Tweet

@hrw

@hrw

More from @ajplus

AJ+

@ajplus

Jan 27

Police have killed at least 3,530 people in the U.S. since 2020.

They kill Black people at disproportionate rates — nearly 300% more than white people — despite Black people being just around 14% of the U.S. population.

These are some of the unarmed people killed by police. 🧵

Clando Anitok, 25
William Howard Green, 43
Jaquyn Oneill Light, 20
Lindy Bowie, 30
Stephen O’Brien, 20
James Salazar, age unknown
Manuel Ellis, 33
Christopher Palmer, 37
Barry Gedeus, 27
Kenneth Mullins, 32
Brian Marksberry, 31
Aaron Tolen, 37
Pablo Elias, 44
Donnie Sanders, 47

Breonna Taylor, 26
Jorge Martinez, 30
Mycael Johnson, 31
Bryan Pena, 28
Daniel Prude, 41
John Mark Hendrick Jr., 32
Jose Soto, 27
Zachary Shane Gifford, 39
Giuseppe Particianone, 33
Fred Brown, 34
Michael Ramos, 42
Nicholas Bils, 36
Shaun Lee Fuhr, 24
Tyler Hays, 29

Read 12 tweets

AJ+

@ajplus

Jan 26

India used emergency powers to ban a #BBCDocumentary critical of PM Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, in which about 1,000 Muslims were killed.

A UK govt report said the riots had all the "hallmarks of an ethnic cleansing" and held Modi "directly responsible." 🧵

The 2002 Gujarat riots broke out after 59 Hindu pilgrims died in a train that caught fire.

Violent Hindu mobs blamed Muslims and:
▪️killed ~1,000 Muslims
▪️destroyed 20K Muslim homes + businesses
▪️displaced 150K

One Indian govt investigation said the fire was an accident.

Hindu rioters carried out mass rape of Muslim women during the protests, per an unpublished UK report highlighted by the BBC doc.

11 men serving life for gang-raping a pregnant Muslim woman during the riots were released in 2022. They killed 14 members of Bilkis Bano’s family.

Read 6 tweets

AJ+

@ajplus

Jan 22

SCOTUS recognized a woman’s right to bodily autonomy 50 years ago today with Roe v. Wade.

Last year, it overturned its landmark ruling, pushing the fight for those rights back half a century.

It’s been 7 months since the #Dobbs decision. This is how women have fared.🧵

At least 13 states have banned or severely restricted abortions since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Legal abortions dropped 95% in states with strict laws, especially affecting women of color who:
▪️have high abortion rates
▪️face many pregnancy-related deaths & health risks

@blkwomenshealth

Poverty and poor access to maternal care can kill up to 4x as many Black women as white women during childbirth/labor.

Limiting access to abortion disproportionately affects Black people, causing poverty rates to spike by up to 20%, per @blkwomenshealth.

Read 5 tweets

AJ+

@ajplus

Dec 28, 2022

Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns to power on Jan. 1.

Who is #Lula? And what might his return to the presidency mean for low-income people in Brazil, Amazon deforestation and even Palestinian statehood? 🧵

Lula first came to power in 2003, after decades as a union organizer.

The son of farmers, he was a metal worker by 14.

His first presidency's social welfare programs lifted millions from poverty, targeting high-poverty groups, farmers and Indigenous/Afro-Brazilian communities.

Poverty fell 55% when Lula's Workers' Party controlled Brazil from 2003-2016: from about 22 million people in poverty to under 10 million.

By the end of Jair Bolsonaro's 2019-2022 term, the poverty rate skyrocketed — from 4.8% when the Workers' Party left power to almost 30%.

Read 9 tweets

AJ+

@ajplus

Nov 29, 2022

Today is Day of #SolidarityWithPalestinianPeople.

Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation:
▪️ West Bank: surrounded by 200+ illegal settlements, 700+ barriers/checkpoints
▪️ Gaza: blockaded for 15 years, 50% live in poverty
▪️ East Jerusalem: face forced displacement

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians face huge restrictions on movement, surrounded by illegal settlements, checkpoints and Jewish-only roads.

Israeli forces:
▪️ conduct near-daily raids
▪️ killed 140+ Palestinians in 2022
▪️ destroyed homes of 3,100+ Palestinians since 2020

Palestinians in occupied Gaza have been under Israeli land/sea/air blockade since 2007.

Infrastructure is ravaged by Israel’s airstrikes and blocking of construction materials:
▪️ 50% live in poverty
▪️ 97% of water undrinkable
▪️ 33% of exit requests for medical needs denied

Read 4 tweets

AJ+

@ajplus

Nov 15, 2022

There are now roughly 8 billion people in the world, per the UN, with 1 billion added in just the past 12 years.

The climate crisis and global conflicts are:
▪️ forcing up to 828M into hunger
▪️ displacing 100M+

A 🧵on how #population explosion affects the most vulnerable:

About 47% of the world’s population lives in water-scarce areas.

In the Horn of Africa alone, 37M face starvation. The climate crisis has caused the region’s worst drought in 40 years.

Nearly 60% of the world is set to live in water-scarce areas by 2050, says the UN.

The world's population could spike another billion by 2037.

About 828M already suffered from hunger in 2021, mostly in Asia and Africa.

Around 660M people could still suffer from hunger by 2030, warns the UN, partly due to the effects of COVID-19.

Read 5 tweets

Share this page!

AJ+

People who liked this thread also liked...

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @ajplus

AJ+

AJ+

AJ+

AJ+

AJ+

AJ+

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Send Email!