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on public international law’s iteration of the republic of conscience, its Yes to humanity, through stories that echo its meaning https://fromsaltintears.com; plus radical or root international justice for kids cahtreaty4kids.org #hope-walking
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Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence. Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation. Among others were: "He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People." "He has excited domestic Insurrection among us." "For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us." 4. -oh kept amongs in Times of Peac, Sanding Armies without the consent "We the people" are hearing echos of that history.
January 31, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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From The Guardian Article below "We found my three little nieces in the street. They say 'ceasefire' and all. What did those children do? What did we do?" Samer al-Atbash, an uncle of the three children killed in Gaza City, told Reuters.
January 31, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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From Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem tr Lyn Coffin
January 29, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Where / the rift is, the break is. From Louise Glūck’s Persephone The Wanderer reframed to suggest: Where / the racialised or tenderised rift is, the break in human status is.
January 29, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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'Since the child does not exist for another's use', Francisco de Vitoria argued, 'but for himself." FROM DE INDIS (1539) FROM SALT IN TEARS fromsaltintears.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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James Baldwin knew of course ‘children are not always ours’. Sometimes they are targets.
from James Baldwin’s A Report from Occupied Territory
January 27, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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From Meghnad Bose and Rana Roudi’s Prism Report Article Does that mean my friends are gonna get taken?’: The children of Minneapolis grapple with ICE separating families [Just this month, at least four children have been taken by ICE agents in the Columbia Heights Public School District. In recent weeks, local officials have reported federal agents circling schools, swarming outside a high school campus, tackling people, handcuffing staff members, and deploying chemical irritants.]
January 27, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Persecuted is right. But not just based on their migrant or racial status: young age-based. Targeted because they are YOUNG as an implement to instil fear in every migrant family of colour.
Drawing of detained 5 year old child
January 27, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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Wholegrain Rice bought in Marks & Spencers Cork, Ireland, EUROPEAN UNION #speirgorm
January 26, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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What I call international human rights law’s generative force —>
From Chapter 1 of From Salt In Tears fromsaltintears.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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From this Sam Levin’s US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’ in The Guardian [The federal judge said the release of the girl was necessary due to the "risk of irreparable harm", saying it was highly likely the underlying petition would succeed on the merits. "Needless to say, she has no criminal history," the judge wrote, of the toddler.]
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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W H Auden’s Epitaph on a Tyrant
W H Auden’s Epitaph on a Tyrant [Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.]
January 22, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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The pattern of child targeting evident within the OHCHR’s Report on Israel’s discriminatory administration
of the occupied West Bank,
incl East Jerusalem www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... is resonant with apartheid South Africa fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...
105. Decades of unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, often leading to the unlawful killing of Palestinians, committed with almost complete impunity, including the high number of killing of Palestinian children, 20 as well as the patterns of arbitrary detention, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of Palestinians, including children, and routine forced evictions, are inherently oppressive. These acts constitute human rights violations. They take place in a context of escalating settler violence, committed with almost total impunity, and in many cases with the support or participation of ISF. Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, have been subjected to decades of forcible displacement and transfer, including through the imposition of a coercive environment, which has escalated in the reporting period. The result has been to further subject the Palestinian population to segregation, vulnerability, loss of property and income and to subject them to disadvantage and suffering based on, inter alia, race, religion or ethnic origin. From OHCHR report January 2026
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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Like the Center for Human Rights in Iran iranhumanrights.org/2026/01/iran... the Iran Human Rights Society en.iranhrs.org/widespread-a..., the UN Fact-Finding Mission www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... the @un-spexperts.bsky.social report child targeting (my words) 1/
From UN Special Rapporteur statement ["The use of lethal force against peaceful protesters, arbitrary arrests - including of children - and attacks on medical facilities represent clear violations of international human rights law," the experts said, recalling that States must prevent arbitrary deprivation of life and liberty.]
January 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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This is right. It isn’t only the people of Greenland who should be scared.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
From Fintan O’Toole’s A superpower has affirmed its right to hegemony over Ireland. Are we paying attention? [Would we have dared to deny the US air force permission to overfly our airspace on its way to storm an oil tanker in the north Atlantic? Will we dare to really do anything to protect our children from the depredations of American social media? If not, we are beginning to get used to the feeling of being owned.]
January 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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And why…? from Immanuel Kant’s 2nd Preliminary Article of Perpetual Peace Between States 1795 2/2
from Immanuel Kant’s 2nd Preliminary Article of Perpetual Peace Between States 1795 [2.-"No state having an independent existence-whether it be great or small-shall be acquired by another through inheritance, exchange, purchase or donation." For a state is not a property (patrimonium), as may be the ground on which its people are settled. It is a society of human beings over whom no one but itself has the right to rule and to dispose. Like the trunk of a tree, it has its own roots, and to graft it on to another state is to do away with its existence as a moral person, and to make of it a thing.]
January 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter 1/2
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter [4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.]
January 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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View from Knockaphuca to the Fastnet
December 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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View from Knockaphuca across Dunmanus Bay
December 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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From Karol Balfe’s Article in The Journal [The ICJ mandated Israel to end its occupation, dismantle its settlements, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims and facilitate the return of displaced people. 66 It is unconscionable, in this context, that the Occupied Territories Bill has been subject to repeated delays and a bizarre and illogical idea that goods and services can be separated. It is against the essence of Irish solidarity, that has led to marches and protests sometimes on a weekly basis, that has changed how people themselves shop, with people mindful of not buying products from stolen land. A solidarity grounded in shared history but also driven by the sense of injustice at apartheid, occupation and stolen lives.]
December 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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From Cathryn Costello’s Article in The Irish Times [The number of people seeking protection is mainly a factor of conditions in the countries of origin, and domestic asylum policy has been shown, time and time again, to have some, but very limited, impact. When politicians peddle illusions of control via harsh policies, they mislead their own electorates. And when those policies fail to have the promised impact, they risk greater disaffection and cynicism.]
December 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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From Parents jailed over physical and emotional abuse of their six children https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/12/19/parents-jailed-over-physical-and-emotional-abuse-of-their-children/
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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From Johnny Ryan’s This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble in The Guardian
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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From Johnny Ryan’s This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble in The Guardian
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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And let’s not forget its root intent is to prevent this:
From Naomi O’Leary’s IT article below
December 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM