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The Taliban Are Erasing Women From Public Life

The call by many heads of state to end human rights violations often rings hollow as the violators in so many countries continue to commit such crimes with impunity. When will the international community wake up to the scourge of human rights violations? Human rights violations are a global scourge that have engulfed scores of…

Sudan’s Civil War Ravages The Core Of Our Humanity

The Sudanese civil war is one of the greatest tragedies we are witnessing today. The international community is disgraceful for sitting on its hands, watching with indifference this ongoing humanitarian catastrophe Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023, and so far, several rounds of peace talks have been of no avail in bringing an end…

From A Beacon Of Democracy To Authoritarian Rule

There is a growing consensus among many notable political scientists and historians that America is at a perilous crossroads; Trump has chosen the road that leads to disastrous authoritarianism. The question is what it would take to stop Trump from destroying our democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship For nearly 250 years, despite its…

Trump’s Assault On The UN Is Self-Defeating

It is hard to imagine that there is not a single adult in Trump’s orbit to tell him that withdrawing from the many UN agencies that provide critical humanitarian services undermine rather than advance the US’ national interest and global standing Alon Ben-Meir · Trump's Assault on the UN is Self-Defeating There is no other…

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In autocracies, independent media are often among the first institutions to collapse; in democracies, they are increasingly pressured by economic hardship, digital disinformation, and shrinking spaces for dissent. The consequences have a global chilling effect, where self-censorship and fear become the norm. The tools of repression by authoritarian governments are both blunt and subtle. RSF’s Press Freedom Predators 2025 list includes the following countries where journalists have been incarcerated, tortured, exiled, or killed. ⁠
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#PressFreedom #FreeSpeech #Democracy #Autocracy #Censorship

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In autocracies, independent media are often among the first institutions to collapse; in democracies, they are increasingly pressured by economic hardship, digital disinformation, and shrinking spaces for dissent. The consequences have a global chilling effect, where self-censorship and fear become the norm. The tools of repression by authoritarian governments are both blunt and subtle. RSF’s Press Freedom Predators 2025 list includes the following countries where journalists have been incarcerated, tortured, exiled, or killed. ⁠
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Continue reading my latest article; link in bio.⁠
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#PressFreedom #FreeSpeech #Democracy #Autocracy #Censorship

The irony is that while Netanyahu spent decades trying to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, his devastating onslaught on the Palestinians has produced precisely the opposite. It has rallied the international community to support an independent Palestinian state like never before. ⁠
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#IsraeliPalestinianConflict #IsraelHamasWar #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #WestBank

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The irony is that while Netanyahu spent decades trying to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, his devastating onslaught on the Palestinians has produced precisely the opposite. It has rallied the international community to support an independent Palestinian state like never before. ⁠
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#IsraeliPalestinianConflict #IsraelHamasWar #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #WestBank

Several conditions must be met for the war to end. Sadly, there is no reason to believe that Trump will do anything to end the war. His complicity in the genocide in Gaza speaks volumes about his apathy and callousness. Thus, ending the war would require a nuanced international diplomatic push, especially from the UN and the EU. ⁠
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Several conditions must be met for the war to end. Sadly, there is no reason to believe that Trump will do anything to end the war. His complicity in the genocide in Gaza speaks volumes about his apathy and callousness. Thus, ending the war would require a nuanced international diplomatic push, especially from the UN and the EU. ⁠
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Find out more in my latest article; link in bio.⁠
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#Sudan #SudanCivilWar #HumanRights #Diplomacy

Outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, federal agents, alongside local police, used tear gas, chemical irritants, and projectiles against peaceful demonstrators, volunteer medics, clergy, legal observers, and journalists. This is state violence. Accountability is not optional; it is urgent.⁠
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Outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, federal agents, alongside local police, used tear gas, chemical irritants, and projectiles against peaceful demonstrators, volunteer medics, clergy, legal observers, and journalists. This is state violence. Accountability is not optional; it is urgent.⁠
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#Immigration #Immigrants #UnitedStates #ICE
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Alon Ben-Meir
17 hours ago
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The U.S. State Department has now labeled NHS-funded abortions, gender-affirming care for minors, hate-speech arrests, DEI hiring policies, and even migration programs as “human rights violations.” This drastic shift reverses decades of bipartisan standards for evaluating abuses worldwide. According to The Telegraph, for the first time, countries like the UK will be scrutinized and potentially condemned, simply for providing abortion care or medication. These reports shape U.S. policy, sanctions, and aid, meaning this redefinition could carry real-world consequences for global human rights systems. When a government rewrites human rights to fit ideology, it endangers women, LGBTQ+ communities, migrants, and anyone who relies on objective international protections. If we stay silent while human rights are disregarded, we become complicit in the harm that follows.
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The U.S. State Department has now labeled NHS-funded abortions, gender-affirming care for minors, hate-speech arrests, DEI hiring policies, and even migration programs as “human rights violations.” This drastic shift reverses decades of bipartisan standards for evaluating abuses worldwide. According to The Telegraph, for the first time, countries like the UK will be scrutinized and potentially condemned, simply for providing abortion care or medication. These reports shape U.S. policy, sanctions, and aid, meaning this redefinition could carry real-world consequences for global human rights systems. When a government rewrites human rights to fit ideology, it endangers women, LGBTQ+ communities, migrants, and anyone who relies on objective international protections. If we stay silent while human rights are disregarded, we become complicit in the harm that follows.
#Trump  #LGBT #UnitedStates
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Finally some sanity returning to our world.

This is objective progress.

Guessing all the church bells are not enough?

Good times are back and the crazy people are not in charge anymore

Good

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The 2019 Flamengo fire remains one of the darkest scandals in modern football. Ten boys, ages 14 to 16, died as flames tore through the club’s youth academy in Rio, a facility where children were sleeping in flimsy, highly flammable container units with barred windows and no valid fire permits. Latest investigations now show this tragedy followed years of ignored warnings: safety violations, mounting fines, and even a 2015 lawsuit over dangerous living conditions. Yet despite this record, senior Flamengo officials were acquitted in October, leaving families searching for justice. When a club with Flamengo’s power can defy regulations, expose children to lethal conditions, and still walk away unpunished, it isn’t just failure; it’s a systemic collapse of the justice system and shame on the Rio authority for failing to account for this tragedy. ... See MoreSee Less

The 2019 Flamengo fire remains one of the darkest scandals in modern football. Ten boys, ages 14 to 16, died as flames tore through the club’s youth academy in Rio, a facility where children were sleeping in flimsy, highly flammable container units with barred windows and no valid fire permits. Latest investigations now show this tragedy followed years of ignored warnings: safety violations, mounting fines, and even a 2015 lawsuit over dangerous living conditions. Yet despite this record, senior Flamengo officials were acquitted in October, leaving families searching for justice. When a club with Flamengo’s power can defy regulations, expose children to lethal conditions, and still walk away unpunished, it isn’t just failure; it’s a systemic collapse of the justice system and shame on the Rio authority for failing to account for this tragedy.
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The U.S. State Department’s human rights report was created to show how governments treat their people. But now the Trump administration is changing the purpose of the reports. It has removed key sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence, and LGBTQ+ persecution. It is pressuring embassies to label things like abortion access, gender-affirming care, and diversity programs as “human rights violations,” even though these policies actually protect people. When Washington distorts human rights to fit a political agenda, it affects whether women get essential care, whether LGBTQ+ people are protected, and whether minorities are included. If the U.S. weakens human rights standards, the whole world becomes less safe. Shame on Secretary of State Marco Rubio for following Trump's human rights abuses by allowing this travesty to continue unimpeded.

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The U.S. State Department’s human rights report was created to show how governments treat their people. But now the Trump administration is changing the purpose of the reports. It has removed key sections on political freedoms, corruption, gender-based violence, and LGBTQ+ persecution. It is pressuring embassies to label things like abortion access, gender-affirming care, and diversity programs as “human rights violations,” even though these policies actually protect people. When Washington distorts human rights to fit a political agenda, it affects whether women get essential care, whether LGBTQ+ people are protected, and whether minorities are included. If the U.S. weakens human rights standards, the whole world becomes less safe. Shame on Secretary of State Marco Rubio for following Trumps human rights abuses by allowing this travesty to continue unimpeded.  #LGBTQCommunity #womenrights #Minorities
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Serious question. What extra “protection” do certain people need that is above the protection anyone else gets? That phrase has bothered me for years.

Mental illness is not a human right. It is a human condition that necessitates the appropriate psychiatric treatment for the specific disorder.

Just curious, what right did you loose?

Love it! Hope it is sped up

Can’t erase history

We stand with President Trump.

Protection from what?

Name one thing that has been erased.

Lmfao. It was distorted now it’s being fixed.

Absolutely no one is losing any rights!

"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination" - Thomas Sowell

Why they deserve more protection that normal people?

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Abortion IS a human rights violation, & gender affirming can be abuse. LGBTQ have equal rights, as do all minorities in Western countries. Trump lives in the real world and does not suffer fools lightly.

Never stop 11-25-25

Time to be saved is short, now is the day of salvation, tomorrow could be forever and eternally too late for many. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness 1 Corinthians 1:18. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Psalm 14:1 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Ecclesiastes 7:20 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one" Romans 3:10. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9:27 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 9:17 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:15 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss. Luke 23:41 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:11-13 I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15:1,3-4 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:9-10 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Acts 16:31. We must be brought to true repentance in salvation, coming to the knowledge of the truth that we are not good, but ungodly, guilty and hell deserving sinners, who are totally lost and ruined in our sins before a Holy and righteous God, and powerless to save ourselves. We must see we cannot be saved by any works or doings of our own, and trust fully and alone in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ (God manifest in the flesh) and His atoning blood/finished work of the cross as the only way of our salvation. "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:22. If the Gospel truth that He died for your sins, was buried and rose again the third day according to the scriptures is truly believed, there will be the bearing of good fruit in thought, word and deed of being changed by God. Saved not only from the eternal penalty of our sin but it's habitual power, being made a new creature in Christ who desires Holy worship to a Holy God in Spirit and in truth. Seeking to grow in grace and in the truth of God's Holy Word, conforming more to Christ and His Word and not to this world. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17.

We are not responsible for the world

Please be disciplined and aware of the human rights of gays blacks and Jews on the planet earth 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍

More science fiction courtesy your loving lib fellowship!

Sort of like women's right with Title IX?

Thank goodness for the Trump Administration! Looks like a return to humanity.

Man woman… it’s pretty simple

The ignorance, intentional obtuseness, hatred, and inhumanity that has come to light under this administration is staggering and heartbreaking. I think before people are allowed to vote in the future they should have to read the constitution, take a civics class and be knowledgeable about the history of civil rights including women’s rights.

They did do this and it's very sad .

Things that arent happening ever

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Another wave of school kidnappings has struck Nigeria, first 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi, then more than 300 students and teachers in Niger state. Parents are living a nightmare, waiting for any sign of their children. These are deliberate attacks on education, carried out in a climate where schools remain dangerously unprotected. The UN has condemned the kidnappings, but words are not enough. Condemnations don’t bring children home. Condemnations don’t stop armed groups. What is needed now is concrete, urgent action from Nigerian authorities, real protection, real intelligence, real consequences for those who terrorize children. When the world settles for statements and hollow condemnations instead of action, kidnappers operate with impunity. Children deserve more than sympathy; they need safety.

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Another wave of school kidnappings has struck Nigeria, first 25 schoolgirls in Kebbi, then more than 300 students and teachers in Niger state. Parents are living a nightmare, waiting for any sign of their children. These are deliberate attacks on education, carried out in a climate where schools remain dangerously unprotected. The UN has condemned the kidnappings, but words are not enough. Condemnations don’t bring children home. Condemnations don’t stop armed groups. What is needed now is concrete, urgent action from Nigerian authorities, real protection, real intelligence, real consequences for those who terrorize children. When the world settles for statements and hollow condemnations instead of action, kidnappers operate with impunity. Children deserve more than sympathy; they need safety.  #nigeria
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Everyone agrees - what’s the solution ?

I’m so concerned for those children and their families and teachers…

Prayers 🙏🙏🙏

Lord bless and protect the school kidnapping in Nigeria.

Lifting in Prayer 🙏

Jesus protect the people amen

Prayers

Ohh my God protect them Amen

Ohhh God protect them

God bless you for lending your voice we are going through a lot

G.o.d..You said , You dont slumber or sleep... where is the Destroyer..

Praying

God bless.🙏🙏🙏💖

God protect your children

Send in troops.

Prayers sent 🙏 ❤️

You know what else doesn't bring them home ? Prayers !!!

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🙏🏻♥️☦️🙏🏻♥️☦️Father Please Intervene And Help Them 🙏🏻♥️☦️

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