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Jun 16, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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. Image
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. Image
The draft resolution and urgent meeting come in response to demand by families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Michael Brown, supported by @ACLU & over 600 groups including @USHRN @Mvmnt4BlkLives @NAACP to establish int'l inquiry into police violence. #hrc43 Image
Now is the time to call or email U.N. missions in Geneva (tinylink.net/IGjjN) especially members of the @UN_HRC and urge them to stand on the right side of history and in support of the movement for Black lives. Demand an independent int’l commission of inquiry now.

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Sep 2, 2022
This is a global embarrassment.

“It is not Russia that threatens the United States so much as Mississippi…[I]nternal injustice done to one’s brothers is far more dangerous than the aggression of strangers from abroad.” — W.E.B. DuBois (1947)
United States, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, has consistently objected to recognizing the right to safe drinking water and sanitation as basic human right that creates obligations to work towards achieving universal access to water and sanitation for all.
Last year Biden admin told the UN:

“We do not believe that a State’s duty to protect the right to life by law would extend to addressing general conditions in society or nature that may eventually threaten life or prevent individuals from enjoying an adequate standard of living”
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Jun 15, 2022
New report by @ACLU and the Int’l Human Rights Clinic at the @UChicagoLaw investigates the use of prison labor throughout state and federal prisons in the United States and finds widespread coercion and exploitation of incarcerated workers nationwide. THREAD Image
The report calls for far-reaching reforms to ensure prison labor is truly voluntary and that incarcerated workers are paid fairly, properly trained and able to gain transferable skills. 2/
The report highlights how incarcerated labor helps maintain prisons and provides vital public services. But the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows prisons to force people to work for pennies or less. 3/
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Sep 27, 2020
My first experience doing legal research for a court case was while I was a law student in Israel. I was helping my brother-in-law who was among the lawyers to petition Israel’s Supreme Court in December 1992 about Rabin’s decision to deport 415 Palestinians to south Lebanon. 1/
Rabin decided to retaliate against Hamas for the kidnapping and killing of 6 Israeli soldiers by instituting an overnight mass deportation of 415 Palestinians to a no-man's land in south Lebanon. The mass deportation was gaged at the order of Israel’s military censor. 2/
A majority of the deportees were non-combatants and many of them were already in detention for their association with Hamas. The mass deportation was a form of collective punishment in violation of int’l humanitarian law and was even condemned by the UN Security Council. 3/
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Sep 22, 2020
Trump Administration’s report to the UN Human Rights Council was posted online. This report is one of the worst attempts to cover up U.S. human rights violations since the Civil Rights Movement. 1/ ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UP… Image
The report is full of misinformation, misrepresentations and even outright lies.

The report dismisses the well-documented systemic racism in American policing and makes no mention of the U.S. government's violent crackdown on protesters, ... 2/
... failure to take the risks of COVID-19 seriously, immoral separation of immigrant families, dismantling of the asylum system, or disastrous Muslim ban and many more human rights violation. 3/
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Sep 13, 2020
Israel's normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain will not bring peace to the Middle East. If anything, they will only embolden oppressive regimes and encourage abuses of international law. 1/
Israel and UAE/Bahrain were never in a state of war to begin with- both countries are not even officially declared enemy states under Israeli law. 2/
Despite these agreements, Israel will continue to breach int'l law as an illegitimate occupying power denying millions of Palestinians their basic human rights. If not a U.S. ally, it would likely have been subject to economic sanctions and arms embargo. 3/
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Aug 26, 2020
There is nothing that annoys the Trump administration more than asserting reproductive rights, including abortion rights, are human rights.
Trump's State Department is up in arms about a letter by U.N. human rights experts raising very legitimate and serious concerns that some U.S. states limited access to abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. reuters.com/article/us-usa… @StephNebehay
Note how @usmissiongeneva tweet mischaracterizes UN Secretary General @antonioguterres position on abortion. He never said there is no int'l human right to abortion. He reiterated that the UN "does not promote, much less impose, abortion on anyone, nor is it intended to do so."
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