Thread by @WomaninHavana

I urge everyone to read this stark analysis of a world failed by self-serving leaders, & rife discrimination.

These are the parting words of Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, @UNHumanRights High Commissioner in ⁦@TheEconomist⁩ economist.com/open-future/20…

Everything he writes resonates with the weight of our daily troubles.

Even as @BorisJohnson issues lazy, reckless & empty rhetoric, Hussein’s words remind us not only that Johnson’s like are morally cowardly, but also dangerous. Frothing, but incapable of advancing us. /2

As a Myanmar court sentences 2 @Reuters journalists to prison terms for exposing horrific crimes, as journalism is weighted down again as a crime, Hussain’s words resonate in a world busy with words, not actions.

“What are we saying to the perpetrators? Or to the victims?”
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As a new Parliamentary term begins exactly as it left off - vicious, fighting for individual power, all sound & fury - our own fractured society needs reminding of what gets lost in the battles, what the real fight needs to win. #humanrights #equality

With the Trumps, the Orbans, the Salvinis & our very own Brexit bombastic sound & fury, the world around us looks regressive and shrinking.

But Hussein reminds us there is hope. We need to stand up & support those who have the courage & vision to fight for an inclusive future.