News Releases
Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack2009-08-07
Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resist...
Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla2010-05-31
Sources News Releases
We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions...
Cauca's indigenous community radios appeal for help2012-07-10
As fighting between guerrillas and the army intensifies once again in the Cauca department in south-western Colombia, indigenous communities and their communications infrastructure are more than ever ...
Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 242014-07-24
On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening s...
Gisha to Israeli Ministers: Stop Using Civilians in Gaza as a Weapon to Enforce the Ceasefire2008-12-18
Gisha
New Legal Opinion Published: Not a siege, not a blockade, not an economic sanction â## closure and collective punishment. Punishing civilians in response to rocket fire by militants is illegal.
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices2010-06-03
Independent Jewish Voices
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence2009-11-25
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Calls for Prompt Inquiry into Murder of Senior Journalist in Pakistan2010-09-21
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to launch an immediate inquiry in the murder of Mujeebur Rehman Saddiqui, senior correspondent of Daily Pakistan...
IFJ Condemns Deadly Attack on Journalists in Mexico2010-09-21
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting attack on two young Mexican journalists in the city of Ciudad Juárez in which photojournalist Luis Carlos Santiago was ki...
IFJ Condemns ‘Shocking' Violence on Journalists in Belarus2010-12-23
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused authorities in Belarus of "violent bullying and intimidation" of journalists covering a peaceful protest in central Minsk yesterday.
IFJ Joins Condemnation of Mindless Violence against Journalists in Cameroon2011-10-05
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its African group, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), in condemning the brutal attack and subsequent arrests journalists who were cove...
IFJ Marks 'End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 20092010-02-01
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of m...
IFJ Reports Heavy Media Loss to Violence after 97 Journalists Died in 20102011-01-11
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists warns that journalists and media personnel remain prime targets for political extremists, gangsters and terrorists as it announced that at least 94 journali...
Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza2009-06-30
Human Rights Watch
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
Israeli army raids on Bil'in village 2009-07-09
Tadamon
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest2011-10-20
Oxfam
Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and i...
Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla2010-05-31
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
Niger police attack media instead of protecting them2015-01-21
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured th...
Rachel Corrie's Death is Not Merely "Regrettable Accident"2012-08-28
Independent Jewish Voices
IJV condemns Israeli court decision absolving army of responsibility in death of Rachel Corrie.
Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education2009-03-06
Canadians for Genocide Education
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded project...
Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of India2010-07-23
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
Yemen: journalist killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition2016-01-22
International Federation of Journalists
Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana'a, according to news reports.
Sources Select Resources
The Anti-Semitism That Goes UnreportedHass, Amira
Article
2012
Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administratio...
Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrestedArticle
2009
One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids t...
Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties FocusWebsite
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24Sources News Release
Article
2014
On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening s...
Critique of Nonviolent PoliticsFrom Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Ryan, Howard
Book
1984
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social moveme...
The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truceAlbanese, Francesca
Article
2014
Mondoweiss
The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
Eyes With LegsDinh, Linh
Article
2010
CounterPunch
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace ...
Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injuredAbunimah, Ali
Article
2018
Electronic Intifada
Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza ...
Health care and children in crisis in GazaGarfinkle, Miriam; Abdul-Qadir, Reem
Article
2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured ...
If Gaza's Dead Were America's DeadImagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
Lando, Barry
Article
2014
Counterpunch
Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violenceSources News Release
Article
2009
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Marks 'End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2009Sources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of m...
Israel threatens Palestinians with 'holocaust'Sources News Release February 29, 2008
Article
2008
One day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, including a six-month-old baby, in a series of bomb attacks across the Gaza Strip, Israel's deputy defense minist...
Israeli army's attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punishedVisser, Nadette de; Cazes, Séverine
Article
2003
Reporters without Borders
The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on jo...
Journalists Killed since 1992Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, yea...
Land of ImpunityMonbiot, George
Article
2010
If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
A memorial to killed journalists, a call to actionArticle
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous a...
NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on ChildrenGreenwald, Glenn
Article
2014
The Intercept
Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and in...
Niger police attack media instead of protecting themSources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that privately-owned media were attacked by police during demonstrations in Niamey on 17 and 18 January although President Mahamadou Issoufou has assured th...
NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 PalestiniansJohnson, Adam
Article
2018
Fair.org
The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
The one thing that won't stop terror is more warNunns, Alex
Article
2015
Red Pepper
Provoking retaliation is a key part of the jihadists' strategy, writes Alex Nunns - we need a different approach.
Opposition daily throttled financially by lawsuits and dirty tricksArticle
2013
Reporters without Borders
The daily newspaper Azadliq, one of the few remaining opposition news outlets, is now in danger of succumbing to efforts to throttle it financially. Many members of Azadliq’s staff have been individua...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015Urban agriculture and local food production
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy fo...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017Resisting Injustice
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. ...
Police Militarism in AmericaIn Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2014
CounterPunch
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands...
Questions about Israel's attack on GazaDiemer, Ulli
Article
2014
Connexions
Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
Racism and Sexual Violence in IndonesiaWhere Fear Stalks the Streets
Vltchek, Andre
Article
2013
Counter Punch
Indonesia, since 1965, performed three genocides fully backed by the West.
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
The Semantics of TerrorismAl-Jurf, Soha
Article
2010
CounterPunch
A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant....
The Shocking Savagery of America's Early HistoryBernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation's Dark Ages
Rosenbaum, Ron
Article
2013
Smithsonian.com
A discussion with reknowned historian Bernard Bailyn whose recent book "The Barbarous Years" examines a particularly violent period of America's early history which has since been almost erased.
A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian FacilitiesSchwarz, Jon
Article
2015
The Intercept
The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US WarsLazare, Sarah
Article
2015
Common Dreams
Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legi...
Terrorist Attacks in Paris: Can Tragedy Bring Change?Johnstone, Diana
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Paris has now suffered the sort of attacks that are familiar to Beirut or to Russia. The big question is: what next? Will this fear cause people to wake up to reality and think clearly?
They Are Still Killing Trade Union LeadersGlobal Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Macaray, David
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on ...
'They stole the beach' - the major mafia that almost nobody wants to talk aboutThe building boom in China and worldwide demand for consumer goods containing ilmenite has enriched criminals who specialise in stealing san
Meynen, Nick
Article
2018
The Ecologist
Increasing demand for sand has led to targeting of sandy beaches by organised crime. Community members who speak out or protest the destruction of beaches are often victims of intimidation, harrassmen...
Violence, arrests and censorship in all four corners of IndiaSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns a wave of violence and censorship against the media in various parts of India in the past few weeks.
Waco SiegeSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The Waco Siege began on February 28, 1993, and ended violently 50 days later on April 19.The siege began when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) attempted to ...
What is Nonviolence Anyhow?Hastings, Tom H.
Article
2015
CounterPunch
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who pu...
Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?Weir, Alison
Article
2014
Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rocke...
Yemen: journalist killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalitionSources News Release
Article
2016
International Federation of Journalists
Yemeni journalist Almigdad Mojalli was killed on 17 January in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in the capital, Sana'a, according to news reports.
Sources Bookshelf
Manufacturing ConsentThe Political Economy of the Mass Media
Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam
Book
1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets...
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
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