1/. “Ten years after the #IstanbulConvention was signed, women are speaking today with one voice to demand that the Turkish authorities reverse a decision that will put the safety & even the lives of millions of women & girls in peril.” @AgnesCallamard amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
2/. “Since the announcement that #Turkey will quit the Istanbul Convention, women in Turkey & around the world are coming together. Rather than being cowed, women have been on the streets. Rather than being discouraged women have been galvanised” @amnesty
3/. Since the intention pull out of the #IstanbulConvention was announced, women have been protesting.

In Amsterdam, campaigners laid out 70 pairs of red shoes, each pair symbolising one of the 70 women killed as a result of domestic violence in Turkey since the start of 2021.
4/. “Autocrats are afraid of independent women

They’re afraid of societies where women can freely decide over their bodies & lives

They’re afraid of the strength of women’s & LGBTI movements

That's why they hate the #IstanbulConvention.”
@TerryReintke
5/. “I believe that the women's movement will bring this back & #Turkey’s signature will be on the #IstanbulConvention again." @KeskinEren1

Around the world, people are showing solidarity with women in #Turkey

Join us! #IstanbulConventionSavesLives
6/. “The #IstanbulConvention is ours. We won’t give it up!”

Before #Turkey went into lockdown, the country had seen massive nationwide protests against quitting the Convention

Today, these MPs walked to Taksim Sq #istanbulsozlesmesiyasatir #İstanbul
7/. Today, activists around the world are taking action in solidarity with women in Turkey demanding President Erdogan reverse his decision to withdraw from the #IstanbulConvention

Here @amnestybe activists turn the @TurkEmbBrussels purple last night!
8/. "Little by little we erode the confidence of our girls. We teach them to internalise the gaze of patriarchy...Turkey is a deeply patriarchal, sexist & homophobic country...We need intnl sisterhood. All countries need to ratify & implement the #IstanbulConvention.”
@Elif_Safak
“Turkey’s withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention will come into force on 1 July, so we still have time to get Pres. Erdoğan to reconsider this dangerous decision.”

My letter in @Independent today
#IstanbulConventionSavesLives #istanbulsozlesmesiyasatir
google.co.uk/amp/s/www.inde…
10/. EŞİK say 2,300+ women in Turkey wouldn’t have been killed had the #IstanbulConvention been enforced since 2014

This graphic shows where the #IstanbulConvention is at in the 47 European countries

Many countries need to sign & ratify the treaty. #IstanbulConventionSavesLives
11/. One in 3 women living in the EU have experienced physical & / or sexual violence since the age of 15

Seven member states, including the UK, must urgently ratify the #IstanbulConvention to protect victims & end impunity for perpetrators (@RenewEurope)
12/. Yesterday, women around the world celebrated the 10th anniversary of #IstanbulConvention & activists protested #Turkey's decision to withdraw from this vital treaty (see @amnesty pics Austria, Netherlands, Belgium)

In #Turkey, 3 women were detained in Taksim Sq, Istanbul👇
13/. Ystdy, the UK joined 18 other countries reaffirming their commitment to the #IstanbulConvention & expressing their hope that Turkey will reconsider its withdrawal decision.

Could this be a sign that @BorisJohnson's govt will finally ratify the treaty?

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12 May
1/. “Palantir expects sales to grow 43% in the second quarter”

#Palantir, run by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, won the contract to build the #COVID data store for US Health Dept (HHS) & a similar contract in the UK for the NHS in mid-April 2020. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/. #Palantir, a shadowy CIA-backed company, reportedly taught #CambridgeAnalytica data-scraping

They won the NHS data-store contract together with
#FacultyAI set-up by Ben & Marc Warner

FacultyAI worked for #LeaveEU & 2019 emails show Cambridge Analytica did work for them too
3/. The NHS is the most trusted brand in Britain.

#CambridgeAnalytica is the least trusted

Granting two companies with links to Cambridge Analytica access to population-wide NHS health data, should give cause for concern

Are #Palantir doing the same in dozens of countries?
Read 5 tweets
10 May
1/. MAITLS: Surely you should step up & recognise that when you’re firing, children get killed

HOTOVELY: We were not firing [at] children we were firing at targets of a cruel terrorist organisation, radical Islamics who are trying to kill our children.
@maitlus & @TzipiHotovely
2/. #TzipiHotovely: You can see those youngsters piling those rocks & throwing them at the people praying at the Western Wall”

@maitlis: You really think the #AlAqsaMosque is a terrorist stronghold?

#Isreal’s hardline ambassador to the UK, on #Newsnight.
#Jerusalem #Palestine
3/. “The EU has said the potential evictions are illegal under international humanitarian law. The UN had said they could constitute a war crime under the Geneva Convention” @maitlis

“It’s a legal decision” @TzipiHotovely
#Newsnight #Israel #Palestine #AlAqsaMosque #Palestinian
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9 May
JOURNALISTS & OTHERS

“The thing you are scared to write, too nervous to write, not ‘ready’ to write, is waiting for you to write it” @JoelakaMaG

“The thing you are scared to Tweet, too nervous to Tweet, not ‘ready’ to Tweet, is waiting for you to Tweet it”

Find the courage💪🙏🏽 Image
“You call us courageous, but we’re only doing what we have to do. We have no more choice in doing what we do than the sun has choice to rise each day. Perhaps that’s what courage is.” (E.Warner)

I asked Eric, who put his body in harm’s way to stop an illegal war, about courage👇
In the pub, Eric told me another story of where he l’d witnessed courage

Singer & civil rights leader, Paul Robeson, knew there was a danger that day he’d be shot by fascists, but spoke to the crowd anyway...& the crowd gathered around him to protect him from sniper’s bullets.
Read 6 tweets
6 May
1/. Two hundred years ago, a slab of Purbeck stone was set deep into a hillside overlooking London

Called the Stone of Free Speech, it is a place where people have gathered whenever their rights were under threat

It is a reminder from history

Is it time to gather there again?
2/. “The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed.” (Hannah Arendt)

Self-censorship occurs when a journalist or editor makes a decision motivated by fear of the consequences.
3/. “Farewell to the arts, to eloquence.” (Mary Shelley)

We naturally at a time of pandemic turn to science for solutions, but art, literature & history can not only help us make sense of our current world & our responses to it, but can also help uncover truths & offer warnings.
Read 5 tweets
6 May
1/. #ClimateChange doesn’t respect borders

Our laws need to reflect this

Last year, European Court of Human Rights ordered 33 govts to respond to a claim by 6 children in a landmark #ClimateAction case

Today, @amnesty & other NGOs intervene in the case.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
2/. This crowd-funded case challenges the insularity of national legal systems

"The ECHR has also rejected an attempt by those govts to overturn its decision to fast-track an ambitious climate change action brought by six young Portuguese activists."
climatechangenews.com/2020/09/03/six…
3/. The #ClimateCrisis does not respect borders & our laws and policies must reflect this

"To ensure justice for people most affected by heatwaves, drought & fires, states must be required to tackle climate change & its impacts at home & abroad." @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Read 4 tweets
4 May
1/. "They came expecting a verdict...hoping for justice"

Amnesty Turkey's ex-chair, #TanerKilic has been awaiting justice for almost 4yrs

We found out the verdict in his case could be given soon

If his conviction is confirmed he’ll be sent back to jail.
2/. “We’re responsible not only for what we say but what we fail to say by staying silent"

Absurdly, #TanerKilic has already spent more than a year behind bars

In 2018, @snowden was one of two million people who demanded his release
#FreeRightsDefenders
3/. “It feels like a bad dream from which I can’t to wake up”

I met Gulhnihal, #TanerKilic’s daughter, outside the Istanbul courtroom where her father was convicted - without evidence - of “membership of a terrorist organisation”

The nightmare continues.
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