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Teaching human rights @ColumbiaLaw + Human Rights & Privatization Project @NYULaw. Past: Senior Advisor to UN Rapporteur on poverty + Lebanon Researcher @HRW
Mar 20 6 tweets 2 min read
The lengths this NYT article goes to obfuscate what humanitarian orgs are screaming—that Israel is consistently impeding entry of aid to Gaza—is really something. nytimes.com/interactive/20… No mention of Defense Minister Gallant's statement on Oct 9: “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed." timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
Jun 14, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Horrifying to see @nytimes running what is essentially an advertisement for privatized for-profit education. Human rights investigations have found Bridge Academies runs low-quality, high costs schools that exclude marginalized kids and underpay teachers nytimes.com/2022/06/13/opi… In Kenya: download.ei-ie.org/Docs/WebDepot/…

And in Uganda: download.ei-ie.org/Docs/WebDepot/…
May 11, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Hey @NYTimes, "Dies at 51" is a really strange way to say a journalist was shot in the head. @nytimes This reads like an obituary headline for someone who died in their bed. There is no world in which it's acceptable, and it happens over and over again.
Jul 19, 2021 22 tweets 7 min read
THREAD: Today we launched our first report on what happens when a government privatizes a vital service. We investigated the deregulated UK bus system and found it expensive and dysfunctional—with severe impacts on people's rights. chrgj.org/2021/07/19/pre… #PeopleOverProfit The report finds that many people have lost jobs and benefits, faced barriers to healthcare, been forced to give up on education, sacrificed food and utilities, and been cut off from friends and family because of a costly, fragmented, and inadequate service that has failed them.