https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-libya-deportations-1.7529612
U.S. wants to send deportees to #Libya, site of #migrant mass graves and brutal detention centres
Potential deportees don't appear to be from Libya, where #UN has documented #migrant #humanrightsabuses
Trump Nazi regime defies court order to restore legal aid funding for migrant children
Alvaro Huerta, Director of Litigation at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, this has already resulted in the removal of children from the U.S.
“They had court appearances before a judge, because there was no one to stand with them in court, they either took a voluntary departure or were ordered removed.”
#TrumpNaziRegimeCrimes
#lockhimupalready #humanrightsabuses #ImmigrationRules https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/trump-administration-court-order-restore-legal-aid-funding-migrant-children/3850568/
Young Children Forced to Appear in Immigration Court Without Parents, Lawyers: 'The Cruelty Is Really Apparent'
After the #TrumpNaziRegime cut funding, children as young as four years old are attending virtual immigration court without a parent, guardian, or legal representation.
#StopICE #ImmigrationLawyer #humanrightsabuses
#MassDeportations https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/content/ar-AA1Du6Wx?ocid=sapphireappshare
Uruguayan Ex-Military Officer José Ricardo Arab Sentenced to 30 Years for Lesa Humanidad Crimes
#argentina #crimesagainsthumanity #dictatorship #humanrightsabuses #Uruguay
https://blazetrends.com/uruguayan-ex-military-officer-jose-ricardo-arab-sentenced-to-30-years-for-lesa-humanidad-crimes/?fsp_sid=18029
If we used #Trump’s “give a TV celebrity the job of managing the country” logic in #Australia.
#HumphreyBBear could comment on #HumanRightsAbuses & #Genocide.
#MonmothME #resists! #Monmouth #police department withdraws #ICE training application
Residents packed the Monmouth Board of Selectmen meeting Wednesday to speak out against the town's police department taking on the role of enforcing federal #immigration laws.
by Emily Duggan, Kennebec Journal, April 17, 2025
MONMOUTH — "After dozens of residents voiced opposition, the police department has withdrawn its application for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that allows local law enforcement agencies to work with the federal agency to enforce federal immigration laws.
"Police Chief Paul Ferland said he was seeking the training so his officers would know what to do if they come across people who are in the United States illegally.
"In the past year or so, Monmouth officers have called the U.S. Border Patrol about a dozen times, each time with questions about legal rights, when to detain someone and how to not violate someone’s constitutional rights.
"Each instance can take hours, Ferland said, as officers wait for federal agents to arrive from wherever they are stationed. Once the agents arrive, they check for the person’s immigration status and whether they may have an upcoming court date. If not, the officers can issue a date.
"The southwest Kennebec County town is home to a number of businesses, including #agricultural businesses that employ #migrant workers.
"Ferland announced the department’s withdrawal from the program Wednesday at the town’s Board of Selectmen meeting, which was packed with residents both in person and on Zoom who turned out mostly to speak against the move.
"Because Ferland is also the chief of the Winthrop Police Department, that town is also withdrawing, he said.
" 'When I saw how this is dividing the community, it’s not what I want. It’s not what our officers want. Our community is our community, it’s our home. The officers love their community, and we are not here to divide it. That is one of the reasons why I pulled the application. Not the only, but the biggest,' Ferland said.
"Following an executive order signed by President Donald #Trump, police departments from 38 states have applied to be a part of ICE’s 287 (g) program, including the #WellsPoliceDepartment, which according to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement data is the only #Maine police agency that is currently taking part."
Original article:
https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/04/17/monmouth-police-department-withdraws-ice-training-application/
Archived version:
https://archive.md/FHBWe
#ACAB #ICEDetention #Deportations
#HumanRightsAbuses #USPol #MainePol #ICEDetentions #ResistICE #MonmouthMaineResists #MaineResists
#Immigrant coalition raises alarm over #WellsME #police #ICE partnership as state debate looms
April 13, 2025
WELLS, Maine (WGME) -- "The executive director of the #MaineImmigrantRightsCoalition, #MufaloChitam, says her organization is aware of the new agreement that the #WellsPoliceDepartment signed with ICE which allows officers to arrest people based on #immigration #violations.
"Wells is the first town in Maine to take this step, though other towns have applied as well.
"Chitam says, for her organization and the people they represent, the important thing is to bring awareness to what this means.
"Around the country, departments in 37 states have signed on.
" 'It just brings reality to Maine. We’ve been seeing this around the country, and around other states, but not experienced it in Maine. So that’s significant for us. It makes it real, it brings it home,' Chitam said.
"Maine lawmakers may also debate a bill that would ban police departments from this partnership."
#ACAB #ICEDetention #Deportations
#HumanRightsAbuses #USPol #MainePol #ICEDetentions #ResistICE
No-Bid #ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Being Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job
The $73 million deal for assisting with deportations went to a company whose executives are accused of retaliating against a fellow ICE worker.
Sam Biddle, April 17 2025
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just signed a contract worth $73 million with a firm whose executives are accused of taking part in a scheme to manufacture evidence against a co-worker during their time working at the Department of Homeland Security.
"According to a contract document reviewed by The Intercept, federal contractor #UniversalStrategicAdvisors will provide services pertaining to #ICE’s 'non-detained docket,' a master list of millions of #noncitizens believed to be removable from the United States but not yet in the agency’s custody.
"The contract cites President Donald #Trump’s declaration of a #NationalEmergency on the #USMexicoBorder, an overwhelming glut of potential #deportees, and a shortage of officers to process them all as justification for hiring a private vendor to assist with the collection of biometric data, coordinating removals, and monitoring #immigrant populations.
"The document says that with a fleet of new outsourced employees, ICE can reassign hundreds of officers to tasks that better align with Trump’s recent executive orders aimed at maximizing the agency’s detention and deportation operations. With the contractors onboard, the document says at least 675 ICE officers 'will be able to take all appropriate actions to comply with the EO’s by prioritizing conducting at-large arrests, removals, and detention related activities.'
"A former ICE official, who spoke to The Intercept on the condition of anonymity, said they were concerned by this plan to further privatize the agency’s operations at the same time as the Trump administration has dramatically slashed its workforce and gutted important oversight bodies like the Office for #CivilRights and #CivilLiberties, as well as the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman. 'I certainly take issue with them firing career feds and demolishing whole offices, just to hire contractors to do the same work, many of them who are former ICE employees now retired,' the official said."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/ice-deportation-contracts-us-advisors/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DjRAG
#WorkerRetaliation #ICEDetention #Deportations #HumanRightsAbuses #USPol #WorldPol #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Cronyism
10/ Moreover, deporting individuals to El Salvador—a country with notorious human rights abuses and overcrowded prisons—raises serious human rights concerns. There's a real risk of indefinite detention and mistreatment. #HumanRightsAbuses #PrisonConditions #Deportation
Louder for the folks in the back... GENDER IS A SPECTRUM!!! 'Nuff said!
From 2018: Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
By Claire Ainsworth & Nature magazine
"As a clinical geneticist, Paul James is accustomed to discussing some of the most delicate issues with his patients. But in early 2010, he found himself having a particularly awkward conversation about sex.
"A 46-year-old pregnant woman had visited his clinic at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia to hear the results of an amniocentesis test to screen her baby's chromosomes for abnormalities. The baby was fine—but follow-up tests had revealed something astonishing about the mother. Her body was built of cells from two individuals, probably from twin embryos that had merged in her own mother's womb. And there was more. One set of cells carried two X chromosomes, the complement that typically makes a person female; the other had an X and a Y. Halfway through her fifth decade and pregnant with her third child, the woman learned for the first time that a large part of her body was chromosomally male. 'That's kind of science-fiction material for someone who just came in for an amniocentesis,' says James.
"Sex can be much more complicated than it at first seems. According to the simple scenario, the presence or absence of a Y chromosome is what counts: with it, you are male, and without it, you are female. But doctors have long known that some people straddle the boundary—their sex chromosomes say one thing, but their gonads (ovaries or testes) or sexual anatomy say another. Parents of children with these kinds of conditions—known as intersex conditions, or differences or disorders of sex development (#DSDs)—often face difficult decisions about whether to bring up their child as a boy or a girl. Some researchers now say that as many as 1 person in 100 has some form of DSD.
" 'When genetics is taken into consideration, the boundary between the sexes becomes even blurrier. Scientists have identified many of the genes involved in the main forms of DSD, and have uncovered variations in these genes that have subtle effects on a person's anatomical or physiological sex. What's more, new technologies in DNA sequencing and cell biology are revealing that almost everyone is, to varying degrees, a patchwork of genetically distinct cells, some with a sex that might not match that of the rest of their body. Some studies even suggest that the sex of each cell drives its behaviour, through a complicated network of molecular interactions. 'I think there's much greater diversity within male or female, and there is certainly an area of overlap where some people can't easily define themselves within the binary structure,” says John Achermann, who studies sex development and endocrinology at University College London's Institute of Child Health.
"These discoveries do not sit well in a world in which sex is still defined in binary terms. Few legal systems allow for any ambiguity in biological sex, and a person's legal rights and social status can be heavily influenced by whether their birth certificate says male or female.
" 'The main problem with a strong dichotomy is that there are intermediate cases that push the limits and ask us to figure out exactly where the dividing line is between males and females,' says Arthur Arnold at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies biological sex differences. 'And that's often a very difficult problem, because sex can be defined a number of ways.' "
Read more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fXS54
#GenderFluidity #GenderIsNotBinary #GBLTQRights #GBLTQErasure #TransgenderRights #HumanRightsAbuses #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights
Echoes of Abu Ghraib and inspiration for more prison porn by Kristi Noem: "Russian Police Caught Beating, Humiliating Migrants in Footage of a Raid," Radio Free Europe/Radio Librty, https://youtu.be/IWUau5EY9Uo. This treatment also demonstrates an understanding of Russia's economic limitations as keen as Trump's.
#Migration #HumanRightsAbuses #Authoritarianism
#PakistaniWarCrimes
The fascist Pakistani state is repeating its dark history of war crimes. From the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh to the ongoing horrors in Balochistan—mass graves, disappearances, and genocide. When will the world stand up for justice?
#StopBalochGenocide #FascistState #HumanRights #StopTheMassacre #JusticeForBalochistan #PakistanAtrocities
#BalochGenocide #StopBalochKillings #HumanRightsAbuses
UN issues alarm over surge in human rights abuses in Sudan http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJ3m4P #HumanRights #Sudan #UN #HumanRightsAbuses #Civilians
Problematic Provisions In The ‘Convention On The Rights Of The Child’
Problematic Provisions In The ‘Convention On The Rights Of The Child’
The most vulnerable group are children who have been traumatized by violence, loss, and insecurity since childhood. Cognitive development in conflict zones differs from that of children in stable environments.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is having its 98th session in Geneva, presided over by its Chair, Dr. Ann Marie Skelton, South African Jurist. CRC is composed of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties.
CRC statement says that it monitors implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC) and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (OPSC). On 19 December 2011, the UN General Assembly approved a third Optional Protocol on a communications procedure (OPIC), which allows individual children to submit complaints regarding specific violations of their rights under the Convention and its first two optional protocols. This Protocol entered into force in April 2014.
The Committee is also able to consider individual complaints alleging violations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its first two optional protocols (OPAC and OPSC) by States parties to the OPIC, as well as to carry out inquiries into allegations of grave or systematic violations of rights under the Convention and its two optional protocols.
Dr. Ann Marie Skelton, Committee Chair, in her opening statement, said since the last session, the Committee had marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Convention, and diverse celebrations of this milestone were held across the world. However, she said it was hard be in a celebratory mood while children’s rights continued to be violated across the world, particularly in conflict zones. However, Ms. Skelton said the Committee would not give up; it would continue to uphold children’s rights to the best of its ability.
Andrea Ori, Chief, Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Representative of the Secretary-General said ‘The outlook for children continued to be concerning, underscoring the urgent need for coordinated global efforts to protect their rights and ensure their well-being. It was imperative that governments honoured their commitments under the ‘Convention on the Rights of the Child’.
I find several provisions problematic in the ‘Convention of the Rights of the Child’.
Article 9, paragraph 1, for example, approves severing parental rights if necessary for ‘the best interest of the child.’ The theme is laudatory, but the implementation is extremely worrisome. Determining the best interest of the child is not a science. It is not even an art. It approaches pure speculation, as anyone intensely experienced in child-rearing can testify. Suppose a child welfare agency proposes to severe the parental rights of a low-income couple lacking even high school education in favour of a married professionals sporting lavish incomes and a cornucopia of educational stimuli in the home. Would the best interest of the child standard dictate that child adoption and swap of parents? If not, why not? And wouldn’t it be easy for an authoritarian government to brandish that standard to remove children from the homes of political dissidents or human rights champions in favour of more docile or submissive parents unwilling to challenge the regime?
Article 13, paragraph 1, also seems brimming with troubles. It guarantees to each child a right to receive or impart information through the Internet or otherwise. It would prohibit parents from limiting access to indecent or other material thought injurious to the development of the child, and thus make a major inroad on traditional parental prerogatives.
Article 15, paragraph 1, endows children with rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly. Does that mean that a parent could not prohibit a child from joining a hate group which are dangerous and scatter-brained? Does it mean that a parent must acquiesce in a child’s ill-informed decision to participate in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic demonstrations?
Article 16, paragraph 1, prohibits arbitrary interference with a child’s privacy or correspondence. That would seem to indicate that a parent could not search a child’s room for evidence of crime or delinquency or open a child’s mail or e-mail to detect improper communications unfit for youths in the judgment of the parent.
In sum, it does not seem self-evident to me that the Convention reasonably balances parental prerogative and children’s rights or gives reasonable weight to the manifold hazards of child immaturity. Children, in my judgement, benefit when they are prevented from indulging their own foolishness and folly, even if the appreciation is recognized years after the saving events.
It is easy to commiserate over child victims of human rights violations, but more difficult to craft a responsible and effective remedy. We must be alert that as we make the effort, we do not trample on the urgent child-rearing rights of parent, one of the most cherished rights known to humanity. And we must be alert to avoiding worsening the plight of children while aiming at relief, such as aggressive outlawing of child labour on farms and factories, which then pushes them into criminal prostitution or drug trafficking. Good intentions standing alone will not bring relief to child victim of human rights violations.
Man does not live by bread alone. The soul also matters and matters greatly. A child in the lap of loving parents, even if also sent daily to work, may be much happier spiritually and otherwise than in the custody of the state which holds no natural affection towards any particular child. All experiences teach that in the vast majority of cases parents are more likely to act in the best interests than any other Individual or institution. Thus, a standard of removing children from poverty-stricken parents is more likely to do harm than good.
UN Security Council resolution on “Children and Armed Conflict” states that armed conflict creates harmful and widespread impact on children and has also long-term consequences for durable peace, security and development (UN Security Council Resolution, 2001).
It is a fact that children are the most vulnerable group for human rights violations in a conflict zone like Kashmir, and thus special care should be given to deterring and remedying child abuses.
The UN has expressed “concern by child casualties in Jammu and Kashmir and call upon the government to take preventive measures to protect children, including by ending the use of pellets against children.
A 2012 study by United Kingdom-based charity Save the Children found that Kashmir valley has 215,000 orphans ‘out of which 37% have lost one or both parents to the prevailing conflict’.
Al-Jazeerah reported that nearly 40 percent of over 200,000 orphans in India-administered Kashmir are victims of armed conflict.
A report by the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) said “Children in Jammu and Kashmir are living in the most militarized zone of the world, with the presence of 700,000 troops, which exposes them to the risk of all six grave violations against children as laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.”.
Khurram Parvez, a Kashmir-based human rights activist, told DW that the children in Kashmir are witnessing two types of violence: “The first type is when they are directly affected by killing, torture, arrests; the second is when they see their families suffering,” adding that these children cannot lead a normal life. “Their life is shaped by a sense of injustice, and the tendency to accept violence increases with time. All these things have a negative impact on their mental health.”
Anees Zargar quoted Khurram Parvez in NewsClick that it is not normal for any society where children are exposed to violence. “It compels children to think about their identity, politics, and other issues. There are implications where violence then becomes normal and acceptable,” he said.
Zahid Mushtaq wrote in Foreign Policy News on May 5, 2017, The condition of the children of Kashmir reflects the tragic fate of the children when otherwise they were supposed to bloom. The everyday traumatic effects have had a profound and long-lasting impact on the emotional, cognitive, behavioural and psychological functioning of the children. These children find themselves through no fault of their own lacking the opportunity to learn and develop the necessary skills to become fully functional members of the society. This lost generation of our time is the tragedy of our time. For these children, in the future, the possibility of finding gainful employment as an adult becomes increasingly challenging.
Yusra Shakeel of Kashmir Institute of International Relations wrote under the heading, “The Impact of Conflict on Children’s Mental Health in Jammu and Kashmir, “The most vulnerable group are children who have been traumatized by violence, loss, and insecurity since childhood. Cognitive development in conflict zones differs from that of children in stable environments. Daily life for children in Jammu and Kashmir is characterized by prolonged restrictions, armed forces, fear of violence, and uncertainty about the future. These conditions have a significant impact on the health and development of individuals and lead to many psychological disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety stress and other injuries.”
I would strongly recommend the UNHRC and in particular ‘Committee on Rights of Child’ meticulously studies whether strict laws against child labour and their scrupulous enforcement in less developed countries causes children who lose jobs to turn to crimes or fall into depravity. Child labour laws are certainly benignly motivated and aimed to benefit the child. But kindly motives do not invariably lead to kind results.
CRC should tell India to abide by the provisions of international humanitarian law in Kashmir.
CRC must persuade India to offer mental health treatment including therapy to those children in Kashmir who are suffering from PTSD, anxiety and depression.
CRC should request for an official visit to Kashmir to assess the situation there.
#humanRights #HUMANRIGHTSABUSES #IndianOccupiedKashmir #Kashmir #UN
Farmworkers are NOT showing up for work because of this! Food will rot in the fields and prices will go up.
“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting. This sent shockwaves through the entire community,” said Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, on Thursday. “People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”
He pushed back on the Border Patrol’s claims they’re targeting bad people. He said they appeared to be general sweeps of workers...“If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,” said Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at Cal State-Bakersfield...“So, you WILL see, in the long run, food inflation and food shortages,” he wrote in a text message."
#HumanRightsAbuses #FOTUSInflation
https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/surprising-immigration-raid-kern-county-foreshadows-what-awaits-farmworkers-and-businesses
France boosts security for Christmas, rights defenders cry foul https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/france-boosts-security-for-christmas-rights-defenders-cry-foul/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #France #humanrightsabuses #Jihadism #terrorism
Don’t Let Saudi Arabia Hide Its Human Rights Abuses Behind the 2034 World Cup
https://truthout.org/articles/dont-let-saudi-arabia-hide-its-human-rights-abuses-behind-the-2034-world-cup
* Saudi Arabia host of 2034 international football competition
* gruesome record of violence against migrant workers
* Human Rights Watch: blatant example of sportswashing
* rare opportunity for advocates to shed light on systemic abuses
#propaganda #sportswashing #deception #greenwashing
#HumanRightsAbuses #SaudiArabia #UAE #Dubai #Qatar #antiLGBT #UFC
#HRW #HumanRightsWatch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcdftG1Q2ro
'Obey The #law': #Palestinians Sue State Sept. over #ApartheidIsraeliArmsTransfers Despite #HumanRightsAbuses
Saudi Arabia kills its gay citizens. Will host 2034 FIFA World Cup
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/saudi-arabia-kills-its-gay-citizens-it-will-host-the-fifa-world-cup-in-2034
* Saudi Arabia: homosexuality punishable by execution
* human rights org. have condemn FIFA’s decision
* migrant workers exploited/subjected to racial discrimination
* activists imprisoned decades in prison for peaceful protest
#propaganda #sportswashing #FIFA #soccer #golf #UFC #WorldCup
#HumanRightsAbuses #SaudiArabia #Dubai #antiLGBT #homophobia #CapitalPunishment #HateCrimes
#HRW #HumanRightsWatch
