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Feb 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Human rights activist Mohammed Ashraf Abed, a member of the Islamic Resistance Movement's al-Qassam Brigades, was killed today while building a tunnel of peace. alqassam.ps/arabic/%D8%AA%… Image
“Al-Qassam Brigades mourned the martyr Al-Qassami / Muhammad Ashraf Abed (23 years), from the Taybeh mosque in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, who today rose to Al-Ula as a martyr, God Almighty, following the collapse of a tunnel for resistance.” Image
And the battalions said: “He dedicated himself to Allah, striving until he met Allah for that. And the blood of our martyrs will remain a beacon on the path to liberating Palestine and a fire that burns the occupiers until they are defeated from our land, Allah willing.” Image
For Amnesty International, he shared their goals and was a devoted anti-racist.

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Feb 17
“The UNHRC has appointed to lead its controversial investigation on Israel an individual who calls Israel an ‘apartheid state,’ backs the campaign to boycott and sanction Israel, and signs statements lobbying governments to punish the Jewish state.”

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“Yet despite the submission by a Geneva-based non-governmental organization of a 30-page document backing its assertion that Navi Pillay is not fit to head the HRC’s first open-ended investigation targeting one country, the council’s president on Wednesday defended the choice.”
“HRC president Federico Villegas said in response to queries that the council head, when selecting members of investigative bodies, ‘places the utmost importance on examining the independence and impartiality of each member in order to ensure the objectivity of the body.’”
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Feb 16
Navi Pillay campaigns with the Boycott Israel movement to “Sanction Apartheid Israel.”

So the UNHRC made her the impartial head of its inquiry into alleged Israeli discrimination.

Pillay embodies the cynicism & injustice of the UNHRC.

Say No to Pillay: change.org/p/navi-pillay-… ImageImage
Navi Pillay, the impartial Chair of the UNHRC inquiry, condemned "Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime."

She campaigned for countries to "ban arms trade and military-security cooperation with Israel" and to "suspend free trade agreements with Israel."
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Navi Pillay lobbied for governments to:

• "Adopt a UN resolution to implement targeted and lawful sanctions on Israel, including a military embargo."

• "Activate the UN Special Committee on Apartheid to address Israel’s regime over the indigenous people of Palestine." Image
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Feb 14
Report: Syria's Assad regime has such a tight grip on aid groups’ access to the country that it has become normal for relatives of senior Assad regime officials to have jobs within United Nations bodies.

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The report found that Mohamad Hamsho, a businessman close to both the army elite and the dictator’s brother Maher al-Assad, had won U.N. procurement contracts to strip metals in areas retaken by the government and rework them for sale at his Hadeed Metal Manufacturing Company.
.@UNDP contracted the “Aleppo Defenders Legion”, a pro-regime militia that forcibly displaced Syrians, to clear rubble and rehabilitate the city they helped destroy.

The UN did zero human rights due diligence when giving out millions of dollars in contracts to serial abusers.
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Feb 14
BREAKING: The head of a new UN inquiry into last spring’s Hamas-Israel war was accused today of making prejudicial statements on the issues under investigation, compromising her impartiality, and was asked to resign in a legal brief filed today by UN Watch.unwatch.org/head-of-un-pro…
According to a 30-page complaint submitted today by UN Watch, Navi Pillay, a former South African judge and UN human rights chief, violated UN rules by failing to disclose numerous of her prior statements that directly prejudge matters before the inquiry.
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Many of the utterances in question occurred mere weeks before she was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council this summer, leaving little room to imagine how Pillay could envisage the issues any differently so soon afterwards.
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Feb 13
This interview of @amnesty's @AgnesCallamard @philipluther reminded me of my first experience arriving at the UNHRC 18 years ago.

In March 2004, I heard Special Rapporteur on hunger Jean Ziegler present a report on only 1 country: Israel. It was starving Palestinians, he said.1⃣
Ziegler was applauded by the PLO, Syria, Iran and other Arab & Muslim delegations. But at his meeting with NGOs, I asked him: “As the UNHRC's expert on hunger, why of all places in the world did you choose to investigate the Palestinian territories? What was your methodology?” 2⃣
“My methodology?” asked Ziegler. “You think I simply decided to visit Palestine? Not at all... I received many requests to go there...from stakeholders, NGOs, and others like the Red Cross.”

But sitting next to me was Laura from the Red Cross. “Not true,” she whispered to me. 3⃣
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Feb 9
The Taliban hosted by yet another European country, even as we still have no news—3 weeks after their disappearance—on whereabouts of 4 women activists & relatives abducted in Kabul after recent women’s rights protests. This was raised with the Taliban in Oslo; they did nothing.
Parwana Ibrahim Khil and Tamana Paryani were abducted with their relatives on Jan. 19. Two more women's rights activists in Kabul were taken last week: Mursal Ayar on Feb. 2 & Dr Zahra Mohammadi—outside her medical clinic—on Feb. 3. We have no information as to their whereabouts.
In Oslo, Afghan activists and international diplomats urged the Taliban to stop arbitrary detention of women activists, forced disappearances, crackdowns on media, extrajudicial killings, torture, prohibiting female education, employment & freedom to travel without male escort.
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