The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, with significant consequences for human rights protections in Palestine under Israel’s 57-year occupation. The opinion stems from a December 2022 request by the United Nations General Assembly to the court to consi...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/19768980
In a historic ruling the International Court of Justice has found multiple and serious international law violations by Israel towards Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including, for the first time, finding Israel responsible for apartheid. The court has placed responsibility with all states and the United Nations to end these violations of international law. The ruling should be yet another wake up call for the United States to end its egregious policy of defending Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and prompt a thorough reassessment in other countries as well.
Legal Consequences Arising From The Policies And Practices Of Israel In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jereusalem
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/19769250
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The International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, violate international law. The Court determined that Israel’s actions, such as its settlement policy, acts of annexation, and discriminatory legislation and measures, constitute a breach of international law, including the prohibition on the use of force and the non-acquisition of territory by force. Israel’s presence in the territory is deemed unlawful, and the Court has called for an end to settlement activities, evacuation of settlers, reparations for damages caused, and non-recognition of the illegal situation by states and international organizations.
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- The International Court of Justice has determined that Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Je
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion on July 19, 2024, with significant consequences for human rights protections in Palestine under Israel’s 57-year occupation. The opinion stems from a December 2022 request by the United Nations General Assembly to the court to consi...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/19768980
In a historic ruling the International Court of Justice has found multiple and serious international law violations by Israel towards Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including, for the first time, finding Israel responsible for apartheid. The court has placed responsibility with all states and the United Nations to end these violations of international law. The ruling should be yet another wake up call for the United States to end its egregious policy of defending Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and prompt a thorough reassessment in other countries as well.
IAEA Presents Sustainable Energy Planning Toolkit to the G20
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17907463
Decarbonization of the energy, transportation and industrial sectors by 2050 is a formidable challenge, and getting there will require significant use of nuclear power. But whether nuclear power figures into a country’s future energy mix or not, rigorous planning is needed to determine the clean energy composition that will work best depending on country-specific factors.
The publication, entitled ‘From Knowledge to Action: IAEA Toolkit for Sustainable Energy Planning’, was presented during a side event held on the margins of a meeting of the G20’s Energy Transitions Working Group in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
SDF Chatter: Human Rights: Key Resources + Key Conversations
This is a work in progress, keep checking back.
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this was one of my favorite childhood games, thanks for posting this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi
:D
I'll see if i can find something specifically about what you are asking, but I would be surprised if anyone has taken the time to try to bounce WiFi. The wavelength might not be amenable to bouncing, as it is such a high frequency signal. If I recall correctly, there is a relatively narrow range of wavelength that will actually bounce back to earth off of the atmosphere.
edit: https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/activities/iono.html
Ex-Meta engineer sues company, accusing the company of being biased against employees supporting Palestine.
Ferras Hamad, who used to be an engineer working with Meta's machine learning team, has sued the company for firing him over his handling of Palestine-related Instagram posts.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17800034
According to Reuters, he is accusing the company of discrimination, wrongful termination and showing a pattern of bias against Palestinians. Hamad said he noted procedural irregularities on how the company handled restrictions on content from Palestinian Instagram personalities, which prevented them from appearing in feeds and searches.
We need journalism, not vitriol, in [email protected] <- I'm the moderator there. Just saying, if you see something in the news that speaks to the human right to privacy, we'll spread the news if you cross-post it.
Article 12, UN UDHR
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Have any resources to journalistic articles that describe the way in which Meta implementing ActivityPub would be bad for the Fediverse?
Happy to highlight any [email protected] human rights concerns (right to privacy, right to share opinions, etc.) on [email protected]
Good catch, I add archive links to everything, but doing it by hand right now, so sometimes I miss them.
Sorry about that.
Planning on writing a script or something to handle archiving.
By sunsetting Section 230, Congress could be about to break the internet as we know it
'The 26 words that created the internet' as we know it could soon be erased, warns the Consumer Technology Association.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713203
“Backed by two powerful house leaders, the proposed “Legislative Proposal to Sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act” would eliminate the protections granted to internet platform providers under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “
You cannot buy a decentralised network!
https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without losing its soul in the process?
To Federate or not to Federate: is this the Fediverse’s Don’t be Evil-Moment or its own Liberation through transfiguration? And why is the current political Left in wide parts unable to answer this…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17795616
I see no reason why, after the Fediverse has found a solid moral ground, it shouldn’t put this up to the test against Meta and try to win over some terretory with it. Actually, it seems like the most sensible thing to do. Because we want to bring these digital rights to as many people as possible, and for that, we need to partially federate with Meta.
Introduction to the Rights-Based Approach
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17796500
The field of social development has seen three major approaches to dealing with problems:
the Charity Model
the Needs-Based Approach
the Rights-Based Approach
For half a century, developing nations were arguing at the United Nations sessions for the need to recognize the right to development as a human right. With a growing globalization process and several political changes around the world, and with increasing pressure from developing nations, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Right to Development.
“The right to development is an inalienable human right by virtue of which every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy economic, social, cultural and politi
IAEA is the international body responsible for standardizations on nuclear energy.
Four years is not a long span of time in the context of nuclear energy, where technological developments take the scale of decades.
This press release pertains to the newly announced western strategy for nuclear, low-carbon energy. That strategy is still current.
By working to ensure that everyone can benefit from nuclear science, the IAEA underpins rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 1976. These include the right to benefit from scientific progress; the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to the highest-attainable standard of health.
The Agency does this by using nuclear science to combat zoonotic diseases; bolster food safety; protect fruits from pests; strengthen water management; treat cancer; and of course, to help countries mitigate climate change.
In ‘mirror world’, Trump is martyr and Biden is autocrat, as calls for violence erupt on internet after ex-president’s conviction
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713638
““If we jail Trump, get rid of Maga, end the electoral college, ban voter ID, censor free speech, we’ll save democracy,” says one meme in a QAnon channel on Telegram that depicts Biden in a Nazi uniform with a Hitler mustache”
Apparently they at least understand their opponent’s view .
Human Rights Day: How Nuclear Science Helps Countries Guarantee Basic Rights to Water, Food and Health
As we mark Human Rights Day with a hopeful look towards the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, it strikes me as a good time to highlight the often-underappreciated ways the atom supports the attainment of our fundamental human rights.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17664741
Disappointment is the feeling that I experience when looking at the right-side-up flag, so I feel for ya.
Well, then, you better start handing out hazmat suits and respirators to everyone before you start burning.
What would rise from the ashes?
they 'commit suicide', or commit a crime that gets them sent to prison in Siberia
Like I said, arguably. Show me some data that says that the opposition has grown above 25% (arbitrary, you may understand what I mean) and then I’ll come down on the side that he probably doesn’t speak for the majority of the country.
That's like asking if Texas can choose to secede. They can not. Nor can the rest of the US vote to expel Texas without triggering a constitutional crisis.
The only way that they can secede is if we make a constitutional amendment to allow states to secede, yes. Personally, I’d vote for letting Texas secede, if they wanted to.
Now, if an entire country votes to allow a region of their country to be annexed, then sure. Even if elections in Crimea were free and fair--and the evidence strongly suggests that most of the people voting were coerced--it would need to be all of Ukraine voting to allow the annexation.
Now we are seeing eye-to-eye, Helix - that’s pretty much my point. There are diplomatic avenues to solve this problem, so maybe Ukraine can solve the whole thing, in the interest of preventing future wars. I say “solve” in the sense that they may be able to negotiate a plan for how to handle this in the future for the whole old Soviet bloc.
concern trolling
No argument with this paragraph, I agree, in principle.
The whole thing reeks of Putin trolling the West.
rather than the victim accepting a little victimizing
Point taken, however, instead of a little victimizing (by way of that hypothetical peaceful path that we outlined earlier) they are now getting a lot of victimizing (vis a vis, death and destruction).
Again, for the sake of argument, assuming that Russia itself was victimized during the fall of the USSR, and assuming that Putin is seeking to redress that, rather than him trying to take over the whole old-bloc, then is there any other peaceful path?
if we assume that he is trying to take over the whole old-bloc, then I’d be entirely in agreement with you on this topic.
I’m just not willing to make blanket assumptions like that - I prefer the probabilistic approach.
Thanks, by the way, for taking the time to discuss this with me. I’ll keep replying if you do.
Proper upside down flag?
This should disambiguate between Jan 6 and generic “fed up”, right?
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”
https://alanberg.com/if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product-podcast-transcript/
heh, you should see it now - they’ve expanded the features.
i’ll take a look at the controversy, thanks.
edit: skimmed it, looks like contrived controversy to me - a rather unprofessional software reviewer that isn’t willing to engage with their subject? no thanks… but to each their own.
We appreciate you, ignore those downvotes lol, you’re still getting upvotes.
It’s only $108/yr for unlimited searches, if you actually need that many. I’m a retired software engineer and search all the time, so I just went with the unlimited plan, but most people don’t actually search more than 300 times a month.
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”
https://alanberg.com/if-youre-not-paying-for-the-product-you-are-the-product-podcast-transcript/
edt: also, you do get what you pay for. the search results are dramatically different - it’s easy to do a test search and compare the results.
Well, it’s only $108/yr for unlimited searches.
And I used to use search engines professionally for work (think potentially hundereds of searches per day, sometimes), so it’s easy for me to justify paying for quality.
But according the data, most regular folk won’t search more than 300 times per month. Some days you might search more, some you might search less, you know?
Wrong, retired software engineer here.
Some people use search for more than finding recipes and google has been sucking at professional search for a while now, as has been repeatedly reported at Hacker News
Is there a way, as a user, to block an entire server?
Title says it all, I hope.
