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Politicians are truly out of touch if they think that ordinary people can embed hidden messages in unicode with steganography.If they're worried over people mapping abstract cultural and political ideas to emotes, then they need to mind their own business and quit infringing upon their citizen's human rights. Specifically the right to freedom of speech.@caekislove@caekis.loveTags: #politics, #humanrights, #privacy, #freedomofexpression, #freedomofspeech.

Some settlements at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario come with a non-disclosure agreementhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/human-rights-tribunal-ontario-ndas-secret-settlement-york-police-sexual-discrimination-case-9.7171707- - -Certaines ententes au Tribunal des droits de la personne de l’Ontario viennnent avec une entente de confidentialité// Article en anglais //#Ontario #HumanRights #DroitDeLaPersonne #NDA #EntenteDeConfidentialité

"Sexual violence and deliberate harassment have become increasingly common in the occupied West Bank, perpetrated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. According to observers, these acts are no longer isolated incidents but rather systematic tools used by Israel to pressure Palestinians and force them to leave their homes.On March 13, in the middle of the night, more than 70 settlers attacked Khirbet Hamsa al-Fawqa.Qusay told Al Jazeera that the settlers divided themselves into groups to attack the Palestinian tents. Five of the settlers attacked his tent – where he had been asleep – and began beating him severely with their hands and sticks. They also assaulted two foreign female activists who were sleeping in the same tent.“The settlers then forcibly removed my pants while tying my hands and feet, binding my body with my belt, and stripping me of my underwear,” Qusay said. He recounted that the settlers then beat his genitals, tied his limbs and genitals with plastic zip ties, and humiliated him, before threatening to repeat the assault if he did not leave the area.The assault on Qusay and all the residents of the area lasted for approximately 45 minutes. During that time, many residents, including children, reported being beaten, and said they were threatened with death if they didn’t leave immediately. The settlers also stole hundreds of livestock.At the end of the assault, Qusay said that the settlers dragged him along the ground without his underwear and severely beat him all over his body, including his eye, which later became swollen."https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/22/sexual-violence-in-the-west-bank-emerges-as-tool-to-intimidate-palestinians#BoycottIsrael #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #News #Gaza #Palestine #Activism #SexualViolence

Australian families face being thousands of dollars worse off as Labor cuts NDIS lifelinehttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/23/wed-be-on-our-own-families-face-being-thousands-of-dollars-worse-off-as-labor-cuts-ndis-lifeline#HumanRights #LaborFail #Disability #NDIS #News #AUSPol

Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds"In a first-of-its-kind determination against one of the platforms, published on Wednesday, the privacy commissioner, Carly Kind, found 2Apply, operated by InspectRealEstate, had collected excessive personal information in an unfair manner.Kind found that 2Apply did not need to collect gender information, detail on dependents, student status, bankruptcy status, retirement status, previous living history, current ownership of property, applications for other properties, bond/rent assistance application status and citizenship status or visa expiry.Kind also found 2Apply could collect less information on emergency contacts, vehicle details, certain ID documents, proof of income documents and employment details.The privacy commissioner found that 2Apply’s application system exhibited what is dubbed “confirmshaming” – an online tactic that uses guilt to discourage a user from opting out of something..The form noteed that providing information would “help speed up your application process” and not providing it may “affect whether you are considered as a suitable tenant for the property”.Kind wrote: “These statements are not necessarily untrue or misleading … However, by presenting these messages to individuals, my view is that the respondent is employing language that suggests that the volume and type of personal information provided is an indicator of their suitability as a tenant.”"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/22/2apply-rental-platform-excessive-tenant-data#HousingCrisis #Housing #HumanRights #News #Australia #Activism #DataMining

Jewish bombing Jewish: Tehran’s embattled Jewish community endures despite Israeli bombing of synagogue"The US-Israeli war on Iran has highlighted the unique dual identity of a community that has itself become collateral damage in a conflict that the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, asserts has been fought to protect Jews.""Members of Rafi’ Nia synagogue braved airstrikes to celebrate Passover hours before it was destroyed"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/tehran-embattled-jewish-community-israeli-bombing-synagogue#News #HumanRights #RemoveNetanyahu #Activism #BoycottIsrael

Israeli forces have attacked mourners attending the funeral of two Palestinians in the village of al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/22/iran-war-live-trump-says-ceasefire-extended-as-talks-with-tehran-in-limbo?update=4512892#WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #BoycottIsrael #News #HumanRights #Activism #Gaza #Palestine

In typical terrorist-regime style, Rabbi who boasted of 'bulldozing Palestinian homes' will "light the torch for Israel’s national day""An extremist rabbi known for razing civilian homes in Gaza will light a torch at Israel’s independence day celebration on Tuesday, a role human rights campaigners said marked the embrace of genocide as the official “spirit of the nation”."https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/rabbi-who-boasts-bulldozing-palestinian-homes-light-torch-israel-national-day#WarCrimes #BoycottIsrael #HumanRights #News #Activism #Gaza #Palestine

@Bot4Sale ..and it's one thing for the government to come out and say "We're going to investigate irregularities in some NDIS requests and prosecute if we find evidence of fraud" (*what they SHOULD have said), but it's quite another to set an arbitrary number of hundreds of thousands of people they're going to randomly cut off..

Just In: ‘Goods over humans’: EU condemned for failure to suspend Israel trade dealHuman rights experts, including Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s senior director for research and advocacy, have accused the European Union of “knowingly enabling” Israel’s “grave violations” after two EU countries blocked a move to suspend a trade agreement between the trading bloc and Israel.“The EU’s failure to suspend its Association Agreement with Israel is a damning betrayal of its own values,” Rosas wrote in a post on X after Germany and Italy blocked a move put forward by Spain, Slovenia and Ireland to suspend the deal.“Given the overwhelming evidence that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, maintained an apartheid system against Palestinians, and unlawfully occupied their territory, inaction becomes a deliberate choice,” Rosas added.Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territory, also condemned the decision.“Maintaining trade in times of genocide means valuing goods over humans,” she said in a post on X.“Markets over life,” she added.Before Germany and Italy stopped the bid on Tuesday, more than 60 human rights organisations, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, had called on the EU and member states to suspend the Association Agreement with Israel.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/22/iran-war-live-trump-says-ceasefire-extended-as-talks-with-tehran-in-limbo?update=4512088#EUFail #Complicit #WarCrimes #News #HumanRights #Activism #Gaza #Palestine #BoycottIsrael

Trauma-informed archiving asks what responsibility an archive holds toward survivors. On April 22 at 10 AM PDT, Dr. Ajnura Akbaš of the War Childhood Museum joins the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project and UBC's Public Humanities Hub to discuss community-engaged approaches to archiving the 1992–1995 Bosnian War, and what trauma-informed practice actually looks like.Part of the 'Archiving with Care' Webinar Series. Moderated by Matt Huculak and Olivia Kozlovic (University of Victoria). Free online webinar; registration link below.https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/trauma-informed-archiving-lessons-from-the-war-childhood-museum/@Libraries#Archives #GLAM #TraumaInformed #PublicHumanities #DigitalHumanities #HumanRights #AcademicMastodon #CdnLib #BosnianWar

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students"Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with Palestine, it can be revealed.A joint investigation by Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates has uncovered evidence that Horus Security Consultancy Limited trawled through student social media feeds and conducted secret counter-terror threat assessments on behalf of some of Britain’s most elite institutions."https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/uk-universities-pay-to-spy-on-students-social-media-accounts#HumanRights #UKPol #Activism #News #Gaza #Palestine

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says"Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say.Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence."https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says#RemoveNetanyahu #BoycottIsrael #HumanRights #News #Activism #Gaza #Palestine #Law

Amnesty International slams ‘predatory world order’ led by US and Israel | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/21/amnesty-international-slams-predatory-world-order-led-by-us-and-israel"Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard says ‘voracious predators’ like the US, Israel and Russia have waged war on civilians with impunity and destroyed the international order based on global human rights."#Israel #AmericanEmpire #AmnestyInternational #HumanRights

@edgeofeurope the quote from Wiki says the same so why kick up a fuss about something he's proud of people knowing?In a 2024 interview he described himself as Jewish, commenting (after being asked) in another interview that while his background informed Palantir having Israel as a client, he did not believe it expressly did so. - under Personal Life sectionIf all you got from the article is the fact he's Jewish and skipped over all his insanity you missed the pointhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

"Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of global human rights, Amnesty International has said, describing the three countries’ leaders as “voracious predators” intent upon economic and political domination.“A global environment where primitive ferocity could flourish has been long in the making,” Agnes Callamard, the head of the global rights group, wrote in an annual report on the state of the world’s human rights that was released on Tuesday."https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/predators-amnesty-slams-netanyahu-putin-trump-as-human-rights-decline#BoycottIsrael #BoycottAmerica #HumanRights #News #Activism #Palestine #Gaza

Jewish man arrested for supporting the victims of Palestine, under QLD premier David Chrisafulli's unjust "not allowed to support victims" *laws*"Stephen Heydt woke up on Saturday, put on a T-shirt, hobbled out the door with the aid of a walking stick and spoke at a rally in the middle of Brisbane – where he was promptly arrested by a large and heavily armed contingent of police.For his choice of words and wardrobe, the 73-year-old Jewish clinical psychologist became one of the first people in Queensland charged under new laws [falsely claiming to] crack down on antisemitic hate speech."https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/21/queensland-ban-pro-palestinian-slogan-crackdown-joh-bjelke-petersen-era-ntwnfb#RemoveChisafulli #RepealUnjustLaws #HumanRights #News #AUSPol #Activism

Premier Chris Minns says he doesn't have an Australian Constitutional mind by believing his 'thought-crime laws' are *rational* where NSW's highest court ruled that they ARE in fact unconstitutional.And Greens, once again, the ONLY party with common sense: "Greens criticise premier’s ‘extraordinary attack’ on judiciary and urge him to accept he ‘got it wrong’"Oh, btw Chris: "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL INDEED BE FREE". https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/20/minns-doubles-down-anti-protest-law-despite-nsw-highest-court-ruling-it-unconstitutional-ntwnfb#RemoveMinns #LaborFail #HumanRights #News #Activism #AUSPol

Read the photo caption from this article, you seriously can't make this stuff up:"The Israeli army said the ‘soldier’s conduct is wholly inconsistent with the values expected of its troops’." which apparently from recent events show their "values" consist of setting up aid stations as bait to lure small starving children in for the IDF snipers to target practice on the kids groins.. The evils the Netanyahu Regime are committing on a daily basis would make even satan himself gasp in horror..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/israel-soldier-jesus-statue-sledgehammer-lebanonCited article where IDF were targeting hungry kids groins using aid stations as 'bait': https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/13/doctor-in-gaza-describes-daily-patterns-in-israeli-maiming-at-ghf-hubs#BoycottIsrael #HumanRights #WarCrimes #Activism #News

"Adelaide University considers dropping Santos name from building "And so it should."The newly formed Adelaide University is considering removing [toxic] gas company Santos’s name from one of its buildings.On Saturday, students and conservationists rallied outside the Santos "Petroleum Engineering" building, calling on the university to dump the name because of the company’s new gas projects.The university had already been considering dropping the name after a sponsorship deal expired, its vice-chancellor told Guardian Australia.Prof Nicola Phillips started as vice-chancellor in January after the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide merged. “That process of consideration was already under way,” she said."https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/20/adelaide-university-considers-dropping-santos-name-from-building-ntwnfb#BoycottSantos #ClimateChange #Environment #News #HumanRights #Activism #Adelaide