Oppression
-
George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom – Online Symposium (6)
With: Dr. Jennifer Webb, Melbourne, Australia – Mr. George Ph Georgiou, S. Africa / W. Australia – Dr. Luli Callinicos,…
Read More » -
Online Symposium: George Bizos & his Odyssey to Freedom
This symposium is free and open to the public. Details: 1) The Online Symposium can be accessed via Zoom /…
Read More » -
Xinjiang: Large numbers of new detention camps uncovered in report
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute says there are 380 suspected facilities in the Xinjiang region – some 40% more than…
Read More » -
George Bizos, Anti-Apartheid Lawyer Who Defended Mandela, Dies at 92
George Bizos, who fled the Nazi occupation of his native Greece at age 13 to become one of South Africa’s…
Read More » -
Human rights advocate George Bizos has died
Renowned human rights advocate George Bizos has died aged 92. He died late this afternoon. The Citizen Bizos celebrated his…
Read More » -
Iranian artists jailed for defying government restrictions on women singing and dancing
Mr Rajabian creates classical compositions using local Iranian instruments, but his latest project contains something largely forbidden in Iran: the…
Read More » -
US seizes items thought to be made from hair of Muslims in Chinese labor camps
US federal authorities have seized a shipment of products made from human hair believed to have been taken from Muslims…
Read More » -
China imposes forced abortion, sterilisation on Uyghurs, investigation shows
While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than…
Read More » -
The Story Behind TIME’s ‘America Must Change’ Cover
The resulting 40-by-30-in. acrylic painting, of a little girl faced with both the injustice of today and America’s historical role…
Read More » -
Trump OKs bill to punish China over Uighur ethnic crackdown
The Uighur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 passed with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress. WASHINGTON –…
Read More » -
Publishers rush to fill demand as books on race and racism sell out amid protests
Bookshops have sold out of several titles on the topics, with publishers racing to reprint and order more stock in…
Read More » -
Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn’t even be up for debate
Scott Morrison asserted in a radio interview on Thursday morning that “there was no slavery in Australia”. Thalia Anthony and Stephen Gray…
Read More » -
What would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr say today?
Protests in America that have spread around the world. We are all still watching. What is changing and what has…
Read More » -
Democracy is on a knife-edge in Turkey
The arrest of HDP MP’s Leyla Guven and Musa Farisogullari on trumped-up terror charges is a stain on Turkey and…
Read More » -
Jinwar, the Middle East’s first feminist commune for Arab, Kurdish, and Yazidi victims of Islamic State
The 35-year-old Arab woman from the Syrian town of Deir Ezzor has seven children. JM Lopez ABC News Her husband…
Read More » -
The films that defy censorship
In 1989 the blooming cinema industry in Sudan came crashing down like the Berlin Wall. Kaleem Aftab BBC On 1…
Read More »