Saturday, 13 January 2024

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

  • “Global Rights Crises Deepen as World Leaders Shy Away”   https://youtu.be/3G7Mz7Marxk?si=J_pW9zioxBJdf2jP   “Global leaders have failed to take strong stands to protect human rights during 2023, a year of some of the worst crises and challenges in recent memory, with deadly consequences, Human Rights Watch said ... in its World Report 2024. Governments should stop engaging in transactional diplomacy and do their utmost to uphold universal human rights principles.”    

 

 


  • “Tasmania’s conversion practices bill is worse than useless”   https://qnews.com.au/tasmanias-conversion-practices-bill-is-worse-than-useless/   “The Tasmanian Government has released a draft law that is supposed to stop conversion practices but will actually encourage them.   ...   After nineteen long months of drafting, the Government has issued a bill that not only doesn’t come up to the TLRI’s standards (only 3 of its 13 recommendations were acted on), but looks more like it was drafted by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL)”   


  • “Why Your Outrage About Cultural Appropriation Is a Sad Waste of Time”   https://medium.com/the-point-of-view/why-your-outrage-about-cultural-appropriation-is-a-sad-waste-of-time-eb275f6441c3   “You’re being distracted from real issues. If you want change, focus your righteous efforts on global exploitation   ...   I grew up in a time when people wore insignias of other cultures to show their appreciation or (emotional) closeness to that culture.   My father is Nigerian. Much to his delight, my mum, who is Austrian, wore traditional Nigerian clothes on important occasions”   Excellent commentary on the difference between appreciation/closeness vs. appropriation  




My links for activism post may aid any activism you may decide to do on any/all of these. If you do, don’t get too fixated on specific instances of problems - important though they may well be: take a moment to also consider the broader issues these incidents and groups of incidents may suggest/reveal.

 

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.

 

My links for activism post may aid any activism you may decide to do on any/all of these. If you do, don’t get too fixated on specific instances of problems - important though they may well be: take a moment to also consider the broader issues these incidents and groups of incidents may suggest/reveal.

 

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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 & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering”.

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