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😵‍💫 awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

A book to close out summer 2023. So grateful to Steve Bright for so many years of thoughtful guidance.

Absolutely wrecked and sobbing at this beautiful heartbreaking essay newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Pope Francis has suggested for the first time that people in same-sex unions could be blessed by Catholic priests on a “case-by-case” basis, a seeming reversal of previous statements. cnn.it/3PY9ITR

🧵 Over 100 Civil Society Organisations from around the world have written to the World Bank President Ajay Banga urging him not to restart the Bank’s lending to Uganda as the country continues to aggressively enforce its draconian, anti-human rights legislation; the AHA . /1

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I am on this platform less these days (and not w HRW anymore) but given US sanctioning of UPDF Gen Elwelu after so many years, I am resharing a video about some young victims of the Nov 2016 Kasese killings. Still more work to hold commanders responsible. state.gov/designation-of…

Happy Juneteenth, friends. Today Human Rights Watch Florida Rising (Text JOINUS to 58123) @SLSruleoflaw released our report showing how Florida’s efforts to whitewash Black history and restrict info about sexual orientation and gender identity is hurting students. This school censorship crisis is spreading across the US.

Today is Juneteenth, a time we should reckon with the devastating costs of suppressing information, including about slavery and its legacies. In Florida, leaders are reshaping classroom content through new policies that censor, distort, and discriminate. hrw.org/news/2024/06/1…

New in U.S. News Opinion from Marvin Dunn: As a Black man born in Florida in 1940, I’ve been reflecting on how far we’ve come as a nation since my childhood in the era of Jim Crow – and how far we still have to go. usnews.com/opinion/articl…

Listen to Dr. Marvin Dunn. usnews.com/opinion/articl…

🙄 the punishment is the process. #Uganda

The execution of Marcellus Williams is a horrible injustice. This didn’t have to happen. Just a couple weeks ago, prosecutors—with the support of the victim’s family—had reached a plea agreement with Marcellus that took death off the table.

In the popular imagination, public defenders accompany their clients to the very end. In reality, indigent defense stops at the prison gate. The gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to go beyond, writes Jennifer Soble of Illinois Prison Project. inquest.org/lawyerless-no-…

Always in awe of my friend Clare Byarugaba…

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All civilians should be tried in civilian courts. In 2009, the African Comm told Ug to comply w Art 7 of the African Charter and the 2001 Principles on Fair Trials in Africa re the prohibition of trials of civilians by military tribunals. achpr.au.int/en/state-repor….