All posts tagged: Inhumane

These inhumane attacks on Rafah are no accident. They’re central to the IDF’s brutal, losing strategy | Paul Rogers

These inhumane attacks on Rafah are no accident. They’re central to the IDF’s brutal, losing strategy | Paul Rogers

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The killing of at least 45 Palestinians in a humanitarian zone near Rafah has caused anger that reaches far beyond the Middle East. And yet Israel’s offensive is expected to continue, with several Israeli tanks spotted in the centre of Rafah on Tuesday, witnesses told Reuters news agency. It comes after the international criminal court sought arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant, along with three senior Hamas leaders – all for alleged war crimes. Separately, the international court of justice demanded that Israel cease its assault on Rafah, and, for a few days last week, there seemed to be signs that Israel was refraining from an all-out assault. The US-based Institute for the Study of War had reported that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were using “less airpower and artillery, and fewer, smaller bombs”, with soldiers clearing “urban areas on foot”. This has ended with the bombing of the Tal al-Sultan area, where the IDF onslaught caused a huge blaze in a tented area for displaced people. Netanyahu may describe the …

Headteachers demand end to ‘inhumane’ school ratings in England | Ofsted

Headteachers demand end to ‘inhumane’ school ratings in England | Ofsted

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Headteachers in England are to launch a campaign for the abolition of “inhumane and unreliable” single-phrase school inspection judgments, threatening legal challenges and possible strike action if the government refuses reforms. Delegates to the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) annual conference committed the union “to explore all campaign, legal and industrial routes to secure necessary changes to inspection to safeguard leaders’ lives,” after the suicide last year of the headteacher Ruth Perry. The NAHT accused the government of ignoring the recommendations of the coroner’s report into Perry’s death as well as MPs on the education committee, after responses by the Department for Education (DfE) defended the use of single judgments by Ofsted inspectors to label schools. Paul Whiteman, the NAHT’s general secretary, said: “We’ve had the response from government, which basically says: ‘We hear what you say but we don’t care.’ That simply isn’t good enough.” The motion passed unanimously by delegates said the government’s response “poses a real and present danger to the mental health, wellbeing and lives of school leaders and teachers”. …

‘Inhumane’ Home Office denying visas to children of migrant health workers | Immigration and asylum

‘Inhumane’ Home Office denying visas to children of migrant health workers | Immigration and asylum

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The Home Office is systematically barring young children from joining their mothers in Britain despite extensive proof the women are their primary caregivers, an Observer investigation has revealed. Under an opaque policy condemned as discriminatory and “inhumane”, the government has refused dozens of visas for children of migrant single mothers, many of whom came to work in the NHS or social care, saying there are “no compelling reasons” to grant them. The women left their children – some as young as two – in the temporary care of relatives or friends while they moved to Britain from countries including Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, South Africa and India. Before leaving, they say, they had been reassured by their employers that their children would be able to follow, in line with current immigration rules permitting healthcare workers to bring close family members. But when they applied for the children’s visas, the applications were rejected. In refusal letters seen by the Observer, the Home Office questioned why the children could not stay permanently with their grandparents or other relatives. …