Category Archives: human rights

Global measles cases spike 30 percent: WHO | News | DW | 29.11.2018 – This one’s on you anti-vaxers! 110,000 dead children!

There were an estimated 110,000 deaths, mostly of children, linked to the vaccine-preventable disease last year.

Source: Global measles cases spike 30 percent: WHO | News | DW | 29.11.2018

M.L.B. Asks Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to Return $5,000 Donation – The New York Times

The baseball commissioner’s office has its own political action committee and donates to politicians on both sides of the aisle to help promote its causes in Congress, like protecting M.L.B.’s antitrust exemption and other legislation, like how teams pay minor league players. Charles Johnson, an owner of the San Francisco Giants, also made contributions to Hyde-Smith. He and his wife Ann each donated $2,700 through a super PAC. In a statement, Johnson said he was unaware the contribution would be used to support Hyde-Smith. “I had absolutely no knowledge that this donation would be used in this manner and I, like the Giants organization, strongly condemn any form of racism and in no way condone the advertisement that was created by this entity.”

In the Trump era, a lighter shade of Latino can make life easier – Los Angeles Times

The day after President Trump’s election in 2016 — according to Documenting Hate, a project that tracks bias incidents around the country — a student reportedly told a seventh-grade girl in Clarksburg, W.Va., “You’re going back to Mexico now.” The girl’s father is Native American and she is not of Mexican descent. Her skin is darker, the report noted. Later that month, a woman reported that she was in line at a grocery store in Austin, Texas, when an older man picked up a newspaper with a picture of a Latino man. “Trump is going to get rid of you people,” she said he exclaimed before shaking the paper at her. The woman was white, but had darker skin. For many Latinos, the Trump era has hammered home the privilege, or lack thereof, that comes from being the light-skinned güero or dark-skinned prieto of the family.

Source: In the Trump era, a lighter shade of Latino can make life easier – Los Angeles Times

Saudi women who campaigned for the right to drive tortured, Amnesty International says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Detained activists in Saudi Arabia, including those who campaigned for the right for women to drive, are being sexually harassed and tortured in prison, Amnesty International has been told.

Source: Saudi women who campaigned for the right to drive tortured, Amnesty International says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

California fires: Zinke blames devastation on ‘radical environmentalists’ – Los Angeles Times Bigger POS than his boss

“It’s not time for finger-pointing,” Zinke said. “We know the problem. It’s been years of neglect, and in many cases it’s been these radical environmentalists that want nature to take its course. …You know what? This is on them.”

Source: California fires: Zinke blames devastation on ‘radical environmentalists’ – Los Angeles Times

Trump does not want to hear tape of ‘vicious’ Khashoggi murder | Reuters Money out votes murder for Trump?

Trump also said he wants to maintain a close alliance with Saudi Arabia despite Khashoggi’s death and questioned the alleged role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is known as MbS and is the kingdom’s de facto ruler. “He told me that he had nothing to do with it,” Trump said, adding that “many people” also said the crown prince had no knowledge of the killing.

Source: Trump does not want to hear tape of ‘vicious’ Khashoggi murder | Reuters