throughout this journey in time, the human rights commission was present and relevant in its response to issues of discrimination and the cl collateral human rights challenges that en ssued due to these social changes. for me personally, perhaps the most re wawarding dimension of t service quus was following in the steps of commissioner s knu sen, swapark s, young as chair the lgbt's advisory committee which in the very yenniend i sh with commissioner kelleher. during that period i was privileged to work with some of the most bright and passionate lgbt community leaders in our city. together we addressed issues ranging from repairative therap to sensitivity to lgbt clients in city shelters, economic wel wellness, em powpowerment, dis e displacement of lgbt non -profi s, hiv prevention as well as services to and the stigma suffered by those living with hiv, the particular challenges of trans women of color, the lgbt life beyond the neighborhood of the kcastro. the special needs of lgbt, deaf and dis ababled persons, immigration concerns, most especially those seeking asylum, the nuance

the human rights commission. to pose a breach of trust why is it a beach a breach of trust. you see the thing is that. i don't know if the pretty human rights commission of pakistan came out with a statement yesterday which is very gadabout that it was an escalation of tensions between the 2 countries because we are concerned big deal and he should of human rights in pakistan particularly that is a part of our mandate but that is a fallout of something that happened and so automatically we get dragged into commenting on what india doesn't mean also but it's it is you know there are things have to be which have to be 2nd within the constitutional and bilateral agreements that we have meet and the constitution of all india i think is a problem. which your position the opposition not your opposition they get opposition is actually is also raising these steps against. constitution and the. instrument of fixation their democracy. so so i think there is a breach of trust of. the for instance saying that you know it was a wrong decision on that box. to keep. canvassing. for 1 contin

you know, the human rights commission over the last at least teb ten years ago i think has been -- the commission itself and the people who have worked on the advisory committee s have made major contributios s to not only the city but national conversation about national in equequality. the lgbt and lgbtq right now, i don't know that we've officially chang changed the name, the liÈgeq liÈge blooej lgbtq committee has picked up reports. this is work that came up from the community through the commission. we have the agency and the commission. so it's in cecredibly important work . also, ban the box started with the human rights commission, the equity advisory committee. now that's also something that's traveled nationally and gets stronger and stronger every year in different places. one of the things that i am personally most proud of is that we instituted a pilot under mayor lee to deal with implicit bias. so we were able to -- it was an idea we had at the commission. i brought it to the commission. i wasn't the first person to think about this obviously, but we were able to get a pi

led by executive director, cheryl davis of the human rights commission.allowed the majority of our interns to have a paid internship. this is a tremendous opportunity and a blessing for the students. as we all know, internships are unpaid. this allowed to alleviate that burden of going this summer and allowing to pursue your dreams of actually being in the workforce one day. we are extremely grateful for the opportunity to have worked with osa, hrc and partnering agencies who really played a critical role in the success of our program. we are extremely grateful for the leadership trainings, the trainings for our employees for the summer, as they got to learn about our accountability when it comes to getting paid. an overview of our summer program. paul henderson explained it the dpa's internship provides a unique opportunity to learn about how local government enforces laws and effects policies. teaching professional skills that apply well in this context as well as many others. you may choose to develop any skills that interest you. such as interviewing,

united nations human rights commission, michelle basilio has now been tasked with assessing the humanhuman rights abuses, but also say they don't want you and reporters coming to the country. howard johnson, bbc news, manila —— un reporters. that is a disturbing story. that brings us to the end of newsday. and i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. i'm ben bland in london. stay with us. we'll have more soon. hello. if you are in search of dry, settled, summer weather, i'm afraid you won't find it in this weather forecast. certainly not while low pressure is in charge. and that is what you have in this beautiful swirl of cloud here on the satellite, well in the heart of that there is a centre of an area of low pressure, which is going to be drifting its way eastwards over the next couple of days and will provide some very heavy, thundery downpours, albeit with some spells of sunshine in between. so this is how we start off tomorrow morning. the eastern side of england, actually starting on a dry note but those showers already they will swing eastwards through the day. quite hit and miss but

spread of disease from decomposing corpses 800 bodies of children have been examined wrapped human rights commission wants to help ministry to expedite d.n.a. tests of the thousands of recovered bodies. besides closure missing relatives means many legal problems in mosul from reclaiming your house to seeking compensation for victims of the war in the neighborhood of this still looking for his mother and sister the names in the middle are the ones whose bodies have been found more than 400 people went missing in the old pepsi factory i saw my prisoner shooting civilians as they fled and i got separated from his mom and sister in the mayhem he believes they were buried in the roads were cleared by security forces along with others including isis fighters. we asked for their last rites and of death certificate we can't even start the process without the death certificate and they won't give us one until they have a body the bodies are now decomposed and probably mixed with i saw bodies under the rubble and i'm not alone this is a collective issue that needs to be addressed the cleanup will take million

spread of disease from decomposing corpses 800 bodies of children have been examined rights human rights commission wants to help ministry to expedite d.n.a. tests of the thousands of recovered bodies besides closure. last rites and of death certificate we can't even start the process without the death certificate and they won't give us one until they have a body the bodies are now decomposed and probably mixed with i saw bodies under the rubble and i'm not alone this is a collective issue that needs to be at rest the cleanup will take millions of dollars and the local municipality has lost more than 70 percent of its equipment during the war even after 2 years it's an overwhelming task and. has become a city of rubble we have formed a committee to deal with the old city and it'll start working soon to give us an inclusive outlook for basic ordination in finding effective mechanism. during the intense battles and most of the small graveyards were formed those who suspect their relatives are under the rubble also want proper burials and possible closure for some of the jabot other they are the old c

we are thes -- we have the human rights commission to talk about these issues. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, directors. i am barbara ting. last month an international tribunal in london delivered final judgment in china. they ruled as much it has been committed for years in china and the major thought. the ruling also said the practice is often matched wickedness with the killings committed in the last century. members include english bear barristers who let the esteemed professionals in medical, legal and human rights fields. none of these were practitioners. it took 20 years to be recognized. one reason they are people who work hard for chinese communist to cover things up and mute the voices so people won't know the truth. when history turns over the page and the details got exposed, people will find the part rose pack played in this brutal persecution. now san francisco is honoring the name. please think hard about it before you make the decision. thank you for listening. >> again, if we can limit your comments to focusing specifically on the stati

school educators, the mayor's opportunities for all program, black to the future, and the human rights commission. i hope to see you all there. finally, all san francisco unified schools and offices will be closed for labor day on monday, september 2nd, and we will see everyone back on september 3rd. one final announcement, this evening, we are going to welcome our new student commissioners, and i like to call forward to the chief chief to introduce them to us. >> good evening. each year we go through a very challenging process of selecting two students to serve on the board of education. at what gets harder and harder every year is we put two students on the board and they knock it out of the park and every year they get better and better and the bar is raised. we are challenged with, can we possibly find two students again this year that can match the students that we had last year. we are lucky and confident that we have found the two that will do this. i am really excited tonight to introduce you to -- come on up, jet and betsy. [applause] betsy attended alvarado elementary school and became

i want to also suggest that the opportunities to partner with the city, including the human rights commission to explore additional curriculum. commissioner collins and i also introduced, on june 25, y'all may have not known. looking at equity, cultural ethnic studies, pre-k-12 for the notion that our young people are not going to be learning about a fuller history, is going to be in the forefront. i propose that staff looks into offering additional african-american, native american indigenous courses partnering with city college and similarly they get college credit in high school. tonight, again, i just want to close and thank you to the thousands of people, hundreds of people that we have heard from. i put my vote in keeping our students at the core. i support the ceqa process that we will be embarking on an exploration of panels to cover the mural as we go through this process. thank you. . >> president cook: commissioner lopez. . >> commissioner lopez: i stand by painting it down, that is not going to change. i have heard many arguments, throughout the summer, since we have had this last

and that particularly important for the human rights commission who weighed in, because it is seen at on human rights issues. i do think that britain owes this issue in particular kind of attention. as a signatory to the joint declination —— declaration. attention. as a signatory to the joint declination —— declarationlj was joint declination —— declaration.” was actually going to ask you precisely about that because back in july when the question was raised, the foreign ministry spokesman said now hong kong has returned to that motherland embrace, the sign of historical document no longer has any practical significance and it's not at all binding for the central government management over hong kong. the british take a different view, as a legally binding document, how should britain respond to that is not you say there's a special responsibility and china thanks its historic and gone. i think are britain, the particular challenges it did not occur to anybody at the time to write and to that agreement so time to write and to that agreement so that if things went wrong and britain had

human rights commission, boycotting, saying never with this happen in america. is happening here right now. amy: you have introduced an act cosponsored by the new york city or chuck schumer. what is it? have sponsored it. we have not been able the get a single republican on it. it says you cannot leave childrdren stranded. you cannot hold them in inhumane conditions in these holding cells. yep to provide the basics. you cannot lock them up -- you cannot lock them up in an extended period and is in flux facilities which so far have been exempt from the flores settlement agreement. flores says you have to move in state lessons within three days, many children have been held for an average of two months and these influx facilities. it says you get a lawyer and you get a case worker so that you can actually get your immigration case processed in a .imely fashion it facilitates the movement so you can be and a home, a school, and playground which is where isldren belong, , as your case proceeding. amy: talk about your trip to tijuana. >> i wanted to see with this loo

spread of disease from decomposing corpses 800 bodies of children have been examined for up to human rights commission wants to help ministry to expedite d.n.a. tests of the thousands of recovered bodies. besides closure missing relatives means many legal problems in mosul from reclaiming your house to seeking compensation for victims of the war in the neighborhood distil looking for his mother and sister the names on the mural are the ones whose bodies have been found more than 400 people went missing in the old pepsi factory myself my prison was shooting civilians as they fled or got separated from his mom and sister in the mayhem he believes they were buried in the roads were cleared by security forces along with others including isis fighters. we asked for their last rites and certificate we can't even start the process without the death certificate and they won't give us one until they have a body the bodies are now decomposed and probably mixed with i saw bodies under the rubble and i'm not alone this is a collective issue that needs to be at rest the cleanup will take millions of dollars and th

human rights commission commissioner also said that the u.n. is concerned about this legends police brutality this is very important because over the last few hours or so media really just one thing with all these messages that you went on strike people by several months already seem see g. 20 summit the end of june have been the killing to international support and no one ever heard and no wonder the the attention to them so the u.s. news and commission. report is very important so does and in terms of just me maybe compelling the police to expect it to be hard to treat all right we thank you very much for speaking to us on the al jazeera news hour from the u.s. president has decided to postpone tariffs on some chinese imports donald trump is delaying a 10 percent tariff icon products like laptops cell phones on video console's he says he reached the decision out of concern for the upcoming christmas shopping season let's go over to white house correspondent kelly halakhah joining us from washington to tell us more about what trump said about

spread of disease from decomposing corpses 800 bodies of children have been examined or up to human rights commission wants to help ministry to expedite d.n.a. tests of the thousands of recovered bodies. besides closure missing relatives means many legal problems in mosul from reclaiming your house to seeking compensation for victims of the war in xinjiang neighborhood still looking for his mother and sister the names in the mirror are the ones whose bodies have been found more than 400 people went missing in the old pepsi factory my prisoner shooting civilians as they fled got separated from his mom and sister in the mayhem he believes they were buried in the roads were cleared by security forces along with others including isis fighters. we asked for their last rites and a death certificate we can't even start the process without the death certificate and they won't give us one until they have a body the bodies are now decomposed and probably mixed with i saw bodies under the rubble and i'm not alone this is a collective issue that needs to be addressed the cleanup will take millions of dollars and

support to the maduro regime and we have analysis to many of this aspect and it is the higher commission of human rights from the un of course to say that the maduro regime is a mafia. and then over society that report that has been violated by madero. think it by any right that has been violated by this regime. in these reports say clearly they have killed people close to 7000 people and put people in jail and have tortured people and play with the full distribution of the new slavery of the 21st century. coming from the independent constitution that is recognized worldwide and 55 nations have recognized guaido as the president of venezuela. i think i have not seen this according to those circumstances with a different term in a different situation but this is is an important international issue i have not seen that. the most important democratic countries support the movement in venezuela. and then we have to reserve that coalition so we need to keep that how important is that and one that i like to highlight the us is one the most important allies with us. and working with allies to increase the pres

the philippine commission on human rights have called on the police to be more transparent with theirgate killings in the past. there is a policy of little, if no cooperation at all when it comes to sharing documentation. united nations human rights commissioner, michelle bachelet, has now been tasked with assessing the human rights situation in the philippines. the government insists that they haven't committed any human rights abuses, but also say they don't want un reporters coming to the country. howard johnson, bbc news, manila. the us treasury has officially named china a "currency manipulator", a statement which will intensify tensions between the world's two largest economies. this after a sharp fall in the value of the chinese yuan against the dollar, which has caught markets around the world off—guard. with me is our business reporter, ramzan karmali. this really did take people by surprise. it really did, and markets did not like this move. it left the currency at the weakest in around a decade, and we saw big losses on wall street. major exporters saw their share prices fa

the philippine commission on human rights have called on the police to be more transparent with theirte killings in the past. there is a policy of little, if no cooperation at all when it comes to sharing documentation. united nations human rights commissioner, michelle bachelet, has now been tasked with assessing the human rights situation in the philippines. the government insists that they haven't committed any human rights abuses, but also say they don't want un reporters coming to the country. howard johnson, bbc news, manila. now for most of us, a marathon sounds like a very long way, butjust imagine going around a single city block more than 5,000 times. that's what a group of runners in new york are doing, to compete in the world's longest footrace. if you don't feel like taking part yourself, you can watch nada tawfik covering it. pounding the pavement and putting themselves to the limit, these runners are in the middle of a race so runners are in the middle of a race so difficult and absurd that only a3 people in the world have ever completed it. they are attempting to cover

are accused of killing civilians and forcibly displacing the population the iraqi high commission for human rights is calling on the government to investigate reports of additional bodies scattered beneath the soil in babel province government denies there is anything suspicious going on. there has been a lot of negative media coverage in order to take a sectarian turn these bodies were stored at the morgue to be identified after the investigation was over they were buried because the bodies were not claimed by their families but with so many families in the area still living in displacement camps that might explain why no one came forward to identify the 250 bodies. for all son out there knows her son could be among them the family is from jeff carr she hasn't seen her son since 2015 when she says armed groups accused him of being an iso member and arrested him her family was later driven out of their home they were afraid if they returned they'll be killed. because he did nothing wrong if he had i would testify against him but his god is my witness he did nothing wrong who dared like so many ira

place the united nations high commission on human rights complaint but typically about. to bind faces everything the result of. possibly affected her being grabbed by the. possibly somebody who was regarded as a cycle possibly. in the process got one of the things that is really a great product is the. link between the police allege that you want to go out and have all the secretaries in the protest now it seems they believe they have found one of the so-called terrifies the protesters believe there is really. fired up protest busy. now in the early hours. here. at the gap for people to be remembered hundreds. like that like being cancelled they came to the airport expecting to get away they have been trying to get information from the from their own lines but have wait to see what happens then a lot of the incoming flights for the writing. the night wednesday morning into hong kong. through all of the. hail mary. and rob just give us an update on how much disruption this is actually causing at the airport and if you're hearing whether planes are landing or not. well the

that's right i mean the police tactics being used have certainly come under intense scrutiny as you mentioned a that has been a report from the united nations high commission on human rights with a report that has called for both sides to try to to try to talk to each other condemning any acts of violence acts of destruction of property but also like you mentioned that being very critical of some of these police techniques that we have seen being used that there's been a criticism for example of the firing of all pretty close ranks if you have a tear gas being fired in southwest stages which. a is kind of the the best it's extremely dangerous even talk to be grateful for life with has been a lot of criticism that that is also a possibility we have the police being accused of firing tear gas canisters this high high was well. apparently cool thanks to the school in doing so there has been a lot of criticism on the cold it was the tactics being used by the police in clearing demonstrations on saturday which at least to be used for protests is insulted in monday's massacre out coming out of the lock the hostages are the result of that which state similarly. just comin

appreciable action and even the un high commissioner for human rights or for human rights council rather we're going to put together a evidence finding commission about a year ago has still not been able to fully staff or operationalize that commission either and again we're looking at a situation in which the genocide is 2 years old and yet we're talking about here recommendations with sanctions at this point it's it's grossly insufficient benjamin's a lot he thank you very much. in a few moments we'll have the weather with everton also coming up in this hour is here in news our money talks we explained how china has ramped up its trade war with the u.s. by letting its currency tumble. the fireflies lighting up the night in a remote woodland in mexico. and serves up for the host says they strike gold in the pan american games again joe will have the teacher. however well myanmar is now saying a search in the monsoon rains lots of cloud driving across the by a single into that eastern side of the region on the other side of the other side of india through the western ghats western parts seeing huge amounts of rainfall still $256.00 millimeters

are accused of killing civilians and forcibly displacing the population the iraqi high commission for human rights is calling on the government to investigate reports of additional bodies scattered beneath the soil in babel province government denies there is anything suspicious going on. there has been a lot of negative media coverage in order to take a sectarian turn these bodies were stored at the morgue to be identified after the investigation was over they were buried because the bodies were not claimed by their families but with so many families in the area still living in displacement camps that might explain why no one came forward to identify the 250 bodies. for also now who dared knows her son could be among the family is from joe hart she hasn't seen her son since 2015 when she says our group accused him of being an eyesore member and arrested him her family was later driven out of their home they're afraid if they return they'll be killed. he did nothing wrong if he had i would testify against him but his god is my witness he did nothing wrong who dared like so many iraqis never know w