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Schona Jolly QC @WomaninHavana
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The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity: ⁦@Alston_UNSR⁩ theguardian.com/society/2018/n…
This is a scandalous state of affairs for govt ministers, including Esther McVey.

Brexit toxicity has spread so deep that critics of govt policies causing huge social harm aren’t heard, but decried as political saboteurs.

These people say trust us with your Brexit future.
Here are @Alston_UNSR ‘s damning findings on #poverty in the U.K. ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
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“This Court is of the view that the mass killings of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere in November 1984 were in fact “crimes against humanity”. They will continue to shock the collective conscience of society for a long time to come.”
I haven’t had the chance to read the whole jmnt yet & will post more when I do.

I am privileged to have played a v small role in the work that led up to this milestone #1984 conviction. A day when the day job feels worthwhile.

Thank you @hsphoolka,Jagdish Kaur & so many others.
For those interested, I recommend reading @PavSingh84 #1984 India’s Guily Secret. A meticulously researched book laying out what happened, how it’s been carefully hidden away & why justice is late, but not denied. #SajjanConvicted #1984SikhGenocide

And why these weren’t “riots”.
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“Impassive Aggressive”.

If that’s a thing, I think it is a fitting description of Theresa May.

Some thoughts on why, for all the spectacle of being a lone figure battling on all sides, May does not deserve a nation’s sympathy. /1
All throughout this process, and Brexit is very a much a process (to which I will return), there have been a series of choices. At each turn, May has made very poor choices.

It is those choices which have led us to the precipice on which we sit as a nation today. /2
Of those choices, to my mind, it is the failure of transparency which has had the most serious ramifications.

Indeed, it can’t even be described as a failure of transparency.

It was a conscious choice in May’s part to keep reality cloaked in darkness during her premiership. /3
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On a night of political turmoil, it’s such a delight to switch off Brexit and celebrate the work of ⁦@BarHumanRights⁩ and wave farewell to our wonderful Chair ⁦@Kirsty_Brimelow⁩, in conversation with the marvellous Baroness Helena Kennedy QC. #ThankYouKirsty
Lovely words of encouragement and thanks from @Kirsty_Brimelow on behalf of @BarHumanRights to our many partners in the room, to our hardworking Drafting Committee and to our student members, future human rights lawyers to keep checking a cycle of backsliding in #humanrights.
International trial observations, which @BarHumanRights specialise in conducting, throw a spotlight on specific #humanrights issues. @Kirsty_Brimelow talks about our work in Turkey this year, and her own trial observation in Bahrain, & Colombia.
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Ik wil het even hebben over armoede, hoe we arme mensen moreel veroordelen, en waarom we in liberale leugen trappen dat de markt, en niet de gemeenschap, het beste armoede zou kunnen opheffen.
Dat we het als een natuurwet zien dat bezuinigen op sociale zekerheid tot meer voorspoed leiden, en een sterk sociaal stelsel tot luiheid en inertie leidt, is rechtstreeks gevolg van de meest geslaagde liberale propagandistische leugen van de eeuw
De VN heeft een onderzoek gedaan naar het effect van het wegbezuinigen van de sociale zekerheid door acht jaar aan conservatieve regeringen in Groot-Brittannië. De uitkomsten zijn schrijnend. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
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"The Government’s place is not to be assisting people who think they can’t make it on their own, it’s an absolute last emergency order” --> the words of UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights @Alston_UNSR should shame Britain & need to be publicised. My THREAD:
Professor Philip Alston said that 14 million people are in poverty in the UK (a figure the Government disputes) and that child poverty rates are “staggering” and are predicted to go up significantly over the next couple of years. #poverty #humanrights #austerity
The UN Special Rapporteur said he saw “a lot of misery” during his trip to the UK & met “a lot of people who feel the system is really there just to punish them”. People who could have gotten help in "yesterday's Britain" can no longer count on it #poverty #humanrights #austerity
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Dear anyone who thinks they will vote Conservative when we have a #GeneralElection ...please read the below report from UN Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights before you cast your vote.

Let your conscience do the rest.

#ChildrenInNeed #Poverty
ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
“But through it all, one actor has stubbornly resisted seeing the situation for what it is. The Government has remained determinedly in a state of denial.”

@theresa_may @EstherMcVey1

#UNVisit2018 #poverty
“Even while devolved authorities in Scotland & N Ireland are frantically trying to devise ways to ‘mitigate’, or in other words counteract, at least the worst features of the Government’s benefits policy, Ministers insisted to me that all is well and running acc to plan”
#Poverty
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As we go into tomorrows budget policy statement, it is useful to reflect on a #UN report which warns against the dangers of #austerity in South Africa.
A thread on the #MTBPS:

#UN report👇
tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/treat…

@SECTION27news @Zwelinzima1 @GiladIsaacs @social_rights
Following its first review of SA, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has called on the government to review its fiscal policies in order for the country to meet its human rights obligations and achieve greater levels of economic redistribution.
Citing “unacceptably high levels of ...inequalities” persisting since apartheid,the Comm said inadequate “personal &corporate income taxes, capital gains &transaction taxes, inheritance tax, &property tax, dont enable [SA]to mobilize the resources required to reduce inequalities”
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#UK Foreign Secretary @BorisJohnson has resigned, according to @10DowningStreet.
"His replacement will be announced shortly," @10DowningStreet spokesman says.
More on the @BorisJohnson resignation:
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UK’s @AmbassadorAllen:

#Novichok is not a weapon that can be manufactured by non-state actors… #Russia has provided no credible explanation… Therefore, we have no alternative but to conclude that the #Russian state was responsible [for a chemical weapons attack on my country].
This was an attack on #UK soil… #Russia is failing to comply with the conditions of the Chemical Weapons Convention…

Let us turn to the part of the CWC that #Russia is not talking about - Russia did not declare #Novichok & is therefore in serious breach of the CWC.
This was a reckless act… #Russia officials have repeatedly threatened those they consider traitors, before & after March 4 attack.

Russia has a history of political assassinations, interfering in other countries & a total disregard for civilian life.
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