*Honduras referred to UN human rights committee over total abortion ban.* *UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally* for political reasons.

*The damning Amnesty report also criticises Israel's allies for the failure to stop the "indescribable civilian bloodshed" in Gaza.*

Robert Reich: Universities should protect the right to stand for views that disagree with whoever-it-might-be, while protecting students from practical harassment.

This calls for insisting on the difference between (1) actual harassment and (2) supposed "harassment" that consists of disagreeing. Punishing so-called "microaggressions" can easily be stretched into a excuse for macrointimidation.

The UK now claims that engaging in protests of civil disobedience makes one unfit to practice medicine.

As a reason, that's absurd, but as an excuse for unjustified punishment of protesters it may fly.

A long-suffering British cop confronted a Jewish activist who tried to cross the route of a protest for Palestine, claiming it was to get to the other side. The cop repeatedly offered to escort him to the other side, but the activist did not find that satisfactory; instead he tried to provoke his own arrest.

The cop did not take the bait. Despite that, the activist is going to all lengths to present the cops as having acted antisemitically. I don't think that was the case.

I admire that cop who refused to be a thug. All cops confronting nonviolent protesters ought to maintain that level of self-control.

Unless/until old growth trees increase again, the only way to save the mountain caribou of western Canada is to kill some wolves in those regions.