Mastodawn

The #Kimsakocha #páramo #rivers regulate the #local #WaterCycle and provide #water to tens of thousands of people. #Canadian #mining projects #threaten this #ecosystem, and the #Indigenous and local people #defending it are being #criminalized. #Canada
https://miningwatch.ca/news/2026/3/11/77-civil-society-organizations-call-canadian-embassy-ecuador-speak-out

77 Civil Society Organizations Call on the Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Speak Out on the Criminalization of Environmental Defenders by DPM Metals Inc. | Mining Watch Canada

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈3d ago

#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research to remind her of the name of the case in which the Supreme Court #criminalized #homelessness. The opinion is a piece of garbage. It's a twist of words. Criminal. #GrantsPass v. #Johnson #SCOTUS has utterly failed the people in their kowtow. Smh. It's ugly.

Zzyzx/P Jun 23, 2025

There are ways around #unjust and #discriminatory laws. Overturning of #RoeVWade was an #unfair #retrograde step. It #criminalized #abortion and #discriminated against half the population. Keep abortion safe, reinstate the original RvW decision.

#misoprostol #mifepristone #self #internet

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/g-s1-73119/abortion-mifepristone-roe-v-wade

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jun 9, 2025

Should #HateSpeech be #Criminalized?

Lessons from the Canadian experience in R v. Zundel and R v. Keegstra

FIU Law Review, volume 19, issue 3, 2025
48 Pages Posted: 4 Jun 2025
Kenneth Grad
University of Manitoba - Faculty of Law

There is a global trend toward increased use of #criminallaw to combat #hate speech. In assessing this trend, one should be mindful of the experience of countries that have long had criminal laws targeting harmful expression.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5280872

Should Hate Speech be Criminalized? Lessons from the Canadian experience in R v. Zundel and R v. Keegstra

<span>There is a global trend toward increased use of criminal law to combat hate speech. In assessing this trend, one should be mindful of the experience of co

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Jun 2, 2025

How #Kindness Became #Criminalized

https://thedispatch.com/article/homeless-charity-criminalize/

How Kindness Became Criminalized

Even charity now requires a permit.

The Dispatch

The only case where #abortion should be #criminalized is when it's done against the explicit will of the #pregnant person!

#TheirBodyTheirChoice #HotTake #BodilyAutonomy #HerBodyHerChoice

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Apr 23, 2024

#Dominica #HighCourtofJustice #strikesdown #sodomy #law

An #anonymous #gay #man in 2019 #challenged sections of the #country’s #SexualOffensesAct that #criminalized #analsex and “#gross #indecency” with up to 10 years and 12 years in #prison respectively. The #plaintiff argued the #provisions #violated his #constitutionalrights.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Caribbean #Dominica #Courts #Rulings #LoveWins

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/04/23/dominica-high-court-of-justice-strikes-down-sodomy-law/

Dominica High Court of Justice strikes down sodomy law

Gay man challenged statute in 2019

Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈Oct 27, 2023

#Mass #arrests #target #LGBTQ #people in #Nigeria while #abuses against them are #ignored, #activists say.

#Nigeria is one of more than 30 of #Africa’s 54 #countries where #homosexuality is #criminalized in #laws that are broadly supported by the #public.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Nigeria #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/mass-arrests-target-lgbtq-people-nigeria-abuses-are-ignored-activists-rcna122471

Mass arrests target LGBTQ people in Nigeria while abuses against them are ignored, activists say

Law enforcement authorities in Nigeria are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them, rights groups and lawyers say.

NBC News