I spoke to China Commission today, describing:

Links between #Uyghur forced labor and global supply chains.

Why audits in Xinjiang don't work, and why they're problematic in the rest of China too.

My testimony: hrw.org/news/2024/04/3…

Hearing video: youtube.com/watch?v=iOz7u5…

🚨 Urgent: We've relaunched our Rwanda Project to assist detained individuals facing removal to Rwanda.

If you or someone you know is detained & doesn't have a lawyer, contact us:

📞 020 7456 9750 (Mon-Thurs 10am - 12pm)
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Remember Srebrenica

The universities that stayed silent while lecturers were blown up are now nearly killing their own staff through police brutality. Solidarity to US colleagues and students. This isn’t democracy. It’s authoritarianism. It deserves our strongest condemnation as a global community

During my Adjournment Debate on solar supply chains, I called upon the Government to enact three simple policies to insulate the UK solar market from Uyghur forced labour:

✅ Introduce import controls and high-risk industries to insulate our markets.

✅ Targeted sanctions to

Amidst the staggering number of deaths in Gaza, we can't lose sight of each individual tragedy & its heart-wrenching impact on Palestinian families around the world, incl here in #Canada . Here is the story of 92-year-old Naifa Rizq al-Sawada, may she RIP. aljazeera.com/news/longform/…

Indeed

🚨 Come work with me & our UK advocacy and comms team @HRW

We are recruiting for a paid intern

You'll need a right to work in the UK & be based here for the duration of the internship

Deadline 16 May

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Germany is falling short in curbing anti-Muslim racism.

Germany lacks
👉🏽 understanding & recognition of the phenomenon
👉🏽 standardized data collection on anti-Muslim racism
👉🏽 investments in institutional & advice support for victims

*New* from Human Rights Watch

hrw.org/news/2024/04/3…

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🚩NEW: @HRW's new report documents how #UAE authorities are holding an unfair mass trial with serious due process concerns, including torture.

Defendants described abusive detention conditions: prolonged solitary confinement, assaults & forced nudity.

hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…

Great review today of the forthcoming film, ‘Not In My Name’, on abctv on 5 May at 6.30pm AEST on the Compass program. The review appears in the The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
The film is made by Brietta Hague.
This review by Ben Pobjie captures the essence of challenging Israel as a Jew

“We will be inviting the [ICJ] to consider the issue of broadening how you determine whether genocide has taken place or not on the basis of an entire population being collectively punished”

Ireland backs bid to include blocking aid in genocide definition theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

So proud and in awe of you Antony Loewenstein

Thanks, Rep. Ilhan Omar for introducing this bill to block selling U.S. arms to the #UAE because it violates the UN arms embargo in Darfur by transferring arms to the RSF militia. A step we need to save the lives of millions of Sudanese and help end this war.

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It’s one way to get the backlog down: loads of fearful asylum seekers disappear from asylum accommodation and support and become street homeless instead. That’s obviously a terrible outcome in every way and it’s also very, very predictable.

Anyone who has been fighting in the Israeli army in Gaza risks being questioned given levels of evidence of war crimes

Israeli student stopped at UK airport, questioned over role in IDF jpost.com/israel-news/ar…

The Israeli army killed yesterday 2 more Palestinian journalists in Gaza, Ibrahim and Ayman Gherbawi were killed bringing the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza to 143. Israel continues to ban the entry of any foreign journalists to Gaza.

Glad to see the Burkina Faso junta giving a whole new round of media attention to @HRW's finding that its army summarily executed 223 villagers. Censorship often does that. aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/26…

The discovery of mass graves in Gaza highlights urgent need to grant access to independent human rights investigators.

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