Mastodawn

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-say-israel-based-human-rights-groups

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

The Guardian

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 24

"There is little doubt that Israel’s actions are sufficient to meet the requirements for genocidal conduct."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/24/israel-genocide-gaza

Why the reluctance to recognize Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

A narrow understanding of the term, as well as Israel’s history as a haven for genocide victims, explains the dissonance

The Guardian

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 24

Excellent overview of the region that’s likely the next target of Putin’s murderous imperialism - and of nations that offer some inspiration and hope for confronting it. Well written and widely sourced, it’s sympathetic to the cause but presents the nuances and doubts fairly. #books

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 14

"It is a concentration camp."
- Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/israel-humanitarian-city-rafah-gaza-camp-ehud-olmert

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM

Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

The Guardian

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 11

Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in #Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison, including beatings, solitary confinement, and lack of medical care.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/07/11/cuba-protesters-detail-abuses-in-prison

Cuba: Protesters Detail Abuses in Prison

Protesters detained for participating in the peaceful July 2021 protests in Cuba have been subject to serious abuses in prison.

Human Rights Watch

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 11

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the fight of the century – the battle of our lives – here in the sold-out EU arena in Brussels...
https://youtu.be/ET7irlmCkDY

The Big Battle of Brussels

YouTube

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 10

An epic battle for the future - in my Daily Brief today…
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/07/10?story=paragraph-11121

The Big Battle of Brussels: Daily Brief

The fate of a key EU law that helps fight global warming is now in the hands of the European Parliament. Will parliamentarians succumb to lobbying by powerful industries? Read Andrew Stroehlein in Human Rights Watch’s Daily Brief:

Human Rights Watch

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 9

In South Korea the system is rigged against older people. My Daily Brief:
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2025/07/09?story=paragraph-11102

Punished for Getting Older : Daily Brief

South Korea’s employment system is rigged against older people. Read Andrew Stroehlein in Human Rights Watch’s Daily Brief:

Human Rights Watch

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 9

As if there’s not enough hate in this world already, they built a hate-spewing bot…
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/

Elon Musk's Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

The Atlantic

Andrew Stroehlein Jul 9

This will be the topic of my Daily Brief later today...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/09/south-korea-peak-wage-system-raise-retirement-age-elderly-workers-poverty

‘Punishing workers for getting old’: how South Korea’s wage system impoverishes the elderly

As nation moves to raise retirement age, new report warns the real problem isn’t when people retire, but how

The Guardian

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