#Amnesty

In recent years I've published many short pieces online, giving me lots of material to do nice end of year "round-up" tweets about. In 2019 I was less productive in
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Thread. 1.This is #tamil doctor .@drvarathan1 giving a TV interview on 23 April 2009 in the war zone in #srilanka. He spoke to BBC, Al Jaz. & many others. His
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Julian Assange's extradition hearings are frankly terrifying, and if you care about the free press, you should be worried, irrespective of whether you like Assange or Wikileaks. As the old
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THREAD: We at The Countess feel duty-bound to call out policies that denigrate the rights of women & children wherever we find them. We represent the views of our members
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A fair model for what's happening now is the "Strategy of Tension" in Italy in the '60s and '70s. Police used the far Right to attack the struggle, killing people
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Day two of the @AmnestyKenya Members Conference happening now. Follow the conversation on the hashtags #UmojaNiNguvu and #StrongerTogetherKE https://www.facebook.com/aikenya/videos/amnesty-international-kenya-members-conference-plenary-sess
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1. Today the case of Julian Assange resumes in the UK courts. It is one of the most pivotal and worrying cases of our time. We should be extremely concerned.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/07/julian-assange-due-court-latest-stage
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On Saturday, 3 October, a video of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) officers dragging two men out of a hotel and shooting one of them surfaced on the internet and was
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Thread: Was away from work for a couple of weeks & just learnt that President @M_Farmaajo has signed the draft amendment media bill into law. Below is @amnesty’s position and
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"I think the way that we've chosen to talk about the environment has been limiting to the conversation," says @farmermegzz, a grain farmer in Saskatchewan I chatted with for my
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Are'nt the men's Rights Movement doing well? Getting rid of Women only spaces, shutting down those pesky women with views, even getting @amnesty to sign a document depriving women of
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I've yet to share my experience of working unpaid at @AmnestyUK because I didn't want to distract from conversations on #InstitutionalRacism in our sector, bravely voiced by PoC staff. I
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As you all know Amnesty India as stopped its Indian operation, this is a thread on why its partial and one-sided view is the major reason of this act. 1)
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Been listening to the new podcast on Gallagher's war crimes trial, and I need to take issue with the basic conceit: "the series explores just how blurred the line between
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A report from Amnesty, called 'Nowhere is safe for us', about Russian and Syrian government forces targeting hospitals, and the camps that displaced people fled to.https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/un-must-not-cut-vital-aid-syria/ the
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The death penalty is often justified as a tool to ‘keep the public safe’, to ‘protect us from violent harm’. Yet, the death penalty DISPROPORTIONATELY affects individuals who are most
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