken, We the undersigned groups and individuals are deeply concerned and dismayed by the U.S.
Names & Faces of 150 Bilderbergers who controlled COVID Pandemic response
Over 150 Bilderbergers (of the 1,861 who are still alive) have played important parts in the Covid-19 event.
Ukraine War Chaos Saw Germany Lose Over $100 Billion in 2022
Germany lost over $100 billion as a result of the chaos brought about by the Ukraine War, the head of a major economic research institute in the country has said.
Canadian conservatives say no to Digital IDs that WEF collaborators are attempting to implement
The leader of the Canadian Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, said that if he were to be elected Prime Minister, he would not impose digital IDs.
Report details how a handful of Corporations are taking control of the World’s Food Supply
A report published at the end of 2022 by The ETC Group reveals how a handful of corporations with the help of Big Tech are taking over the world’s food supply.
The report, titled ‘Food Barons 2022 – Crisis Profiteering, Digitalization and Shifting Power’, offers a snapshot of the world’
15-minute cities: Councils are attempting to remove our freedoms, take control of our lives and herd us into spaces they completely control
At the same time local governments in the UK are attempting to implement 15-minute cities a top banker claims the rollout of a digital ID “super app” is inevitable. Both are dystopian control tools and neither is inevitable.
It’s not only in the UK that cities are signing up
Distract, Divide and Conquer: The REAL State of Our Union
Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness.
These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone
UK journalists have still not been held to account for acting as State Propagandists during the Iraq invasion
In advance of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, the UK media parroted government lies and fabrications uncritically and became an enthusiastic part of the state’s propaganda machine. An inquiry into British reporting of the Iraq war is well past due.
Let’s not lose touch…Your Government
The Patrushev Oversight
In a recent interview with Russian media, Nikolay Patrushev, an intelligence officer who is the former director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the current secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, spoke about the nature of power in the West. In keeping with the previous address of