Every year since #Tiananmen massacres happened, I do #memorial#honouring ceremonies for lives lost. I will never forget them. I will never forget their living sacrifices. Whenever I feel loss of hope, I draw upon the courage of Tiananmen students & regain my own bravery. I will never forget their sacrifices. I will never forget their messages for ALL of us, to think & do better ❤️🙏❤️
Working on a session proposal for a conference, and they have #Taiwan, #HongKong and, most surprisingly, #Tibet listed as "countries" for registration.
Israel's disastrous, inhumane, & barbaric response to #Oct7 has led to an unfathomable amount of deaths, injuries, democide... to Palestinians trying to stay alive in Gaza. The ICC's decisions have been correct.
Amount of Israeli bombs dropped on Gaza surpasses that of WWII -Israel dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza Strip since last Oct, exceeding WWII bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, London combined.
#EU#BorderControl#Bulgaria#Immigration#HumanRights: "The official Independent Monitoring Mechanism in Bulgaria - established between the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, the UNHCR and the Bulgarian Border Police in 2010 - reported 5,268 pushbacks in 2022, affecting 87,467 people, and 9,897 alleged pushbacks in 2023, affecting 174,588 persons.
This was, for the second time, almost a doubling of the figures reported the previous year. Indeed, a recent investigation by a coalition of media outlets revealed violent pushbacks are an “open secret” in Bulgaria.
Strikingly, the Bulgarian authorities continue to deny that these figures are the result of pushbacks. They claim these statistics merely cover "preventions of entry" as a result of increased border surveillance in Turkey."
At the time of the #brexit referendum I warned many people the real reason was not to leave the EU but to leave the European Convention of Human rights and with it the Court which protects them. Now the Tories and Hitler Farage are promising just that. Expect mass harassment and rounding up of opponents plus those they seem morally wrong if they ever get anywhere near power. #echr#humanrights#election#uk
These are the same people who still celebrate the slave traders.
“There’s a saying that ‘everything is bigger in Texas.’ I have come to realize that this holds true when it comes to the scale of torture carried out in Texas prisons.“
I ask this relatively regularly because I want to keep an eye on the landscape.
I'm a software engineer with a PhD in international criminal law. I am on the lookout for (open source?) projects that are useful to human rights researchers/activists/defenders. I am hoping to contribute as a volunteer software engineer.
If you know of a project like this, please get in touch. If you don't, please boost if you'd like!
Human smuggling from B.C. to U.S. is soaring, border stats show
"... human smuggling groups see people as a "commodity," and seek to profit off people seeking to get into the U.S. because "there's tons of opportunity here."
"Canada and the United States are places that people want to come and there is always going to be smuggling involved,"
Israeli military recovers bodies of 7 hostages and pulls out of Jabalia area of Gaza due to widespread public outrage!!
Israeli forces have ended combat operations in the Jabalia area of north Gaza after destroying more than 10 kilometres of tunnels during days of intense fighting that included over 200 airstrikes.
After 10 days of detention by Israeli occupation forces, the traces of #torture on the body of Palestinian #prisoner Amir Shuja'iyeh from #Ramallah are evident.
#Sudan, ancient #Nubia, is home to many unique natural & #archaeological treasures. This land of the #Black#pharaohs has even has more #pyramids than its famous neighbour, Egypt – yet there are no visitors, no tourists & no foreign travellers. #CutOff from the rest of the world, Sudan, a former safe haven for international #terrorists, is one of the most #unstable countries on the planet.
Human Rights Watch called on the Hong Kong government to immediately quash a court’s groundless national security law convictions of prominent pro-democracy activists
“Hong Kong’s mass show trial lays bare Beijing’s utter contempt for fundamental freedoms and democratic political processes,” said Maya Wang, acting China director at HRW
🇮🇱 Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed | @guardian
"On 16 January 2015, within weeks of Palestine joining, Bensouda opened a preliminary examination into what in the legalese of the court was called “the situation in Palestine”. The following month, two men who had managed to obtain the prosecutor’s private address turned up at her home in The Hague.."
A woman attempted to commit suicide due to being trolled on social media. Trolling is dangerous nowadays, it spreads hearted and take lives of innocent people!
The Kilpauk police on Tuesday arrested three YouTubers, including a woman anchor, on charges of driving a 23-year-old woman to attempt ending her life after they posted an interview of her without her consent.
MSF: " IL Knesset’s preliminary bill to designate UNRWA as a terrorist org. is an outrageous attack on humanitarian asst., & an act of collective punishment agst the Palestinian ppl. We strongly condemn the proposed designation, & stand in solidarity with UNRWA -serves as a lifeline, providing essential relief to millions... IL authorities would be perpetuating a narrative -vilifies & marginalizes an entire pop..."