Daily Archives: January 11, 2025

2025-01-11: News Headlines

Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. (2025-01-11). Blinken's Disturbing Exit Interview. popularresistance.org Biden's time in office is coming to an end, but not before a parting gift for Israel. | The State Department recently announced that it would notify Congress about another massive arms deal, this one worth $8 billion. It includes medium-range air-to-air missiles, Hellfire missiles, 500-pound bombs, and more. | The announcement comes amid a deluge of dire news out of Gaza. Flood. Famine. Extreme cold. Israel killed more than 234 Palestinians during the first 4 days of 2025. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International recently published reports saying Israel is committing genocide.

Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. (2025-01-11). The Chris Hedges Report: The Zionists Kill Doctors in Gaza. popularresistance.org UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tàºrk said, "The protection of hospitals during warfare is paramount and must be respected by all sides, at all times." International law enshrines medical facilities as sanctuaries for those in direst need but as Dr. Rupa Marya tells host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Israel's attacks on hospitals amidst the ongoing genocide represent a catastrophic violation of this principle. | A professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, Marya now faces suspension for speaking out against Israel's blatant violations of inte…

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-11). 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 (2025-01-11). 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 (…) | – |

Margaux Hourigat (2025-01-11). Delegate to the United Nations- Indefinite-term contract based in FIDH Geneva office. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) composed of 188 national human rights organisations from 116 countries. FIDH is a nonpartisan, non-sectarian, apolitical, and not for profit organisation. Since 1922, FIDH has been defending all human rights — civil, political, economic, social, and cultural — as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
| You can find us on our social networks: : www.fidh.org/en (…) | – |

UMMID (2025-01-11). U.S. House passes bill to sanction ICC, Poland announces protection for Netanyahu. ummid.com In another move confirming the complicity of the U.S. and its allies in the Israeli war crimes, the U.S. Congress passed a Bill seeking sanctions against the International Criminal Court while Poland says there is no bar for Netanyahu from visiting the country despite ICC warrant.

SKWAWKBOX (2025-01-10). US Congress votes to sanction International Criminal Court over Israel arrest warrants. skwawkbox.org US again confirms its lawlessness and contempt for international law The United States Congress has voted in favour of sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a bid to shield war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant from justice. Members of the House of Representatives passed the "Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act" by 243 votes to …

newarab (2025-01-10). US House passes bill sanctioning ICC to protect Israel. newarab.com The US House of Representatives have voted for the second time to sanction individuals working for the The Republican-led bipartisan

Margaux Hourigat (2025-01-10). Delegate to the United Nations- Indefinite-term contract based in FIDH Geneva office. fidh.org The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) composed of 188 national human rights organisations from 116 countries. FIDH is a nonpartisan, non-sectarian, apolitical, and not for profit organisation. Since 1922, FIDH has been defending all human rights — civil, political, economic, social, and cultural — as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
| You can find us on our social networks: : www.fidh.org/en (…) | – |

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-10). 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, (…) | – |

Staff (2025-01-10). Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded & Armed Indonesia's Genocide in East Timor. democracynow.org We continue to reflect on Jimmy Carter's foreign policy with history professor Brad Simpson. Despite presiding over an administration that stood out for its successful championing of human rights elsewhere in the world, "in Southeast Asia, Carter really continued the policies of the Nixon and Ford administration," particularly in Indonesia, which was at the time occupying and carrying out a genocide in East Timor. Simpson founded the Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project at the National Security Archive, which provided thousands of U.S. documents to East Timor's Truth Commission in th…

Hugo GABBERO (2025-01-10). 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 (…) | – |

Sharon Zhang (2025-01-10). UN Experts Slam US Bill Sanctioning ICC: "Blatant Violation of Human Rights" truthout.org A group of UN human rights experts is urging the U.S. Senate to block a bill that seeks to punish the International Criminal Court (ICC) and people affiliated with it after the body issued arrest warrants for Israeli leaders, condemning the bill as "dangerous" and against international law. "It is shocking to see a country that considers itself a champion of the rule of law trying to stymie… |

Peoples Dispatch (2025-01-10). Democratic Party botches attempt to secure majority on labor law enforcement board. peoplesdispatch.org President-elect Trump's incoming administration has workers and labor advocates worried about attacks on labor rights. Frustrations have recently turned towards the Democratic Party, who, according to California Representative Ro Khanna, botched their chance to secure a majority on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for the first two years of Trump's term. | The NLRB is tasked with enforcing labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices. The board is governed by a five-person board and a general council, all of whom are appointed by the president of the United States. Therefore,…

presstv.ir (2025-01-10). US House passes ICC sanctions bill to protect Israeli war criminals. presstv.ir The US House of Representatives approves a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) officials in response to the arrest warrants that the tribunal has issued against Israeli authorities for war crimes in Gaza.

Staff (2025-01-10). Headlines for January 10, 2025. democracynow.org Death Toll in Los Angeles Wildfires Reaches 10 as Largest Blazes Remain Uncontained, As Historic Fires Tear Through L.A., Scientists Confirm 2024 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded, The Lancet Says Gaza Genocide Death Toll Likely 40% Higher Than Official Estimates, House Votes to Sanction International Criminal Court over Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders, NYU Suspends 11 Students over Peaceful Antiwar Protest, "We Are Documenting Our Genocide": Gaza Journalists Demand Int'l Media Defend Palestinian Colleagues, NYT "Chooses Silence Over Accountability" as It Refuses to Run Quaker Ad Co…

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