Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.
I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,
Afghanistan, and Ukraine, and to defend the needs of those particularly at risk of human rights abuse by virtue of their social media presence, such as journalists & human rights defenders.
I will forever be grateful for the privilege of getting to work with @cynthiamw@heysarah & @EstherOhrt on the Human Rights team, along with so many other brilliant, mission-driven individuals across the company.
If you hear of opportunities for which I might be a fit, I’d be grateful if you’d pass them along. And please keep in mind other former Tweeps as well: they are resilient, thoughtful, principled individuals with a lot to offer. I would go to bat for any of them and
🚨 The IBA War Crimes Committee is urging States to co-sponsor the resolution in the UN #SixthCommittee establishing an Ad Hoc Committee to examine the Draft Articles on the Prevention & Punishment of #CrimesAgainstHumanity. The Draft Articles deserve urgent attention. 🧵👇
Crimes against humanity remain the only atrocity crimes that lack a comprehensive multilateral convention dedicated expressly to their definition, prevention, & punishment. This impedes accountability efforts, creating real obstacles to multilateral cooperation and prosecution.
We're grateful to join other leading advocacy groups like @GlobalJusticeC in this space. As @akilaGJC & @leilasadat1 argue in @just_security, "States must act now by adopting effective procedures that can move the crimes against humanity project forward."