1/. Tmw is the 1st anniversary of #Turkey’s withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention on violence against women

The message it sent out - that men who violently abuse women can carry on with impunity - is dangerous

So what has happened over the last year?
2/. A year after #Turkey withdrew from the #İstanbulConvention, research by @hrw has revealed how women facing domestic violence are being failed

Restraining orders aren’t enforced

Women are face recurring violence & even murder whilst ‘under protection’
3/. “Every day we wake up to news of another woman killed by a lover, an ex, a husband or stranger”

At least 342 women were killed in #Turkey in 2021

In the face of escalating numbers of femicides the govt should have implemented the #IstanbulConvention!
rudaw.net/english/middle…
4/. “Autocrats are afraid of free & independent women. They’re afraid of societies where women can freely decide over their bodies & lives...That's why they hate the #IstanbulConvention@TerryReintke

#DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #RoeVsWade #RoeVWade

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Jun 24
#BREAKING: Decision on #RoeVWade could be made today

“If Roe v Wade is overturned, know this: We will not give up. We will not stop fighting. We will march to the ballot box in November & we’ll make sure we elect a Congress that enshrines Roe into law”

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The US Supreme Court #SCOTUS has overturned #RoeVsWade

Access to #abortion will now be eliminated in more than 20 States, in some cases even if the unwanted pregnancy is the result of rape, incest or brutality.
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#RoeVsWade #abortion
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Jun 24
Tomorrow, the #SaturdayMothers who have been holding weekly vigils for the disappeared in #Turkey for decades, will hold their 900th vigil

At their 700th vigil - the police moved in using teargas & detaining 46 and banning future vigils

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As the Saturday Mother’s prepare to gather in Istanbul, @OBS_defenders & @fidh_en urge Turkish authorities to lift the ban & authorise @saturdaymothers vigils at the Galatasaray Sq today for the 900th week of these symbolic demonstrations fidh.org/en/region/euro…
#BREAKING: Reports that 15 people have been detained, after riot police prevented #SaturdayMothers/ @CmrtesiAnneleri peaceful 900th weekly vigil in Istanbul for family members disappeared almost 3 decades ago

All those detained must be released.
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Jun 19
1/. #DidITellYouAboutTheTime I was in #Glastonbury trying to interview a mono-syllabic @billybragg

Frustrated, I tried a new tack

“You know Billy, my friend’s sister almost didn’t make it this year ‘cos she’s saving to get my buccal pads removed”

“Buccal pads? What are they?”
2/. “That’s what I said, Billy. Buccal pads? What are they”

“They’re are the bits of fat on top of your cheeks,” she explained

“But those ARE your cheeks!”

Billy liked the story

We started chatting about how #Glastonbury has changed but has also remained a deeply political.
3/. Glastonbury - like festivals throughout the ages - is about the gathering of the tribes

People from across the nation come together & create a pop-up society where they live & dance side-by-side

Building a Utopia is a political & politicising thing
huffpost.com/entry/glastonb…
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Jun 16
1/. Two months after the prominent human rights defender Osman Kavala began a life sentence on trumped up charges alongside 6 others jailed for 18 years each for ‘assisting’ him, a high level @amnesty delegation will visit all 7

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2/. “What’s happening is entirely contrary to human rights”

In 2014, @amnesty interviewed architect @MucellaYapici while she was facing her first prosecution for the 2013 #GeziPark protests in Turkey

Today, her words are even more poignant
#FreeTheGezi7
4/. In 4 hours @aforgut’s press conference will start in Istanbul

There will be an important announcement

Ystdy, messages of solidarity from @amnesty’s Secretary General @AgnesCallamard’s were delivered to the #Gezi7 in prison

More detail to come
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Jun 16
“He'd like to come and meet us
But he thinks he'd blow our minds”

50 years ago, David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust fell to Earth

Due to environmental destruction, humanity had reached its final 5 years of existence & Ziggy had come to tell us “not to blow it”
2/. Beneath a hedonistic facade, Ziggy’s message - & Bowie’s - was one of peace & love “‘cos he knows it's all worthwhile”

Like Lennon’s Imagine released the year before👇, the message was aimed at the young: the generation in whose hands the future lies
3/. “All people, no matter who they are, all wish they'd appreciated life more. Its what you do in life that's important, not how much time you have, or what you wish you'd done. Life is fantastic” BOWIE

Soon @brettmorgen’s #MoonageDaydream will be out

We’re also making a movie
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Jun 13
A good day for journalism!

The multimillionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks has lost his libel action against the Observer and @Guardian journalist @carolecadwalla, which was criticised as an attack on free speech. @Haroon_Siddique
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“It hasn’t sunk in yet but…SOME NEWS. I am so profoundly grateful & relieved. Thank you to the judge, my stellar legal team & the 29,000 people who contributed to my legal defence fund” @carolecadwalla

Here’s the @TEDTalks Banks tried to sue her for👇
“My investigation into Brexit, Cambridge Analytica & Facebook triggered investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, record-breaking fines & findings of multiple breaches of the law, incldg by Banks's LeaveEU campaign. But I’m the only person to ever face trial.” @carolecadwalla
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