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little-baski · 21 days

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BASKAR KLEIN -- twin peaks -- HAUNTED

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full name: Baskar Reza Klein nickname: Baski name meaning: Baskar is an Indian name meaning "Sun; Very Knowledgeable and skilled person; Bright and Radiant", Reza is a Persian name meaning "the fact of being pleased or contented; contentment, approval", and Klein is a Dutch surname meaning "little". age & date of birth: 27 years old, 14th of April gender & pronouns: agender, they/he ethnicity: half Indonesian, half Dutch nationality: British & Indonesian passport born in JAKARTA, INDONESIA last known residence KING'S LYNN, UNITED KINGDOM family: Sebastian & Lydia Klein [ grandparents ], Joost Klein [ father, deceased ], Citra Batubara [ mother, deceased ], Bulan & Santoso Batubara [ grandparents ], Abhati Rahmawati [ older sister ], Naina Wahyu [ older sister ] last known occupation: bartender

on the island since: 2 days after Mariexplosion power: enhanced hearing

hair colour: dark brown eye colour: brown physicality: lean clothing style: reference later

HISTORY:

[ murder mention tw, death mention tw, supernatural stalking tw, infidelity mention tw ]

CHILDHOOD

Born Baskar Reza Klein, youngest child of Joost Klein, a second generation immigrant from the UK, and Citra Batubara, a local woman and a school teacher, in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 14th of April 1995.

Has two older sisters who are 18 and 13 years their senior, with the first one out of the house and married before Baskar turned one. Before they turned six, their eldest sister Abhati immigrated to the United States where she now has three children, and their other sister Naina immigrated to Singapore and has one child.

Their mother was a beautiful woman, even nearing her forties she did not loose the look that made her so wanted: petite, flowing hair, and a dazzling smile, many wondered why she stayed with her husband, who had been balding and turning grey by thirty-five.

[ murder tw ] When Baskar was six, they watched their father kill their mother in the backyard with a shovel before running off into the night. According to the police his body was later found near the beach.

The exact motives wouldn’t be revealed until a few years later when a DNA test showed Baskar was not biologically related to their father after a letter was found containing details of Laji’s affair.

Before that however, the family got into a legal battle for custody of the youngest child. For three years he lived in a home until his grandparents, his father’s parents, won.

ADOLESCENT

His grandparents stayed with him in Indonesia until he was fourteen. Then they moved to the UK.

The reason behind the move was that Baskar had begun to display odd behaviour speaking of a man who looked like his father bringing him to school and picking him up, or watching him at football practice. He insisted that the man was really there but his grandparents and others were never able to spot him.

In the UK the behaviour didn’t change, he still insisted his father was following him.

The day after his sixteenth birthday his father asked him to come away with him. To which Baskar said no. He hadn’t minded his father's company when he’d been a boy, but as he grew older he’d begun to fear this man.

His father kept asking, and later turned to measures to create distance between Baskar and the people around him. He’d harass classmates, break things and blame Baskar for it, and deliberately steal things he’d borrowed from others. It still did not make Baskar agree to his offer.

[ murder tw ] Half a year later, his father murdered his classmate and his crush in the woods behind the grandparent’s house. Baskar found them when it was already too late, and remained with the body until the cops showed up.

Despite there being no evidence that Baskar had done it, he was still arrested and put on trial. Just after his eighteenth birthday the judge delivered the verdict that he was innocent.

The damage had already been done. And his grandparents offered him no respite. Baskar left.

ADULTHOOD

Baskar moved around the UK for the decade to come, settling in new places, starting new careers, learning new skills, even attempting to study twice. But his father always found him. And if not his father, then someone in his circle would dig up the articles about the murder and he wouldn’t know anymore if they believed him or if they thought he was truly capable of that. So he’d cut ties and move again.

He learned how to cope, how to make connections fast, and not to feel too sad when he had to end them. Yet he still lived in fear, fear that his father would appear and ask him: “Do you want to come away with me?”

HEADCANONS:

Their favourite movie is Inside Out. They haven’t seen Inside Out 2 yet. They are pretty sad they probably won’t ever see it. (Will be very grateful to anyone who has seen it and can tell them the plot).

They will tell people to call them Baski like their friends do. None of their friends ever called them that before they suggested it but most of them would comply.

Always has an escape plan. Even on the island when they believe they don't need one.

When they first get their power they ‘hear voices’ and currently they think aside from being able to hear everything, they can hear ghosts.

They’re a very bad liar. They don't like to lie at all.

They were born in Indonesia, but they haven't been back since they were fourteen. They tried really hard to retain their accent but after four years in a town near Bristol they lost it.

Studied (or tried to at least) electrical engineering and later robotics but dropped out because of their father’s haunting.

They are a decent singer and love karaoke.

They moved around a lot since they turned 18, never staying in a place for longer than 2 years (mostly in the UK). They’ve developed interesting methods to try and fit in quickly because of it.

#intro

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crossdreamers · 2 years

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Countries with laws that target transgender and gender nonconforming people

Human Rights Watch provides and overview, with maps, over countries with anti-LGBTQ laws.

The maps are helpful for queer and trans people who want to know where it is safe (or “safish”) to travel.

This is what HRC has to say about transgender and gender nonconforming people:

Among countries that expressly forbid expression of transgender identities, at least three, Brunei, Oman and Kuwait, have national laws that criminalize “posing as” or “imitating” a person of a different sex. Saudi Arabia has no codified law, but police routinely arrest people based on their gender expression.

Malaysia also criminalizes “posing as” a different sex, not in its federal criminal code but in the Sharia codes of each of its states and its federal territory. Nigeria criminalizes transgender and gender nonconforming people in its northern states under Sharia.

In South Sudan, such laws only apply to men who “dress as women” and in Malawi, men who wear their hair long. Tonga prohibits any “male person” from presenting as a female while “soliciting for an immoral purpose, in a public place with intent to deceive any other person as to his true sex.”

In the United Arab Emirates, laws prohibit men “posing as” women in order to enter women-only spaces. The UAE has used this law to prosecute gay and transgender people even in mixed-gender spaces. Other countries with similar laws on “women-only” spaces have not done so, to our knowledge, and are not included in these maps.

Back in 2019, ILGA presented a report listing 13 countries with so-called “crossdressing laws”: Brunei, Gambia, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Oman, South Sudan, Tonga, and the United Arab Emirates. Human Dignity Trust also includes Sri Lanka.

Given these countries do not accept the identities of trans people, this means that all gender variant people are at risk, including transgender men and women who have transitioned.

In addition to these there are quite a few countries and states that have laws and policies in place that aim at marginalizing transgender people, but who do not directly ban gender variance. This applies to destinations like Russia, Poland, Hungary, Texas and Arizona.

HRC overview with maps here.

Photo: xijian

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtqa #politics #essential #transphobia #nonbinary #gender nonconforming

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isittigerortigger · 2 years

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HELLO. I need to rant about what happened after I went to a remote area with no single internet connection. Its been a hell of a week and the situations convinced me that I really need to take a break from the internet.

TRIGGER WARNING: violence, stupid politician, abusive relationship, pedhopile, child grooming

So basically, THESE happened:

More than 125 people died in a football match in my country. It was the result of anarchist supporters, violent police and lack of security from the organizer. This is a devastating news from the football community even FIFA had to rise half flags on their headquarter.

Even worse, the Indonesian Football Community (PSSI) didn’t say a single word about the victims. There’s no deep condolences expressed from the head commitee to the public. They just hoped that FIFA won’t ban Indonesia from throwing the U-20 World Cup next year. Fucking speechless

The so called ‘marriage goals’ influencers surprisingly has a long history of abuse. Last week, the husband reportedly choked on his wife and slammed her to the floor. They have a baby together.

EVEN WORSE, ANOTHER FUCKING LOCAL YOUTUBER MADE A PRANK ABOUT THIS by making a fake report to the police where the wife came to the station with fake bruises. Now the internet is cancelling them. Abusive relationship is not a joke! I’m proud for not having a time to watch their trashy contents.

A soap opera actor defended himself for dating a 14 year old girl. He is 30.

Ned Fulmer (or whatever his last name is) was fired from the Try Guys for infidelity. The other Try Guys are not having it at all. RIP true love

#tw in the post #its been a week #a tiring week #pray for the people who died that day #they don’t deserve this #also fuck ned #he was the one who made me believe in love #how dare he #try guys #and fuck PSSI #eat my shit #indonesia #fifa #football

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cits-ocs · 1 year

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I don't use this acc very often but it's 3 AM rn, I want to ramble about my characters. No pinned post about each of them yet, so I'll use this as an opportunity to get people to know my fellas.

We'll start off with Andres and Indah, my two OCs who I've been focusing on a lot, since a lot happens in their story. I'm going to start from how they were conceived and how they are now.

Back in June 2021, I was reading Legs That Won't Walk, a Korean BL that involved gang members and stuff. I was getting angry from it, because man was it just so toxic but I was like, "I'll make characters that aren't as toxic as them!"

Lo and behold, my 2021 design of Indah and Andres, respectively. (Fun fact I designed Andres off of a picrew I made of him. Indah's hair was just bullshitted.)

Indah back then was just cold, not necessarily apathetic. Like the kinda mean sort of bad boy. Andres stayed the same-ish, he's just a mean goober.

So, we got the designs and personality. Now it's backstory time...

In 2021, I was also sort of interested in human trafficking? It will come into play later, but basically I decided their backstories will be darker than the usual. Like, besides domestic abuse, there's going to be actual crimes.

Their backstories were ROUGH, the worst part is I didn't even have a solid story. Just a stupid vague one and nothing ever stuck, it was just a mist. Since I didn't have a story when developing their backstories, the backstories were more fleshed out than the actual story.

Anyways, let's talk about their original awful backstories, starting with...

Andres P. Matay!

(I removed "Cris" in his name since I ended up having a character whose nickname is Cris.)

He's a Filipino, grew up in the Mindanao part of the Philippines. He had a twin sister, but his dad and mom separated and the mom left to go somewhere and took the sister. So now, it's just him and his dad. They're poor, so his dad had to do multiple jobs to keep them going.

One day, when he was like 13 or so, he came home and saw the police outside his house. Turns out, his dad's been murdering people and using their meat for food. Like, the food Andres ate that contained meat? Yeah, human meat. Now his dad is in jail and he doesn't want to eat meat because he's afraid it's gonna be human meat. So he has no dad now, he's gonna be in the care of social workers.

He was put in an orphanage (or was just a squatter kid. I don't know, I had 2 ideas for this part) and ran away, but then he meets his uncle, who he thought was going to help him. Nah, his uncle kidnaps him. Now here's where my interest in human trafficking came in! He's sent out to be a child soldier.

For some context, in 2017, there was actually this thing called the Marawi war. I was pretty young at the time so I didn't care for it, but the basic gist is there were ISIS terrorists so there was a war in that city.

Andres was supposed to be a child soldier in that war, sent out by ISIS. (There were actually reports of child soldiers in the war) and yeah, long story short, shit horrified him. After the war was over, he had nothing, because the city he lived in is in ruins and he has no relatives to help him. He's skilled with guns so he becomes a criminal, ends up as a hitman. That was his bsckstory.

I made drastic changes lol, because it was just too edgy.

Now it's time for...

Mohammed Indah Monanandara!

(I actually thought "Mohd" was legit just the name but it's just a short version of Mohammed... He wasn't even muslim anymore when he changed his name.)

Okay, this one is like, edgy for the sake of edgy. I'll keep it short because I didn't even think of his backstory as much as Andres.

TRIGGER WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF RAPE OR SEXUAL ASSAULT

Indah is half-Thai, half-Indonesian. Why? I was active in this server during 2021, and one of the people there was Thai and I was watching Nanno too, so I was like "hm Thailand seems cool" but I forgot where the Indonesia part came from, but the Thai part came after Indonesia. Also that friend made me his surname (I just checked now and it's actually spelled "Monanandra" but ehhh...). Anyways he grew up in Indonesia, in Jakarta. He was also born a girl, this comes into play later.

He had a normal family and was a smart student. Until when he was in highschool, his father suddenly got into debt with like a gang. They lost money. I forgot how this ties into the next part, but the next part is one day, Indah gets confessed to by a male classmate of his. He declines. After school, the classmate and his friends found him alone on the school campus and... SA'd him. Then he got pregnant. Then he gave birth to a child (he kept her).

I was inspired by the first episode of Nanno season 2. Spoilers for Nanno, but first ep, Nanno curses this playboy guy to get pregnant. When I saw the stuff, the idea just popped in.

After that part of his backstory, it was really just empty stuff? I had the vague idea wherein he gets trafficked too or something, and then meets this gang leader who helps him out, etc. etc. Now he's a high ranking gang member.

In his revamp, I only kept the first few parts, then just filled in the rest of the empty spots. Why did I keep the SA part even though it kind of felt... weird? Because I have a friend who likes Indah and relates to him because of that. So, I felt obligated to just keep it in.

Ok this post is like very long and took me almost an hour to write.

Fun fact, Monanandara is spelled as "มรอนันตรา" and means "eternal death" which is very cool

Part 2 will be the next

Part 2, I'll mainly talk about how I revamped them and how they are currently compared to their 2021 versions. And I'm going to start tagging my posts with my characters' names

#original characters #oc #ocs #original character #text post #text #andres matay #indah monanandara #tw sa

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kp777 · 1 year

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated 12:23 PM EDT, September 15, 2023Share

Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat, with plans to continue through the weekend. The protests — driven by several mostly youth-led, local and global climate groups and organizations, including Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement — were taking place in dozens of countries and hundreds of cities worldwide. In Quezon City in the Philippines, activists lay in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in protest, and held signs demanding fossil fuels — from coal to natural gas — be phased out. Outside the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources office in Jakarta, Indonesia, protesters held signs calling for end to dirty fuels and greenwashing as police officers looked on. In Sweden, climate activists gathered in front of Parliament, just next to the Royal Palace where Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf was celebrating his 50th anniversary on the throne. Their chants about “climate justice” could be heard in the palace courtyard as the king watched the changing of the guard during the golden jubilee celebrations. And in Democratic Republic of the Congo, dozens joined a protest march through the city of Goma, shouting slogans and waving banners and placards calling for an end to corporate control of fossil fuels. The Congolese government caused an uproar among environmentalists last year by putting 30 oil and gas blocks up for auction, including 13 blocks crisscrossing through protected areas and national parks. The Congo Basin forest absorbs 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide — about 4% of global emissions — some of which would be released into the atmosphere if the areas are cleared for oil and gas drilling. A week before the planned protest, the United Nations warned that countries are way off track to curb warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, as agreed in Paris in 2015. The world has warmed at least 1.1 degrees (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since then.

Over the past few months, Earth broke its daily average heat record several times according to one metric, July was the hottest month ever on record, and the Northern Hemisphere summer was declared the hottest on record. Dozens of extreme weather events — from Hurricane Idalia in the southeastern United States to torrential flooding in Delhi in India — are believed to have been made worse by human-caused climate change. Another major strike is planned to take place Sunday in New York, to coincide with the city’s Climate Week and the U.N. climate summit. Climate activists have organized similar worldwide strikes in recent years, where protesters from different nations join together on a single day.

#climate emergency #climate crisis #climate change #climate protest

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beardedmrbean · 2 years

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YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding school with a mission that seems out of place in a nation with more Muslim citizens than any other. Its students are transgender women.

It is a rare oasis of LGBTQ acceptance – not only in Indonesia, but across the far-flung Muslim world. Many Muslim nations criminalize gay sex — including World Cup host Qatar. LGBTQ people routinely are rejected by their families, denounced by Islamic authorities, hounded by security forces, and limited to clandestine social lives. Appeals for change from LGBTQ-friendly nations are routinely dismissed as unwarranted outside interference.

Yogyakarta's Al-Fatah Islamic school was founded 14 years ago by Shinta Ratri, a trans woman who struggled with self-doubts in her youth, wondering if her gender transition was sinful.

She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in biology, then devoted herself to enabling other trans women to study Islam. Initially, there were 20 students at the school, and now about 60 – many of them middle-aged.

Among them is Y.S. Al Buchory, 55, who struggled for years to cope with lack of acceptance by people around her, but now feels at home at the school and hopes tolerance spreads through her country.

“Like a rainbow, if there are red, yellow, green colors combined, it becomes more beautiful, rather than only black and white,” she said. “We must be able to respect each other, tolerate, not interfere with each other.”

Compared to many Muslim nations, Indonesia is relatively tolerant. Scores of LGBTQ organizations operate openly, advocating for equal rights, offering counseling, liaising with religious leaders. Only one conservative province, Aceh — which practices Sharia law — explicitly criminalizes same-sex relations.

In Aceh, two men were publicly caned last year – 77 strokes each -- after neighbors reported them to religious police for having sex. Earlier this year, Indonesian Vice President Ma’ruf Amin, in a speech to Muslim teachers, said LGBTQ people were engaged in “deviant behavior” that should be outlawed.

“Parliament must be demanded to make this law," said Ma'ruf Amin, a Muslim cleric. “Ask them to ban LGBT.”

That attitude was reinforced last week, when the United States canceled a trip to Indonesia by a special envoy on LGBTQ rights after the country’s most influential Islamic group objected.

"We cannot accept guests whose purpose of coming here is to damage and mess up the noble values of our nation’s religion and culture,” said Anwar Abbas, vice chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council.

Dédé Oetomo, founder of the LGBTQ-rights organization GAYa NUSANTARA, said acceptance of his community varies from one region of Indonesia to another. He cited a few examples of public support – such as a trans woman chosen as leader of a village council – yet said there is little hope of meaningful government support.

“We still cannot imagine if there would be a law for the protection against discrimination,” Oetomo said.

That’s the norm throughout the Muslim and Arab worlds – either government neglect or outright hostility toward LGBTQ people, said Rasha Younes, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch who investigates anti-LGBTQ abuses in the Middle East and North Africa.

In a few countries, LGBTQ-friendly cafes have surfaced and activists have been able to organize – offering social services and, if possible, campaigning for reforms, Younes said.

“But the results are as weak as ever,” Younes said, noting that anti-LGBTQ laws remain in place and activists often face crackdowns by security forces.

“There is some solidarity and changing social attitudes,” she said. “But the onus is on the government. LGBTQ people will continue to live on the margins unless the governments repeal these laws.”

In many cases, the religious underpinnings of anti-LGBTQ attitudes are coupled with resentment of outside pressure from nations that have embraced LGBTQ inclusion. More than a dozen Muslim nations recently barred Disney’s latest animated film “Lightyear” from playing at cinemas due to inclusion of a brief kiss between a lesbian couple. In Qatar, authorities have urged visiting World Cup fans to respect the local culture — in which LGBTQ activism is taboo.

In some countries, apparent advances for LGBTQ people have been followed by pushbacks. Lebanon is an example. Over recent years, its LGBTQ community was widely seen as the most vibrant and visible in the Arab world, with advocacy for greater rights by some groups, and gay bars hosting events such as drag shows.

Yet many in the community have been reeling from a wave of hostility this year that included an Interior Ministry ban on events described as aiming to promote “sexual perversion.”

Online, some people have railed against Pride events, at times citing religious beliefs, both Muslim and Christian, to denounce LGBTQ activism. Someone posted an image of a knife slicing through a rainbow flag.

At one point, security force members showed up at the Beirut office of the LGBTQ-rights organization Helem, executive director Tarek Zeidan said.

Some LGBTQ activists called for a protest, distributing an invitation that said, “We will continue to love and to live as we wish.” But the demonstration was postponed, with organizers citing safety concerns.

The crackdown has rattled LGBTQ people already straining due to Lebanon’s economic crises, which activists say have disproportionately fueled unemployment and homelessness in vulnerable groups.

In November, activist groups reported with relief that the Interior Ministry’s ban on LGBTQ events had been suspended.

“We are on the battlefield and part of the conversation,” said Zeidan. “In Lebanon, the conversation is fiercely being debated. In other parts of the region, the conversation has been completely quenched.”

Sahar Mandour‎, Amnesty International’s researcher on Lebanon, elaborated.

“There is a space. We have organizations. Nightlife exists,” Mandour‎ said. “But it’s always under negotiation, where and when. There’s no protection, but there’s existence.”

In Turkey, which is overwhelmingly Muslim, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has shown increasing intolerance toward any expression of LGBTQ rights, banning Pride marches and suppressing the display of rainbow symbols.

It’s a marked change for Erdogan, who, before taking power in 2003, said mistreatment of gay people was inhumane and called for legal protections.

A Pride march in Istanbul, which had been held since 2003 while attracting huge crowds, has been canceled since 2014. In contrast, the government recently allowed a large anti-LGBTQ rally to proceed without police interference.

The ruling party is expected to propose constitutional amendments that would protect family values from what Erdogan describes as “perverted currents.” Activists fear the amendments would curb LGBTQ rights and discourage same-sex relationships.

Among Arab nations, most explicitly outlaw gay sex, including Qatar. It has faced intense international scrutiny and criticism before and during the World Cup over rights issues, including questions on whether LGBTQ visitors would feel safe and welcome.

Other Arab countries, such as Egypt, prosecute LGBTQ people under charges of immorality or debauchery. The situation is similar in Iraq; Human Rights Watch says lack of an explicit ban on gay sex there has not protected LGBTQ people from violence and discrimination, nor from occasional charges of immorality or public indecency.

A transgender Iraqi woman who identifies as Kween B, told The Associated Press her life felt precarious, like standing in the midst of a busy highway.

“You could get smashed any second,” said Kween, who lives in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah.

In her case, that has meant getting bullied as a child and suppressing her feminine identity while in high school and university. Now, at 33, she believes she would be rejected, or even physically harmed, if she came out to her family. But in recent years, she has increasingly pushed the boundaries, donning a rainbow wristband in public or wearing makeup for a party.

Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch alleged that armed groups in Iraq abduct, rape, torture and kill LGBTQ people with impunity and that the police arrest and also carry out violence against them.

Iraqi officials deny any attacks by security forces on gay people; one commander affiliated with an umbrella group of militias rejected the accusation and said violence suffered by gays was likely from their families.

For Kween, her apartment is her safe space. A few years ago, she started hosting gatherings that, at first, included a few close LGBTQ friends but has since grown. At such gatherings, she can fully express herself, donning a wig and a dress.

“We’ve got to be who we are,” she said. “If we don’t do the fight ourselves, nobody is going to do it for us.”

Looking ahead, leading LGBTQ-rights advocates salute the courage of activists trying to operate publicly in countries such as Lebanon and Tunisia. But they are not optimistic about major LGBTQ advances any time soon in most of the Arab and Muslim worlds.

“In many countries, where civil society is not allowed, where there’s complete lack of rights and free association, activism cannot be viewed in the public realm,” Younes said. “People cannot protest or express support online for LGBTQ rights, so there’s total repression of LGBTQ rights.”

Kevin Schumacher, whose current work focuses on advancing women’s rights in Afghanistan, spent seven years as Middle East and North Africa program coordinator for OutRight Action International, a global LGBTQ-rights organization.

He’s skeptical that the LGBTQ cause can rise to the forefront in the region’s numerous authoritarian-ruled countries where women and political dissidents, as well as LGBTQ people, often are repressed. He sees the current widespread anti-government protests in Iran – where homosexual acts can be punished by death – as a possible model for how change could come about.

“You can’t just talk about LGBTQ rights if the straight people are oppressed, if the women have no rights,” he said. “The discourse should be about bodily autonomy — the right over your body and decisions over your sexual rights, not specific to men, women, gay, straight."

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milkboydotnet · 2 years

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The World is Watching and Must Take Action to Stop the Murders of Working People! Solidarity to the Philippines!

The labor rights situation in the Philippines has become so appalling that even traditional bodies like the International Labour Organization (ILO) are forced to respond. During the 105th Session of the International Labour Conference in June 2016, the Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS) adopted conclusions regarding the application by the Philippines of the ILO Freedom of Association Convention (ILO C087) and “noted with concern the numerous allegations of anti-union violence and the lack of progress in the investigation of many such cases…” and among the recommendations was to “accept a direct contacts mission in 2016 in order to follow up on the foregoing conclusions.” A mission was concluded in February 2017.

But the rights violations continued and did not taper, and during 108th International Labour Conference in June 2019, the CAS noted with concern the numerous allegations of murders of trade unionists and anti-union violence, as well as allegations regarding the lack of investigation in relation to these allegations, and again pushed for a mission to the Philippines for 2020. The High Level Tripartite Mission never transpired during the presidency Rodrigo Duterte, and only after he left the office was the HLTM allowed to proceed. The ILO HLTM is expected to be conducted on January 23-27, 2023.

During the years of continued attacks against workers, different trade unions and workers associations in the Philippines mustered courage, forged tighter ranks, heightened resistance, and systematically gathered information, data and cases on multiple violations and threats to the full enjoyment of the Freedom of Association, including murder of trade union leaders, harassment of workers and red-tagging conducted by State forces. The reports have been the basis for the ILO to include Philippines among the top 20 concern list, while the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) also noted the Philippines as among the top 10 “worst countries for workers” for consecutive years.

With Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., now in power, the enablers and perpetrators of the human rights violations in the Philippines remained in power. The cabal of President Duterte are again in major positions of power, such as Eduardo Año who was recently appointed by President Marcos Jr. as the National Security Adviser.

The reign of terror and impunity of State forces are continuing. The complaint against 17 police personnel who were implicated in the murder of Emmanuel Asuncion on March 7, 2021, alongside eight other activists in the Region IV of the Philippines in what is now known as “Bloody Sunday” has been dismissed. The workers movement have documented 56 cases of murder of trade union leaders and workers, many of whom remains unsolved, without the perpetrators brought to face justice.

The notorious National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) persists on its framework that any campaign and advocacy mounted by working people and civil society for their rights and welfare are terrorists in nature, especially opposition against the destructive Neoliberal policies that have pauperized the working people. With such a framework, even collective bargaining between unions and employers are now treated by the State as part of terrorist plots, with State forces directly meddling and intervening. This has become a boon for employers, and transnational corporations (TNCs) operating their supply chains in the Philippines, who would rather have no collective bargaining at all and keep wages and benefits of their workers to a bare minimum to maximize their profit-taking.

Many countries in Asia-Pacific are reforming their labour laws, including India, Indonesia and Pakistan. Workers in these countries have criticized the changes as pro-business and anti-workers, and increases the precarity of the working people, through greater liberties given to employers to hire-and-fire workers. Those amendments have been met by robust opposition from the workers. To quell any resistance, the State, the elite in cahoots with the TNCs in these countries may very well employ the same practice of the Philippine government. The government of these countries are also known to have strong anti-terror laws and can use the practice of NTF-ELCAC in the Philippines to bring labor rights under the ambit of fighting terror.

Brother and sisters, all working people in the in Asia-Pacific must come together to protect our rights. While we advance our struggles within our national boundaries, we unite with fellow workers everywhere as we recognise the common struggle of workers against capitalist exploitation. Working class solidarity is necessary to fight the onslaught of imperialist neoliberal policies that have exploited the working people for superprofits, plundered the resources of the world, and heaped the most brutal repression against worker’s and people’s. We must take stock of what is happening in the Philippines, and through unity and solidarity, advance the struggle for a better world for all working people!

International League for Peoples’ Struggle – Asia-Pacific January 23, 2023

#International League for Peoples’ Struggle #ilps #anti-imperialism

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carlocarrasco · 1 year

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Another foreign fugitive found among those rescued in Las Piñas City raid

The developments related to the recent raid in Las Piñas City continues to be surprising as another foreign fugitive was identified among those who got rescued by the police, according to a GMA Network news report. Take note that previously there were other foreign fugitives uncovered. To put things in perspective, posted below is the excerpt from the GMA news report. Some parts in…

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afadaily · 1 year

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Hi, dear.

I'm one of the indecisive fan like you mentioned in your latest post. For real tho, I've never imagine that in my life there will be a chance for me to watch ARGENTINA SQUAD in a flesh, especially if Di Maria is part of the squad.

As I said when I reblogged your other post, it's once in a lifetime moment to see my Football hero whom ive loved since 2008 (Forever Fide), but there are many things I need to consider.

Sometimes it's never easy for a mother (my mum) to let her daughter (me) come to watch football game right on stadium, especially in Indonesia when the fan culture is as high tension as in Argentina.

Many people died because of football (riot between supporters, or riot against he police), and that is one thing that terrifies me alot. So many stupid people triggered a riot which took the life of the innocent ones.

I'm just afraid that, if something bad happens to me (that if I end up go to see Argentina if they really come to play against Indonesia), Lord knows my mum (she's a singleparent btw, and 100% overprotective) will ban me from watching football for the rest of my (or her) life, and that means I cant watch Di Maria (or Messi)'s masterclass even from the TV screen.

So yeah, sorry for the sudden rambling 😭

Hola! It’s okay, I’ve seen many tags describing the same scenarios. I have 0 knowledge about the situation in Indonesia, but if I can give you any advice it would be to evaluate the situation, do not go alone if it’s dangerous, go to a safe place in the stands, leave the stadium early if It means going home safely. I don’t think a riot would be allowed since it’s a friendly match, there’s nothing to lose or to fight for, plus all players are highly valuable, meaning that if something ever happens to them means damage (money, lawsuits, etc) for the clubs and AFA themselves, so the necessary precautions are being taken right now and will be followed as closely as possible, it’s not the first time we have to face dangerous scenarios. Like I said before forgive my ignorance, I’d say think about it, you have a month to evaluate the situation and decide.

If you go, I’d love to hear about your experience! but safety first.

cheers 🇦🇷

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