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The spike in state-backed settler violence in the West Bank shows - once again - the need to dismantle Israel's #apartheid system
'Violence is integral to the establishment & expansion of these settlements and to sustaining apartheid' - Heba Morayef
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.President Biden yesterday's deportation flight to Haiti is unconscionable. No one should be removed back to the violence & serious humanitarian, political and security crisis unfolding in Haiti. Period. The US must halt all removals to Haiti and ensure Haitians have access to protection.
Amnesty's Dr Matt Mahmoudi @[email protected] discusses Israel's use of facial recognition systems and the expansion of their use in #Gaza
'Semi-autonomous weapons systems end up dehumanising people and leading to deaths that are later on described as 'regrettable''
theguardian.com/technology/202…
🚨 Threatening people sleeping rough with fines & prison will marginalise people facing homelessness.
That’s why, along with 36 other organisations, we've written to @jamescleverly urging him to reconsider unjust proposals in the #CriminalJusticeBill
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Fresh call for US government to drop charges against #JulianAssange
'Julian Assange dared to bring to light revelations of alleged war crimes committed by the USA. It is unacceptable that years of his life have been stolen' - Agnès Callamard
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