Daily Archives: January 6, 2025

2025-01-06: News Headlines

newarab (2025-01-06). Israel prevents detained Gaza hospital doctor from seeing lawyer. newarab.com

Editor (2025-01-06). China imposes sanctions on U.S. defense contractors for selling arms to Taiwan. mronline.org China alleges that the U.S. approach to Taiwan is guided by "cold war zero sum mentality" which violates its own declared commitments to the "one-China policy" and agreements of non-interference in internal matters.

Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. (2025-01-06). Kenya's High Court Delivers Blow To Neoliberal University Funding Model. popularresistance.org The Kenya High Court delivered a landmark ruling on December 20, 2024, that declared the new funding model for higher education unconstitutional. The case, brought before the court by the Kenya Human Rights Commission and other organizations including the National Student Caucus, challenged the legality and fairness of the new model launched last year. | In his ruling, Justice Mwita declared the new university funding model unconstitutional for several reasons. The high court noted that it violates Section 53 of the Universities Act by introducing policies that conflict with the law.

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-06). SOS-defenders platform: Expose arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide. fidh.org A collective of local, regional and international human rights organisations unveils SOS-Defenders, an action platform that exposes the alarming scale of arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide.
Geneva, 13 December 2024. This information hub, which will progressively expand to cover more countries, has already documented 274 cases of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders across 17 countries (Bahrain, Belarus, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Iran, Jordan, (…) | – |

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-06). Zimbabwe's civic space in crisis: New report details growing operational obstacles and legal threats to civil society. fidh.org The ouster of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 in Zimbabwe was followed by a brief period of cautious optimism for increased civil liberties. Regrettably, that optimism has been overshadowed by persistent restrictions, with recent years marked by heightened repression, harassment, and arrests of human rights defenders. The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of the International Federation for Human (…) | – |

ATTAC (2025-01-06). Call for Africain and International solidarity | No to the criminalization of solidarity | Freedom for activists defending the rights of migrants and refugees. cadtm.org

presstv.ir (2025-01-06). Haiti gang massacres at least 110 people in Cite Soleil: Rights group. presstv.ir National Human Right Defense Network says at least 110 were killed in Haiti's Cite Soleil by gang led by Monel Felix.

WSWS (2025-01-06). IYSSE (Sri Lanka) public meeting in Kandy: How to defeat the IMF austerity program. wsws.org The IYSSE meeting, which will discuss the socialist program necessary to defend the social and democratic rights of workers and youth, is being held in Kandy after being anti-democratically banned at Peradeniya University.

newarab (2025-01-05). UNHCR chief slams 'atrocious' Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals. newarab.com The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has condemned Israel's During the a UN Security Council meeting on

newarab (2025-01-05). Algerian social media influencer detained in France. newarab.com

newarab (2025-01-05). Tehran protests Italy's 'illegal' arrest of Iranian sought by US. newarab.com "Given the continued detention of Iranian citizen Mr. Mohammad Abedini by Abedini, 38, was arrest…

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-05). Zimbabwe's civic space in crisis: New report details growing operational obstacles and legal threats to civil society. fidh.org The ouster of President Robert Mugabe in 2017 in Zimbabwe was followed by a brief period of cautious optimism for increased civil liberties. Regrettably, that optimism has been overshadowed by persistent restrictions, with recent years marked by heightened repression, harassment, and arrests of human rights defenders. The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) and the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of the International Federation for Human (…) | – |

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-05). SOS-defenders platform: Expose arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide. fidh.org A collective of local, regional and international human rights organisations unveils SOS-Defenders, an action platform that exposes the alarming scale of arbitrary detention of human rights defenders worldwide.
Geneva, 13 December 2024. This information hub, which will progressively expand to cover more countries, has already documented 274 cases of arbitrarily detained human rights defenders across 17 countries (Bahrain, Belarus, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Iran, Jordan, (…) | – |

ATTAC (2025-01-05). Call for Africain and International solidarity | No to the criminalization of solidarity | Freedom for activists defending the rights of migrants and refugees. cadtm.org

presstv.ir (2025-01-05). Haiti gang massacres at least 110 people in Cite Soleil: Rights group. presstv.ir National Human Right Defense Network says at least 110 were killed in Haiti's Cite Soleil by gang led by Monel Felix.

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