Category Archives: human rights

Boeing Refuses to Cooperate With New Inquiry into Deadly Crash – The New York Times

Dutch lawmakers are reviewing an investigation into a 2009 accident with striking parallels to the recent 737 Max crashes. American safety officials have also declined to participate.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/business/boeing-737-inquiry.html

Say what? US and Boeing “refuse” to cooperate? What happened to government being responsible for air safety and with multiple treaties 🤬

‘The rapist is you!’: why a Chilean protest chant is being sung around the world | Society | The Guardian

the lyrics are deadly serious. The song accuses judges, police and politicians of committing or failing to stop rape. And in some countries, performing it is a risky business. In India, female protesters have faced police armed with water cannons. In Turkey, female MPs sang it defiantly in parliament after police broke up a street performance.

Source: ‘The rapist is you!’: why a Chilean protest chant is being sung around the world | Society | The Guardian

Come ‘Say This to My Face,’ Says Ayanna Pressley After Betsy Devos Compares Being Pro-Choice to Being Pro-Slavery

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, chair of the House Abortion Access Task Force, offered Thursday to give Education Secretary Betsy DeVos a face-to-face lesson on reproductive rights and U.S. history after the billionaire cabinet official likened the arguments of pro-choice advocates to those of slavery supporters during the Civil War Era—a comparison one critic denounced as “utterly deranged.” “I say again: only slavery was slavery. This is utterly deranged, and [Betsy DeVos] should resign.” —Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone

Source: Come ‘Say This to My Face,’ Says Ayanna Pressley After Betsy Devos Compares Being Pro-Choice to Being Pro-Slavery

ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities – The Texas Observer

ICE broadened the reasons a detainee can be placed in solitary confinement and removed language preventing officers from using “hog-tying, fetal restraints, [and] tight restraints.” The agency also extinguished requirements for new facilities to have outdoor recreation areas and provisions guaranteeing that nonprofit organizations have access to the detention centers. There were also significant revisions to protocols in the case of serious injury, illness, or death, such as allowing guards to notify ICE “as soon as practicable” (as opposed to immediately) that a detainee needs to be transferred to a hospital and removing any mention of how to proceed if a detainee dies during the transfer. Attorneys worry the revised standards will have a real impact on the way immigrants in custody are treated.

Source: ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities – The Texas Observer

WHO decries ‘collective failure’ as measles kills 140,000 – Reuters

Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
— Read on www.reuters.com/article/us-health-measles-who/who-decries-collective-failure-as-measles-kills-140000-idUSKBN1Y92CM