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A handful of billionaires
#Selfishness
#Greed
#Ruthlessness
#Inhumanity
#ClimateAndEcologicalCrisis
#SixthMassExtinction
#WeThePeople
#Unity
#Solidarity
#Organization
#Mobilization
#NonviolentCivilResistance (NCR)
#HumanRightsDefenders
#SocialJustice
#ClimateJustice
#Selfishness
#Greed
#Ruthlessness
#Inhumanity
#ClimateAndEcologicalCrisis
#SixthMassExtinction
#WeThePeople
#Unity
#Solidarity
#Organization
#Mobilization
#NonviolentCivilResistance (NCR)
#HumanRightsDefenders
#SocialJustice
#ClimateJustice
A handful of billionaires own most of the corporations, corporate media and social media and practically every major institution that affects our collective and individual quality of life.
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A handful of billionaires have unprecedented control over banking, financial institutions, what’s invested in and what isn’t, the food we eat and the water we drink.
#BoycottPalmOil
#Boycott4Wildlife
#PalmOilFree in ‘23
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#BoycottPalmOil
#Boycott4Wildlife
#PalmOilFree in ‘23
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Complete #solidarity to @DragoslavicM - and a little 🧵on protection of #journalists granted also by Article 21 (#rightofpeacefulassembly), not only Article 19 (#freedomofexpression), ICCPR
#UN #humanrightscommittee General Comment 37 on Article 21, ICCPR: "The role of #journalists, #humanrightsdefenders, election monitors & others involved in monitoring or reporting on assemblies is of particular importance for the full enjoyment of the #rightofpeacefulassembly."
"Those persons are entitled to protection under the Covenant. They may not be prohibited from, or unduly limited in, exercising these functions, including with respect to monitoring the actions of #lawenforcement officials."
On August 13th 2022 the HUMAN RIGHTS LEGAL PROJECT are celebrating one year after our first successful intervention to stop #Pushbacks in #Samos.
This is a small thread of how a small number of people can stop the illegalities of the government:
This is a small thread of how a small number of people can stop the illegalities of the government:
In April 2020 the Greek Government began its systematic and brutal pushbacks against refugees.
For a year, due to the pandemic restrictions, their actions went almost unnoticed.
@ABoatReport was trying to reveal what was happening but no one on the ground could do anything.
For a year, due to the pandemic restrictions, their actions went almost unnoticed.
@ABoatReport was trying to reveal what was happening but no one on the ground could do anything.
We were witnessing his posts feeling incapable of intervening: to protect both #AsylumSeekers and the #RuleOfLaw and #HumanRights.
On the 21st April 2021 another pushback took place in Marathokampos, Sámos. 4 days later one Palestinian woman with her three kids came to our
On the 21st April 2021 another pushback took place in Marathokampos, Sámos. 4 days later one Palestinian woman with her three kids came to our
1. Following a challenge by @UKGovScotland the @UKSupremeCourt has determined parts of the UNCRC (Incorporation) Scotland Bill which @ScotParl passed unanimously in March are outwith the competence of the Scottish Parliament and must be amended to proceed. supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
2. @SupremeCourt said that there is no dispute about the @ScotParl decision to incorporate the UNCRC into domestic law, but just about the way it is done and the impact that the bill has on matters reserved or protected from modification under the Scotland Act 1998.
3. @UKSupremeCourt clarified the limits of the powers of the @ScotParl, but this does not change the commitment renewed by @scotgov to take a maximalist approach to the incorporation of #UNCRC as far as devolution allows. There was unanimous support across the @ScotParl in March
I had a Zoom call this morning with my colleagues at @uOttawa who are engaged in Canada’s evacuation of #Afghanistan and resettlement of Afghan #refugees. Spoilers: Canadian policy looks better on paper than it does in practice. A 🧵: 1/18
First, the commitment to resettling 20,000 #Afghan #refugees: it looks nice! But that number is NOT a commitment to evacuating 20,000 Afghan human rights defenders, feminists, and scholars who are directly threatened by the Taliban. 2/18
Almost all of those 20K will be people who meet the legal definition 'refugee', which requires that they be outside their country of citizenship & have a credible fear of persecution. See the @UNHCR definition: unhcr.org/what-is-a-refu… 3/18
1️⃣ Together we are #Unstoppable
#SaveGaza #HearGaza
Your experience in providing aid and relief for afflicted people around the world can save more lives
@ifrc @mohgovjo @mohpegypt @KUWAIT_MOH @SaudiMOH @MOPHQatar @FIMRC @medical_relief @IHHen @ICRC @saglikbakanligi @sporeMOH
#SaveGaza #HearGaza
Your experience in providing aid and relief for afflicted people around the world can save more lives
@ifrc @mohgovjo @mohpegypt @KUWAIT_MOH @SaudiMOH @MOPHQatar @FIMRC @medical_relief @IHHen @ICRC @saglikbakanligi @sporeMOH
2️⃣ @KKMPutrajaya @KemenkesRI @Human_Relief
@ECHR_CEDH @hrw @amnesty @MWLOrg_en @UNHumanRights @un @btselem @UNICEF
@BBCWorld @cnni @WDWNT @trtworld @AP @AJEnglish #HumanRights #HumanRightsDefenders #HumanRightsWatch #UnitedNations
@ECHR_CEDH @hrw @amnesty @MWLOrg_en @UNHumanRights @un @btselem @UNICEF
@BBCWorld @cnni @WDWNT @trtworld @AP @AJEnglish #HumanRights #HumanRightsDefenders #HumanRightsWatch #UnitedNations
3️⃣ The most tragic humanitarian crisis on earth Today is in #Gaza, where 2 million people 50% of them are kids and 70% are refugees, expelled from their homes in other parts of Palestine in 1948.
#GenocideinGaza
#ApartheidIsrael
By USA tax dollars Children are killed with their families under the rubbles of their homes in Gaza by Israel random airstrikes
Here is a father who finds his daughter killed with here kids
@elonmusk
@BillGates
@hrw
@UN
@UNHumanRights
@amnestyusa
#ApartheidIsrael
By USA tax dollars Children are killed with their families under the rubbles of their homes in Gaza by Israel random airstrikes
Here is a father who finds his daughter killed with here kids
@elonmusk
@BillGates
@hrw
@UN
@UNHumanRights
@amnestyusa
Gaza is under the Israeli siege since 2005 nothing enters/leave Gaza without Israeli permission even food is counted by calories!! The handmade rockets by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza CANNOT be compared with warplanes, drones, missiles, tanks, ... used by the Israeli army
Israel is repeating the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and is proud of it!! They bomb residential towers and infrastructures in #Gaza
1| Americans should contemplate long and hard why one of Trump's most burning tasks, right before he leaves office, is the targeting of a #HumanRights movement lead by an #indigenous people on the other side of the globe 👇
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #USA #Israel #Palestinians #BDS
amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #USA #Israel #Palestinians #BDS
2| Let's first recall that the Palestinian-lead global BDS movement has already been designated by the @UN as a #HumanRightsDefenders movement, whose speech is protected.
#hrd
#hrd
3| @amnesty chimes in with a bit of uncharacteristic & very welcome political analysis:
"This is simply the latest attack from a US government determined to undermine the universality of human rights and the global fight against racism and discrimination, including antisemitism."
"This is simply the latest attack from a US government determined to undermine the universality of human rights and the global fight against racism and discrimination, including antisemitism."
THREAD/1: In April and May @migrationgovgr introduced regulations on NGOs working on migration, asylum & integration. Today @amnesty analysis of the rules concludes that they violate the right to freedom of association, threatening civic space in Greece ➡️ bit.ly/2CYp0FD
2/The new Joint Ministerial Decision No 3063 on the registries of Greek and foreign NGOs and their members and Art 58 of law no. 4686/2020 require all NGOs working in migr/asylum to undergo a burdensome registration process in order to continue carrying out operations in Greece.
3/These provisions are both discriminatory, as they impose additional requirements without apparent justification and only on NGOs working with people on the move, and at odds with international principles on the registration of NGOs and freedom of association.
#Africa between the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn has bn fortunate so far wth confirmed cases of the virus that Zimbabwe's @edmnangagwa complains didn't give notice. But while #COVID19 notice period marinates, what have the continent's rulers done? THREAD
zanupf.org.zw/covid19-is-no-…
zanupf.org.zw/covid19-is-no-…
If anything, u cld say West Africa got a bit of a #headstart in pandemic virus management with exposure to the #EbolaVirusDisease, #EVD, 5 yrs ago. Sierra Leone, Guinea-Conakry & #Nigeria were 3 countries in the region that saw #EVD up close. So how have the prepared?
U can choose where u begin but Sierra Leone is as good a place as any: it was epicentre of another virus, Ebola, just 5 yrs ago. While #COVID19 was processing entry visa in China, on 21 Feb, @PresidentBio decided to wed a 2nd time a wife he wedded in 2013
cocorioko.net/the-maada-bio-…
cocorioko.net/the-maada-bio-…
Ministry of Home Affairs in India & right-wing social media trolls identified as "Modi's Yoddhas" have been termed as 2 of the 20 worst digital predators in 2020 by @RSF_inter, an NGO that specialises in the defense of #mediafreedom. @PIBHomeAffairs (1/4)
thewire.in/media/rsf-indi…
thewire.in/media/rsf-indi…
We @AIIndia have similar findings on the situation in Jammu & Kashmir and online violence faced by women in India. The 213 days long internet shutdown in J&K clearly contributed to India's presence on this list along with the incessant trolling faced by women in India. (2/4)
.@AIIndia's study found that 1 in every 7 tweets that mentioned #womenpoliticians in India was 'problematic' or 'abusive'. The situation is terrible with a shrinking space for dissent & unlawful surveillance against #HumanRightsDefenders through spyware & WhatsApp targeting.(3/4)
1. Talking at #EmTechDigital today on 'Preparing for #Deepfakes: Trust and Truth' placing in broader framework of how we think about AI and social good. My cliffnotes here in this thread events.technologyreview.com/emtech/digital… (in great company with @red_abebe and @latonero)
2. Quick intro for those don't know @witnessorg; work on helping anyone, anywhere using video and tech for human rights. We're focused on making you more effective, ethical and safe if you do. And that means also keeping eye out for emerging tech threats witness.org
3. Big emerging tech threats we're concerned about now are: #AI at intersection with #disinformation, #media manipulation and rising #authoritarianism. We know this is where the rubber hits the road for activists and civic witnesses on the ground.
