Saturday 23 March 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”.

Fromm 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: 

  • “UN leaders galvanize action for reparations for people of African descent”   https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147821   “Reparatory justice must tackle the grave human rights violations deeply entrenched in the legacy of colonialism and enslavement, the General Assembly heard”   

 

 

 

  • “Why are people accusing JK Rowling of Holocaust denial?”   https://transwrites.world/accusing-jk-rowling-of-holocaust-denial/   “This kind of rhetoric only has one outcome in my opinion. One we’ve been able to measure as we watch the statistics regarding hate crimes against trans people continue to rise at a staggering rate”    


  • “Q&A: Is it time for scientists to rethink how they study sex in research?”   https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/15/sex-research-male-female-scientists-cell/   “We often talk about sex as though it’s an actual part of the body that can be located, that can then have an effect on that individual’s health. Actually, sex is something that we assign as a set of categories.    ...   When we start talking about sex being complex, people assume that we’re talking about sex and gender minorities like trans people, gender-diverse people, people with intersex variations. And, yes, we are talking about those people. But we’re also talking about cisgender bodies. Women aren’t a one-size-fits-all. There’s a great deal of variation among women for all kinds of reasons. And that variation is worth understanding and worth engaging with if we want to actually address gender disparities in health.”  


 



 

  • “Attempts to access Kate Middleton’s medical records are no surprise. Such breaches are all too common”   https://theconversation.com/attempts-to-access-kate-middletons-medical-records-are-no-surprise-such-breaches-are-all-too-common-226303   “Best practice digital health systems typically try to restrict ... access   ...   Large health-care providers and insurers, including major hospitals or chains of hospitals, have a worrying history of digital breaches.   ...   we need to incentivise Australian organisations to improve how they handle sensitive health data   ...   so organisations act as responsible custodians rather than negligent owners of health data.   We also need to step-up enforcement of data breaches and make it easier for victims to sue for breaches of privacy.”   Also, data needs only to be held IF it is genuinely necessary - thinking of company access to medical information   


  • “What is the problem with a non-compete clause?”   https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/work/2024/03/21/non-compete-clause-problems   “There have been moves to ban them in the US and Austria, and the UK along with other European countries are proposing to enhance regulation with mandatory limitations and transparency.   In Australia, Treasury has expressed concern in response to findings in the government’s “2023 Employment White Paper” that non-compete restraints are “potentially hampering job mobility, innovation, and wages growth in industries where they are prevalent”.   ...   the presumption at common law – which is the law created by court decisions and precedents – is that they are void and unenforceable unless they are protecting a legitimate business interest”   The article assesses specific issues and possible actions - including political   


 

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.

 

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 & 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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