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El análisis con Berna González Harbour, Antón Losada e Ignasi Guardans. ACNUR cifra en 1.200 los migrantes que siguen malviviendo en las calles de Ceuta y que podrían ser considerados como refugiados. Advierten, además, de que si no se puede acoger al asilo, solo se podría proceder a la devolución siguiendo un proceso de garantías de seguridad para el migrante. La sequía pone en jaque a España y a otros países de Europa que han visto como sus reservas hídricas han caído a niveles nunca antes vistos. La falta de agua está reduciendo sustancialmente la cantidad de pasto para los animales y los ganaderos advierten de que están recurriendo al forraje reservado para el invierno. 

My conversation with Maria starts at about 34 minutes in to today's show after headlines and clips should be LIVE at 11AM EST with Jeff Jarvis and then again at 6 or 7 with JL Cauvin I hope you are doing ok here in the dog days Subscribe and Watch Interviews LIVE : On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno is CEO of RepresentUs. She is an advocate, author, and lawyer with two decades of experience globally and within the US on issues of corruption, authoritarianism, organized crime, and human rights. Maria has held multiple senior positions at Human Rights Watch and served as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, at the helm of a team running groundbreaking state and national campaigns. A Peruvian-American, Maria came of age in Peru at a time of internal armed conflict, economic crisis, and then corrupt autocracy. Early in her career, she contributed to the  extradition and trial on charges of corruption and crimes against humanity of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Her narrative non-fiction book "There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia" (Bold Type Books, Feb. 2017), won the  2018 Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award, and the Spanish translation is on its third  printing. Maria earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law and served as a judicial clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo

Across Southeast Asia, there's a familiar tension between economic development and environmental protection. Governments talk about growth, companies talk about investment, while communities often find themselves fighting to protect the forests, rivers and land they've depended on for generations. A new Human Rights Watch report, Grabbed Land, Silenced Justice, looks at what happens when those communities push back. Drawing on more than 50 cases from across Indonesia, it argues that Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders have increasingly found themselves facing criminal investigations and prosecutions after raising concerns about land rights and environmental harm. As Indonesia marks 81 years of independence on the 17th of August 2026, we explore the report, the people at the centre of it, and what lessons it holds for the wider region, with the report's co-author, Andreas Harsono, who is also a Researcher with Human Rights Watch.Image Credit: © 2024 Andreas Harsono/Human Rights Watch See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last month a series of attacks on transgender women in Bogor, sent a chill through a community for whom this kind of violence is increasingly normal. The recent attacks have coincided the release of the full text of Presidential Regulation No. 111 of 2025 concerning the 2025-2029 General Policy for National Defense, classifying the spread of LGBTQI+ culture as a ‘non-military' threat to the state, placing it within the same category as terrorism, separatism and radicalism. A recent Human Rights Watch report quoted the chairperson of LGBTQI+ advocacy organisation, Arus Pelangi, Nono Sugiono, as saying, “Patterns of hate based on gender identity and sexual orientation are building year on year.” So, what forms does this ‘pattern of hatred' take, how is the LGBTQI+ community coping and ultimately, why do morality issues have such social currency in Indonesia? In this week's episode, Jemma chats with Dania Joedo, a musician and human rights activist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dania works with a variety of NGOs such as Jakarta Legal Aid, Omah Munir, New Naratif, ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, YAPPIKA ActionAid, and Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation. With her band, Tashoora, Dania makes music that aims to raise awareness about issues that are underrepresented today. In 2026, the Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by Dr Jemma Purdey from the Australia-Indonesia Centre, Dr Jacqui Baker from Murdoch University, Dr Elisabeth Kramer from the University of New South Wales, Tito Ambyo from RMIT and Dr Clara Siagian from University College, London. Image: Indonesian LGBT activists protests in Jakarta 2018/ Bayu Fuller Wikimedia CC

Ганна Шелест, керівниця програми міжнародної безпеки Ради зовнішньої політики «Українська Призма», на Radio NV про ескалацію риторики Путіна щодо НАТО, погрози європейському судноплавству, ситуацію в Азійсько-Тихоокеанському регіоні, японські технології в російському озброєнні, нашу співпрацю з Японією, а також заклик Human Rights Watch не передавати Україні касетні боєприпаси. Ведучий – Дмитро Тузов

De aanhoudende droogte in Nederland bereikt volgens Rijkswaterstaat inmiddels historische proporties, met mogelijk lage rivierafvoeren tot in december. Hydrologe Joris Schaap zegt dat noodmaatregelen zoals sproeiverboden en hogere waterstanden in het IJsselmeer nodig maar tijdelijk zijn, en dat Nederland moet nadenken over structurele oplossingen zoals grote waterbuffers en ander landgebruik. Zonder zulke keuzes neemt de druk op drinkwater, natuur en landbouw de komende jaren verder toe. Langs de Nederlandse kust halen strandtenten en hotels alles uit de kast voor de grootste zonsverduistering van de eeuw, met vanavond om 20.15 uur het hoogtepunt waarbij 88% van de zon wordt bedekt. Beachclub Far Out in Zandvoort verkocht in meerdere rondes honderden strandbedden en eclipsbrillen en draait een volledig à-la-cartemenu, aangevuld met speciale cocktails. De verwachte toeloop zorgt wel voor logistieke uitdagingen, met extra personeel en drukte op de toegangswegen naar de kustplaatsen. Op de internationale agenda spelen zowel geopolitiek als economie een rol. In Den Haag klagen vier Amerikaanse mensenrechtenorganisaties, waaronder Human Rights Watch, de regering-Trump aan over sancties tegen het Internationaal Strafhof, die volgens hen het hof vrijwel vleugellam maken. Beursexperts kijken intussen naar winstcijfers van ABN AMRO, Amerikaanse techbedrijven als Nebius Group en Cisco, nieuwe faillissementscijfers van het CBS en Amerikaanse inflatiecijfers, terwijl de olieprijs en de economische schade van natuurrampen wereldwijd verder oplopen. Deze omschrijving is met AI gemaakt en gecontroleerd door een BNR-redacteur. Over deze podcast BNR Nieuws Vandaag is de podcast met daarin BNR Ochtendnieuws en BNR Avondnieuws. Je krijgt ’s ochtends vroeg en aan het einde van de werkdag in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je via bnr.nl/podcast/bnrnieuwsvandaag, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De aanhoudende droogte in Nederland bereikt volgens Rijkswaterstaat inmiddels historische proporties, met mogelijk lage rivierafvoeren tot in december. Hydrologe Joris Schaap zegt dat noodmaatregelen zoals sproeiverboden en hogere waterstanden in het IJsselmeer nodig maar tijdelijk zijn, en dat Nederland moet nadenken over structurele oplossingen zoals grote waterbuffers en ander landgebruik. Zonder zulke keuzes neemt de druk op drinkwater, natuur en landbouw de komende jaren verder toe. Langs de Nederlandse kust halen strandtenten en hotels alles uit de kast voor de grootste zonsverduistering van de eeuw, met vanavond om 20.15 uur het hoogtepunt waarbij 88% van de zon wordt bedekt. Beachclub Far Out in Zandvoort verkocht in meerdere rondes honderden strandbedden en eclipsbrillen en draait een volledig à-la-cartemenu, aangevuld met speciale cocktails. De verwachte toeloop zorgt wel voor logistieke uitdagingen, met extra personeel en drukte op de toegangswegen naar de kustplaatsen. Op de internationale agenda spelen zowel geopolitiek als economie een rol. In Den Haag klagen vier Amerikaanse mensenrechtenorganisaties, waaronder Human Rights Watch, de regering-Trump aan over sancties tegen het Internationaal Strafhof, die volgens hen het hof vrijwel vleugellam maken. Beursexperts kijken intussen naar winstcijfers van ABN AMRO, Amerikaanse techbedrijven als Nebius Group en Cisco, nieuwe faillissementscijfers van het CBS en Amerikaanse inflatiecijfers, terwijl de olieprijs en de economische schade van natuurrampen wereldwijd verder oplopen. Deze omschrijving is met AI gemaakt en gecontroleerd door een BNR-redacteur. Over deze podcast BNR Nieuws Vandaag is de podcast met daarin BNR Ochtendnieuws en BNR Avondnieuws. Je krijgt ’s ochtends vroeg en aan het einde van de werkdag in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je via bnr.nl/podcast/bnrnieuwsvandaag, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno is CEO of RepresentUs. She is an advocate, author, and lawyer with two decades of experience globally and within the US on issues of corruption, authoritarianism, organized crime, and human rights. Maria has held multiple senior positions at Human Rights Watch and served as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, at the helm of a team running groundbreaking state and national campaigns.A Peruvian-American, Maria came of age in Peru at a time of internal armed conflict, economic crisis, and then corrupt autocracy. Early in her career, she contributed to the extradition and trial on charges of corruption and crimes against humanity of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Her narrative non-fiction book “There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia” (Bold Type Books, Feb. 2017), won the 2018 Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award, and the Spanish translation is on its third printing. Maria earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law and served as a judicial clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.Glenn spoke with Maria to discuss a RepresentUs project called the Congressional Courage Campaign. She spoke convincingly about how it is beyond dispute that Donald Trump is running the US government like a mafia organization. And she also talked about what we can - and must - do about it.Find RepresentUs: https://represent.us/about/Find glenn on Substack: glennkirschner.substack.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno is CEO of RepresentUs. She is an advocate, author, and lawyer with two decades of experience globally and within the US on issues of corruption, authoritarianism, organized crime, and human rights. Maria has held multiple senior positions at Human Rights Watch and served as executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, at the helm of a team running groundbreaking state and national campaigns.A Peruvian-American, Maria came of age in Peru at a time of internal armed conflict, economic crisis, and then corrupt autocracy. Early in her career, she contributed to the extradition and trial on charges of corruption and crimes against humanity of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. Her narrative non-fiction book “There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia” (Bold Type Books, Feb. 2017), won the 2018 Juan E. Méndez Human Rights Book Award, and the Spanish translation is on its third printing. Maria earned her law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law and served as a judicial clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.Glenn spoke with Maria to discuss a RepresentUs project called the Congressional Courage Campaign. She spoke convincingly about how it is beyond dispute that Donald Trump is running the US government like a mafia organization. And she also talked about what we can - and must - do about it.Find RepresentUs: https://represent.us/about/Find glenn on Substack: glennkirschner.substack.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

1.         Sequía extrema alcanzael litoral sur de Puerto Rico2.         Rivera Schatz aseguraque los servicios de agua y luz “están como están” por la gobernadora3.         Hoy es el último día deFransico Domenech en el gobierno4.         Se cuaja venta récordde MCS por $2,200 millones5.         ASEM asegura que loshospitales del Centro Médico no se verán afectados por el racionamiento6.         Gobernadora sometecinco nombramientos en receso7.         Usted se enteró de estanoticia En Blanco y Negro con Sandra hace casi 2 meses y hoy lo cubre la prensacorporativa: Municipio de Camuy insiste en su demanda contra el DRNA porparalizar mejoras en área recreativa8.         Solicitan donantes desangre para fotoperiodista Xavier Aráujo9.         ¡Puerto Rico alcanzalas 100 medallas en Santo Domingo 2026!10.     El Papa nombra al primer arzobispo de San Juan negro11.     El presidente Trump vuelve a atacar la ciudadanía por derecho denacimiento.12.     Human Rights Watch acusa a Israel de "crímenes de guerra" porla muerte de una periodista libanesa13.     A 81 años de los bombardeos atómicos: convocan Vigilia de Oración enHiroshima, Nueva York y RomaEste es un programa independiente y sindicalizado. Esto significa que este programa se produce de manera independiente, pero se transmite de manera sindicalizada, o sea, por las emisoras y cadenas de radio que son más fuertes en sus respectivas regiones. También se transmite por sus plataformas digitales, aplicaciones para dispositivos móviles y redes sociales.  Estas emisoras de radio son:1.    Cadena WIAC - WYAC 930 AM Cabo Rojo- Mayagüez2.    Cadena WIAC – WISA 1390 AM Isabela3.    Cadena WIAC – WIAC 740 AM Área norte y zona metropolitana4.    X61 – 610 AM en Patillas5.    X61 – 94.3 FM Patillas y todo el sureste6.    WPAB 550 AM - Ponce7.    ECO 93.1 FM – En todo Puerto Rico8.    WLRP 1460 AM Radio Raíces La voz del Pepino en San Sebastián9.    WOQI 1020 AM – Radio Casa Pueblo desde Adjuntas 10. Mundo Latino PR.com, la emisora web de música tropical y comentario Una vez sale del aire, el programa queda grabado y está disponible en las plataformas de podcasts tales como Spotify, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts y otras plataformas https://anchor.fm/sandrarodriguezcotto También nos pueden seguir en:REDES SOCIALES:  Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Tumblr, TikTok BLOG:  En Blanco y Negro con Sandra http://enblancoynegromedia.blogspot.com  SUSCRIPCIÓN: Substack, plataforma de suscripción de prensa independientehttps://substack.com/@sandrarodriguezcotto OTROS MEDIOS DIGITALES: ¡Ey! Boricua, Revista Seguros. Revista Crónicas y otrosEstas son algunas de las noticias que tenemos hoy En Blanco y Negro con Sandra. 

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Today's guest is Dr. Benafsha Yaqoobi, an attorney and civic society and human rights activist. Before the Taliban's return to power in 2021, she worked as an attorney for the elimination of violence against women and as a Commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. She currently serves as a prosecutor on the team bringing Afghanistan's case before the People's Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan. In this episode, Alon and Benafsha discuss the plight of people with disabilities in Afghanistan, particularly women and girls, the work that the Rahyab Initiative does in support of people with disabilities in Afghanistan, and the impact of the Taliban's takeover on Afghanistan as well as its impact on receiving external support. Full bio Dr. Benafsha Yaqoobi is a civic society and human rights activist, and currently serves as a prosecutor on the team bringing Afghanistan's case before the People's Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan in 2025. She is the founder and director of The Rahyab Initiative in the UK and previously established the Organization of Rahyab for Rehabilitation Services for the Blind (ORRSB) in Afghanistan. Before the Taliban's return to power in 2021, Dr. Yaqoobi worked as an attorney for the elimination of violence against women and later as a Commissioner at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. She has consistently used national and international platforms to advocate for the inclusion of Afghan women in peacebuilding processes, with particular focus on women with disabilities. Dr. Yaqoobi holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Lovely Professional University in India, with her dissertation examining democratic governance and women's political rights in Afghanistan (2001–2021). She also earned two master's degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Kabul-based universities. She is currently pursuing doctoral research in sociology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her contributions have been recognized internationally. In 2024, she was awarded the U.S. State Department's International Women of Courage Award, and in 2022 she received the Marca Bristo Fellowship from Human Rights Watch. In 2021, she was named among the BBC's 100 most influential women. Dr. Yaqoobi's work is guided by a commitment to equality, justice, and the full participation of Afghan women in shaping their country's future.

L'ONG Human Rights Watch a enquêté sur les frappes aériennes menées par Africa Corps à Kyrnia, dans la région de Mopti. Ces frappes, survenues le 15 juin dernier, ont tué huit civils. Selon l'organisation, aucun combattant du JNIM ne figure parmi les victimes, contrairement aux affirmations des partenaires russes de l'armée malienne. L'autrice de cette enquête, Ilaria Allegrozzi, chercheuse senior sur le Sahel chez Human Rights Watch, était l'invitée du Journal de l'Afrique.

Six ans jour pour jour. Ce mardi, le Liban commémore la terrible explosion du port de Beyrouth qui a eu lieu le 4 août 2020. La catastrophe a tué 235 personnes, fait 6 500 blessés et ravagé un tiers de la capitale libanaise. C'est l'une des plus grandes explosions non nucléaires de l'histoire. Après avoir été bloquée pendant de longues années à cause de l'hostilité de la classe politique, l'enquête du juge d'instruction Tarek Bitar est aujourd'hui terminée. Que sait-on de l'explosion du port de Beyrouth ? Quelles sont les zones d'ombre ? Quand aura lieu ce procès historique ?  De notre correspondante à Beyrouth, C'est un dossier devenu le symbole de l'impunité de la classe politique libanaise. Pendant des années, l'enquête sur l'explosion du port de Beyrouth est restée au point mort. Plus d'une quarantaine de recours judiciaires visant le juge d'instruction Tarek Bitar, mais aussi de nombreux blocages institutionnels, ont empêché les investigations d'avancer. Le tournant intervient en janvier 2025, avec l'arrivée au pouvoir du gouvernement de Nawaf Salam, ancien président de la Cour internationale de justice. Les nominations de magistrats qui étaient bloquées sont relancées. Les juridictions examinent et rejettent les recours qui paralysaient l'enquête. « Le juge d'instruction a fini son dossier, il l'a transféré au procureur, le procureur prépare ses réquisitions, nous espérons que les réquisitions seront prêtes dans un délai qui pourrait varier dans un délai de 60 à 90 jours, explique Adel Nassar, ministre libanais de la Justice. Les réquisitions n'ont pas une force obligatoire à l'égard du juge d'instruction. Le juge d'instruction, une fois ses réquisitions faites, transférera le dossier au tribunal compétent, et à ce moment-là on passera à l'étape du procès en attendant le jugement. » À lire aussiExplosion du port de Beyrouth: l'instruction du juge Tarek Bitar malmenée par le Hezbollah « On ne peut pas se dire que la justice n'arrivera pas, parce que ce serait juste invivable » En 2021, Human Rights Watch avait mené sa propre enquête. Ramzi Kaiss, chercheur pour l'ONG, raconte ce que l'on sait et les zones d'ombre qui persistent autour de l'acheminement de plus de 2 750 tonnes de nitrate d'ammonium au port de Beyrouth : « Plusieurs officiels libanais savaient que du nitrate d'ammonium arrivait au port de Beyrouth, savaient les dégâts que ça pouvait causer aux populations civiles autour, ils avaient le pouvoir de le faire enlever ou de le stocker de manière à ne pas mettre la vie d'autrui en danger. Ils ont failli à le faire. Il y a beaucoup de choses que nous ne savons pas. Le nitrate d'ammonium devait-il aller à Beyrouth et y être déchargé ? Le nitrate d'ammonium devait-il servir à autre chose qu'à être stocké au port de Beyrouth ? Utilisé par qui ? Qui voulait que ce nitrate d'ammonium soit à Beyrouth ? » À lire aussiExplosion au port de Beyrouth: «La justice doit dire la vérité» sur cet «acte criminel et volontaire», selon Melhem Khalaf Paul Naggear, père d'Alexandra, une petite fille de trois ans tuée dans l'explosion, ne cesse de se battre pour qu'un jour la justice soit rendue et pour connaître la vérité. « On ne peut pas se dire que la justice n'arrivera pas, parce que ce serait juste invivable. Et on vit comme ça depuis le 4 août 2020. Donc, on continuera à lutter jusqu'à ce que ça arrive. C'est vrai qu'il y a un gouvernement aujourd'hui qui est en mesure d'exercer ses fonctions, mais ça peut changer très rapidement, c'est pour ça aussi qu'on a ces craintes et qu'on veut faire avancer les choses le plus rapidement possible. C'est une crainte qui reste, mais l'optimisme sera toujours là. » Le président de la République, Joseph Aoun, a appelé le juge d'instruction à publier l'acte d'accusation, une nécessité qui ne peut plus attendre, a-t-il estimé. À lire aussiL'explosion du port de Beyrouth raconté par Hala Moughanie, lauréate du Prix France-Liban

Six ans jour pour jour. Ce mardi, le Liban commémore la terrible explosion du port de Beyrouth qui a eu lieu le 4 août 2020. La catastrophe a tué 235 personnes, fait 6 500 blessés et ravagé un tiers de la capitale libanaise. C'est l'une des plus grandes explosions non nucléaires de l'histoire. Après avoir été bloquée pendant de longues années à cause de l'hostilité de la classe politique, l'enquête du juge d'instruction Tarek Bitar est aujourd'hui terminée. Que sait-on de l'explosion du port de Beyrouth ? Quelles sont les zones d'ombre ? Quand aura lieu ce procès historique ?  De notre correspondante à Beyrouth, C'est un dossier devenu le symbole de l'impunité de la classe politique libanaise. Pendant des années, l'enquête sur l'explosion du port de Beyrouth est restée au point mort. Plus d'une quarantaine de recours judiciaires visant le juge d'instruction Tarek Bitar, mais aussi de nombreux blocages institutionnels, ont empêché les investigations d'avancer. Le tournant intervient en janvier 2025, avec l'arrivée au pouvoir du gouvernement de Nawaf Salam, ancien président de la Cour internationale de justice. Les nominations de magistrats qui étaient bloquées sont relancées. Les juridictions examinent et rejettent les recours qui paralysaient l'enquête. « Le juge d'instruction a fini son dossier, il l'a transféré au procureur, le procureur prépare ses réquisitions, nous espérons que les réquisitions seront prêtes dans un délai qui pourrait varier dans un délai de 60 à 90 jours, explique Adel Nassar, ministre libanais de la Justice. Les réquisitions n'ont pas une force obligatoire à l'égard du juge d'instruction. Le juge d'instruction, une fois ses réquisitions faites, transférera le dossier au tribunal compétent, et à ce moment-là on passera à l'étape du procès en attendant le jugement. » À lire aussiExplosion du port de Beyrouth: l'instruction du juge Tarek Bitar malmenée par le Hezbollah « On ne peut pas se dire que la justice n'arrivera pas, parce que ce serait juste invivable » En 2021, Human Rights Watch avait mené sa propre enquête. Ramzi Kaiss, chercheur pour l'ONG, raconte ce que l'on sait et les zones d'ombre qui persistent autour de l'acheminement de plus de 2 750 tonnes de nitrate d'ammonium au port de Beyrouth : « Plusieurs officiels libanais savaient que du nitrate d'ammonium arrivait au port de Beyrouth, savaient les dégâts que ça pouvait causer aux populations civiles autour, ils avaient le pouvoir de le faire enlever ou de le stocker de manière à ne pas mettre la vie d'autrui en danger. Ils ont failli à le faire. Il y a beaucoup de choses que nous ne savons pas. Le nitrate d'ammonium devait-il aller à Beyrouth et y être déchargé ? Le nitrate d'ammonium devait-il servir à autre chose qu'à être stocké au port de Beyrouth ? Utilisé par qui ? Qui voulait que ce nitrate d'ammonium soit à Beyrouth ? » À lire aussiExplosion au port de Beyrouth: «La justice doit dire la vérité» sur cet «acte criminel et volontaire», selon Melhem Khalaf Paul Naggear, père d'Alexandra, une petite fille de trois ans tuée dans l'explosion, ne cesse de se battre pour qu'un jour la justice soit rendue et pour connaître la vérité. « On ne peut pas se dire que la justice n'arrivera pas, parce que ce serait juste invivable. Et on vit comme ça depuis le 4 août 2020. Donc, on continuera à lutter jusqu'à ce que ça arrive. C'est vrai qu'il y a un gouvernement aujourd'hui qui est en mesure d'exercer ses fonctions, mais ça peut changer très rapidement, c'est pour ça aussi qu'on a ces craintes et qu'on veut faire avancer les choses le plus rapidement possible. C'est une crainte qui reste, mais l'optimisme sera toujours là. » Le président de la République, Joseph Aoun, a appelé le juge d'instruction à publier l'acte d'accusation, une nécessité qui ne peut plus attendre, a-t-il estimé. À lire aussiL'explosion du port de Beyrouth raconté par Hala Moughanie, lauréate du Prix France-Liban

The Boko Haram insurgency has devastated communities across northeastern Nigeria. Ongoing terrorism trials are an important step toward justice for victims, but Human Rights Watch says many proceedings lack due process. In this episode of the AfricaLink podcast, Eddy Micah Jr. discusses with Human Rights Watch researcher Anietie Ewang and DW correspondent Ben Shemang in Abuja.

Good afternoon, I'm _ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opens lower The Taiwan Stock Exchange opened 81 points lower this morning. Opening turnover reached 6.77 billion N-T dollars. Taiwan shares followed other Asian markets lower as oil prices rose above 100 U-S dollars a barrel amid growing conflict (衝突) in the Gulf. U-S stocks also fell overnight as higher oil prices worried investors. The S&P 500 lost 1.2 percent, the Dow fell 1 percent, and the Nasdaq dropped 2.2 percent. Traffic controls possible as Noul approaches The Directorate General of Highways says traffic controls (交通管制) may be introduced on five highway sections. These include the Southern Cross-Island Highway and the East Coast Highway. The announcement comes after the Central Weather Administration issued a sea warning for Tropical Storm Noul. Noul is the 12th tropical storm of this year's season. The highways agency also activated its emergency response team (緊急應變小組) at 7 this morning. Officials said mountain roads could become blocked (受阻的、無法通行的) or damaged during the storm. Traffic controls will be changed based on the latest weather reports and road conditions. MAC to cancel citizenship of China-born organizer The Mainland Affairs Council says it will cancel the Taiwan citizenship (公民身分、國籍) of a China-born woman convicted (被判有罪的) of working for Beijing in Taiwan. Zhou Man-zhi became a Taiwan citizen through marriage in 2004. Earlier this week, the Supreme Court confirmed her eight-year prison sentence (監禁刑期) for breaking the National Security Act. The court found that Zhou tried to develop two groups for marriage immigrants in Taiwan. It said she acted for China-based organizations controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Trump links Saudi nuclear deal to Israel ties U-S President Donald Trump says a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement (合作協議) with Saudi Arabia can only move forward if the kingdom establishes relations (建立關係) with Israel. Saudi Arabia has long refused to join the agreements without a clear path toward an independent (獨立) Palestinian state. Sagher Meghani reports. Human Rights Watch criticizes Indian police Human Rights Watch is calling on India's government to investigate police actions against student protesters in New Delhi. The group says security forces used unnecessary and excessive force (過度武力), including tear gas (催淚瓦斯) and batons, against mostly peaceful protesters. The criticism comes as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has offered to hold talks with protest leaders. The protesters are demanding that the country's education minister resign (辭職). India is now ranked as the country with the highest risk of civil unrest (社會動盪) on a major international index. The number of people joining protests has more than doubled over the past year. Neha Poonia reports from New Delhi. Diplomats consider removing ICC prosecutor Diplomats are preparing to vote on whether to remove the chief prosecutor (首席檢察官) of the International Criminal Court. The vote follows findings of sexual misconduct (性行為不當). The prosecutor is also banned from entering the U-S and is under U-S sanctions. The sanctions (制裁) are linked to the court's investigation of Israeli officials over the conflict in Gaza. Molly Quell has the latest. That was the I.C.R.T. EZ News, I'm _. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

This episode examines the systematic violations of Palestinian human rights and the international community's failure to hold Israel accountable for breaching its treaty obligations. Accountability is necessary for the documented crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution that Israeli authorities commit against millions of Palestinians, and the broader pattern of human rights abuses across Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. How do these violations persist despite clear international legal frameworks, and the devastating humanitarian consequences for Palestinian civilians who face displacement, restricted access to basic services, and ongoing threats to their survival? We analyze the international community's inconsistent response to these documented abuses and the urgent need for meaningful accountability mechanisms. Join host Sahar Aziz for this critical analysis of international law, state responsibility, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis facing millions of Palestinians. Our guest is Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, whose groundbreaking documentation of Israeli apartheid and persecution led to his deportation by the Israeli government in 2019. A Stanford Law graduate and former Fulbright Scholar, Shakir has dedicated his career to human rights advocacy, from representing Guantanamo detainees at the Center for Constitutional Rights to investigating the Rab'a massacre in Egypt. His comprehensive reports on crimes against humanity in Israel and Palestine have shaped international discourse on accountability and justice.   #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #ICC #HumanRights  BiographyOmar Shakir is the Executive Director of Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), the organization founded by the late Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that seeks to change US policy in the Middle East and hold human rights abusers in the region accountable. Prior to his current role, Omar served for nearly a decade as the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. In that capacity, he spearheaded the organization's documentation of the genocide in Gaza and other atrocities across Israel/Palestine and authored several seminal reports, including a 213-page report documenting how Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians, the most widely covered and viewed report in the organization's history. Before that, he was a Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he worked as part of legal teams that represented men detained at Guantanamo Bay, making frequent visits to the detention facility.Recommended ReadingsExtermination and Acts of Genocide, Human Rights Watch (2024)Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged, Human Rights Watch (2024)A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, Human Rights Watch (2021)Support the showSupport the Center for Security, Race and Rights by following us and making a donation:Donate: https://give.rutgersfoundation.org/csrr-support/20046.html Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEbUfYcWGZapBNYvCObiCpp3qtxgH_jFy Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rucsrr Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/rutgerscsrr Follow us on Threads: https://threads.com/rutgerscsrr Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/rucsrr Follow us on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/rucsrr 

La organización Human Rights Watch publicó un informe en el que acusa a Estados Unidos de atacar lanchas en las costas de Ecuador; con la colaboración del gobierno de Noboa, con al menos ocho desaparecidos, dentro de la lucha contra el crimen organizado. La organización de derechos humanos ha documentado dos ataques en el pacífico a embarcaciones pesqueras que tuvieron lugar entre enero y marzo. Una tercera lancha desapareció con los ocho tripulantes. Algunos de los detenidos fueron torturados, denuncia Juanita Goebertus directora para las Americas de Human Rights Watch. “El informe documenta cuatro incidentes distintos, uno terrestre en la frontera entre Ecuador y Colombia, donde resultó en la detención arbitraria de cuatro colombianos, que fueron además torturados por miembros del ejército ecuatoriano”, indicó agregando que también fueron golpeados, les pusieron electrochoques con agua. Según la denuncia también se les acusó de “ haber hecho intentos de una supuesta ejecución falsa, decirles que les iban a arrancar las uñas o que les iban a cortar dedos. Y luego estas cuatro personas fueron liberadas”, aseguró. La organización denuncia detenciones arbitrarias dentro de la campaña militar conjunta entre Washington y Quito para luchar contra el crimen organizado. El gobierno de Donald Trump inició los ataques contra esas presuntas narcolanchas en septiembre, primero en aguas del caribe, luego en el pacífico. EE.UU. ha negado cualquier responsabilidad en los ataques.  “Básicamente estos tres incidentes siguen un mismo modus operandi, vigilancia previa de las lanchas. 13 testimonios que consistentemente narran los mismos hechos, vieron la bandera de Estados Unidos en la embarcación que los estaba siguiendo, luego ataques con drones, pero tanto Ecuador como Estados Unidos han negado tener participación en los ataques a estas embarcaciones. Sin embargo, recolectamos evidencia tan robusta, tan creíble, que creemos que lo mínimo es que es el Congreso de Estados Unidos indague de manera mucho más detallada y exija respuestas por parte de la administración Trump”. Países como Ecuador han anunciado un refuerzo de su cooperación militar con el pentágono. Goebertus subrayó que “los ciudadanos en América Latina tienen derecho a vivir libres del crimen organizado y por supuesto que tienen derecho a políticas de seguridad efectiva. Pero si algo nos ha demostrado la historia en América Latina es que no hay que escoger entre seguridad o derechos humanos. Este tipo de atentados pueden ser muy vistosos para vídeos en redes sociales, pero no avanzan realmente en debilitar la capacidad del crimen organizado”. Desde septiembre de 2025 se han producido al menos 50 ataques en el pacífico y el caribe; con un saldo de al menos 215 muertos.

La organización Human Rights Watch publicó un informe en el que acusa a Estados Unidos de atacar lanchas en las costas de Ecuador; con la colaboración del gobierno de Noboa, con al menos ocho desaparecidos, dentro de la lucha contra el crimen organizado. La organización de derechos humanos ha documentado dos ataques en el pacífico a embarcaciones pesqueras que tuvieron lugar entre enero y marzo. Una tercera lancha desapareció con los ocho tripulantes. Algunos de los detenidos fueron torturados, denuncia Juanita Goebertus directora para las Americas de Human Rights Watch. “El informe documenta cuatro incidentes distintos, uno terrestre en la frontera entre Ecuador y Colombia, donde resultó en la detención arbitraria de cuatro colombianos, que fueron además torturados por miembros del ejército ecuatoriano”, indicó agregando que también fueron golpeados, les pusieron electrochoques con agua. Según la denuncia también se les acusó de “ haber hecho intentos de una supuesta ejecución falsa, decirles que les iban a arrancar las uñas o que les iban a cortar dedos. Y luego estas cuatro personas fueron liberadas”, aseguró. La organización denuncia detenciones arbitrarias dentro de la campaña militar conjunta entre Washington y Quito para luchar contra el crimen organizado. El gobierno de Donald Trump inició los ataques contra esas presuntas narcolanchas en septiembre, primero en aguas del caribe, luego en el pacífico. EE.UU. ha negado cualquier responsabilidad en los ataques.  “Básicamente estos tres incidentes siguen un mismo modus operandi, vigilancia previa de las lanchas. 13 testimonios que consistentemente narran los mismos hechos, vieron la bandera de Estados Unidos en la embarcación que los estaba siguiendo, luego ataques con drones, pero tanto Ecuador como Estados Unidos han negado tener participación en los ataques a estas embarcaciones. Sin embargo, recolectamos evidencia tan robusta, tan creíble, que creemos que lo mínimo es que es el Congreso de Estados Unidos indague de manera mucho más detallada y exija respuestas por parte de la administración Trump”. Países como Ecuador han anunciado un refuerzo de su cooperación militar con el pentágono. Goebertus subrayó que “los ciudadanos en América Latina tienen derecho a vivir libres del crimen organizado y por supuesto que tienen derecho a políticas de seguridad efectiva. Pero si algo nos ha demostrado la historia en América Latina es que no hay que escoger entre seguridad o derechos humanos. Este tipo de atentados pueden ser muy vistosos para vídeos en redes sociales, pero no avanzan realmente en debilitar la capacidad del crimen organizado”. Desde septiembre de 2025 se han producido al menos 50 ataques en el pacífico y el caribe; con un saldo de al menos 215 muertos.

The Red Cross, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF and more — they're treated by governments and the media as neutral humanitarians working for everyone's rights and welfare. But as Danielle Haas tells Brian, a new investigation by her organization EiGHT found them rife with bias, particularly against Jews and Israel. It uncovered charities refusing to acknowledge atrocities committed by Hamas, while ostracizing and even dismissing workers who dared speak up about human rights violations and blatant antisemitism, including within the organizations themselves. EiGHT, made up of former NGO leaders, is calling for transparency and oversight for charities whose discrimination goes largely unscrutinized, despite raking in billions of dollars in donations and funding. (Recorded July 17, 2026) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friday, July 17, 2026 Today, multiple 2020 election deniers met this week at the White House ahead of Trump's address; the ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship; Todd Blanche says he will meet with Epstein survivors so he can get his nomination to Attorney General out of committee; JD Vance's security detail is fed up with last-minute personal and family trips; White House officials were asked to surrender their phones in a wide-ranging leak investigation; 103 House Democrats voted against aid to Israel including Nancy Pelosi; Kegseth says the flyovers will continue until morale improves after buzzing beachgoers in Florida; the McCains are raising money to re-elect Democrat Katie Hobbs as governor of Arizona; Donald's teleprompter operator made six figures betting on his speeches; the Treasury will begin minting $1 coins with Trump's face after snubbing the Harriet Tubman $20 bill; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. 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IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks to Mary Harvey, CEO of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, and Minky Worden, Director of Global Initiatives at Human Rights Watch. With the 2026 World Cup underway, they discuss whether FIFA's human rights framework is being upheld in practice.

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El presidente Bukele fue designado por su partido como candidato para las presidenciales de 2027, su tercera participación en unos comicios, en un momento en el que goza de amplia popularidad por su guerra contra las pandillas pero también en medio de cuestionamientos sobre el alto costo de esta política en términos de respeto de los derechos humanos. Entrevista con el analista y profesror Rodolfo Cardenal. Sin otro candidato a la vista, el partido Nuevas Ideas proclamó a Nayib Bukele, en el poder desde 2019, como el próximo candidato de su formación para las elecciones presidenciales de 2027. La noticia no sorprendió a nadie, sobre todo, tras la reforma del Congreso en julio de 2025, cuando se abolió el límite de dos mandatos consecutivos. Esta decisión concierne a numerosos activistas encarcelados. Rodolfo Cardenal, jesuita y profesor de la Universidad Centroamericana de El Salvador, advierte sobre el futuro que les espera.   “Los activistas van a seguir encerrados. Mientras exista el régimen de excepción que Bukele ha impuesto y que el gobierno viene renovando continuamente, la idea es que todos los detenidos, culpables e inocentes, la inmensa mayoría, sigan detenidos indefinidamente. Eso, razonablemente, no es sostenible a largo plazo, pero esa es la idea. Uno de los argumentos de su campaña es: ‘Si yo me voy, van a liberar a los pandilleros'. Y eso la gente, obviamente, no lo quiere”, afirma Cardenal. La popularidad de Bukele, conocido como “el dictador cool”, se consolidó en 2022, cuando instauró un estado de excepción para desmantelar las bandas criminales, una medida que, según organizaciones como Amnistía Internacional y Human Rights Watch, ha transgredido los derechos humanos y reducido las libertades individuales de la población. “Es indiscutible que tiene una popularidad masiva, en gran medida derivada de haber terminado con las pandillas. Ese es su punto fuerte y el principal argumento para la reelección. Por otro lado, la inmensa mayoría se conforma con eso”, sostiene el académico. Pero Cardenal insiste en que Bukele necesita mantenerse en el poder por otros motivos más allá de la seguridad. “Seguir en el poder permite que él y su entorno se sigan enriqueciendo e impide que se investigue la corrupción y, en cambio, que ésta se mantenga. Si deja el poder y cambian las tornas] [si llega otro grupo político al gobierno], puede haber un gobierno distinto que comience a investigar la corrupción y a perseguirla. Y eso no lo pueden tolerar”, asegura. El profesor critica también la falta de un programa político real. “Pienso que su prioridad es perpetuarse en el poder. Lo demás es absolutamente secundario. Toda la estructura económico-social va a seguir igual. Pero, voy a darle un dato, El Salvador es el país de Centroamérica que tiene menos inversión extranjera directa, y esa inversión tiende a bajar. ¿Por qué? Porque no hay seguridad”, concluye. Sin una oposición que le haga sombra y con la expulsión o encarcelamiento de gran parte de las voces críticas, el gobernante derechista se perfila como el vencedor en las elecciones del próximo año.

El presidente Bukele fue designado por su partido como candidato para las presidenciales de 2027, su tercera participación en unos comicios, en un momento en el que goza de amplia popularidad por su guerra contra las pandillas pero también en medio de cuestionamientos sobre el alto costo de esta política en términos de respeto de los derechos humanos. Entrevista con el analista y profesror Rodolfo Cardenal. Sin otro candidato a la vista, el partido Nuevas Ideas proclamó a Nayib Bukele, en el poder desde 2019, como el próximo candidato de su formación para las elecciones presidenciales de 2027. La noticia no sorprendió a nadie, sobre todo, tras la reforma del Congreso en julio de 2025, cuando se abolió el límite de dos mandatos consecutivos. Esta decisión concierne a numerosos activistas encarcelados. Rodolfo Cardenal, jesuita y profesor de la Universidad Centroamericana de El Salvador, advierte sobre el futuro que les espera.   “Los activistas van a seguir encerrados. Mientras exista el régimen de excepción que Bukele ha impuesto y que el gobierno viene renovando continuamente, la idea es que todos los detenidos, culpables e inocentes, la inmensa mayoría, sigan detenidos indefinidamente. Eso, razonablemente, no es sostenible a largo plazo, pero esa es la idea. Uno de los argumentos de su campaña es: ‘Si yo me voy, van a liberar a los pandilleros'. Y eso la gente, obviamente, no lo quiere”, afirma Cardenal. La popularidad de Bukele, conocido como “el dictador cool”, se consolidó en 2022, cuando instauró un estado de excepción para desmantelar las bandas criminales, una medida que, según organizaciones como Amnistía Internacional y Human Rights Watch, ha transgredido los derechos humanos y reducido las libertades individuales de la población. “Es indiscutible que tiene una popularidad masiva, en gran medida derivada de haber terminado con las pandillas. Ese es su punto fuerte y el principal argumento para la reelección. Por otro lado, la inmensa mayoría se conforma con eso”, sostiene el académico. Pero Cardenal insiste en que Bukele necesita mantenerse en el poder por otros motivos más allá de la seguridad. “Seguir en el poder permite que él y su entorno se sigan enriqueciendo e impide que se investigue la corrupción y, en cambio, que ésta se mantenga. Si deja el poder y cambian las tornas] [si llega otro grupo político al gobierno], puede haber un gobierno distinto que comience a investigar la corrupción y a perseguirla. Y eso no lo pueden tolerar”, asegura. El profesor critica también la falta de un programa político real. “Pienso que su prioridad es perpetuarse en el poder. Lo demás es absolutamente secundario. Toda la estructura económico-social va a seguir igual. Pero, voy a darle un dato, El Salvador es el país de Centroamérica que tiene menos inversión extranjera directa, y esa inversión tiende a bajar. ¿Por qué? Porque no hay seguridad”, concluye. Sin una oposición que le haga sombra y con la expulsión o encarcelamiento de gran parte de las voces críticas, el gobernante derechista se perfila como el vencedor en las elecciones del próximo año.

En este episodio abordamos las historias de cuatro familias que llevan quince meses buscando respuestas, reconstruimos qué se sabe sobre su paradero y explicamos por qué Human Rights Watch sostiene que estos casos podrían constituir desapariciones forzadas y detenciones arbitrarias.El Tribunal Supremo Electoral llega a las elecciones de 2027 con una nueva estructura de poder y bajo los primeros cuestionamientos a sus decisiones. Además, revisamos la acusación contra tres empleados de una empresa salvadoreña señalados de reclutar a decenas de personas para enviarlas al conflicto armado en la República Democrática del Congo. El Resumen es un podcast original de El Faro Audio. Apoya nuestro periodismo independiente ingresando a apoya.elfaro.net. Suscríbete a nuestro boletín semanal para recibir todas nuestras publicaciones. Únete a nuestro canal de WhatsApp para actualizaciones diarias de periodistas del equipo. Síguenos en Facebook, TikTok, Instagram y X.Este episodio fue grabado el viernes 10 de julio de 2026.

Människorättsorganisation varnar för att unga kvinnor skickas till förföljelse / Nato köper flygplan med svensk övervakningssystem / Vädret orsakar problem i tågtrafiken / Nu bor över en miljon människor i Stockholm Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. RÄTTELSE:I inslaget ”Människorättsorganisation varnar för att unga kvinnor skickas till förföljelse” sa vi tidigare att Sverige utvisar kvinnor till bland annat Afghanistan. Inslaget var baserad på en nyhet från TT där det står att Human Rights Watch kritiserar Sverige för utvisning av kvinnor till Afghanistan. Men Human Rights Watch nämner inte Afghanistan i sin text. Vi har därför rättat vårt inslag. EU-domstolen bestämde i oktober 2024 att det räcker med att vara kvinna från Afghanistan och ha afghansk nationalitet för att beviljas asyl och flyktingstatus i EU.Reportrar: Nina Muossa och Peter Al Fakir.

A new report accuses the world's most trusted human rights organizations of a problem that goes far beyond anti-Israel bias: antisemitism, and a culture that pushes out Jewish staff for naming it. This week, Yonit and Jonathan talk to Danielle Haas, a former senior editor at Human Rights Watch who spent 14 years inside the organization before co-founding EiGHT, a watchdog created to scrutinize the watchdogs. Drawing on interviews with over 70 staffers across nine major NGOs, the report documents internal messages calling for "liberating the world from Zionism," leadership reposting inflammatory rhetoric, and a pattern of employees being sidelined the moment they raised concerns.   00:00 Introduction to the Conversation 01:30 Danielle Haas's Background and Experience 03:43 Insights from the New Report on NGOs 07:58 Striking Findings and Internal Messaging 11:31 Challenges Faced by Jewish Employees 17:19 Lack of Accountability in Human Rights Organizations 21:08 Cultural Shifts and Generational Changes 24:46 Association with Militant Organizations 27:20 The Future of Human Rights Organizations 33:00 Reflections on Personal Experience and Change

Human Rights Watch denuncia que las autoridades estadounidenses no han informado sobre las causas de las 52 muertes registradas bajo custodia del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) desde enero de 2025. La ONG sospecha que una de las principales razones podría ser una atención médica inadecuada o tardía y alerta además sobre condiciones cercanas al hacinamiento en los centros de detención. “El número de personas que mueren bajo custodia de ICE (el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos) se ha disparado”. Así comienza el informe de Human Rights Watch, que destaca que entre enero de 2025 y principios de junio de este año murieron 52 personas, una cifra récord en el contexto de la dura política migratoria impulsada por Donald Trump. Según la organización, se trata del mayor número de fallecimientos registrado desde la creación de esta agencia. Se conoce la identidad de las víctimas, pero no las causas de sus muertes. Varias familias siguen sin saber cómo fallecieron sus seres queridos. “Una de las principales conclusiones de nuestro informe es que no se publica información adecuada sobre las circunstancias de las muertes bajo custodia de ICE. Esto hace prácticamente imposible que el público, el Congreso, o expertos médicos externos ejerzan una supervisión efectiva. No obstante, tras analizar la información disponible, incluidos documentos médicos adicionales obtenidos para dos de los casos, e información aportada por Physicians for Human Rights, identificamos fuertes indicios de atención médica inadecuada o tardía en varios de ellos”, dijo a RFI Reagan Williams, coautora del informe de Human Rights Watch. La ONG Physicians for Human Rights también participó en la investigación. El informe subraya que los centros de detención operan en condiciones cercanas al hacinamiento, después de que la población detenida aumentara un 77 %, al pasar de unas 40.000 a 71.000 personas. “No existe ninguna base de datos pública que indique la capacidad física máxima de cada centro de detención de ICE”, explica Williams. “Solo disponemos de información pública sobre la capacidad contractual de 85 centros, lo que representa menos del 13 % de los centros activos en 2025. Ante esta falta de datos, comparamos la población de los centros con sus promedios históricos para evaluar posibles condiciones de hacinamiento. Los resultados muestran que, durante el último año y medio, la mayoría de las muertes se produjeron en centros donde la población detenida era muy superior a la de años anteriores”, añade. El informe concluye que Estados Unidos podría estar incumpliendo sus obligaciones internacionales al no garantizar la protección de las personas bajo custodia del Estado.

Human Rights Watch denuncia que las autoridades estadounidenses no han informado sobre las causas de las 52 muertes registradas bajo custodia del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) desde enero de 2025. La ONG sospecha que una de las principales razones podría ser una atención médica inadecuada o tardía y alerta además sobre condiciones cercanas al hacinamiento en los centros de detención. “El número de personas que mueren bajo custodia de ICE (el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos) se ha disparado”. Así comienza el informe de Human Rights Watch, que destaca que entre enero de 2025 y principios de junio de este año murieron 52 personas, una cifra récord en el contexto de la dura política migratoria impulsada por Donald Trump. Según la organización, se trata del mayor número de fallecimientos registrado desde la creación de esta agencia. Se conoce la identidad de las víctimas, pero no las causas de sus muertes. Varias familias siguen sin saber cómo fallecieron sus seres queridos. “Una de las principales conclusiones de nuestro informe es que no se publica información adecuada sobre las circunstancias de las muertes bajo custodia de ICE. Esto hace prácticamente imposible que el público, el Congreso, o expertos médicos externos ejerzan una supervisión efectiva. No obstante, tras analizar la información disponible, incluidos documentos médicos adicionales obtenidos para dos de los casos, e información aportada por Physicians for Human Rights, identificamos fuertes indicios de atención médica inadecuada o tardía en varios de ellos”, dijo a RFI Reagan Williams, coautora del informe de Human Rights Watch. La ONG Physicians for Human Rights también participó en la investigación. El informe subraya que los centros de detención operan en condiciones cercanas al hacinamiento, después de que la población detenida aumentara un 77 %, al pasar de unas 40.000 a 71.000 personas. “No existe ninguna base de datos pública que indique la capacidad física máxima de cada centro de detención de ICE”, explica Williams. “Solo disponemos de información pública sobre la capacidad contractual de 85 centros, lo que representa menos del 13 % de los centros activos en 2025. Ante esta falta de datos, comparamos la población de los centros con sus promedios históricos para evaluar posibles condiciones de hacinamiento. Los resultados muestran que, durante el último año y medio, la mayoría de las muertes se produjeron en centros donde la población detenida era muy superior a la de años anteriores”, añade. El informe concluye que Estados Unidos podría estar incumpliendo sus obligaciones internacionales al no garantizar la protección de las personas bajo custodia del Estado.

NGOs have a great deal of influence over our lives. This episode uncovers the hidden power structures behind the world's most powerful non-governmental organisations — and why they deserve far more scrutiny than they get. Zoe Sankey sits down with Gerald Steinberg — founder of NGO Monitor and professor emeritus of political science at Bar-Ilan University — to discuss the evolution of NGOs from altruistic civil society groups into political powerhouses, the funding sources and transparency issues within organisations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and how they've come to shape the UN and international policy on Israel. "Ken Roth is hugely powerful as an individual." "Their reports often lack substantive verification." Gerald pulls back the curtain on how civil society was hijacked by political and ideological agendas, case studies of NGOs with alleged ties to governments and terrorist organisations, the UN accreditation process and what it really takes to get a seat at the table, and the power dynamics inside these organisations' leadership. 00:00 Introduction to Gerald Steinberg and His Work 02:56 Understanding NGOs: Definitions and Historical Context 06:07 The Evolution and Influence of NGOs 09:06 The Political Landscape of NGOs 12:05 NGO Monitor: Purpose and Function 15:00 The Power Dynamics within NGOs 18:06 Whistleblowers and Internal Critiques 20:52 The Future of NGOs and Their Impact 31:46 The Influence of NGOs on Global Politics 35:14 The Halo Effect: Media and NGO Relationships 40:27 The Writing and Impact of NGO Reports 50:12 The Future of NGOs and the UN 57:49 Zionism: Misunderstood and Maligned Read Gerald Steinberg's full body of work at Quillette:

Le surnom des Capverdiens, les Requins bleus, inspire Wakat Sera au Burkina Faso. « Pour être des requins, ils en ont la voracité, mais sont loin de jouer le football comme des bleus ! » écrit Wakat Sera, qui souligne surtout « un excellent élan collectif de détermination et surtout de performance, qui a fait de ces représentants africains de véritables combattants, sans complexe dans l'arène du Mondial 2026 ».  Mais au sein de cette équipe de Requins bleus, un homme attire l'attention : le gardien Vozinha, 40 ans. Le Monde lui consacre un portrait. Celui qui est né en 1986 à Mindelo se nomme en fait Josimar José Évora Dias, Josimar, du nom d'une gloire du foot brésilien qui s'était particulièrement illustré l'année de sa naissance en marquant des buts restés dans les mémoires. Le Monde raconte que Vozinha n'a signé son premier contrat professionnel qu'à l'âge de 25 ans. Un parcours tardif et atypique pour celui dont la mère n'avait pas pu assister au premier match contre l'Espagne la semaine dernière : elle n'avait pas de visa. Mais cette nuit, elle était présente pour le voir briller contre l'Uruguay. Vozinha, une belle histoire de plus en plus suivie sur les réseaux sociaux. Le Monde rapporte qu'avant le match, son compte Instagram comptait 50 000 abonnés, il en compte désormais plus de 15 millions.  Rapprochement entre le Bénin et le Niger Toute autre chose, dans La Nouvelle Tribune : le rapprochement entre le Bénin et le Niger. Depuis plusieurs semaines, les deux pays multiplient les gestes amicaux. « Les nuages sombres qui stagnaient depuis plusieurs mois au-dessus du fleuve Niger commencent enfin à se dissiper », écrit La Nouvelle Tribune. Entre Cotonou et Niamey, le dégel diplomatique n'est plus une simple intention pieuse, mais une réalité qui se matérialise jour après jour. Le journaliste note que « tout processus de réconciliation solide repose sur l'empathie ». Pourquoi ce commentaire ? Parce que la semaine dernière, après la nouvelle attaque jihadiste contre l'aéroport de Niamey, « les autorités béninoises ont immédiatement réagi en exprimant leur profonde compassion et leur solidarité indéfectible envers le peuple nigérien ». Bien plus que du protocole, estime le journal, pour qui « la paix des braves n'est pas une capitulation d'un camp face à l'autre, mais le triomphe de la diplomatie, de la raison et des intérêts des peuples. Le chemin est encore jalonné de défis, mais la volonté politique, elle, semble désormais inébranlable ».  En Éthiopie, un nouveau succès électoral pour le Premier ministre Les instances électorales ont publié hier soir les résultats des élections législatives d'il y a trois semaines, et c'est une nette victoire pour le Parti de la prospérité du Premier ministre sortant Abiy Ahmed : il remporte 438 des 486 sièges attribués dans la nouvelle Assemblée, soit 90 % des sièges.  Le Monde lui consacre un portrait. Ce n'est pas le premier portrait d'Abiy Ahmed, prix Nobel de la paix 2019, l'homme est déjà bien connu, mais le journal rappelle comment il est passé « de réformateur adulé par la communauté internationale à chef de guerre ». C'est le titre de ce portrait signé par la correspondante du quotidien français à Addis-Abeba, Maëlle Duhamel. Elle y cite cet habitant de la capitale qui se souvient de l'arrivée au pouvoir d'Abiy Ahmed en 2018 : « Un Oromo à la tête du pays, c'était énorme. Et j'étais vraiment séduit par cet homme qui nous promettait une Éthiopie unie et du changement. L'étau se desserrait. Pour la première fois, on se sentait libre ».  La journaliste rappelle aussi l'Abiymania qui s'était alors emparée d'une communauté internationale ravie de se débarrasser d'un régime dominé par le Front de libération du peuple du Tigré et ses valeurs marxistes. S'ensuivra, en 2022 au Tigré, ce qui sera qualifié de nettoyage ethnique par Human Rights Watch, et des soutiens internationaux qui s'effritent. Mais ces derniers mois, ces soutiens reviennent, une réhabilitation à mettre sur le compte, estime Le Monde, des bons résultats économiques de l'Éthiopie d'Abiy Ahmed.  « Quand les fêtes religieuses révèlent les fractures sociales » Afrik.com enfin met l'accent sur une douloureuse question de société au Bénin : « Quand les fêtes religieuses révèlent les fractures sociales », titre le site. Un sujet qui concerne toutes les confessions. À chaque Tabaski, à chaque Noël, à chaque Ramadan, à chaque célébration du Vodun, deux réalités coexistent souvent dans le même espace national. Afrik.com décrit « ces pères de famille qui parcourent les marchés dans un silence lourd, calculant mentalement ce qu'ils ne pourront finalement pas acheter, alors que des mères dissimulent leur inquiétude derrière des sourires de circonstance pour empêcher leurs enfants de comprendre que cette année encore, la fête sera modeste ».  Car il y a ceux qui peuvent célébrer dans l'abondance et ceux qui doivent se serrer la ceinture. « Dans plusieurs pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest, l'inflation alimentaire continue d'aggraver ces déséquilibres », pointe le journal. « Les grandes fêtes religieuses rappellent chaque année une vérité essentielle : une société ne se mesure pas uniquement à la richesse qu'elle produit, mais aussi à sa capacité à empêcher que certains vivent la joie collective comme une douleur personnelle ».  Afrik.com estime que les différences religieuses doivent devenir des occasions de fraternité et être ainsi des actes silencieux de construction nationale. 

An international human rights watchdog released a report Thursday on the surge of federal agents to the state this winter. Human Rights Watch interviewed 136 Minnesotans and analyzed visuals and court documents surrounding arrests and detentions.The report alleges federal agents used racial profiling and excessive force, and detained people unlawfully in facilities with poor conditions and insufficient access to lawyers. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson denied the report's findings in an email to MPR News.Ida Sawyer leads a team of Human Rights Watch researchers as the director of the group's Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division. She joined Minnesota Now to share more about the findings.Read more: Report authors say feds violated Minnesotans' human rights during ICE surge

In this episode of Capital for Good, we speak with two extraordinary media leaders — Christy Tanner '99, the president and CEO of New York Public Radio, an iconic and 100-year-old center for local and global media, and Carroll Bogert, the CEO of The City Reporter, the independent newsroom founded in 2019 to cover breaking news, investigative, and service journalism in New York City. In this wide-ranging conversation, we hear from these industry veterans about their early callings as reporters, their respective careers as pioneers — one using journalism to hold power to account, one forging new business models in the face of technological transformation — and their thoughts about the challenges, and opportunities, of the current moment in New York and around the world. We start with Tanner and Bogert's gravitational pulls to journalism and the formative experiences as reporters that would shape their careers in media. Tanner explains how as a young girl, inspired by the likes of Nancy Drew and Nellie Bly, the ability to "ask questions, investigate things, find out what's going on," and the creative process of writing "captured my imagination." Her first jobs at the AP and in local newsrooms in South Carolina and Tennessee taught her how investigative reporting could have tangible impact, prompting changes in government policies. For Bogert, a member of the generation of idealists who grew up on "Woodward and Bernstein and All the President's Men," journalism was "something noble… and world changing:" a way to "uncover abuse at the top and change history." As a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, she would chronicle the Tiananmen Square crackdown and the fall of the Soviet Union. As the industry evolved, so too did their respective paths. Bogert would go on to leadership roles at Human Rights Watch and as the founding president of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering criminal justice in the United States. "The though line," she says, is that "challenging the abuse of power is the essential role of journalism. Power requires constant vigilance because it will trend towards abuse if it's not watched." Tanner, whose experiences included hosting a kind of proto-podcast in the mid-1990s, saw early on that "the internet was going to change media forever." Back in New York, she had a "front row seat to the invention of streaming as we know it" — newspapers, magazines, television, audio — and would become a leader in the digital transformation of legacy media companies like The Washington Post, Reed Elsevier, TV Guide, and CBS.  While both new in their current seats, Tanner and Bogert bring their expertise as seasoned industry leaders — and New Yorkers – to the roles. Tanner notes that while NYPR has grown into a multiplatform organization with radio (WNYC, WQXR), digital news, and podcasts with significant national and global reach, its local resonance with New Yorkers is remarkably strong. Bogert explains that at "this historical moment," when investigative newsrooms are disappearing, "local media is where it's at." She believes that the independence of nonprofit media organizations gives them "a particularly special role" to hold political leaders accountable and to rebuild trust in media. While acknowledging any number of challenges — in the industry, in a fraught political environment — Tanner and Bogert are optimistic: about the opportunities for organizations like theirs to collaborate, to "share best practices," to develop more sustainable business models, and to cultivate greater understanding of the need of philanthropy to support media as a critical pillar of our civic infrastructure. Mentioned in this episode: New York Public Radio The City Reporter

Más de 10.000 soldados colombianos pelean guerras en otros países y están siendo juzgados por crímenes de guerra. ¿Qué nos dicen los miles de mercenarios colombianos que hay peleando guerras alrededor del mundo?Para este capítulo hablamos con Aristides Ramos, docente del departamento de historia de la Universidad Javeriana; con Laura Bonilla, subdirectora de la Fundación Paz y Reconciliación; con Juan Carlos Buitrago, General en retiro de la Policía Nacional de Colombia; con Juanita Goebertus, directora de la División de las Américas de Human Rights Watch; y con Andrés Villamizar, analista en seguridad y asuntos internacionales. 

El Mundial 2026 ha comenzado. Junto con la fiesta y la emoción que despierta este tipo de certámenes deportivos, también aparece la sombra de lo que se conoce en inglés como sportswashing. Es decir, una estrategia con la cual algunos gobiernos buscan mejorar su reputación a través del deporte. Canadá, Estados Unidos y México son los países anfitriones de este Mundial 2026. Sin embargo, estos dos últimos se encuentran en el centro de la atención debido a las reiteradas denuncias de violaciones de derechos humanos registradas en sus territorios y documentadas por diversas ONG. "Violación sistemática de derechos humanos" Juanita Goebertus, directora para las Américas de Human Rights Watch, lamenta la situación interna que atraviesa Estados Unidos: "Es lamentable que en este contexto, siendo Estados Unidos una de las tres sedes, pues se esté dando un escenario de violación sistemática de derechos humanos en contra de comunidades migrantes, muchas de las cuales han sido detenidas arbitrariamente, deportadas abusivamente en violación de sus derechos", dice a RFI. Asimismo, subraya que este certamen debería servir como un catalizador para que la comunidad internacional ejerza presión sobre el Gobierno mexicano con el fin de resolver y prevenir las desapariciones forzadas de personas: "Debería ser una oportunidad para que los distintos países del mundo se unieran en torno al llamado, para que las autoridades mexicanas desplieguen muchísimos más esfuerzos para la búsqueda de las personas desaparecidas, y para poner en marcha una política de seguridad y justicia efectiva", afirma Goebertus. "Querer lavar la imagen" Fernando Segura Trejo, doctor en Sociología, analiza los antecedentes históricos del sportswashing y cómo esta práctica se repite en diferentes países a través del tiempo: "Hay reiterados ejemplos, desde la Alemania nazi, podemos ir a la Argentina dictatorial de 1978 con el Mundial, podemos ir a las críticas que se le hicieron a Catar, un país con leyes tan severas y con tradiciones tan diferentes a las que estamos acostumbrados en Occidente", detalla. "En México tenemos un antecedente muy triste también, que fueron las Olimpiadas de 1968. Unas semanas antes hubo una matanza, la matanza de Tlatelolco, donde se mataron vilmente a estudiantes que protestaban, y las Olimpiadas sirvieron justamente para mostrar una imagen de un México en paz y en orden, cuando hubo una matanza de cientos de estudiantes unas semanas antes", recuerda asimismo. "En este momento se está volviendo a repetir una situación de querer lavar la imagen. Se repite en México y se repite en Estados Unidos también. Bueno, en Estados Unidos, yo diría que ni siquiera hay un esfuerzo por lavar la imagen. Es decir, es tan descarado la política migratoria, los abusos", denuncia. El especialista concluye afirmando  que la sociedad mexicana es consciente del uso político que se le da a este tipo de acontecimientos, y que a pesar de que la población celebra el Mundial, muchos ciudadanos consideran que no era el momento para que el país acogiera este torneo.

00:08 — Ramzi Kaiss, researcher at Human Rights Watch investigating human rights abuses in Lebanon. 00:33 — Joel Beinin Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. The post Israel continues Airstrikes in Lebanon; Plus Whats Behind the Strikes from Israel and Growing Tension Between Netanyahu and Trump appeared first on KPFA.

La polémica con el Irán-Egipto designado como partido LGTBIQ+, los atletas iraníes que han pedido que se suspenda a su selección. Análisis Human Rights Watch.Un nuevo episodio de Gol de Estado, con Antonio Martín.

La polémica con el Irán-Egipto designado como partido LGTBIQ+, los atletas iraníes que han pedido que se suspenda a su selección. Análisis Human Rights Watch.Un nuevo episodio de Gol de Estado, con Antonio Martín.

La polémica con el Irán-Egipto designado como partido LGTBIQ+, los atletas iraníes que han pedido que se suspenda a su selección. Análisis Human Rights Watch.Un nuevo episodio de Gol de Estado, con Antonio Martín.

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Omar Shakir, Executive Director of Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), about DAWN's new report on the revolving door between AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) and U.S. and Israeli governmental institutions and the roles AIPAC plays in U.S. politics and public discourse. They also look at instances of conflation between Jewish people and AIPAC (including, for instance, by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro), as well as new and growing toxicity of the AIPAC brand and how that toxicity affects other political groups, such as J Street. See the new DAWN report, New Data Highlights AIPAC Ties to the U.S., Israeli Governments (5/20/26). Omar Shakir is the Executive Director of Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), the organization founded by the late Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that seeks to change US policy in the Middle East and hold human rights abusers in the region accountable. Prior to his current role, Omar served for nearly a decade as the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a Fellow at FMEP. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University. You can follow Ahmed on Substack at: https://ahmedmoor.substack.com and on X at @AhmedMoor. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

Emiratos Árabes Unidos está reclutando a exmilitares colombianos para combatir en Sudán junto a grupos rebeldes, denunció Human Rights Watch, que afirma haber establecido los vínculos entre empresas de ambos países.  y vuelve a poner sobre la mesa el debate sobre el mercenarismo colombiano. Entrevista con la directora de esta ONG, Juanita Goebertus, y con el politólogo Armando Mercado Vega. Más de 200.000 personas han muerto en Sudán a causa del conflicto que enfrenta al ejército con el grupo rebelde de las Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido. La guerra, que estalló en 2023, ha provocado una de las peores crisis humanitarias del mundo. En este contexto, Human Rights Watch ha podido revelar los vínculos entre empresas colombianas y emiratíes que han permitido el reclutamiento de mercenarios colombianos. “Esta red en Colombia está básicamente asociada a dos empresas, A4F y Fénix, ambas compañías sancionadas por el Departamento de Estados de Estados Unidos”, explica Juanita Goebertus, directora para las Américas de Human Rights Watch. “Nosotros en HRW pudimos rastrear a través de distintos documentos financieros y de salarios la relación entre esas dos empresas y la empresa emiratí, conocida por sus siglas en inglés como GSSG, que es una empresa que fue fundada por el Secretario General de la Corte Presidencial de Emiratos Árabes. Esta empresa tiene vínculos muy cercanos, tanto comerciales como familiares, con la familia gobernante en Emiratos Árabes. Nosotros mostramos cómo GSSG, a través de estas dos empresas colombianas, efectuaban el reclutamiento, así como la manera como se da la conexión entre GSSG y el gobierno de Emiratos Árabes, lo que ha permitido el entrenamiento en instalaciones militares Emiratos Árabes”, subraya Juanita Goebertus. Sin embargo, las autoridades de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos niegan las acusaciones de que combatientes extranjeros hayan sido reclutados y entrenados en su territorio. Armando Mercado Vega Politólogo, especialista en Conflicto Social y profesor de La Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, explica las causas de mercenarismo en Colombia. “El mercenarismo en Colombia es un problema histórico porque nosotros tenemos un conflicto armado interno de más de medio siglo. Esto nos ha generado un problema desde el punto de vista no solo del reciclaje de excombatientes, de grupos armados organizados, pero también otro tema que se descuidó por mucho tiempo: los ex militares de la Fuerza Pública. Como bien señala el informe de Human Rights Watch, no hay una política pública enfocada desde el punto de vista de ofrecerle alternativas y proyectos de vida a estos militares luego de que salen de la experiencia militar. Tenemos una bolsa de empleo de ex militares que están muy bien formados, lo que no se puede olvidar. Han sido formados no en entrenamientos, como muchos ejércitos del mundo, sino formados en la guerra misma. Esto es un conocimiento muy apetecido para los especialistas en la violencia en el mundo. No se nos olvide que, en el 2021, el primer ministro de Haití, Jovenel Moise, fue asesinado precisamente por un comando de mercenarios colombianos”. Ante esta situación, Human Rights Watch insta al gobierno colombiano a que, además de fortalecer el Programa Nacional de Veteranos, abra una investigación contra las compañías involucradas en las prácticas de reclutamiento de exmilitares.

Hablaremos de un informe que documenta como Emiratos Árabes Unidos lleva a mercenarios colombianos a Sudán para luchar junto a las RSF, que desde hace ya más de 3 años se enfrentan con el ejército sudanés por el control de la nación en un conflicto que ha provocado la peor crisis humanitaria de la actualidad. Juanita Goebertus, Directora para las Américas de Human Rights WatchEscuchar audio

My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024) is Russian-language American documentary film written and directed by Julia Loktev (with co-director Anna Nemzer). The film describes the effort to maintain press freedoms in Putin's Russia in the period leading up to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The documentary provides an intimate portrait of independent Russian journalists—mainly young women—who risk everything to pursue truth and accountability amidst escalating repression under the Putin regime. Filmed in late 2021 and early 2022, the documentary captures how the legal machinery of censorship, surveillance, and state-harassment converged to crush internal dissent and incapacitate civil society. It not only provides a profoundly disturbing account of what has occurred in Russia but also serves as a broader warning about the fragility of press freedoms and in a time of rising authoritarianism worldwide. Timestamps:0:00      Introduction2:45       How the film came about5:25       A primer on Russian censorship and repression15:15      “Foreign agents” and “undesirable organizations”23:32     Social marginalization through the creation of an enemies list 28:46     State persecution of TV Rain and other independent media 32:45     The manipulation of language36:30     Identifying the pivotal moment 43:36     How the film captures the elimination of press freedoms48:26     Courts and lawyers53:27     The Kremlin's public mobilization to support the war in Ukraine58:53     Independent journalism in exile1:02:17   Parallels to the United States under TrumpFurther reading:Chang, Justin, “‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I' Is a Staggering Portrait of Russian Journalists in Dissent,” New Yorker (Aug. 14, 2025)Edel, Anastasia, “Putin vs. the Press,” Foreign Policy (Oct. 3, 2025)Human Rights Watch, Russia's Legislative Minefield: Tripwires for Civil Society Since 2020 (2024)Human Rights Watch, Disrupted, Throttled, and Blocked State Censorship, Control, and Increasing Isolation of Internet Users in Russia (2025)Krupskiy, Maxim, “The Impact of Russia's ‘Foreign Agents' Legislation on Civil Society,” Fletcher Russia & Eurasia Program (2023)Troinovski, Anton & Safronova, Valeriya, “Russia Takes Censorship to New Extremes, Stifling War Coverage,” New York Times (May 18, 2022)Yablokov, Ilya & Gatov, Vasily, “Broadcasting through the (New) Iron Curtain: Practices, Challenges, and Legacies of Russia's Independent Media in Exile,” Journalism Studies (Feb. 11, 2025)Law on Film is created and produced by Jonathan Hafetz. Jonathan is a professor at Seton Hall Law School. He has written many books and articles about the law. He has litigated important cases to protect civil liberties and human rights while working at the ACLU and other organizations. Jonathan is a huge film buff and has been watching, studying, and talking about movies for as long as he can remember. For more information about Jonathan, here's a link to his bio: https://law.shu.edu/profiles/hafetzjo.htmlYou can contact him at jonathanhafetz@gmail.comYou can follow him on X (Twitter) @jonathanhafetz You can follow the podcast on X (Twitter) @LawOnFilmYou can follow the podcast on Instagram @lawonfilmpodcast

2026-05-05 | UPDATES #194 | Moscow goes dark, Putin begs for calm and for ‘permission' to run his tin pot victory day parade. Zelenskyy dictates the terms, in one of the greatest political inflections of history. Ukraine now calls the shots about what happens and does not happen in the swamp empire. Putin does not control, the agenda in Moscow, and Red Square, Ukraine does. Putin's panic hits maximum velocity four days before the May 9 parade, as he seeks to trade Ukrainian prisoners for a promise of clear skies to act the cosplay dictator one last time on Red Square. The streets of Moscow on the morning of 5 May 2026. A cashier at a corner café tries to charge a customer through a contactless card terminal. The terminal beeps and refuses. The customer stares at it. The cashier shrugs. The taxi app on the customer's phone shows a grey screen and a spinning circle that will not finish. The Yandex maps will not load. The messenger notifications make their familiar sound — but when the customer taps to read, the messages will not open. A landline phone in the back of the café rings. Pagers, last seen in 1999, are reportedly being procured by some Moscow firms. AFP reporters in Moscow this morning watched as multiple shops were unable to process card payments at all. ATMs are intermittent. The Russian capital — the political and financial heart of the largest country on earth — has been thrown back into a mid-1990s pre-digital state on the orders of its own government. Mobile phone subscribers are being warned that their devices will turn into useless bricks both before and during the Victory Day parade period. ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk Vampires. Dzyga's Paw, together with Jonathan Fink, is joining forces to raise $40,000 to provide the Khartiia Brigade with Vampire Drones.https://dzygaspaw.com/silicon-curtain-for-kupiansk-vampiresThese heavy bombers are designed to destroy manpower and equipment, as well as for remote mining. The Vampire UAV, manufactured by Skyfall, has proven itself to be one of the most effective weapons in the Kupiansk direction. Skyfall is one of Ukraine's largest defense tech companies, producing Vampire bomber drones, various modifications of Shrike FPV drones, P1-SUN, Shahed drone interceptors, communication systems, and components.----------PLEASE HELP ME ME TO GROW SILICON CURTAINWe are planning our events for 2026, and to do more and have a greater impact. After achieving more than 12 events in 2025, we will aim to double that! 24 events and interviews on the ground in Ukraine, to push back against weaponized information, toxic propaganda and corrosive disinformation. Please help us make it happen!----------SOURCES: CNN — "Analysis: Putin will host a scaled-back parade in Red Square this year, amid mounting pressures and threats" (29 April 2026) Tempo — "Russia Offers Ukraine May 8-9 WWII Anniversary Ceasefire" (4 May 2026)Al Jazeera — "Russia and Ukraine declare competing ceasefires" (4 May 2026)Euronews — "Russia unilaterally declares Victory Day ceasefire while Zelenskyy tables own truce" (4 May 2026) Kyiv Post — "Russia Blacks Out Mobile Internet in Moscow, St. Petersburg Ahead of Victory Day Showcase" (5 May 2026) Al Arabiya / AFP — "Moscow shuts off mobile internet ahead of Victory Day parade" (5 May 2026)Human Rights Watch — "Russia: Internet Shutdowns Escalate" (31 March 2026)NBC News — "Mobile internet blackouts sweep Moscow, leaving residents feeling 'powerless'" (March 2026) Chatham House — "Moscow internet blackouts: the Kremlin tightens its grip on Russia's digital space" (27 March 2026) RBC-Ukraine — "Parade in Moscow to trigger mobile internet shutdown" (4 May 2026)----------

2026-05-05 | UPDATES #195 | This is the surreal physical reality of Moscow this week. The Kyiv Post and AFP, reporting on 5 May, documented what is happening on the streets of the Russian capital. Mobile internet access began dropping sharply after 7am. Apps, websites, payment systems all failing to load. Even the so-called white-list services — the ones the Kremlin had publicly committed to keeping accessible during shutdowns — were unavailable. SMS messaging stopped working. Across both Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the disruption has now been continuous for days.----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/scaling-up-campaign-to-fight-authoritarian-disinformation----------ACTIVE CAMPAIGN:We are raising funds for 5 of 15 Vampire DronesSilicon Curtain for Kupiansk Vampires. Dzyga's Paw, together with Jonathan Fink, is joining forces to raise $40,000 to provide the Khartiia Brigade with Vampire Drones.https://dzygaspaw.com/silicon-curtain-for-kupiansk-vampiresThese heavy bombers are designed to destroy manpower and equipment, as well as for remote mining. The Vampire UAV, manufactured by Skyfall, has proven itself to be one of the most effective weapons in the Kupiansk direction. Skyfall is one of Ukraine's largest defense tech companies, producing Vampire bomber drones, various modifications of Shrike FPV drones, P1-SUN, Shahed drone interceptors, communication systems, and components.----------PLEASE HELP ME ME TO GROW SILICON CURTAINWe are planning our events for 2026, and to do more and have a greater impact. After achieving more than 12 events in 2025, we will aim to double that! 24 events and interviews on the ground in Ukraine, to push back against weaponized information, toxic propaganda and corrosive disinformation. Please help us make it happen!----------SOURCES: CNN — "Analysis: Putin will host a scaled-back parade in Red Square this year, amid mounting pressures and threats" (29 April 2026) Tempo — "Russia Offers Ukraine May 8-9 WWII Anniversary Ceasefire" (4 May 2026)Al Jazeera — "Russia and Ukraine declare competing ceasefires" (4 May 2026)Euronews — "Russia unilaterally declares Victory Day ceasefire while Zelenskyy tables own truce" (4 May 2026) Kyiv Post — "Russia Blacks Out Mobile Internet in Moscow, St. Petersburg Ahead of Victory Day Showcase" (5 May 2026) Al Arabiya / AFP — "Moscow shuts off mobile internet ahead of Victory Day parade" (5 May 2026)Human Rights Watch — "Russia: Internet Shutdowns Escalate" (31 March 2026)NBC News — "Mobile internet blackouts sweep Moscow, leaving residents feeling 'powerless'" (March 2026) Chatham House — "Moscow internet blackouts: the Kremlin tightens its grip on Russia's digital space" (27 March 2026) RBC-Ukraine — "Parade in Moscow to trigger mobile internet shutdown" (4 May 2026)----------

Noam Dworman is joined by Professor Gerald Steinberg. Steinberg breaks down the hidden world of NGOs—what they are, how they gained massive global influence and why he believes many have drifted far from their original mission. From organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to their role at the United Nations, Steinberg argues that these groups now act as powerful political players shaping narratives around conflicts like Israel–Palestine.  Gerald Steinberg is founder and president of NGO Monitor and Professor at Bar Ilan University. His research focuses on Middle East diplomacy and Israeli security, and the politics of human rights and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Prestigious grants and prizes include Israel Science Foundation, Bonei Zion Prize (2017) and the Bernard Lewis Prize in 2025. https://x.com/GeraldNGOM

The U.S.'s ceasefire with Iran is on shaky ground after Israel launched its deadliest day of strikes on Lebanon so far. Tehran and Islamabad say the strikes violate the two-week agreement. Israel said Thursday it has agreed to talks with Lebanon. The Washington Institute's Holly Dagres explains more ahead of a U.S. delegation's scheduled visit to Pakistan on Saturday.Then, since Israel began its invasion of Lebanon last month, more than 1 million people have been forced out of their homes. As Israeli airstrikes continue, the southern region of Lebanon is becoming increasingly isolated and unable to access humanitarian aid. Human Rights Watch researcher Ramzi Kaiss has more on the deepening humanitarian crisis.And, MS Now's Ali Velshi details what the ceasefire means for markets, gas prices and the economy at large.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Ralph welcomes international security expert Paul Rogers to discuss the US-Israeli war on Iran. Then, Ralph speaks to constitutional law experts Bruce Fein and John Bonifaz about their upcoming impeachment symposium.Paul Rogers is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies in the Department of Peace Studies and International Relations at Bradford University, and an Honorary Fellow at the Joint Service Command and Staff College. He is open Democracy's international security correspondent.I think if you look at the war overall, then essentially of the three (I use the term as a crude term) participants, the one that is basically doing most badly is the United States, followed by Israel, followed least by Iran. Relatively speaking, the Iranians (particularly the Revolutionary Guard Corps) are closer to where they wanted to be, which is not true of the United States and certainly isn't true to a very large extent of the Israelis as well. In other words, the war is going badly. for the people who are determined to try and defeat Iran.Paul RogersPeople tend to think Iran is on its own against these huge odds. Well, it isn't. In many ways, certainly Russia and certainly China have a real interest in what is happening. But as far as China is concerned, they will not help directly. They will not, in other words, as far as we know, arm Iran without payment. They will see them as a reasonable customer. I think (more widely than we realize) as far as you get away from D.C., then I think you see the world in a rather different way, particularly across the global south it is certainly seen in a different way…And I would come back to a point which I think is a fair point made earlier—essentially, the Iranian Republican Revolutionary Guard Corps has been working towards this time for decades. And they will not be easily dislodged. It could happen eventually, but I think it's highly unlikely.Paul RogersJohn Bonifaz is a constitutional attorney and the co-founder and president of Free Speech For People. Mr. Bonifaz previously served as the executive director and general counsel of the National Voting Rights Institute, and as the legal director of Voter Action. He is the author of Warrior-King: The Case For Impeaching George W. Bush and the co-author (with Ron Fein and Ben Clements) of The Constitution Demands It: The Case For The Impeachment of Donald Trump.Threatening to execute members of Congress is unique to Trump. Kidnapping people off the streets and sending them to foreign torture prisons is unique to Trump. Freezing public funds that have been duly appropriated by the United States Congress and not distributing those funds is unique to Trump. Attacking the United States judiciary, refusing to comply with multiple court orders issued by federal courts across the country is unique to Trump. Engaging in these murders on the high seas…these paramilitary attacks on people in the Pacific and in the Caribbean is unique to Trump. Now, it's true that there have been other violations of the War Powers Clause…But the scale of the War Powers violations today is unique to Trump. And this current new, illegal, and unconstitutional war against Iran is threatening the entire world. And so I think that whether they be Democrats or Republicans or Independents, they have to wake up and recognize they have a duty here.John BonifazBruce Fein is a Constitutional scholar and an expert on international law. Mr. Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General under Ronald Reagan and he is the author of Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy, and American Empire: Before the Fall.Ralph, me and John have been trying to impeach Presidents—Democrat, Republican—for decades for these illegalities. The idea that we picked out Trump is absurd. Look at my history. Half of my life has been devoted to getting Presidents impeached and removed from office…So the idea that this is partisan, at least among us, is factually absurd.Bruce FeinI think we need to be even more candid about the nature of the crimes. This is not just illegal wars under the Constitution. He is committing the crime of aggression, the same crime that we sentence Nazis to death at Nuremberg for committing aggression against Poland, against Denmark, against Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, etc.Bruce FeinThis is what is defined as a dictator by any ordinary use of the English language. We need to get away from “authoritarian,” “Oh, he's pushing the envelope.” This is what dictators do. He stated, “I can do anything I want.” And he does it. He kills people. He deports them without due process. He spies on them. He suppresses free speech by using the government to penalize anyone who says anything that's critical, detracts from Mr. Trump. I mean, it is impossible to conceive of the framers thinking anyone like Donald Trump, given his words and his actions, would remain in office more than a fortnight if Congress was doing its duty.Bruce FeinNews 4/3/26* This week, the Trump administration backed down and allowed the Russian oil tanker Anatoly Kolodkin to pass through the American blockade and deliver a shipment of 730,000 barrels of oil to Cuba. The AP writes, the shipment could produce about 180,000 barrels of diesel, enough to feed Cuba's daily energy demand for nine or 10 days. Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío commented on the situation, “The arrival of an oil tanker to a country has likely never generated so much news as the Russian one to Cuba…It's a sign of the brutal siege Cubans endure with heroism and stoicism. It's a demonstration of the criminal cruelty of imperialism against a nation that refuses to be dominated.” Trump's public statements on the matter however loom ominously over the island nation. On Sunday night, Trump told reporters “Cuba's finished…whether or not they get a boat of oil, it's not going to matter.”* In more news of Trump backing down, or “chickening out” as the saying goes, the Wall Street Journal reports that Trump is telling his inner circle that he is willing to end the military operation in Iran without reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, he wants the U.S. to stick to its original 4-6 week timeline and focus on “hobbling Iran's navy and its missile stocks…while pressuring Tehran diplomatically.” This report adds that if this fails, Trump plans to “press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait.” This aligns with Trump's recent statements on Truth Social, telling allies like the UK to “Go get your own oil!” With all of this said, Trump has sent the USS Tripoli and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to the region, is weighing the deployment of another 10,000 ground troops, and is considering a “complex and risky mission to seize the regime's uranium,” all while calling the war an “excursion” and “a lovely stay.”* Meanwhile, 25 Senate Democrats have signed a letter by Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia requesting that Senator Roger Wicker, the Republican Chairman of the Armed Services Committee launch a bipartisan probe – complete with hearings and a report – into the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School for girls in Minab, Iran at the beginning of the war. This letter notes that the majority of those killed were girls between ages seven and 12. Moreover, this letter implies that the Pentagon chose this target based on wildly outdated intelligence, raising grave questions about the competence of the military apparatus. While several high-ranking Democrats signed this letter, including Dick Durbin and Cory Booker, along with progressives like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's name is nowhere to be found.* Elsewhere in the region, the Israeli Knesset has passed a new law effectively proscribing the death penalty exclusively to Palestinians. Human Rights Watch states “the bill imposes the death penalty for the deliberate killing of a person with the intention of negating the existence of the State of Israel.'” HRW adds that the new law “mandates execution by hanging, restricts access to legal counsel and visits from family members, limits external oversight, and grants immunity to those involved in carrying out executions.” In a piece calling for the immediate repeal of this law, Erika Guevara-Rosas of Amnesty International writes “By authorizing military courts, which have a conviction rate of over 99% for Palestinian defendants and which are notorious for disregarding due process and fair trial safeguards, to impose effectively mandatory death sentences and ordering the execution within just 90 days of the final ruling, Israel is brazenly granting itself carte blanche to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards.” In an interview with CNN, Mustafa Barghouti said this law “confirms very serious fascist tendencies in Israel” and “consolidates further the system of apartheid.”* Anti-Palestinian extremism continues to grow within the United States as well. Al Jazeera reports that last week, domestic law enforcement “foiled a plot against prominent Palestinian activist Nerdeen Kiswani in New York City.” Kiswani is the founder of Within Our Lifetime, a pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist group active in the City. The suspect, apprehended by the FBI in an undercover operation, has been identified as a New Jersey man named Andrew Heifler, a young man affiliated with an offshoot of the far-right Jewish Defense League (JDL), described as an extremist group with a history of violent attacks targeting Arab American activists during the 1970s and 1980s. Heifler was reportedly planning to target Kiswani's home with Molotov cocktails. Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the plot, saying “We will not tolerate violent extremism in our city. No one should face violence for their political beliefs or their advocacy…Our city must meet hate with solidarity, and meet fear with an unshakable commitment to justice and to one another.” Kiswani vowed that she “will not stop speaking up for the people of Palestine.”* Also in New York, Congresswoman and possible 2028 presidential candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a private meeting with the powerful local branch of the Democratic Socialists of America. During this meeting AOC was asked whether she would support the imposition of an arms embargo on Israel. According to City and State NY, AOC affirmed that she would and stated that “The Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.” Pressed on whether she would vote against so-called defensive capabilities – namely the Iron Dome – Rep. Ocasio-Cortez definitively answered “yes.” This marks an evolution of her position; AOC previously voted “present” on a bill to provide $1 billion in funding for the Iron Dome in 2021. Many read this as an acknowledgment from AOC that the politics of this issue have shifted, particularly on the Left, and in order to shore up her progressive support she needs to stake out a bold position now.* Turning to the international progressive movement, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who has led Spain in a Leftward direction since 2018 despite the rise of the European Right is convening a summit of progressive forces in Barcelona slated for April 17th and 18th. Sánchez, who has chaired the Socialist International since 2022, emphasized that the Right has “for years woven a network of alliances to propagate their national populist discourses adapted to each country,” and stressed that the Left must do the same to remain politically viable, per El País. Notable attendees include Brazilian President Lula, outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. There have been many attempts to unite the international Left, with mixed results, but it is never too late to try.* In our final story on the international Left, the New Democratic Party of Canada – the country's third largest and most progressive major party – has selected former journalist and activist Avi Lewis as their new leader, the BBC reports. This story notes that Lewis' elevation comes in the context of the NDP suffering a steep decline in recent years, going from the main opposition party in 2011, to holding just six seats in Canada's House of Commons today. Lewis – grandson of one of the party's founding members and son of Stephen Lewis, who led the Ontario NDP and served as the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations – ran on a platform designed to revive the struggling party by “prioritising worker rights in the age of artificial intelligence, ending new oil and gas pipelines and projects, and exploring state-owned, non-profit grocery stores.” Despite his illustrious lineage, Lewis holds no seat in parliament and therefore cannot participate in official debates. The NDP faces an uphill climb not only back to power but even to relevance. According to this story, “a quarter of past voters…see the party as ‘irrelevant'...and 40% say its best days are behind it.”* In Los Angeles, a shocking new poll shows City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who entered the race at the last possible moment, in a commanding lead. In this poll, Raman drew 33% support, with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass trailing at 17%, statistically tied with another insurgent progressive candidate, Rae Huang. Other candidates – tech executive Adam Miller and former reality television personality and registered Republican Spencer Pratt – round out the field with 13% and 12% respectively. This poll appears to be an outlier. Other recent polls have shown Bass at 20% to Raman's 9%, and Bass at 25% with Raman at 17%. But, if this poll is accurate, it would be a stunning testament to the success of Raman's campaign thus far and a massive warning signal to Bass. If the Mayor slips any further, she could find herself locked out of the general election by Los Angeles' top-two “jungle primary” structure. This from the LA Times.* Finally, we turn to the world of professional sports. This week, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the Home Team Act, which, if passed, would require the owners of major league sports teams to allow local communities the option to buy a team before unilaterally relocating across state lines or to a different metro area. This announcement sent ripples through the sports world, with many fans excited by the prospect of keeping their home teams at home. ABC7 Chicago notes that “Sanders specifically mentioned the Bears' threat to leave Chicago,” while the San Diego Union-Tribune believes this bill could keep the Padres in San Diego despite multiple offers to sell. San Diego has been particularly sensitive to this threat since the Chargers left for LA in 2017. In the press conference announcing this bill, Bernie unsubtly displayed the jerseys of the Brooklyn Dodgers, his hometown team, which famously relocated to Los Angeles ahead of the 1958 baseball season.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe