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"Taiwan’s vibrant and competitive democratic system has allowed for regular peaceful transfers of power since 2000, and protections for civil liberties are generally robust. Ongoing concerns include inadequate safeguards against the exploitation of migrant workers and the Chinese government’s efforts to influence policymaking, media, and the democratic infrastructure."
Deregulation doesn't favor innovation,
it favors human rights violations.
#Trump Admin Plans to Send Migrants to #Libya on a #Military Flight
#HumanRights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant #detention centers “horrific” & “deplorable.”
#law #immigration #Constitution #DueProcess #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/politics/trump-libya-migrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=76A42B13-CE0C-465C-833A-19E7FDFD950C
The #State Dept is changing its mind about #HumanRights
The #Trump admin is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to REMOVE longstanding critiques of #abuses such as harsh #prison conditions, govt #corruption & restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR learned.
#UnitedStates #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #MafiaState #Freedom #law #InternationalLaw #GenevaConvention
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts
Amazing truth & fact filled press conference from Sen #VanHollen on his visit to #ElSalvador & the ILLEGAL #rendition of #KilmarAbregoGarcia by #Trump
#law #contempt #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
Not really an #introduction but here we go:
#Freelancing #Privacy and #Security #Coach & #Trainer (#Linux)
Ex #SoftwareDeveloper, #Consultant, #TeamLead, #HeadOfProductDevelopment #HeadOfIT
I care for #privacy #HumanRights #DEI #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Linux #FLOSS #DigitalSelfDefense
See bio for links & websites.
#Trump posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.
The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”
This is why you try people in court of #law & not on social media.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting #propaganda #dehumanization #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #DueProcess
Secy of State #MarcoRubio outlined plans to drastically reorganize the #State dept, saying it was “beholden to radical political ideology.” The overhaul at the nation’s diplomatic agency will include the elimination of the office of the under secretary for #civilian #security, #democracy & #HumanRights.
#State #NationalSecurity #law #ConspiracyTheories
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/state-department-cuts-rubio.html?smid=url-share
#KilmarAbregoGarcia's latest legal brief roasts #Trump's "shocking proposition" that officers can "snatch residents of this country & deposit them in foreign prisons in admitted violation of federal law" — & no US court can do anything about it.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.176.0.pdf
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
The #Trump admin says Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is "personally handling" discussions with #ElSalvador over the return of wrongly deported migrants.
He has a "personal relationship" with #Bukele that dates to his time on #ForeignRelations Cmte.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483/gov.uscourts.mdd.457483.290.1.pdf
#immigration #law #DueProcess #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #HumanRights
“Young, an 84-year-old jurist appointed by Ronald Reagan, said that the manner of #RumeysaOzturk’s arrest seemed unusual to him.
“‘I’m not accustomed to … law enforcement officers without identification, approaching individuals masked and you know, not having a warrant…’”
#law #immigration #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/aaup-rubio-trial
The Head of a New #RFKJr Group Promoted #911 Conspiracy Theories & the #ProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion
#LelandLehrman is a key figure in the #MAHA world, despite decades of pushing #extremist ideas.
…Lehrman…[has a]…long history of promoting #antisemitic & extreme #ConspiracyTheories, as detailed in a new report from the Institute for Research & Education on #HumanRights, an org which studies #extremism & the #FarRight.
#Trump #policy #law #Government #USpol #kakistocracy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/leland-lehrman-make-america-healthy-again-institute-antisemitism-september-11/
If you sometimes want to escape from current affairs and the daily ratrace, follow @joene. Here I post pictures from various travels I made through the years. No those are not holiday pictures, but from interesting politically and socially driven travels. No selfies and if necessary with blurred faces.
The first two collections I will post are from May 2016 in the Northern-Greek Idomeni refugee camp, nearby Polykastro and smaller refugee camps along the A1/E75 highway. The first collection about Idomeni can be found here: https://pix.joenepraat.nl/c/834486164830621697 and the next collection is about Polykastro and smaller refugee camps along the A1/E75.
I advise you to follow this account, because from now on I'm not going to boost every post from that account with my Mastodon accounts anymore. Next topics will include pictures from Mexico (Veracruz), Moldova (Chișinău), the United States (NYC and DC), and more.
🆘 Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and #humanrights organisations worldwide, issues this urgent and unified call:
The manufactured famine in #gaza must be halted. The international community must act decisively, immediately, and with full moral and legal responsibility.
Law for Palestine
(Publ. MAY-12)
❕ Hashtag: #DiplomaticConvoyNow
📑 Signatories in the statement link below 👇🏽
You know what? As a society, I don't think we have a data privacy problem, actually.
What we truly have is a
consent-respecting problem.
If, as a society and as individuals, we truly respected people's informed and freely given consent, we would not have problems with data privacy at all.
If we culturally improve our consent-respecting practices, we will inevitably understand better how to improve our privacy-respecting practices.
Ask first.
Give options.
Respect people's choices.
Never share without prior permission.
Freedom House awarded its 2025 Beacon Award to the government and civil society of Taiwan for their "steadfast efforts to protect their own vibrant democracy, and to support the global struggle for freedom, in the face of escalating pressure from the Chinese Communist Party."
https://freedomhouse.org/article/freedom-house-announces-2025-award-recipients
Human Rights Watch calls on the Chinese party-state to cease its censorship of the June 4 Tiananmen Massacre, allow commemorations of the event and provide compensation to victims' families
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/03/china-address-tiananmen-massacre-36-years
I never thought I would see society slip into authoritarian surveillance so fast.
If we don't push back hard and quickly against this, we will lose all our rights.
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The #Trump administration is using the claim that #immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process.
A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.
#Immigration #News #Law #HumanRights #government
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
Latest comic on "solving" the problem of fascism by insulting the very people trying to fight it.
5 years after #GeorgeFloyd's #murder
#law #PoliceAbuse #PoliceReform #SystemicRacism #ExcessiveForce #PoliceViolence #QualifiedImmunity #Trump #DOJ #CivilRights #HumanRights #ICC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/briefing/five-years-after-floyd.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E5801D2D-5163-436A-AA1B-7D9DE956DF60
Today #Trump ended Temporary Protected Status (#TPS) for #Nepal, which has lasted since 2015. He tried to kill it in his first term, but was blocked in court. That is much less likely this time around, given what's happened already with TPS for Venezuela & the partisan activist #SCOTUS.
#immigration #law #asylum #DHS #HumanRights #WhiteChistianNationalism
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2817-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2015-0003] RIN 1615-ZB74 Termination of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Nepal is set to expire on June 24, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary has determined that Nepal no longer continues to meet the conditions for its designation for TPS. The Secretary therefore is terminating the TPS designation of Nepal as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER . After INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Nepal (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have been granted TPS under Nepal's designation will no longer have TPS. DATES: The designation of Nepal for TPS is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].](/proxy/post_attachment/732311/56d8ff965e.png "DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [CIS No. 2817-25; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2015-0003] RIN 1615-ZB74 Termination of the Designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the designation of Nepal for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The designation of Nepal is set to expire on June 24, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary has determined that Nepal no longer continues to meet the conditions for its designation for TPS. The Secretary therefore is terminating the TPS designation of Nepal as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER . After INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER THE DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Nepal (and aliens having no nationality who last habitually resided in Nepal) who have been granted TPS under Nepal's designation will no longer have TPS. DATES: The designation of Nepal for TPS is terminated effective at 11:59 p.m., local time, on [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].")
It's well established that the U.S. is a dangerous place to be BIPOC or LGBQT. I know things are better elsewhere, but where are they really good? Do you live where human is human is human? Tell us.
Writing a daily #HumanRights newsletter isn't as difficult as reading some of emails I get in reply...