Empty words from the Foreign Secretary - the statement lacks any resolve, leadership or action to help end the genocide in Gaza. 1/4🧵

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1947287867060879414

The UK government must show real backbone by immediately halting all arms exports to Israel - whether direct or indirect - including components for F-35 fighter jets. 2/4🧵

📍Glastonbury

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1/5 A groundbreaking @amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. amn.st/6014the36 @amnesty The report documents how Israel perpetrated three acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention:
1️⃣ killing Palestinians in Gaza,
2️⃣ causing them serious bodily or mental harm,
3️⃣ deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction

🚨 SHOCKING FACT: The UK holds the highest rate of homelessness among high-income countries.

There’s been a staggering 12.3% increase in homelessness this year alone, worsening an already critical situation. We asked people across the UK how they feel about this growing emergency. Here’s what they had to say 👇🏽

🔴 The government's 'anti-Boycott' bill is up for its second reading today. Here's why it’s a threat to human rights ⚠️ 1️⃣ If passed, it would undermine the freedom of expression of public officials, who could be acting illegally merely by calling out human rights violations relating to procurement decision-making.

This means it could suppress campaigns; from Uyghur solidarity to climate justice

🆘The UK Government is trying to introduce MORE anti-protest regulations

Almost NO ONE knows about it ⚠️

Measures that were voted out from the #PublicOrderBill have been reintroduced as “regulations”

Retweet to spread the word & #ProtectTheProtest✊🏽

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1/5 These “regulations” were billed as a “crackdown” on slow-walking, but they go much further by:

🚨Making the threshold at which police can ban a peaceful protest extremely low

🚫Allowing police to ban a peaceful protest before it even happens

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4 human rights defenders in #Turkey, incl both the former Chair & Director of @aforgutu, have been convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.

It’s over 4yrs since the first arrest & we expect a decision on the final stage of their appeal soon.

Here's what's happened so far 👇 1. Taner Kılıç, a human rights defender and then Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, is arrested on false charges of being part of a terrorist organisation and placed in pre-trial detention.

In #Turkey, you can get arrested for: None of these are crimes: they are human rights that belong to every person.

But in #Turkey, human rights are under attack and people are being arrested for these basic rights.

#Pride month should be about celebrating the #LGBTQ+ community and highlighting the fight for equality & freedom around the world 🌈🌍 But, disappointingly, we’ve seen backlash against those campaigning for the rights of the #Trans community here in the UK, especially at work 🏳️‍⚧️