Noah Bullock, executive director of El Salvador’s human rights monitor, Cristosal, speaks about the human rights abuses and torture in the Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT): www.democracynow.org/2025/11/14/c...

Emission-rate increases will accelerate in the U.S. and E.U. but will slow in China and India, according to a report published Wednesday: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The federal government was advised by its own experts to expand access to a range of safe and regulated drugs but instead, at the height of the opioid overdose crisis, support for safe supply programs was watered down, and eventually ended in March. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Since beginning operations seven years ago, Brightline, which runs high-speed trains between Miami and Orlando, has killed nearly 200 people. It is by far the country’s deadliest passenger rail line. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

The funding gap for aid agencies is accentuating Sudan’s crisis, leaving them unable to help many of the tens of thousands of people fleeing from the Darfur city of El Fasher and other areas, U.N. migration chief Amy Pope says. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Lloyd Axworthy, a prominent global champion for refugees, condemns Canada's new direction in restricting and discouraging asylum-seekers: nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/14/f...

Former Canadian foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy, who is standing down as chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council on Thursday, says that the U.S can no longer be considered a safe country for Canada to return asylum seekers to. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Isaac Herzog, Israel's [largely ceremonial] president has called for an end to a growing wave of settler violence following a "shocking and serious" attack by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...

"While directly-impacted communities call for long-needed answers regarding the status and powers of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), Budget 2025 maintains the government’s silence on the future of this office." What's up?? cnca-rcrce.ca/2025/11/11/c...

“If Canada is going to cut foreign aid, it should at least say it with the honesty and clarity this moment demands…to euphemize that choice with intentionally opaque language is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility.” www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings behind the “yellow line” Israeli forces withdrew to after the ceasefire a month ago, according to satellite images reviewed by the BBC. The photos show that entire neighborhoods have been razed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Expert witness in landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits in Canada, Ramón Cadena arrested and sent to Guatemala's Mariscal Zavala prison: prensacomunitaria.org/2025/11/ramo...

This is just such a fun, and profound, exchange—watch it: Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe1V...

"Both in Canada and the U.S., governments explicitly chose to train fewer doctors. We’re still dealing with the fallout." canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c...

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social, there can be no move to "expand the Canada-UAE economic partnership" unless & until the UAE ceases ALL support to the RSF, responsible for unspeakable mass atrocities, very likely on the scale of genocide, in Sudan.

...After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying dozens of Indigenous leaders landed in Belem a day ahead of the start of the United Nations' COP30 climate summit. www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

As COP30 is launched, Bangladeshi labour rights bodies urge the government to include worker representatives at every stage of climate-related decision-making. The demands were by the National Alliance for Just Transition Bangladesh (NAJTB). www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

In a victory for workers’ rights in Cambodia, union leader Chea Chan has been reinstated and awarded USD53,000 in compensation after being wrongfully imprisoned for organising workers at Wing Star Shoes (WSS), a major supplier to ASICS and MUJI. www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

"...the U.S. military is upgrading a long-abandoned former Cold War naval base in the Caribbean, suggesting preparations for sustained operations...The deployment of the Ford, however, is a far more overt demonstration of U.S. military readiness." www.reuters.com/business/aer...

ICLMG submitted a short brief to the Immigration committee for their study of Bill C-12, a copy of the very problematic xenophobic provisions of the anti-privacy, anti-migrant and anti-refugee "border" Bill C-2. Read the full brief & please TAKE ACTION at iclmg.ca/c-12-cimm-br... Thank you!

“The clean energy transition is no longer an aspiration. It’s a functioning global market with China at its core...setting the direction of economic opportunity across Asia, the Middle East and Africa.” asiatimes.com/2025/11/chin...

Sudan's war, and the country itself, enters a new phase, signaled by the de facto redistribution of power and wealth. Three possible scenarios for Sudan's future can be envisaged: thecradle.co/articles/sud...

The fourth edition of ‘Hoodwinked’ is being finalized right now, but with the global climate summit getting underway the Hoodwinked Collective have decided to pre-release the chapter on ‘AI as a false climate solution’ for movements to print and use. www.scanthehorizon.org/p/ai-as-a-fa...

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza: “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an IDF tank unit, says in 'Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War', broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

“...a just transition...must be judged by the dignity and livelihoods it protects...a new African transition agenda based on a people-centred, decolonised framework...links climate action to sovereignty, democratic control and redistribution.” www.ips-journal.eu/topics/econo...

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w... Inside Trump’s Deportation of Venezuelans: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

“...the intentional ambiguity of Trump’s plan is laying the groundwork for the Yellow Line to become permanent ... the quiet rollout of a plan to divide Gaza’s territory...fulfills goals Israel has been saying it wants to do for months...”. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...

“...the main deal that keeps the war in Sudan going is Darfur’s gold in exchange for the weapons that the UAE sources from all over the world...And Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran are being generous enough with their aid to ensure that the SAF can keep fighting too.” www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Nigeria faces various conflicts, but Christianity, or religion itself, is generally not central in any of them www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

“I don’t know how much we’re going to be able to do, but it’s a team doing what it believes in, and that has prepared a lot for this. Our COP coverage will be at home, from inside, from the forest.” www.cjr.org/feature/repo...

The world cannot continue to turn its back on civilians in Sudan, especially in the Kordofan region, when the grave dangers they face are clear for all to see. It is unconscionable to stand by as civilians are at risk of being killed by RSF fighters. amnesty.ca/human-rights...

"US and China as co-equals? Trump-Xi meeting hints at new G2 world. Looking beyond the limited truce in this tariff war, the Busan meeting was a symbolic elevation of China, says former SCMP editor-in-chief, Wang Xiangwei." www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/u...

“…it started to look like Trump might do what the Australian strategist, Hugh White, and others have long predicted: give up efforts to maintain paramountcy in the Western Pacific and instead share power with China.” insidestory.org.au/and-then-the...

“ 'The G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!' Trump wrote moments before...a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, reviving a phrase [G2, or Group of Two] that had been rejected by Washington for at least the past decade — including during Trump’s first term.” apnews.com/article/chin...

“The deployment to El Salvador is likely to be the first time a foreign country has hosted U.S. planes that may be involved in military strikes in the region.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/w...

Raj Patel reports from the Nyéléni Global Forum: organising for debt justice is the foundation for food sovereignty: progressive.international/wire/2025-11...

180,000 still trapped in #Sudan's El Fasher. Next to no chance of a ceasefire. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Since everyone has thoughts™️ on the Gates memo… here’s my addition (basically addressing why skeptics are celebrating it and climate scientists are lukewarm about it when it is fully in support of continued efforts at decarbonization. theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...

Explainer on #Sudan, #Darfur, aimed principally at a 🇨🇦 audience. Streit, arms sales, the UAE...and why nobody will take action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKI...

Ghanaian accepting US deportees to gain visas and economic benefits: www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/ghan...

One comment on the Canadian budget. Yes, the international student question is complicated. True, many of these students won’t leave after their studies. This may not have been the intent of the program, but Canada is nevertheless the winner. Have a look: open.substack.com/pub/johnrals...

Visa Program for Palestinians in Gaza 'designed to fail': “lawyer, Debbie Rachlis, who represents dozens of applicants under the program [says] she has never seen this level of securitisation and scrutiny of applicants in all her professional years.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/canadas-pl...

The Department of Homeland Security announced it is ending Temporary Protected Status for nationals from South Sudan, who will now have about 60 days to leave the US, despite warnings of escalating conflict and widespread food insecurity and hunger. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/ale...

Gates says Axios that Trump’s take on his statement on climate change was a “giant misreading of the memo.” www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Minister reveals that additional permanent residents will be added to the official targets over the next two years through one-off initiatives, including about 115,000 refugees, and an additional 33,000 work-permit holders currently living in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

More than a year after Israel’s 2024 assault on Lebanon, evidence confirms that dozens of Lebanese civilians who vanished near the border have been unlawfully detained in Israeli prisons. qudsnen.co/vanished-at-...

The fall of El-Fasher to the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) marks a strategic and genocidal climax in Sudan's war. By seizing Darfur's capital, the RSF has escalated a two-decade campaign of ethnic cleansing and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe. progressive.international/wire/2025-11...