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Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena has just delivered his address to #HRC46, slamming @UNHumanRights report and urging countries to vote down any resolution on Sri Lanka. Excerpts below. 
Very pleased that this resolution has been adopted. The Commission is still vitally needed to ensure accountability for human rights violations in #SouthSudan - including the killing of Christopher Allen and 9 other journalists during the civil war. #HRC43
Watch: Christopher Allen's cousin @jeremybliss's powerful intervention at #HRC43 in March.
Also, my #HRC43 intervention on behalf of @RSF_inter, on the urgent need to end impunity for the killings of journalists in South Sudan, including Christopher Allen:
Update: 54 African countries introduced draft resolution at the UN Human Rights Council mandating the establishment of international independent investigation into police killings and repression of protests. This is huge deal! #BlackLivesMattters #HRC43
The draft resolution mandates the creation of an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate systemic racism and abuses against Black people in the United States and other parts of the world.
The draft resolution also mandates the commission of inquiry to examine the federal, state and local government responses to peaceful protests, including the alleged use of excessive force against protesters, bystanders and journalists.
My intervention for @RSF_inter during today's Interactive Dialogue on South Sudan at #HRC43. We call for the full support of all UN Member States to ensure justice for Christopher Allen and all journalists killed with impunity in South Sudan. webtv.un.org/watch/id-commi…
Full text of my #HRC43 intervention on South Sudan here:
.@jeremybliss also spoke at #HRC43 on UN and individual states' failings in the case of his cousin, journalist Christopher Allen, who was killed in South Sudan in August 2017. Two and a half years on, there has still been no investigation and no justice. webtv.un.org/watch/id-commi…
As the @UNHumanRights Council meets in Geneva this week, we @AIIndia @CIVICUSalliance @forum_asia & @fidh_en urge states to speak up against serious #humanrights violations that are being committed in India against peaceful protesters & other civilians.
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@UNHumanRights @CIVICUSalliance @forum_asia @fidh_en We urge the #HRC43 to hold the Indian Govt accountable for:
⚠️ use of repressive laws
⚠️ excessive use of force by authorities
⚠️ hateful rhetoric and vigilante violence
⚠️ restriction on freedom of movement
⚠️ restriction of right to freedom of assembly
⚠️ internet shutdowns
⚠️ use of repressive laws
⚠️ excessive use of force by authorities
⚠️ hateful rhetoric and vigilante violence
⚠️ restriction on freedom of movement
⚠️ restriction of right to freedom of assembly
⚠️ internet shutdowns
.@UNHumanRights Council member states must call on the Indian authorities to:
✊🏾Immediately denounce the state-sponsored and vigilante violence against peaceful protesters.
✊🏾 Drop all charges against peaceful protesters.
#HRC43
✊🏾Immediately denounce the state-sponsored and vigilante violence against peaceful protesters.
✊🏾 Drop all charges against peaceful protesters.
#HRC43
#HRC43 👉 HC @mbachelet @ the HRC on alarming country situations. 🇧🇷 "Attacks against #HRDs, including killings in a context of rollbacks of policies to protect the environment & indigenous rights. Increasing lands takeover & efforts to delegitimise the work of civil society"
Port 👉#HRC43 Na sessão do Conselho de DH @mbachelet alerta p/ políticas contrárias a denfensorxs de dh no contexto de retroceso de dir ambientais e indígenas. Também chamou atenção para n. alarmante de ataques contra movimentos sociais e orgs da soc civil. @SurvivalBrasil
These countries' laws call to kill gays:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
These countries sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
#hrc43
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
These countries sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council:
🇦🇫 Afghanistan
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇶🇦 Qatar
#hrc43
@ILGAWORLD @UNHumanRights "Yes...but you need to talk to everyone," say the apologists.
False. The UNHRC's own rules (Res. 60/251) say the opposite.
Art. 8: "When electing members states... take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights..."
False. The UNHRC's own rules (Res. 60/251) say the opposite.
Art. 8: "When electing members states... take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights..."
@ILGAWORLD @UNHumanRights Diplomats say abusers are meant to be on the Council.
FACT-CHECK: False.
Art. 8: "The General Assembly by a two-thirds majority may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights."
FACT-CHECK: False.
Art. 8: "The General Assembly by a two-thirds majority may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights."
