Posts Tagged ‘victims’

Trump’s new lawyer once blasted his administration for ‘betraying terror victims’

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Parents of Sandy Hook victims: Naming of Marjorie Taylor Greene to education panel an attack on all ‘whose loved ones were murdered in mass shootings’

Image Credit: Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal The parents of two victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre issued a statement Thursday condemning the House Republican leadership’s appointment of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—who endorsed the appalling lie that the 2012 mass shooting was “staged“—to the Education and Labor Committee, calling the move an attack on those […]

Biden and Harris lead Lincoln Memorial vigil for Covid victims as US death toll passes 400,000

During a Covid memorial service in Washington DC on Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden and vice-president elect Kamala Harris offered their condolences to a weary nation.  “To heal we must remember,” Mr Biden said. “It’s hard sometimes to remember, but that’s how we heal. It’s important to do that as a nation. That’s why we’re here […]

Amudim raises $5m. to help victims of abuse, addiction in Orthodox world

Amudim, a crisis center focusing on combating sexual abuse, trauma and addictions in the Orthodox community, raised over $5 million at the 36-hour “Unite to Heal” event that featured rabbis, metal health professionals and celebrities. Some 10,319 donors helped Amudim reach the final sum of $5,034,632.Unite to Heal will enable Amudim to hire three new […]

Remembrances of Hyper Cacher Victims Begin, Ahead of Sixth Anniversary of Terror Attack

Shoppers enter the Hyper Cacher in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, Jan. 7, 2019. Photo: Stephen Caillet / Reuters. Six years after the tragic events, commemorations began Thursday to the victims of the 2015 Islamist attacks in Paris against the Charlie Hebdo magazine, on Jan. 7, and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket two days later. […]

Sri Lanka rejects plea to stop cremating Muslim Covid-19 victims

The government of Sri Lanka has rejected pleas to stop cremating Muslim Covid-19 victims and follow their faith’s burial traditions, laying them to rest facing Mecca. Burials were banned by Sri Lanka in April after Buddhist monks spread claims that buried bodies can infect groundwater and increase the spread of the virus. The World Health […]

High court rules Pakistan’s ‘two-finger’ virginity test for rape victims unconstitutional

A Pakistani judge has ruled that ‘virginity tests’ performed on women who are victims of sexual assault are unconstitutional, describing the archaic examinations as discriminatory and inhumane. The Lahore High Court announced on Monday that Pakistan’s infamous “two-finger test,” which is not required under law but is sometimes used by authorities investigating rape cases, had […]

Gunshot Victims Counted as COVID Deaths

If someone can get shot and then have is death counted as part of the Covid death toll, then this whole pandemic needs to be called into question by everyone with a brain. Views: 0

UNHRC 46th Session In February/March 2021 – Judgement day for Sri Lanka and its War Victims

The forthcoming 46th UNHRC Sessions in February/March 2021 holds the key to uphold accountability, justice and human rights in Sri Lanka while halting Sri Lanka’s history of evasions and denials  of its obligations to comply with and implement the recommendations in the 30/1 of 2015 and 40/1 of 2019 Resolutions. It has so far successfully […]

2021’s Most Pressing Humanitarian Crises Are All Victims of US War/Regime Change

The Most Revolutionary Act Alan Macleod MintPress News | December 16, 2020 The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) yearly report on the world’s most pressing humanitarian situations has just been published, with the three most disastrous cases — Yemen, Afghanistan, and Syria — all the product of decades of interventionist U.S. foreign policy. For the third year in […]

Right Wing Round-Up: We’re All Victims

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Ashes Said to Be of Nazi Victims at Dachau Buried in South Carolina Jewish Cemetery

The ashes being buried, at Arcadia Lakes Cemetery, in Columbia, South Carolina, Dec. 6, 2020. Photo: Allen Wallace. Ashes said to be of Nazi victims who perished at the Dachau concentration camp were buried during a ceremony held on Sunday at a Jewish cemetery in South Carolina. The ashes — contained in a small box […]

Families of dive boat fire victims react as captain charged with manslaughter over 34 deaths

Jerry Boylan was in charge of the 75ft dive boat Conception that caught fire off the coast of Santa Barbara in 2019. Now he has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 34 counts of seaman’s manslaughter for his part in one of the worst ever US maritime disasters. “I am glad they finally […]

Columbus Jewish couple say they were victims of hate crime by neighbor

 A Jewish couple in Columbus say their neighbor yelled antisemitic threats at them and threw rocks through their window on the day that Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election. Federal, state and county authorities are investigating the incident as a hate crime, according to the local ABC affiliate. Nick and Tiffany […]

Columbus Jewish couple say they were victims of anti-Semitic attack by neighbor

JTA — A Jewish couple in Columbus, Ohio say their neighbor yelled anti-Semitic threats at them and threw rocks through their window on the day that Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election. Federal, state and county authorities are investigating the incident as a hate crime, according to the local ABC affiliate. […]

Avril Haines Protected All Torturers & Made Sure ONLY Their Victims Suffered Now in Top Position as Director of National Intelligence-Biden’s Appointed Satanic Criminal in Chief-Hypocrisy is Stunning From Amerika Always Claiming Moral High Ground!

Up for consideration as leader of America’s most sociopathic government agency is Obama’s former CIA Deputy Director Avril Haines, who protected all perpetrators implicated in a Senate report on CIA torture from suffering any consequences for their unspeakable brutality, and helped redact that same report. If selected Biden would become just the second president with the highly progressive distinction […]

Christian Leaders Urge Prayer for Nigeria’s Forgotten Victims

JOS, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Their pleas for government help falling on deaf ears, Christian leaders issued calls for prayer this month as Islamic extremist groups continued terrorizing northeast Nigeria. In the wake of attacks and kidnappings by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), leaders of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) […]

Survey Claims 210,000 U.S. Jews Have Been Victims Of ‘Violent’ Antisemitic Assaults In Last Five Years

Nazi “Brownshirts” are roaming the streets of America randomly attacking hundreds of thousands of defenseless Jews for no reason whatsoever — that’s one of the takeaways we get from two surveys published recently by the American Jewish Committee: The Jewish survey found that a large majority of Jews consider anti-Semitism a problem, and that most […]

Report: 29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery

A new report estimates that 29 million women and girls are victims of modern slavery, exploited by practices including forced labour, forced marriage, debt-bondage and domestic servitude. Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organisation, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than […]

This Arab-Israeli ‘seed of peace’ became one of the second intifada’s first victims

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