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President Joko Widodo of #Indonesia has sneakily signed the omnibus bill into law eliminating critical protections for workers, Indigenous peoples, and the environment and allowing the burning of rain forests and peatlands. Protests continue. #OpCanary
nytimes.com/2020/11/03/wor…
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Taiwan marks 200 days with #ZeroCOVID, it is the only major country able to keep community transmission of #COVID19 eliminated.
Key 🔑
- border control with symptom-based surveillance
- world-class contact tracing
- central distribution of face masks
🗒️ time.com/5905129/taiwan…
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#Peru: Journalist Alonso Balbuena (@alonso_balbuena), from @Ojo_Publico, severely wounded by a tear gas bomb shot by the police during protests in downtown Lima. They refused to help. At least 26 journalists injured. (📸 Walter Hupiu)
Report: ojo-publico.com/2237/policia-h…
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The Myanmar Junta Is 'Weaponizing COVID-19' #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar yac.news/blogs/news/the…
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Cultivated Land At The Verge Of Desertification In India
Out of the world's arid land, an area of about 12 million square kilometers is affected by desertification. Experts say it's time for India to change its practices. #ClimateCrisis
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#Thailand: The popular actress Inthira “Sai” Charoenpura is facing 15 years in prison for writing a sarcastic social media post.
Two words offended the criminal monarchy, "very brave” so now they want to imprison her.
#whatshappeninginthailand
Report: coconuts.co/bangkok/news/v…
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Several accidents by British Glencore poisoned their drinking water, harmed people, and destroyed their farmland.
Now villagers in Chad are fighting back with a legal complaint in the UK. #Chad #Glencore #UK #Oil
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#US: Right-wing rioters attack and try to enter the Oregon State Capitol building as riot police stand by declaring unlawful assembly for at least 3 hours. (📹@skankledeuce) twitter.com/skankledeuce/s…
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#Nika_Shakarami #SarinaEsmaeilzadeh both 16: “One’s skull was smashed, the other's head was cracked by batons.”
#IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution2022 #MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amini #مهسا_امینی #IranRevolution #Iran #IranProtests #opIran #IranianLivesMatter
nytimes.com/2022/10/13/wor…
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Update: 6,200 U.S. National Guardsmen will be in Washington, D.C. by this weekend; 7-foot high non-scalable fence to be set up around the #CapitolBuilding. Will remain in place for the next 30 days, including Biden's inauguration in case Trump loyalists attempt another attack.
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#Switzerland: Secret agreement between the government and China exposed.
It allowed Chinese agents to roam freely in Switzerland and all Schengen states at taxpayer expense to hunt down Chinese dissidents and 'irregular' immigrants.
Report: global-geneva.com/the-switzerlan…
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Palestinians excluded from Israeli #Covid19 vaccine.
"Israel transports batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine deep inside the West Bank. But they are only distributed to Jewish settlers, and not the roughly 2.7M Palestinians living around them."
Report: theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…
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Scotland is investigating Donald Trump for money laundering.
Nicola Sturgeon has said Trump will face “due accountability” if evidence emerges that his Scottish golf courses have been used for money laundering and fraud.
1. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
2. thetimes.co.uk/article/sturge…
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Really, @amnestyusa?
Because you don't seem to have heard about #Iranianwomen.
#WomensRights
#IranProtests #MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amini #مهسا_امینی #IranRevolution #Iran #IranianLivesMatter #Iranianwomen
Check this out ▶️twitter.com/search?f=live&…
twitter.com/amnestyusa/sta…
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Workers in China making clothes for Shein are working 18-hour days, paid 3p per item, given no weekends and only one day off a month, fined 2/3 of their daily wage if they make a single mistake, 1st month pay withheld. #opCanary
inews.co.uk/news/consumer/…
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Israel has deliberately attacked the healthcare system in #Palestine & the (physical & mental) health of innocent civilians.
"Israel must be held to account for its illegal actions & its war crimes must be properly investigated by the ICC." #FreePalestine yac.news/blogs/featured…
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This International Women's Day let us remember to thank every woman in our lives, for being the strong, intelligent, kind, and powerful woman they are.
Our thoughts are especially with the woman of Ukraine today.
#InternationalWomensDay #Yac #WomensDay #WomensDay2022
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#Mexico: Pres AMLO (@lopezobrador_) eliminates funding for program that protects journalists & human rights defenders whose lives have been threatened.
Mexico remains one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists and human rights defenders.
hrw.org/news/2020/11/0…
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Are women's rights human rights? Are women human? Sometimes we wonder if the world thinks so.
Another video of #SaudiArabia security beating women and girls at the orphanage above.
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This Margaret Thatcher???
twitter.com/ferpineda7/sta…
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Brazil’s Pres. @jairbolsonaro 'could' be tried at the International Criminal Court.
Indigenous leaders sued him for crimes against humanity over his deliberate destruction of the Amazon, 6%-9% of the world's oxygen. #EndImpunity #ForaBolsonaro
Report: france24.com/en/live-news/2…