Category Archives: human rights

Israeli MK calls for permitting imprisonment of children | PNN

MK Anat Berko (Likud) submitted a law proposing that minors can be sent to prison, prior to any alleged stab attacks carried out by Palestinian minors. The current legislation prevents the imprisonment of children under the age of 14, although they can still be sent to juvenile facilities.The bill suggests that the age of the offender can be dismissed in cases committed with a “nationalist motive.”According to Berko, it is more likely that minors are recruited to commit attacks, as the ’loophole’ in the law, presumably there to protect children from being sent to jail, makes it easier to convince these children to commit acts of violence.

Source: Israeli MK calls for permitting imprisonment of children | PNN

The snooper’s charter: one misspelled Google search for ‘bong-making’ and you’ll be in an orange jumpsuit | Frankie Boyle | Comment is free | The Guardian

Soon our government will know everything we are thinking, and in that moment, we will stop thinking.

{but they – the snoopers – will be sound asleep by then cause what’s in most people’s heads is “what’s for supper” and that’s booooooring!}

Source: The snooper’s charter: one misspelled Google search for ‘bong-making’ and you’ll be in an orange jumpsuit | Frankie Boyle | Comment is free | The Guardian

Change education system to improve humans’ inner quality: Dalai Lama – The Times of India

The Dalai Lama was speaking at the first-ever Abdul Kalam Seva Ratna awards organised by the Madras Management Association in association with Abdul Kalam Vision India Movement at Music Academy. Lamenting that people of his generation had created a lot of problems on the planet, he said it was up to members of the present generation to find solutions and build a happy 21st century. “Man made the problems but we also have the ability to reduce them and eventually eliminate them. We need a sense of oneness. Different views, faith, and things like race/caste are minor issues. What we need to remember is that we all are humans and have the same right to achieve a happy life,” he said. Recalling his first few visits to the city in the 1950s and 1960s, he pointed to the sharp increase in the number of constructions this time. “There is extreme modernisation in the world but people should also have a peaceful mind. People live in big houses but there is a lot of tension within them. Material development provides only physical comfort but modernisation does not necessarily bring us inner peace.” Saying India had the potential to bring about this peace, he said it was the only country where all major traditions live together and the 3000 years of Indian culture was rooted in non-violence and religious harmony.

Source: Change education system to improve humans’ inner quality: Dalai Lama – The Times of India

Greenpeace India to Appeal Cancellation of Legal Registration | News | PND

While the notice of cancellation came from the Registrar of Societies in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where Greenpeace India is registered, the environmental group has indicated it believes the Ministry of Home Affairs is behind the move. In September, a High Court judge blocked a separate attempt by the ministry to cancel the organization’s license to receive international funds under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, granting the organization an interim eight-week stay. Greenpeace India’s license had been suspended and its bank accounts frozen since April.The cancellation of the organization’s legal registration is seen by many as the latest example of an ongoing government clampdown on foreign-based or -funded NGOs whose work it sees as opposed to its economic agenda.

Source: Greenpeace India to Appeal Cancellation of Legal Registration | News | PND

UK surveillance bill could bring ‘very dire consequences’, warns Apple chief | World news | The Guardian

‘Any back door is a back door for everyone,’ says Tim Cook of proposals to allow authorities to track citizens’ internet use without requiring warrant

Source: UK surveillance bill could bring ‘very dire consequences’, warns Apple chief | World news | The Guardian

Christmas Island detention centre: Peter Dutton blames riot on ‘core group of criminals’ as extra police sent to restore order – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) {Racism thinly disguised?}

“We have been very clear about the fact that the Government’s not going to cower in the face of the activities of some of these criminals,” he said.”The initial reports, early reports that I’ve received, [are] the officers were met with little resistance but nonetheless there’s still a core group of criminals who are causing disruption and the Australian Federal Police and the Serco guards no doubt will deal with that threat in due course.

Source: Christmas Island detention centre: Peter Dutton blames riot on ‘core group of criminals’ as extra police sent to restore order – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Youth movement nets $2 million for bike lanes in Santa Ana – The Orange County Register

No one knows Santa Ana’s streets like the people who live there, and a group of local youth has used that knowledge in an unprecedented effort to get the city a $2.37 million grant for bike lanes on the roads they ride every day.The small group of middle and high school students, working with nonprofit KidWorks, spearheaded a “bikability” assessment in central Santa Ana two years ago and realized that the thoroughfare they rode on to get to school – Edinger Avenue – was in great need of bike lanes.With some guidance from KidWorks staff and Santa Ana planners, the youth wrote a grant for active transportation funding from the state, and late last month they learned the project submitted through the city had been awarded the money.

Source: Youth movement nets $2 million for bike lanes in Santa Ana – The Orange County Register

Palestinian girl shot near Bitar Elit settlement, West Bethlehem | PNN

Israeli media claimed that the girl named Helwa Elayyan (22)  attempted to stab  a policeman and was immediately shot and left to bleed on the ground, surrounded by armed settlers and soldiers.

Source: Palestinian girl shot near Bitar Elit settlement, West Bethlehem | PNN

Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman | The Electronic Intifada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mSm7YNxbFUThe Israeli soldiers broke into the station and took its fire extinguishers in order to put out a fire that had been lit outside, the eyewitness said.He said that the soldiers then went outside and at that moment al-Sharawi’s car approached towards the gas station from the direction of the Ras al-Jora area in what he called a normal manner.The Israeli soldiers opened fire on it with volleys of bullets.The eyewitness said al-Sharawi was likely trying to escape towards the gas station from the large amount of tear gas in the Ras al-Jora neighborhood when the soldiers riddled her car with bullets.Occupation forces then barred medics from reaching her, he said.More than half of the Palestinians killed since violence escalated at the start of October were killed during alleged, suspected and actual attacks that have killed 11 Israelis.

Source: Video: Israeli soldiers fire at car, killing elderly woman | The Electronic Intifada