Yeah, but it’s not only the west. It seems there is no such thing as politics if and when enough money is involved.

Yeah, his name is Abdulaziz Alwasil.

Human Rights Watch says about women’s rights in Saudi Arabia:

The Personal Status Law [in Saudi Arabia] requires women to obtain a male guardian’s permission to marry, codifying the country’s longstanding practice. Married women are required to obey their husbands in a “reasonable manner.” The law further states that neither spouse may abstain from sexual relations or cohabitation without the other spouse’s consent, implying a marital right to intercourse.

While a husband can unilaterally divorce his wife, a woman can only petition a court to dissolve their marriage contract on limited grounds and must “establish [the] harm” that makes the continuation of marriage “impossible” within those grounds. The law does not specify what constitutes “harm” or what evidence can be submitted to support a case, leaving judges wide discretion in the law’s interpretation and enforcement to maintain the status quo.

Fathers remain the default guardians of their children, limiting a mother’s ability to participate fully in decisions related to her child’s social and financial well-being. A mother may not act as her child’s guardian unless a court appoints her, and she will otherwise have limited authority to make decisions for her child’s well-being, even in cases where the parents do not live together and judicial authorities decide that the child should live with the mother.

As one user in this thread said, it might be a feature required by the CCP.

Here’s another one: https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

“Guaranteeing security and privacy” could a strong argument imho.

As you don’t like reading, watch a documentary.

Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner

A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.

@Dieguito @PoliticallyIncorrect

One can easily infer from your comments that you didn’t even click the link. It really helps to read an article before commenting.

Addition:

Modern slavery in China

China’s central role in global production – it is the world’s largest exporter of goods is a cause for concern as exports from China are increasingly at risk of being tainted by state-imposed forced labour. Since 2018, evidence of forced labour of Uyghur and other Turkic and Muslim majority peoples has emerged in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Uyghur Region). Forced labour imposed by private actors is also reported, in addition to forced marriage and organ trafficking, with vulnerability primarily driven by discriminatory government practices. While China demonstrated some efforts to tackle modern slavery through sustained coordination at the national and regional levels – including by adopting a new national action plan for 2021 to 2030 its overall response is critically undermined by the use of state-imposed forced labour.

Yes, and they promote it heavily.

China: Pro-Colonisation Influencers - (video, 14 min)

The Xinjiang region in China is the historical homeland of the Uighurs, a persecuted Muslim minority. Open data reveals how Chinese influencers are convincing people from across the country to colonise this province.

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It’s not a lie, though.

It is. The two things aren’t related as a couple of users already said.

@Flash Mob #5678

The Kremlin lies by relating U.S. social policy to Ukraine aid, although these things have nothing to do with each other. One major objective of these trolls is to undermine the trust in Western values, democracy, and human rights.

It is true that Russian (and other totalitarian states’) disinformation exploits social problems in other countries to sew mistrust in their Western pllitical systems, blacken Western politicians’ reputations, and breed conspiracy theories. (This was already a major goal in the USSR propaganda during the cold war in the 20th century, btw.)

Political polarization and growing social inequality are creating a fruitful ground for this propaganda and the spread of conspiracy theories, especially if and when Western politicians trade democratic values for short-term political gains (which is what some U.S. and European politicians appear to do right now, especially from the far right).

But, again, the U.S. can do both as it has been said, increasing social welfare and helping Ukraine. If Ukraine doesn’t win this war, Russia will attack more countries, and I guess China is watching closley how the West reacts given Beijing’s intentions and activities in Taiwan and the South China Sea. If Ukraine doesn’t win this war, it gets worse for all of us, in the U.S., in Europe and the much bigger rest of the world.

This is the G-free link without AMP: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/government-candidate-peter-pellegrini-wins-slovakias-presidential-race

If you could change the link it would be very appreciated.

@Hegar

what we say in the west is generally less threatening to the power of our governments.

So, what do Chinese dissidents say that is 'threatening the power of their government so much that it justifies the unacceptable atrocities and unacceptable human rights violations they suffer?

@Hegar

This has nothing to do with the article nor with @some_guy’s comment.

@driving_crooner

I was wondering the same, especially as the article doesn’t mention any numbers or the like. But I didn’t want to change the original title.

‘Everyone in the World Needs to See This’: Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans

“There is no way they could have been considered combatants,” said one writer and analyst. “This is unreal.”

(Warning: Watching the video embedded in the article may distress users.)

That’s all Western propaganda /s

@TurboHarbiger

Outrage! : China trains soldiers

China trains soldiers for an invasion. They appear to plan for an unprovoked aggression.

‘Everyone in the World Needs to See This’: Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans

“There is no way they could have been considered combatants,” said one writer and analyst. “This is unreal.”

(Warning: Watching the video embedded in the article may distress users.)

As much as I agree that it is the world’s collective responsibility to help, this particular case is, at best, a double-egded sword that appears to deal less with supporting a low-lying island than with geo-politics and a thirst for influence.

One recent comment on exactly this issue:

China and Human Rights: Beijing’s Real Face Fails to Hide as Gifts of Water and Cyberattacks Compete

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Beijing also sought to keep the Maldives, one of its more recent allies, happy with the March delivery of one million bottles of glacial meltwater from colonially occupied Tibet. For years, civil society organizations have highlighted how Tibetan pastoralists are being removed from their traditional lands to facilitate resource exploitation by Chinese companies, including for bottled water.

Extraction of water is reportedly exacerbating environmental degradation and conflict in tandem with a flurry of dam construction that saw major protests earlier this year in Dege County, currently part of China’s Sichuan province. Radio Free Asia revealed on March 25 that hundreds of protesters arrested during that incident have now been released, but not before suffering deprivation of water, overcrowding and sometimes severe beatings in custody. Moreover, the wider picture suggests that not all of the detainees have been set free; some remain unaccounted for; several younger monks have been sent to government schools since the demonstrations; and restrictions on movement in Dege are still in place.

@Crikeste

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