"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.
"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.
"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."
Again, please see pinned posts with videos of #antimasker#police abusing our #HumanRights & #HealthSafety rights - in our own home. After refusing to leave for a strictly #covid#CardiacArrest 911 call. After being told to leave. After being told my Dad has #PTSD from abusive cops in past. After being told, this is a #WarSurvivors family & #cops aren't welcomed unless absolutely necessary & it wasn't necessary.
Gaza has began to attack Central Israel through rockets!
Will the war ever end?
A massive barrage of rockets targeted Tel Aviv and central Israel for the first time in months. The rockets were fired from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-803682
Did you know that the employees with disabilities often have to go above and beyond to navigate and devise solutions for inaccessible environments?
This additional effort comes with significant mental health costs for these employees.
The burden leads to heightened daily stress levels.
Many people may take these basic necessities for granted, making it challenging for them to empathize with our experience of living in a world not designed for us.
This year's topic was decoding digital colonialism.
This session was particularly improvised as the original plan was to share a dialogue with @hellais on open technologies to guarantee human rights. Enjoy!
@nobs Guten Morgen, Auf der Suche nach Podcasts bin ich über diese Episode gestolpert mit der Architektin SAMANEH MOAFI. Musste sofort an dich denken, habe die Folge allerdings noch nicht ganz zu Ende gehört. https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-335-samaneh-moafi-2/
She said there is “nothing #Indigenous about the RCMP.”
“They can hire Indigenous people but it doesn’t change their many #HumanRights violations and their continued role in #MMIWG. #RibbonSkirts are #sacred & not to be associated with #genocide,” she said, adding whoever thought of the idea should be fired.
Peru's new bill classifies LGBTQ people as mentally ill! This is the new of society.
Transgender model Carmen Carrera is speaking out against Peru's new bill that officially classifies transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people as "mentally ill"
#HumanRights groups are urging US President Joe Biden’s administration to oppose threats against the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its chief prosecutor’s decision to seek arrest warrants against Israeli officials drew ire in #Washington.
In a letter to #Biden that was made public on Thursday, more than 100 organisations from around the world called on the US government to “oppose any legislative efforts to undermine the #ICC”.
Small island states hail ocean court victory on greenhouse gases
"Ruling says countries' targets for cutting greenhouse emissions must be set based on best available science"
"Small island nations with scant economic power but vulnerable to climate change have long felt neglected by successive global summits where pledges to cut carbon emissions have fallen far short of the minimum for limiting the worst effects of global warming." #News ClimateCrisis #HumanRights https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/maritime-court-climate-change-1.7210270
Protections that could cool workers on a warming planet
"If we're going to fight climate change, we obviously need to address the [impact of] climate change on the most vulnerable populations. And that is service workers and outdoor workers and immigrant workers: they're going to be the first to be impacted,”
At the recent @w3c member meeting in Hiroshima 🇯🇵, @simone - new W3C Security Lead - outlined a three-pillar approach to security: developing security standards, verifying those standards, and guiding #developers to create a secure web.
A church of Scotland was receiving donation money from slavery and even refused to apologise for such sinful offence. Ironic isn't it?
The Free Church of Scotland has been accused of “shameful” behaviour after it refused to apologise for receiving money from slavery worth millions of pounds today.
When the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay speaks of the ARTISTS AT RISK PAVILION in Venice, you sit up!
We were pleasantly surprised to be informed, retrospectively, of her powerful message on World Art Day 2024, which emphasised the key role of the protection of the status and livelihoods of artists and cultural professionals by the UNESCO-Aschberg Programme.