FROM this week’s news ON: human rights and humanitarian aid [Note: Content Warning - links to distressing reports on this topic including CSA. 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. 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/. 

Note: in my “from the news” posts, quotes are shown italicised and blue, my comments are in a different shade of blue, and “good” items are shown in green. I have loosely grouped the posts where such seemed reasonable, but that is subjective (i.e., my opinion - others are free to disagree), and challenging, as some posts belong in multiple “groups”.

From this week’s news on human rights and humanitarian aid (note: I may continue to add links for a few days, possibly up to a week, after these are published), noting that many issues have probably not made it into the news that I see: 

• “For families of LGBTQ+ hate crime victims, our tragic loss was compounded by NSW police who turned away with a ‘sorry, mate’ | Steve Johnson | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/01/nsw-gay-hate-crimes-special-inquiry-1970-2010-police-response   Those police - and all who are similar elsewhere - are not serving their community, and are morally unfit to wear that uniform    

• Ukraine is not a perfect place: this shows the problems that existed before the Russian invasion, and that still exist there - and ultimately equal marriage needs to be legalised:   “Same-sex couples fight for civil unions to be legalised in Ukraine | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/31/same-sex-couples-fight-for-civil-unions-to-be-legalised-in-ukraine   

• “Howard government worked with Canada to oppose UN declaration on Indigenous rights | Cabinet papers | The Guardian”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/01/howard-government-canada-un-declaration-indigenous-rights   The current government needs to distance itself from that appalling act of political savagery by endorsing the Declaration   

• “Footage from 2022 Banksia Hill riot shows "outrageous child abuse", says Amnesty International”   https://nit.com.au/03-01-2024/9206/newly-revealed-footage-from-2022-banksia-hill-riot-shows-outrageous-child-abuse-says-amnesty-international   and   “Prison Inspector calls for overhaul of WA juvenile detention system”   https://nit.com.au/03-01-2024/9197/prison-inspector-calls-for-overhaul-of-wa-juvenile-detention-system   
  

• a YouTube short“” on signing that can save lives   https://m.youtube.com/shorts/LaXd48bdj0U   Note: this would be US sign language - sign languages vary across the globe (see here, here, and here), so check with a suitable organisation in your nation  

My links for activism post may aid any activism  you may decide to do on any/all of these. 

 

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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