by Nazan Üstündağ Recent history is increasingly being narrated as one of the rise of the radical right and authoritarianism in most parts of the world. It is also one where international organizations that are supposed to guarantee the universality of human rights are losing power, relevance and credibility. There is however, another story to … Continue reading Thinking about Abolition & Self-defense
Abolition x Communism with our member Joy James
Seminar by UC Davis Humanities Institute with Silvia Federici, Joy James, Charmaine Chua and Kathi Weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPNr1LD0c0 “This event brings together our favorite thinkers of both abolition and communism not as official upper-case ideologies but as lower-case ideas about how to organize social existence. While some would say that each implies the other, tensions between … Continue reading Abolition x Communism with our member Joy James
Study: 35 new prisons ordered built in Egypt in last 10 years
Published by Mada Masr “Egyptian authorities have issued orders to build 35 new prisons in the last ten years, according to a report published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) on Sunday, including six ordered built within just the past three months. Lawyer Nasser Amin, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, … Continue reading Study: 35 new prisons ordered built in Egypt in last 10 years
İmralı Peace Delegation 2021 Report
On the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of the abduction of the leader of the Kurdish freedom movement, Abdullah Öcalan, an international peace delegation convened for the purpose of a virtual fact finding mission. The delegation consisted of ten members, including prominent politicians, trade unionists, academics, lawyers, and social movement activists, hailing from a diverse … Continue reading İmralı Peace Delegation 2021 Report
Int’l Women’s Day: Free Women Prisoners Around the World
On this International Women’s Day, we demand freedom and justice for women imprisoned, disappeared, and persecuted around the world. We have compiled a list of women prisoners from various regions and countries as examples of state oppression, racism, male dominance, femicide, and transphobia that women are subjected to globally. Any attempt to document women political … Continue reading Int’l Women’s Day: Free Women Prisoners Around the World
Int’l Women’s Day: Women Political Prisoners Arrested by the Indian State
The number of people in prisons has seen an increase in India since the year 2002, with about 466,084 detainees in total. Women constitute about 4.1% of those detained and are held in general prisons and a small fraction in segregated women’s only jails. Most prisons are overcrowded and regularly exceed their capacity. According to the … Continue reading Int’l Women’s Day: Women Political Prisoners Arrested by the Indian State
International Women’s Day: Imprisoned and Disappeared Women in Syria
In solidarity with the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons!
Over the past few days, the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons have been protesting in Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad. The VBMP is a collective of families of Baloch who have been abducted over the past many years. There is overwhelming evidence that Pakistani security forces – the Pakistan Army and its intelligence agencies – are … Continue reading In solidarity with the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons!
India: Arrests, detention, torture of farmers, activists, and journalists
Several protesting farmers, trade union workers, labor rights activists, journalists are now arrested from the protesting sites in India during the farmers protest and sit-ins. Some names we know, most we do not. Right now the protesting farmers and supporters are barricaded with four layers of barbed wire, nails on concrete, concrete obstacles and other … Continue reading India: Arrests, detention, torture of farmers, activists, and journalists
Forced Disappearances & Anti-Carceral Politics
Abduction and enforced disappearance have been increasingly used by oppressive regimes globally. Torture and enforced disappearances have been a structural problem of state punishment and repression rather than being exceptional instances of it. Used by colonial powers and liberal democracies these techniques have been widely shared and circulated between states as modes of extracting confessions. … Continue reading Forced Disappearances & Anti-Carceral Politics