UN expresses alarm over Colombia repression
…in social services. In the face of rapidly expanding protests across the country, President Iván Duque requested that the draft bill be withdrawn from Congress on May 2. Despite this…
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Northern Mexico: aid efforts struggle to keep pace
Humanitarian response networks in northern Mexico are stretched thin between the growing number of people fleeing violence, poverty, and climate disasters in Central America, the continued expulsion of asylum seekers…
HRW accuses Israel of ‘apartheid and persecution’
…a wave of setter attacks on Palestnians, sparked by a Dec. 21 incident in which Israeli police chased after “hilltop youth” suspected of throwing rocks at Palestinians near the Bat…
Hong Kong: pro-democracy activists sentenced
…On April 13, prominent democracy activist Joshua Wong, 24, was sentenced to four months for taking part in an unauthorized assembly and violating an anti-mask law during a demonstration in…
Peru: electoral upset portends polarization
Peru seems poised for polarization following surprise results in first-round presidential elections April 11, that saw a previously unknown leftist candidate, Pedro Castillo, taking 19% of the vote in a…
Greece urged to end pushback of asylum seekers
…during the COVID-19 pandemic, linking these methods to the death of more than 2,000 people. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in 2020 almost 100,000 migrants arrived in…
Burma: resistance unveils federal constitution
…colonial-era Official Secrets Act, one of her lawyers said April 2. Suu Kyi was charged in a Yangon court on March 25, alongside detained Australian economic adviser Sean Turnell and…
Algeria: police disperse Friday Hirak protests
Security forces in Algeria put down weekly pro-democracy protests in the capital and cities across the country May 21, detaining hundreds of would-be demonstrators. “March prevented and suppressed in Algiers…
Keystone XL pipeline cancelled —struggle continues
…suspended following the revocation of its US presidential permit on Jan. 20. The company said in a statement that it will “continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups…
Fascist pseudo-anti-fascism in Belarus
Let’s start by stating the obvious. Under long-ruling dictator Alexander Lukashenko, a fascistic order has long obtained in Belarus—and it may now be going over the edge into outright fascism….
Hong Kong authorities shut down Tiananmen massacre vigil
For the second year running, authorities in Hong Kong banned the annual June 4 vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Citing the ongoing restrictions imposed to contain COVID-19, hundreds…
Migrant kids languish at Fort Bliss
…youths who were released from HHS custody to go work on an egg farm in Ohio, evidently against their will. (AP, Feb. 26; WaPo, Feb. 23) Photo via Border Report…