#Human Rights Violators

[oyet]

Police Tops List of Human Rights Violators in Uganda

In a recent report, it has been revealed that police in Uganda have been identified as the primary violators of human rights. The report highlights that in the year 2023, a total of 176 cases of human rights violations were reported against the law enforcement agency throughout the country.This accounts for 44 percent of all registered cases of human rights violations in Uganda during that…

[the-lady-maddy]

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[botanyshitposts]

Iowa guy of all time

[namespara]

Queen Marika because people dont realise how evil of a girlboss she is. I love power driven evil women helloooo

[ausetkmt]

US Lacks Moral Legitimacy to Lecture Others on Human Rights | Online Version

The United States publishes global human rights reports every year. Referring to allegations of grave human rights violations, the US Treasury Department imposes sanctions on organizations and individuals from different countries. Decision-makers, academics, civil rights activists, and most crucially, the general public, became interested in this issue. Many of them, however, contend that the United States does not have the authority to talk about the human rights of other countries. Such claims cannot be disregarded for a number of reasons. Some believe that regardless of the human rights situation in China, Bangladesh, or other nations, there are logical reasons to question the right of the United States to speak out on human rights matters. When the United States, the human rights trader, discusses the human rights of other nations, the adage "the pot calling the kettle black" immediately comes to mind. Does the US government have the moral right to impose sanctions on others when its stance on international human rights standards is questioned and numerous human rights crimes are committed by its defense and security agencies? The mantra "war means peace" has inspired many cases of cold-blooded murder without following any legal procedure in different parts of the world. The US administration tries to justify meddling in other countries or the extrajudicial killing of civilians under the guise of "fighting terrorism and maintaining national security”. In January 2020, military strategist General Soleimani's killing in a US drone strike in Iraq was one of the prime examples of "state terrorism." It is believed that the aspiration of America to build an empire in the Middle East was thwarted by this general. This "targeted killing" is against international laws and conventions relating to legally protected persons adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1973.

On August 29 of last year, the US launched a drone attack on a vehicle in Kabul, suspecting the location of IS militants. Ten civilians, including three adults and seven children, were killed in that attack. US Central Command General Kenneth McKenzie later described the incident as a "tragic mistake," but he refused to prosecute anyone for the extrajudicial killings. In the 20 years following 9/11, US drones and airstrikes have reportedly killed at least 22,000 civilians, according to a recent report from The Guardian newspaper. As a result, the rationality of US counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan and other nations of the Middle East has been called into question.

American society is constantly confronted with racial discrimination, extrajudicial killings, and police brutality. A culture of impunity for extrajudicial killings also exists. Despite having a reputation as a "champion of democracy and human rights," the US is failing to uphold these rights within its own borders. Racism and police violence have long been problems in America. In essence, Western white perceptions of blacks are still stuck in slavery and colonialism. In May 2020, the death of George Floyd, a black man, by a white police officer in the city of Minneapolis in the United States during the pandemic caused intense protests around the world. The way black people are shot dead by the police without trial and choked to death with boots around their necks, human rights scream, "We can't breathe."

According to a Washington Post survey, only 13 percent of Americans are black. But their death rate from police shootings is more than double that of whites. A black man, woman, or kid is killed extra-judicially every 28 hours in America, according to a report dubbed "Operation Ghetto Storm." Unfortunately, racial profiling is still a legal practice in several US states.

The socioeconomic structure in America today is identical to the apartheid system in South Africa, according to Robert Reich, Clinton's secretary of labor. White-black discrimination exists in the very structure of the state and social order. Barack Obama once said, "Racism is profoundly ingrained in our society and related to our history and it is the worst chapter of our history."

RAB in Bangladesh has been charged by the US Treasury Department with missing 600 individuals between 2009 and 2021. However, 612,846 people went missing in the USA in 2018, according to statistics from the National Crime Information Center of the USA. Among them, 85,000,459 (sic) Americans have gone missing just in December. In the United States, gun violence has escalated into a serious social issue that cannot be stopped. The number of fatalities was 19,384 in 2020, the most since 1968.The most comprehensive data on gun attacks in the United States, according to the US-based research institute Pew Research Center, was available in 2020. A total of 45,222 people lost their lives in such incidents in that year, which is an increase of 14% from the previous year, 25% from five years prior, and 43% from ten years prior.

The Washington Post reported that since 2015, police had killed 1,000 people on average annually in the United States. Gun Violence Archive, a statistical website, reports that 1,120 people were killed by police in 2020, yet in 99% of those incidents, no charges were filed. Ironically, in criminal and civil cases, police personnel are afforded special legal protections under American law. As a result, these murderers go unpunished.

New questions have been raised about the role of the US police since the public is in a state of panic as a result of regular gun incidents. Human rights organizations accuse the government of failing to stop these crimes. Amnesty International claims that the current "castle doctrine" and "stand my ground" laws are making the issue even worse. So, it is time for the US administration to concentrate on fixing the crisis in its own country before offering counsel or advice to others.

Since the US and its allies launched military operations dubbed "War on Terror" in 2001 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria in the name of democracy, they have killed hundreds of thousands of people, injured millions more, uprooted tens of millions of people, and triggered humanitarian catastrophes. Approximately 209,000 Iraqi civilians perished in wars and other violent conflicts between 2003 and 2021, while 9.2 million Iraqis became refugees, according to Statista, a global statistical database.

US violations of human rights are clearly demonstrated by the deaths of innocent Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans, and Syrians at the hands of American soldiers. Further evidence may be found in the videos, which show the way the US troops abused detainees at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, and the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Several countries including Israel, the United Kingdom, Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen, and Zambia, have been identified to host covert US federal prisons.

To address the widespread issue of enforced disappearances by law enforcement agencies, a global accord known as the "Enforced Disappearance Pact" was formed in 2010. Surprisingly, only 13 EU Member States adopted the "ICPPED" Convention ten years later, in 2020. The United States has consistently been a strong voice for democracy and human rights on a global scale. The US, however, acts like a buzzed witness when it comes to its allies. For instance, Israel, one of the USA's closest friends, continues to violate the rights of Palestinians, including through torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, and denial of legal rights. However, the USA chose to ignore this. Therefore, it is logical to assume that the US uses democracy and human rights as levers to subjugate nations.

Somalia, Sudan, Palau, and the United States are among the nations that have not ratified the International Convention on Human Rights on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). That means the United States lags behind Somalia and Sudan in terms of enacting laws that protect women.

To sum up, the United States' continual disregard for the human rights situation in its own country while lecturing others is nothing more than a strategy to maintain pressure on the targeted nations in order to achieve its foreign policy goal. If the US truly wants to be considered a "genuine" defender of human rights, it must avoid the violations, ambivalence, and "immoral" parts of its foreign policy that cast doubt on its role in defending democracy and human rights.

[claraameliapond]

Palestinian child rescued from under the rubble after being trapped for nine days.

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[alwaysbewoke]

wow. "chiquita" and "death squads" are not things i expected to see in the same sentence.

[the-lady-maddy]

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[native-orchid]

I'm writing a book called "Navigating Modern Medicine From Outside the Binary" and it's currently listed for #presale from GreasyGrass Cooperative Press, the first Indigenous-led nonprofit printing cooperative of its kind.

I've been a part of GreasyGrass since the beginning, and am thrilled to announce that we also have an Intersex Visibility/Pride pack that is here just in time for Intersex Awareness Day, which is October 26.

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[reimenaashelyee]

Hello! I would like to know why you support Palestine over Israel especially since Israel gives equal rights and freedom to LGBTQA++ people and women.

I don't know anon, my home country Malaysia doesn't legally support LGBTQA+ people and discriminates against women too... The logic / gotcha you're trying to imply from your question falls apart for anyone who lives in a socially conservative country (which is the majority of the world btw). Do you also agree the lives and rights of myself, other queer Malaysians and other Malaysians have less value objectively and in a conflict, should be killed indiscriminately because our country is LGBTQA+ intolerant? Yes or no? Get off anon and tell me to my face right now. The lives and safety of civilian people and children are unconditional. Just because a country has a better position on some social rights doesn't mean it is absolved or excused from performing war crimes and other human right violations. See: the US, UK, Australia etc. Folks are free to call out those wrongs whenever they occur. If your sense of justice, empathy and compassion is dependent on zero sum games and conditionality and no nuance, then you're not practising justice, empathy or compassion, but total arrogance and regressiveness. There is no argument to be had here.

[cry-ptidd]

The Hellsing family and its leaders

[surfacage]

can you maybe chill

[beemovieerotica]

so I guess if you describe a decades-long international crisis involving multiple world powers as "complex" then somebody on tumblr is gonna be like "umm where is the complexity here?" to try and gotcha you?

and then you realize that their idea of simplicity is based solely on declaring who is morally at fault, and having decided that and posting about it online they're relieved the burden of ever conceptualizing an actual outcome to everything going on, because their activism begins and ends with identifying the "good guys" versus "bad guys" and not talking about what the fuck is supposed to happen next, and definitely not addressing any of the actual core political problems or history therein that have enabled this genocide

[alwaysbewoke]

[nekhcore]

conflict of interest

i like to imagine that misha and estinien have a lot of beef around the whole "the second azure dragoon chose to be a bard instead" thing. but after seeing estinien nearly fall to nidhogg, misha refuses to take that risk with himself. it scares him more than anything else.