The proposals from left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) have been met with criticism from some women’s groups and have sparked tensions with their partner in the coalition government, the ‘Socialist’ Party PSOE
Spain’s Equality Ministry has prepared a draft bill that would allow transgender people to officially change their gender with the Spanish authorities and on their ID document, known in Spain as the DNI, without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
Equality Minister Irene Montero,Juan Carlos Hidalgo / EFE LGBTQ+ Rights
Under the planned legislation, titled the “law for real and effective equality for trans people,” an individual aged 16 or over would be able to change their name and gender in the civil registry with a sworn statement – no medical check would be required. Sixteen is also the minimum age from which a person can make decisions about hormone treatments.
‘The Hamsa Division are paid mercenaries of the Turkish State’s illegal occupation , ethnic cleansing and Turkification of the Syrian canton of Afrin and parts of Northern Syria, ordered by president Erdogan’.
A special report reveals further details about women held in a prison of the Syrian opposition more than a year ago; one of whom gave birth inside
Introduction
On 28 May 2020, eight women at least with a newborn were found held in a military headquarters of the Hamza/Hamzat Division affiliated to the National Army, operating under the Turkish-backed Syrian Coalition of the opposition. It was by chance when outraged people stormed the headquarters, which is based in Afrin, responding to an attack carried out by the Hamza Division on a shop in the city, which resulted in the killing and the injury of at least five people.
The found detained women, were handed over to the Military Police of the National Army, to be brought before the court, as supposed. But, the Military Police, however, returned them to the Hamza Division, which removed them to an unknown place.
(translators note: ‘National Army’ refers to the notorious SNA jihadist mercenaries)
Image 1- a screenshot from the abovementioned video shows the women detainees who were found held in a headquarters of the Hamza Division in the city of Afrin on 28 May 2020.
STJ has followed up on the issue with an aim to identify the detained women, meeting more than ten military commanders and security officials in the National Army, the Hamza Division and the Military Police. However, most of those met refrained from providing any information in compliance with orders from Turkey to not to disclose any detail about the detained women and their fate.
Nevertheless, three of the sources confirmed that the women are being tried by the military court, while another said that they were removed to Turkey; there is no factual evidence to support any of the allegations.
Actually, the women’s fate is still unknown at the date of this report; early July 2020. It is worth mentioning that two sources from the Military Police,[1] confirmed to STJ that the Hamza Division re-took the women only two days after they were found and that it was most likely that they were transferred to a prison in Turkey.
Knowing that armed groups of the National Army had earlier transferred Syrian prisoners to Turkey, committing gross violation in accordance with Article 147 of Geneva Convention IV.[2]
Arcadi Oliveres: Yes, (Capitalism should be destroyed) it has to be done and it is urgent because it is a perverse system that kills lives...
..Yes, utopias must be pursued.
by Sílvia Marimon at .ara.cat .. shared with thanks .. translation thefreeonline Monday.February 8, 2021 llegiu el missatge en català a continuació
Arcadi Oliveras portrayed at home. foto..CRISTINA CALDERER
On Thursday last week Arcadi was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer with not much time left and, since then, people keep coming to his house. Gone are the nights in the hospital, where he could not receive visits.
Sant Cugat Arcadi Oliveres (Barcelona, 1945) is spending his last days in the summer house that his grandfather built in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, where he has lived for fifteen years.
When we sit down to talk he shows us the drawings of two of his grandchildren. One has drawn the house and the other his grandfather about to speak in public.
Over the years, Oliveres has given thousands of talks on democracy, refugees, capitalism, a culture of peace, climate change, disarmament, responsible consumption …
“These days are happy days, I feel very loved,” he says. He is always surrounded by his wife, Janine.
Chile. A police station, municipality building, and other government buildings were set on fire by militants in response to the police murder of street juggler Francisco Martínez in Panguipulli on February 5. Originally published by Abolition Media Worldwide. The buildings of the Correos de Chile (Post Office), the Local Police Court, the Civil Registry and…
Report from #1492LandBackLane land reclamation published to Montreal Counter-Info.
When Haudenosaunee Land Defenders are required to defy injunctions to protect our territories, we are arrested, charged, threatened and incarcerated.
It is a crime to fight for our lands, but we are still fighting. Land defense criminalization is meant to divide families, nations, and allies, in order to scare us into submission.
The report outlines a plan for the United States to pursue a China without Xi Jinping, with a weakened Communist Party, and operating in a region dominated by the US and its allies.
Influential D.C. think tank the Atlantic Council has printed a 26,000-word report laying out its strategy for combating China. Published anonymously, the report states that “the single most important challenge facing the United States” in the twenty-first century is China’s growth to rival their own power.
Among the Atlantic Council’s largest corporate sponsors include weapons manufacturers like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has added 517 species to its list of major protected wild animals, part of its campaign in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to end the wild animal trade and destruction of habitats.
A joint statement on Friday by the forestry and agriculture ministries said adjusting the list had become “extremely urgent” because of recent changes in China’s wildlife situation. A total of 980 wild animals are now under state protection.
The ministries promised to work with local governments to identify and protect the habitats of the animals added to the list, which include the endangered large-spotted civet and several species of birds that have dwindled in number in recent years.
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Those who hunt and traffic the animals face fines and even custodial sentences for “level one” protected species, such as the critically endangered panda, pangolin and Yangtze finless…
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