🚨 Something big is coming to Europe this June...

From June 6th to 9th, voters will head to the polls to elect the new European Parliament. #UseYourVote

Read our full guide to one of the biggest international elections in the world: bit.ly/3UKy5FE

Breaking: New 100-page report by University Network for Human Rights & human rights centers at Yale, Cornell, University of Pretoria & Boston University finds that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & calls on govts to avoid complicity & act to bring end to this grave crime.

🚨BREAKING: Ousman Sonko, ehemaliger Innenminister von #Gambia unter Yahya Jammeh, wurde wegen #Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vom Bundesstrafgericht zu 20 Jahren Haft verurteilt. srf.ch/news/schweiz/b…

Breaking‼️Ousman Sonko, pillar of Yahya Jammeh’s brutal #Gambia regime, CONVICTED of homicide, torture & false imprisonment as crimes against humanity in Swiss court . Rape charges dropped . A major step on the long road to justice for Jammeh’s victims. 🧵

BREAKING 🇧🇪: Belgian NGOs take 🇮🇱 shipment company ZIM to court, for illegal transfer of arms munitions to #Israel through Port of Antwerp:

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Belgium strongly regrets the adoption by the Georgian Parliament of the law on ‘foreign influence’, which distances the country from European values.

Statement 🇧🇪⬇️

Georgia's parliament has adopted the “foreign influence” bill, which aims to silence media and civil society.

Adopting this law threatens rights — Georgia needs to scrap it.

After mass arrests at Columbia University in April, student protests over hostilities in Israel and Palestine have spread across the globe.

Campuses should be safe for all students. Peaceful protest and freedom of expression are human rights.

'The violence and the targeted killings and attacks on the Massalit and other non-Arab communities shows all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing.'

Tirana Hassan discusses on PBS NewsHour the urgent need to protect civilians in Sudan’s West Darfur state. Watch below ⤵️

#Iraq plans to close all IDP camps by July 30, but for people displaced from Sinjar, home just isn't safe. Without services, reconstruction, or compensation, what is the government asking them to return to?
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In the past 7 months, Israeli forces have carried out strikes on humanitarian aid workers in #Gaza – not once, not twice, but at least 8 times.

Read about it here: hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

And stay tuned for more coming in my Daily Brief later today.

Since Oct Human Rights Watch identified 8 attacks on aid workers w/out prior warning, in which Israel killed/injured 31 ppl, even though aid groups had provided their coordinates to ensure their protection. These attacks must stop hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

This is an utterly contemptible response by the minister for justice to a journalist doing his job of holding the police to account.

De minister van Justitie en Veiligheid bemoeit zich met het bronnenonderzoek van een journalist. #nietnormaal

Minister van Justitie Dilan Yesilgöz - Zegerius heeft, nog voor ze iets gezien heeft, alvast een opvatting over hoe een journalist zijn werk moet doen. Gaat goed met die basislijn rechtsstaat.

Opmerkelijke en verontrustende bemoeienis van een minister met een journalist die zijn werk doet. En dat allemaal via X waar ook de rest van de formerende politici op deze manier ophitst. Wat staat ons nog te wachten?

Op zoveel niveaus zo ontzettend problematisch dit. De halve waarheden, het persoonlijk aanvallen van een journalist, het bepalen hoe journalisten hun werk moeten doen. Met zo'n minister van justitie heb je als pers geen vijanden nodig.

FIFA President Infantino visited DC this month to ask U.S. to expedite visas & other logistics for  #2026WorldCup , despite FIFA's worrying delays on 2026  #HumanRights  framework.

#Dignity2026  is watching closely for proof of  #FIFA ’s commitment to protect workers & communities.

Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people.

Jamal Abdullah Khamis, a human rights lawyer from El Geneina, describes some of what he witnessed ⤵️

Muhsin was buried alive by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, Sudan.

Thousands of civilians were killed or injured during waves of ethnic cleansing there in 2023.

Learn more: bit.ly/4acxzpL