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Former Deputy Communications Director Europe & Africa @hrw. Now based in Brussels. My passion: journalism that holds the powerful accountable. My secret love: dancing. My true love: my son.
To stay or not to stay on ‚X‘ is an ever more pressing question - in Germany & beyond.
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Should those who stand for democratic values, fact-based debate, integrity & diversity not finally leave?
There ARE ways to protect democracy from big tech manipulations.
One solution: speed up action against algorithms that derail political debate.
Read Johnny Ryan @theguardian.com for more on what the EU can do to give people back control over their social feeds.
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So relentless has been Israel’s assault, and so complete the destruction in northern Gaza that a former Israeli defence minister described the military’s actions there as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Here's how the Israeli military erased a town of 200,000 people in Gaza. on.ft.com/3DTS14e
UAE Minister of State and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber talks during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week's opening ceremony, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 16, 2023. © 2023 AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili
At #COP28, Fossil Fuels Continue to Threaten Human Rights
📢 Join us @hrw tomorrow, Nov 8, at 3pm GMT for a news conference on human rights abuses in the #UAE & how fossil fuels finance governments that engage in arbitrary detention of critics.
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Financial institutions and insurance companies should avoid supporting the #Ugandan oil pipeline due to the devastating impacts of fossil fuels on climate change as well as future risks of serious human rights impacts, the @hrw report says.
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Over 100,000 people in Uganda and Tanzania will lose their land for the oil developments. Many activists told Human Rights Watch that the constant threats from local government and security officials make it more difficult to provide support to those who have lost land.
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A woman walks home from work in Kijumba, Uganda, January 14, 2023. A mother of five and a Project-Affected Person, she told the New York Times that she waited years for the oil company to pay her for her land, and then it was too little to buy a substitute plot. © 2023 Arlette Bashizi/New York Times
The East African Crude Oil pipeline (#EACOP) is one of the most significant fossil fuel infrastructure projects currently under development.
Despite warnings that, to limit the worst impacts of climate change, no new fossil fuel projects can be built.
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Those who have raised concerns about #EACOP or taken to the streets in protest have been subjected to a steady barrage of harassment, arrests & threats.
This crackdown has created a chilling environment that aims to stifle all criticism of the project.
Ugandan security officials detain a protester during a march in support of the European Parliament resolution to stop the construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline in Kampala, Uganda, October 4, 2022. © 2022 REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa
Ugandan authorities seem hell bent on silencing all those critical of the environmental & human costs of the East African Crude Oil pipeline project (EACOP), a new @hrw report "Working on Oil is Forbidden" finds.
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Environmental defenders and anti-fossil fuel activists in Uganda face arbitrary arrests, harassment, threats for raising concerns over planned EACOP oil pipeline.
New Human Rights Watch report going out on November 2.
Reporters can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests or more info.
Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Humanitarian aid being unloaded from a small convoy of trucks that entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, October 21, 2023
Nothing can justify the Hamas-led massacres of Israeli civilians on October 7. These were war crimes.
Neither can anything justify the war crimes Israel is committing in Gaza.
Including by depriving civilians of humanitarian aid.
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How does international humanitarian law apply in Israel and Gaza?
Learn more about the law governing armed conflict and military occupation, and its application in the current hostilities involving Israel and Palestinian armed groups ⤵
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Environmental defenders and anti-fossil fuel activists in Uganda face arbitrary arrests, harassment, threats for raising concerns over planned oil pipeline.
New report Human Rights Watch, going out on November 2.
Reporters can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests etc.
#StopEACOP
