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AFTERNOON MEETING, DAY 2, SESSION 3
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The meeting is suspended to hear from the High Rep for Disarmament Affairs @INakamitsu on "Our Common Agenda" and how it relates to the #SpaceThreatsOEWG
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The meeting is suspended to hear from the High Rep for Disarmament Affairs @INakamitsu on "Our Common Agenda" and how it relates to the #SpaceThreatsOEWG
Read the "Our Common Agenda" report by the UNSG here: un.org/en/content/com…
A key message from the report is that governance and regulatory regimes require updating in line with this new era of space activity to preserve outer space as a global common.
MORNING MEETING DAY 1 SESSION 3 #SpaceThreatsOEWG 🧵
See my latest report to get caught up on key points of discussion from the second session last September.
ploughshares.ca/reports/the-op…
See my latest report to get caught up on key points of discussion from the second session last September.
ploughshares.ca/reports/the-op…
Session Chair @Tumlleh opens with a call to shoulder our collective responsibility with awareness of urgency to address threats to space systems. #SpaceThreatsOEWG
The Chair notes that there can be no progress if we see this as a struggle b/w different groups and interests. Our discussion is not about opposition, but a GLOBAL issue that affects all countries and persons. #SpaceThreatsOEWG
#Algeria: Must go hand in hand with PAROS discussions
Need transparency and more ambitious confidence building measures. Particular responsibility of states with advanced capabilities to prevent PAROS.
Need transparency and more ambitious confidence building measures. Particular responsibility of states with advanced capabilities to prevent PAROS.
#Algeria: Promote full access to technology through cooperation and tech assistance and capacity building in developing countries
Need to strengthen legal regime in outer space for a common future.
Need to strengthen legal regime in outer space for a common future.
#NewZealand: Should not be focused exclusively on kinetic threats. Non-kinetic including #cyber pose significant threats and possible irreversible loss and damage to infrastructure on earth
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I am going to triple-down on this, because Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine reveals the moral failure of international organisations, and quite specifically of current interpretations of humanitarian and human rights principles. And there is a structure to it.
I am going to triple-down on this, because Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine reveals the moral failure of international organisations, and quite specifically of current interpretations of humanitarian and human rights principles. And there is a structure to it.
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What do I mean? Well, go over to the #ICRC website - another august institution whose reputation has been severely damaged in 2022 due to its attitude to the Russia-Ukraine war.
icrc.org/en/document/wh…
What do I mean? Well, go over to the #ICRC website - another august institution whose reputation has been severely damaged in 2022 due to its attitude to the Russia-Ukraine war.
icrc.org/en/document/wh…
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ICRC page:
"IHL applies to the belligerent parties irrespective of the reasons for the conflict or the justness of the causes for which they are fighting... otherwise, implementing the law would be impossible, since every party would claim to be a victim of aggression."
ICRC page:
"IHL applies to the belligerent parties irrespective of the reasons for the conflict or the justness of the causes for which they are fighting... otherwise, implementing the law would be impossible, since every party would claim to be a victim of aggression."
397 organizations signed a letter urging IFIs to repurpose funds into Covid assistance for border communities and prisoners in #Burma. See our press release: tinyurl.com/tfh9v7hm and the full letter for more: tinyurl.com/3d363275 #Altsean #Myanmar #Covid19 #MyanmarCoup 
These funds were supposed to go to the democratically elected gov't in 2020 for #Covid relief and frozen after the coup, leaving hundreds of millions unspent. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #SaveMyanmar #Pandemic #NUG
With news: 8 former US troops/Blackwater guards convicted of war crimes petition for #pardons...
Read this timely analysis.👇
Brian Finucane writes on LONG-held U.S. legal position that a Commander's failure to punish war crimes can itself be a #WarCrime
justsecurity.org/72915/a-comman…
Read this timely analysis.👇
Brian Finucane writes on LONG-held U.S. legal position that a Commander's failure to punish war crimes can itself be a #WarCrime
justsecurity.org/72915/a-comman…
2. News via @Militarydotcom: "At least eight former service members and Blackwater security guards convicted of war crimes have filed petitions seeking pardons...including a former Army staff sergeant [Robert Bales] who pleaded guilty to killing 16 Afghan men, women and children"
#niet_in_journaal #nieuwsuur #1V #Op1 #bbvpro #NPORadio1 #surveillance Der Staat schaut zu: In diesen Städten stehen die meisten Überwachungskameras faz.net/-ikh-a1s9k?GEP… #fplus via @faznet
Guards impersonating US troops. A recorded call to prayer piped by intercom to each former CIA captive. Two hours a day in an outdoor cell, alone. The 9/11 trial judge heard descriptions of austere detention at Gitmo’s clandestine post-black site prison.
nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/…
nytimes.com/2019/11/01/us/…
The former Army officer testified described a security regime set up by the Bush administration in September 2006 as it acknowledged to the world, for the first time, that it had held and interrogated prisoners in secret sites around the world starting in 2002 with no #ICRC.
The hearing is back in session this Monday morning with more testimony from the anonymous former Army officer. He's testifying in a closed session today attended by defense attorneys, prosecutors, the judge and their support staff members. No defendants, no public.
