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Zoom Zoom’s Additional Encryption Measures Will Only Protect Paying Users The enhanced encryption measures announced by Zoom this week will only protect paying customers of the videoconferencing platform, according to the company’s CEO. Although Zoom said it will allow paying users to fully encrypt their video communications—a response to the security and privacy flaws that […]
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Home News Releases New carbon scheme legislation is the wrong solution for our climate and food system June 5, 2020 WASHINGTON – Senators Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) introduced legislation this week pushing farmers to sequester carbon. Karen Orenstein, climate and energy director with Friends of the […]
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When conservationists trying to reintroduce black vultures to Bulgaria saw Ultron leave his artificial nest on Kotlenska Mountain for the first time on August 15, they didn’t know if he’d leapt or fallen. So they breathed a sigh of relief when, after some tumbles as he got the hang of his wings, the 3-month-old raptor […]
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The Tanzanian government is contemplating introducing amendments to the country’s laws that will prevent human rights defenders and organizations from filing lawsuits on behalf of, or for the benefit of, victims of human rights violations, Amnesty International has learnt. If passed, the proposed amendment – which was today before the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Parliamentary […]
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Tens of thousands of Americans have taken to the streets this past week to protest the senseless killing of Minnesota man George Floyd and other black men and women at the hands of police. The irony of protests against police brutality being met with violent escalation by law enforcement is perhaps matched only by the […]
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4 June 2020 Anti-Slavery International stands as an ally in solidarity with all who are protesting against racism and the systemic injustice in their communities and around the world. Slavery happens because people are discriminated against, denied their rights and not protected by the law. Anti-Slavery International was set up 181 years ago to dismantle […]
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While the country is responding to the global pandemic of COVID-19 and highlighting systems of racism and police brutality, the Tennessee House of Representatives is focusing its time and resources on attacking transgender youth, those most marginalized within the LGBTQ community. On Wednesday, the Tennessee House passed HB 1689, an anti-transgender sports bill by a […]
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Joe Biden has had a clear path to the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination ever since Sen. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the 2020 race in early April. His path to the nomination reached another milestone tonight as the former Vice President officially secured the delegates needed to win. NPR reports: [T]he 78-year-old, who served as […]
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The full weight of U.S. policing has descended upon protesters across the country as people take to the streets to denounce the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others who have been subjected to police violence. Along with riot shields, tear gas, and other crowd control measures also comes the digital arm […]
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For National HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day, HRC spoke with Octavia Y. Lewis, transgender health coordinator for Montefiore Health Systems, and Tony Christon-Walker, director of prevention and community partnerships for AIDS Alabama, to discuss their journeys with HIV and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected people living with HIV. Here is what they had to […]
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Home News Releases Trump Administration to waive rules, clearing the way for more polluting projects June 4, 2020 WASHINGTON – Trump is expected to sign an executive order today waiving long-standing environmental protection mandates, allowing federal agencies to rush through approval for pipelines, mines, and other destructive, polluting projects. Marcie Keever, legal director for Friends […]
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A myth often pushed by incumbents who want to forestall universal fiber is that there is a high “cost” of fiber and cheaper alternatives. They’ll point to figures that for example show that a fiber-to-the home approach costs several thousands of dollars per household, when upgrading the copper DSL line or cable line can be […]
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Reflections from Ryna Sherazi, Anti-Slavery International 4 June 2020 It is a moment of reckoning. Like so many of you reading this, we are in grief. In grief because of the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breona Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Eric Garner and the countless people who have needlessly lost their lives due to individual […]
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Following reports that Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a 37-year old activist, was abducted by unknown persons from outside an apartment building in Phnom Penh, David Griffiths, Director in the Office of the Secretary-General at Amnesty International, said: “The Cambodian authorities must urgently investigate Wanchalearm’s alleged abduction in order to establish his whereabouts. The Thai authorities must also […]
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Romina was only 14-years-old when she was reportedly beheaded by her father in a horrific case of a so-called “honor” killing that has shocked Iran. Reza Ashrafi, her dad, reportedly failed to convince Romina’s mother to force their daughter to commit suicide, so he decapitated her with a sickle as she slept at the family […]
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Instagram does not provide users of its embedding API a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites, the company said in a Thursday email to Ars Technica. The announcement could come as an unwelcome surprise to users who believed that embedding images, rather than […]
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When Ukraine’s Privatbank filed a lawsuit in the United States against its former owner Ihor Kolomoyskiy one year ago, it claimed the tycoon had used a slew of anonymous shell companies registered in the U.S. state of Delaware to carry out what it called a “brazen” heist. Kolomoyskiy and his partner Hennadiy Boholyubov used Delaware-based […]
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WASHINGTON – Duke Energy, the nation’s largest investor-owned electric utility, claims to make affordability, efficiency and access to renewable energy for its low-income customers a priority. But an investigation by the Environmental Working Group shows that just the opposite is true. Duke serves 6.1 million residential customers in its monopoly territories in the Carolinas, Florida, […]