From the news on: human rights [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on human rights abuses, CSA, bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Content shown in green (which may be only part of a news story) is about what is generally considered “good news”, but personal history may still make such events triggering. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/.  

From the news on human rights: 

• “Losing Our Right to Protest”   https://www.okdoomer.io/losing-the-right-to-protest/   “You're far more likely to get arrested if you're protesting against neoliberal interests”  
  

• “Queensland Police Union willing to challenge officer misconduct rulings after ‘unmitigated debacle’”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/16/queensland-police-union-willing-to-challenge-officer-misconduct-rulings-after-unmitigated-debacle   Although there is a need or justice to be fair, the seeming attitude of police ignoring extraordinary powers (including of death and disability - including disabling through discrimination) to pretend they are the same as other workers is gravely concerning, and weakens the safety of minorities (including women) and thus democracy, in my opinion.
  

• This is not the first article on this problem:   “Cars are a ‘privacy nightmare on wheels’. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data”   https://theconversation.com/cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-heres-how-they-get-away-with-collecting-and-sharing-your-data-214386   

• A notorious social media platform has been “fined $610,500 in Australia first for failing to crack down on [CSA] material”   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/16/x-fined-610500-in-australia-first-for-failing-to-crack-down-on-child-sexual-abuse-material   

• “‘They treat you like an it’: people with intellectual disability on seeing medical professionals”   https://theconversation.com/they-treat-you-like-an-it-people-with-intellectual-disability-on-seeing-medical-professionals-210889   
  

• “World Bank to implement LGBTQ safeguards before new Uganda funding resumes”   https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/world-bank-implement-lgbtq-safeguards-before-new-uganda-funding-resumes-2023-10-16/   
  

• “Housing Is A Global Wealth Apocalypse”   https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/the-global-housing-squeeze-a-generational-wealth-apocalypse-d01ceaab8905   
  

• “US man wrongfully imprisoned for 16 years shot and killed by police”   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/17/georgia-leonard-cure-killed-police   
  

• “Government's ability to deport migrants with disability to face review, after Greens' push”   https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/governments-ability-to-deport-migrants-with-disability-to-face-review-after-greens-push/ajdz6o0gk    

• a The Guardian exclusive reports that “Labor to speed up new anti-racism strategy amid voice and Israel-_____ war tensions”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/20/labor-to-speed-up-new-anti-racism-strategy-amid-voice-and-israel-_____-war-tensions   “Exclusive: Multicultural affairs minister Andrew Giles ‘very concerned’ about social cohesion in Australia ‘given the events of recent weeks’”   

• Liberal MP “Bridget Archer says [her party’s leader] Dutton appears to be ‘weaponising’ child abuse for ‘political advantage’”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/19/bridget-archer-says-peter-dutton-call-royal-commission-child-abuse-indigenous-communities-appears-to-be-weaponising-for-political-advantage   “The Liberal backbencher says Peter Dutton’s call for a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities is divisive and inconsistent”   - see also   ““This is not what First Nations people want"”: Coalition of groups attack Peter Dutton's call for a Royal Commission”   https://nit.com.au/19-10-2023/8231/this-is-not-what-first-nations-people-want-coalition-of-groups-attack-peter-duttons-call-for-a-royal-commission  

From my links for activism post to aid any activism you decide to do:

• on HUMAN RIGHTS (noting the various rights and treaties summarised here, IHL, Article 5 of the Rome Statute founding the ICC):
  
• noting Article 19 of the ICCPR on FREEDOM of POLITICAL EXPRESSION
  
  
• noting the Yogyakarta Principles on LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE
  
  
• noting ICERD and DRIP on RACISM
  
  
• noting Article 17 of the ICCPR,   Article 16 of the CRC,   Article 22 of the CRPD,   and   Article 12 (1) of the DRIP on PRIVACY
  
  
• noting the CRC on CHILDREN

Don't forget to check whether your nation has ratified any relevant conventions/treaties/etc. 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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Remember: we need to be more human being rather than human doing, and all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk.