Human Rights in the News: October 2022
/Welcome to the October 2022 edition of Human Rights in the News, Woven Teaching’s monthly collection of important human rights stories from around the world.
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Ukraine Urges Ban of Russia's RT After Presenter Calls for Drowning Children
Reuters | October 24, 2022
Anton Krasovsky, a presenter on Russia’s state-controlled media outlet RT, recently made comments calling for the drowning and burning of Ukrainian children. Human rights defenders have said that Krasovsky’s statements equate to incitement of genocide.
An aerial shot of Oxford, North Carolina (Credit: Cornell Watson/NPR)
Everyday people were civil rights heroes, too. This is the story of one town's fight
Ayesha Rascoe | NPR | October 23, 2022
Journalist Ayesha Rascoe explores her mother and uncle’s experiences growing up in the South during the 1960s and 1970s. In the story, she details how the Black community of one North Carolina town boycotted to end segregation in their small town.
A detention facility in Xinjiang province in northwestern China (Credit: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty)
UN vote to ignore human rights abuses in China leaves west in dead end
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian | October 6, 2022
Despite a report by then-UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet that accused China of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang province, the UN Human Rights Council voted to reject the call for a debate of the report. “The outcome is a severe blow to supporters of universal individual human rights values and a confirmation that many states refuse to take sides in the ideological power struggle between China and the west.”
A bathtub filled with yellow-brown water (via CBS58)
U.S. EPA opens civil rights probe into Mississippi capital's water crisis
Daniel Trotta | Reuters | October 20, 2022
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday opened an investigation into Mississippi state agencies to determine if they violated civil rights in the majority Black city of Jackson in the course of funding of the city's water infrastructure.” The city experienced a total shutoff of water for several days in August and has long been plagued with unhealthy water.
Olivier De Schutter wearing a suit, a blue tie, and standing with his hands pointing forward at chest level (Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)
Make poverty discrimination illegal like racism or sexism, official to tell UN
Lizzy Davies | The Guardian | October 26, 2022
“In an address to the UN general assembly later this week, Olivier De Schutter, special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, will call for the term ‘povertyism’ to be included in anti-discrimination law alongside sexism and racism ‘to stop destroying people’s lives’.” It is said that De Schutter will state that poverty will never disappear so long as prejudice against impoverished people exists.
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