Palestinian prisoners’ families and human rights groups demand protection after UN report on sexual abuse in Israeli prisons
Palestinian prisoners’ families and human rights groups demand protection after UN report on sexual abuse in Israeli prisons
Read in The New Arab: https://apple.news/ATqxw0eRWSdmeOKouXW-_dA
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Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says
Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’
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Houston church shooting revives claims on transgender shooters. Evidence shows they’re false
Right-wing accounts claim there’s an ‘epidemic’ of shootings by trans people. They’re wrong about Lakewood church shooting, and about the statistics.
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Border Patrol releases hundreds of migrants at a bus stop after San Diego runs out of aid money
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What we know about Oklahoma nonbinary teen Nex Benedict’s tragic death
A community is grappling with the death of an LGBTQ+ young person one day after they were beaten in a high school bathroom.
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Oklahoma passed an anti-trans bathroom bill. Now a bullied student is dead after a fight.
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were
Read in The Independent: https://apple.news/A1i18FQO5SVKgoiI2O4jeew
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World Court to hear arguments on Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories
The United Nations’ top court on Monday opens a week of hearings on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, with more than 50 states due to address the judges.
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Most Americans want legal pot. Here’s why feds are taking so long to change old rules.
The DEA has for decades held that marijuana is among the most dangerous, highly addictive drugs. The science has changed, but the DEA hasn’t.
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FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ role in Ukraine business, undercutting GOP impeachment inquiry
Special counsel David Weiss charged a former FBI informant with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, undercutting a major aspect of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president.
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The Year After a Denied Abortion
Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.
Read in ProPublica: https://apple.news/ACTJz6HClRfSyYZoQ4lF-Lw
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