"What Are Human Rights?
Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination." #HumanRights https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/human-rights?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20126487822&gbraid=0AAAAAD9kiAc5P0U_ubTz3hqOmgS6XHVPQ
humanrights
Everything maga hates, in one convenient place...
#CivilRights #HumanRights #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomOfReligion #SeparationOfChurchAndState #LGBTQ #Abortion #Contraception #Capitalism #Racism #WhiteNationalism #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #ClimateCrisis #Immigration #Healthcare #WomensRights #Science #History
Privacy International is an NGO established in 1990 which campaigns for privacy as a human right. You can follow their official PeerTube account at:
➡️ @privacyint
They've already uploaded over 180 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://media.privacyinternational.org/a/privacyint/videos
You can also follow their general non-video account at @privacyint@mastodon.xyz
#FeaturedPeerTube #Privacy #HumanRights #NGOs #PeerTube #PeerTubers
Spain to enshrine gay marriage and abortion rights into its constitution so ‘they cannot be undone in the future’
#news #politics #spain #lgbtq #abortion #rights #humanrights #womensrights
Freedom House awarded its 2025 Beacon Award to the government and civil society of Taiwan for their "steadfast efforts to protect their own vibrant democracy, and to support the global struggle for freedom, in the face of escalating pressure from the Chinese Communist Party."
https://freedomhouse.org/article/freedom-house-announces-2025-award-recipients
So that was 2024 and this is ORG’s annual review ✨
It was a year when it became increasingly clear why we need digital rights and ORG was there to bang the drum.
From Data Bills to Prevent. From e-Visas to data profiling for ads and AI. From predictive policing to an election…
Here’s the round-up ⬇️
#digitalrightsarehumanrights #digitalrights #dataprotection #privacy #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #humanrights
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The #Trump administration is using the claim that #immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process.
A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.
#Immigration #News #Law #HumanRights #government
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
So this is apparently NOT enough for mastodon.social to defederate Threads.
What a complete and utter betrayal.
#mastodonSocial #meta #threads #moderation #fediverse #mastodon #mastodonGGMBH #lgbt #lgbtq #humanRights
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A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
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Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.
#News #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics #HumanRights #Government
Good Privacy & Personal News! 🔒 
I am absolutely delighted to
officially announce today that I have joined the wonderful team at @privacyguides ! 
I will be working with the team as a Journalist, and I am overjoyed by this opportunity to write and investigate for the Privacy Guides non-profit organization (donations welcomed 😉).
Thanks to all the staff and volunteers for your excellent privacy advocacy work, and welcome to the two teammates who have recently joined as well. I look forward to working with you all.
By the way, these are all amazing
and very talented people you should definitely follow on Mastodon 👇
@jonah @sgp @freddy @blacklight447 @jw @kevpham
And of course you should follow Privacy Guides as well if you don't want to miss any of our upcoming articles, videos, and other material!
Official announcement here 👇🎉
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/17/privacy-guides-hires-three-staff-members/
If you sometimes want to escape from current affairs and the daily ratrace, follow @joene. Here I post pictures from various travels I made through the years. No those are not holiday pictures, but from interesting politically and socially driven travels. No selfies and if necessary with blurred faces.
The first two collections I will post are from May 2016 in the Northern-Greek Idomeni refugee camp, nearby Polykastro and smaller refugee camps along the A1/E75 highway. The first collection about Idomeni can be found here: https://pix.joenepraat.nl/c/834486164830621697 and the next collection is about Polykastro and smaller refugee camps along the A1/E75.
I advise you to follow this account, because from now on I'm not going to boost every post from that account with my Mastodon accounts anymore. Next topics will include pictures from Mexico (Veracruz), Moldova (Chișinău), the United States (NYC and DC), and more.
Fucking #FASCIST! In Dutch we have a word for this, 'kinderbeul'. In English that translates literally to 'child executioner', although it has a slightly different meaning. But this time it's not far from the truth. This week is clearly showing what he is; A FASCIST DICTATOR!
For everyone having a #transgender child or teenager as a family member or friend, or being a transgender child/teenager yourself, if you somehow read this: You have an immense number of allies! 
We've got your back! 
Never forget! 🏳️⚧️
The Guardian: *Trump signs executive order to curtail gender transition for people under 19*
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/trump-executive-order-transgender-transition
"Donald Trump has signed another executive order aimed at the transgender community on Tuesday, this time prohibiting gender transitions for people under the age of 19. …"
[Sorry for using the Guardian, but I couldn't find anything reliable non-US so fast. I say this because the Guardian had some negative (opinion) articles in the past.]
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Photographer Justin Hamel joined Battalion Search and Rescue in their attempt to rescue lost migrants ... or discover the remains of those who hadn't made it through the El Paso desert.
Find his photo essay in our magazine, or on our website: https://www.texasobserver.org/death-in-the-desert/
#SouthTexas #border #immigration #HumanRights #environment #politics #USpol #Mexico #Texas #news
I rarely use this account to promote things that are not directly related to the Interpeer Project, but this #FluConf article by @librecast's @dentangle is so much aligned with our own Values, I should have written it.
https://www.librecast.net/fluconf-2025/
It's also why our projects are in close contact, and we're working on ways to collaborate as much as possible.
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#FluConf2025 #HumanRights #FLOSS #DigitalCommons #DigitalCitizenSovereignty
[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
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Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.
✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org
📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr
📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app
🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org
📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com
🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.
We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before! 
#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance
Safeguard Defenders have released a handbook to help the family members of people arbitrarily detained in China
"One year in the making, and compiled from our extensive research on China’s repressive detention systems and interviews with dozens of people including former detainees, Missing in China is being published as a response to the growing risk of detention for foreigners in the authoritarian country."
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/publications/missing-china
#China #HumanRights #CCP #ArbitraryDetention
#HumanRights picks of the day:
➡️ @commissionerHR - Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe
➡️ @privacyint (main) & @privacyint@media.privacyinternational.org (videos) - NGO campaigning for privacy as a human right
➡️ @DIMR_Berlin - German Institute for Human Rights (in German)
➡️ @ooni - Monitoring network-level blocks on internet access (usually repressive regimes)
➡️ @torproject - Non-profit maintaining Tor network, allowing anyone to communicate anonymously
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New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests
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We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office.
#ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
#News #Government #HumanRights #Police #Courts #Politics
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-windows-deportation-arrests/
Especially for the #Labour administration in the UK; the Supreme Court in the UK, all the #TERF and Terf adjacent people out there, the media, especially the #Guardian.
#Rights #HumanRights #ProChoice #Autonomy #Biology #Facts
Once again, for those still quoting primary school level science:
Rebecca Helm, a biologist and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville US writes:
"Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex...[a thread]
If you know a bit about biology you will probably say that biological sex is caused by chromosomes, XX and you’re female, XY and you’re male. This is “chromosomal sex” but is it “biological sex”? Well...
Turns out there is only ONE GENE on the Y chromosome that really matters to sex. It’s called the SRY gene. During human embryonic development the SRY protein turns on male-associated genes. Having an SRY gene makes you “genetically male”. But is this “biological sex”?
Sometimes that SRY gene pops off the Y chromosome and over to an X chromosome. Surprise! So now you’ve got an X with an SRY and a Y without an SRY. What does this mean?
A Y with no SRY means physically you’re female, chromosomally you’re male (XY) and genetically you’re female (no SRY). An X with an SRY means you’re physically male, chromsomally female (XX) and genetically male (SRY). But biological sex is simple! There must be another answer...
Sex-related genes ultimately turn on hormones in specifics areas on the body, and reception of those hormones by cells throughout the body. Is this the root of “biological sex”??
“Hormonal male” means you produce ‘normal’ levels of male-associated hormones. Except some percentage of females will have higher levels of ‘male’ hormones than some percentage of males. Ditto ditto ‘female’ hormones. And...
...if you’re developing, your body may not produce enough hormones for your genetic sex. Leading you to be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally non-binary, and physically non-binary. Well, except cells have something to say about this...
Maybe cells are the answer to “biological sex”?? Right?? Cells have receptors that “hear” the signal from sex hormones. But sometimes those receptors don’t work. Like a mobile phone that’s on “do not disturb’. Call and cell, they will not answer.
What does this all mean?
It means you may be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally male/female/non-binary, with cells that may or may not hear the male/female/non-binary call, and all this leading to a body that can be male/non-binary/female.
Try out some combinations for yourself. Notice how confusing it gets? Can you point to what the absolute cause of biological sex is? Is it fair to judge people by it?
Of course you could try appealing to the numbers. “Most people are either male or female” you say. Except that as a biologist professor I will tell you...
The reason I don’t have my students look at their own chromosome in class is because people could learn that their chromosomal sex doesn’t match their physical sex, and learning that in the middle of a 10-point assignment is JUST NOT THE TIME.
Biological sex is complicated. Before you discriminate against someone on the basis of “biological sex” & identity, ask yourself: have you seen YOUR chromosomes? Do you know the genes of the people you love? The hormones of the people you work with? The state of their cells?
Since the answer will obviously be no, please be kind, respect people’s right to tell you who they are, and remember that you don’t have all the answers. Again: biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be.
Note: Biological classifications exist. XX, XY, XXY XXYY and all manner of variation which is why sex isn't classified as binary. You can't have a binary classification system with more than two configurations even if two of those configurations are more common than others.
Biology is a shitshow. Be kind to people."
Many thanks to Traci Drake for finding this.
This Is the Land of Wolves Now
Masked agents snatching people off the street. Govt ofcls using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.
“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture #propaganda for her regime.
“We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”
#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #HumanRights
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true
Highlights from APC at the WSIS+20 Review High-Level Event: The moment to recalibrate internet governance
https://www.apc.org/en/node/40755/
#DigitalJusticeNow #CommunityNetworks #IGF2025 #InternetGovernance #humanrights #WSIS20
"Taiwan’s vibrant and competitive democratic system has allowed for regular peaceful transfers of power since 2000, and protections for civil liberties are generally robust. Ongoing concerns include inadequate safeguards against the exploitation of migrant workers and the Chinese government’s efforts to influence policymaking, media, and the democratic infrastructure."
Not really an #introduction but here we go:
#Freelancing #Privacy and #Security #Coach & #Trainer (#Linux)
Ex #SoftwareDeveloper, #Consultant, #TeamLead, #HeadOfProductDevelopment #HeadOfIT
I care for #privacy #HumanRights #DEI #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Linux #FLOSS #DigitalSelfDefense
See bio for links & websites.