That's Not How I See The World

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zedZ_T8hjbk

 

Trump Administration Suggested Funding Afrikaner Group in South Africa — ProPublica

Recently, we published our investigation that found one answer to that question in a little-known bureau of the State Department that has dramatically transformed under Trump. For decades, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, known as DRL, has supported human rights in some of the most oppressive countries in the world. Now, our reporting found, it’s planning to direct funds to controversial groups supporting right-wing causes in Europe and elsewhere…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-afrikaner-south-africa-money

 

UN human rights chief says Israel must end house demolitions and occupation in Lebanon | PBS News

"Demolition of this type raises huge flags about compliance with international humanitarian law," Türk said, describing what has happened as a "wholesale destruction" of civilian homes...

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-human-rights-chief-says-israel-must-end-house-demolitions-and-occupation-in-lebanon

Are There Human Rights in the Bible?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U89EjGCax2Y

‘Family values’ African charter condemned by rights groups as regressive and dangerous

The terminology running through the charter exposes the strong influence of conservative Christian organisations from the US and Europe that oppose abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. Progressive policies are dismissed as neocolonialism or cultural imperialism. 

Famia Nkansa, communications lead at Purposeful, a Sierra Leone-based organisation focused on girls’ activism, said: “Anti-rights activity on the continent is simply an extension and expansion of the same colonial playbook: Africa serving as a battleground on which the west wages its ideological and economic wars.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/05/ghana-african-charter-family-values-gender-women-sex-lgbtq-reproductive-rights

 

Trump administration deported 21,000 to places US calls too dangerous to visit

The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions, and at least 600 were children…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/trump-iran-war-deportations

 

George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties

On Tuesday, the organisation, founded by the billionaire philanthropist George Soros and headquartered in New York, announced a $300m spend aimed at boosting economic security and defending civil liberties in the US… 

“We certainly believe that civil society is essential and must stay on the playing field,” said Laleh Ispahani, managing director for the US at the OSF. “We’ve had experience in other countries, unfortunately, where civil society has been targeted by autocratic administrations. It does matter that we still are funding in most parts of the world and are very much in communication with one another as things are happening in the US.”

 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/20/george-soros-pledge-economic-security-civil-liberties 

 

AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems

Ocasio-Cortez says Israel can fund its own defense and she will oppose any new US aid amid human rights concerns

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/aoc-blocks-israel-military-aid

 

State Department to refocus global rights report on those ‘given by God’ - The Washington Post

"The State Department's emphasis on so-called natural rights and de-emphasis on rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and other legally binding instruments suggest an intentional effort to limit rights," said Uzra Zeya, a top official for human rights at the State Department during the Biden administration who now leads the Human Rights First nonprofit…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/trump-rubio-human-rights-report/

Israel, Palestine, Liberty, and the Left (with Jasmin Faulk) (Seth Andrews; The Thinking Atheist podcast)

Jasmin Faulk is an ex-Muslim human rights activist with an insider's perspective on Islam, the war on women, and the often awkward perspectives of the West.

Interview: 

https://www.thethinkingatheist.com/podcast-1/episode/79a117ca/israel-palestine-liberty-and-the-left-with-jasmin-faulk

El Salvador Throws Trump Under The Bus Over Detained Migrants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxWXKfhWuQ

 

EU cites ‘indications’ Israel is breaching human rights obligations over conduct in Gaza

Leaked document marks significant moment in relations with ally but stops short of calling for immediate sanctions…

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun/20/eu-israel-human-rights-obligations-gaza-document

 

Bernie Sanders And RFK Jr. Spar When HHS Sec. Asked If Healthcare Is A human right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2fuI_XtECw

 

‘I became like a slave’: why 43 women are suing the secretive Opus Dei Catholic group in Argentina

The first item Opus Dei gave 12-year-old Andrea Martínez was a pink dress. The second was a schedule that detailed every task for every minute of her day. Then, when she was 16, she was given a cilice – a spiked metal chain to wear around her thigh – and a whip…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/14/argentina-human-rights-women-opus-dei-catholic-church-exploitation-abuse-celibacy-trafficking-allegations

WOTM: The Values Of The West: Human Dignity & Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Xeldm1hNQ 

WATCH: Sanders asks Trump budget director nominee if 'health care is a human right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0QV1Tx2hg

Inmates burn themselves in protest at ‘inhumane’ prison conditions

The caucus claimed in its statement: "People who have been incarcerated at Red Onion State prison describe being regularly subjected to racial and physical abuse from correctional officers, medical neglect including the withholding of medicine, excessive stays in solitary confinement with one report of 600 consecutive days, inedible food having been covered in maggots and officers' spit, and violent dog attacks."… 

A report from more than 20 years ago from Human Rights Watch said Red Onion "raises serious human rights concerns"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/red-onion-state-prison-protest

One in eight girls sexually assaulted or raped before turning 18, says Unicef

First global estimates of sexual violence against children reveals 'abhorrent magnitude' of the human rights violation…

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/10/one-in-eight-girls-sexually-assaulted-or-raped-before-turning-18-unicef

Louisiana's new surgical castration law, explained : NPR

The use of surgical castration as punishment, which is a permanent procedure that involves the surgical removal of the testicles or ovaries ostensibly to stop the production of sex hormones, is rare elsewhere around the world. The Czech Republic, Madagascar and a state in Nigeria have such laws on the books that have been strongly criticized by Amnesty Internationaland other human rights organizations...

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-5020686/louisiana-new-surgical-castration-law

US and UK complicit in detentions at camps where torture rife, says Amnesty

Report says thousands of people held in little-reported facilities where authorities are violating human rights on a large scale…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/us-uk-complicit-detentions-syria-camps-torture-rife-amnesty-international