Bina D’Costa

We are deeply concerned by a State’s use of the word “witch” to attack a UN expert in her report to the #UNGA80 3rd Committee. Misogynistic gendered insults have no place in international dialogue and undermine women’s equality and the integrity and independence of UN mandates.

Federal judge orders two-week construction pause at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Experts testified newly laid down pavement would cause harmful runoff to spill into the wetlands surrounding the airstrip.

A federal judge ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.

Judge orders temporary halt to new construction at Alligator Alcatraz The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams came after a two-day hearing in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and joined by the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians.

Breaking news: A federal judge has ordered construction to be paused at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the first state-run immigrant detention center in the country, over concerns about environmental harm.

🇧🇷 🛎️ Reitero minha preocupação com a discussão que a Câmara dos Deputados do Brasil realizará sobre o Projeto de Lei PL 2159/21.

@binadcosta.bsky.social #DireitosHumanos #LicenciamentoAmbiental #HumanRights #PLdaDevastação

Please mark the date and join us later this year at UQ / @visualpolitics.bsky.social for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with

Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.

With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).

“To speak of Sudanese, both from the North and the South, is to speak of an unspeakable suffering.

How much must we endure even outside our country? What fault is it to flee in the hope of finding a calm life somewhere?” ….
@davidyambio.bsky.social

Small Children Left Drifting At Sea By The Greek Coast Guard Just after midnight, on Saturday April 5, Aegean Boat Report was contacted by a group of 24 people, 10 of them small children, and a cat, who a few hours earlier had arrived on the Greek island of …

Small Children Left Drifting At Sea By The Greek Coast Guard #Refugees

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We are very much looking forward to Gabriella’s presentation 🌺👇🏾

oPt: Caritas Jerusalem provides urgent aid for over 40,000 displaced in Jenin #Refugees

Photographic Exhibition: Towards Alternative Humanitarian Visuals? | Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs We know that humanitarian images often foreground suffering. How can we provide more complex visualisations that also show complexity and ensure collaboration and protection?

#Humanitarian images often foreground suffering. How can we provide more complex visualisations that ensure collaboration & protection?
Come see this powerful photographic exhibition
1 week only, Mon 24 - Fri 28 Mar, ANU
bellschool.anu.edu.au/event/photog....
@anu-asiapacific.bsky.social #visitCBR

The Humanitarian Lifeline in DR Congo Under Threat: We Need Urgent Action #Refugees

Australia responsible for arbitrary detention of asylum seekers in offshore facilities, UN Human Rights Committee finds GENEVA - In two landmark decisions, the UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that Australia remained responsible for the arbitrary detention of asylum seekers redirected or transferred to offshore dete...

'Where there is power or effective control, there is responsibility. The outsourcing of operations does not absolve States of accountability. Offshore detention facilities are not human-rights free zones for the State party, which remains bound by the provisions of the Covenant.'
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Border Militias Prepare to Assist With Donald Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans Militias that patrol the US border with Mexico are thrilled that Donald Trump has been elected—and plan to be a “valuable resource” to the incoming administration, whether or not they’re asked.

The border milita movement will be one to watch as Trump looks to every desperate option on the southern border. www.wired.com/story/border...

Australia and New Zealand: Natural Allies? | Australian Institute of International Affairs It is difficult to think of two countries more closely aligned than Australia and New Zealand. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade describes the neighbours as ‘natural allies with a st...

Excited to launch Anna Powles' and my special section of the @austjia.bsky.social about the Australia Zealand alliance on 5 December, co-hosted by the AIIA and NZIIA. Online and free - register here: aiia.glueup.com/event/austra...

Australian Journal of International Affairs The 75th anniversary edition of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Volume 75, Issue 6 of Australian Journal of International Affairs

Resharing the 75th anniversary special issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs on bsky. Many thx to the editors for the invitation.
My essay is titled: 'Learning/unlearning in International Relations through the politics of margins and silence'
Pls check out the full collection 👇🏾

Sudan study report is available here 👇🏾

The conflict in Sudan has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with many at risk of famine.

The Sudan Research Group study noted that 61,000 people have died in Khartoum state since 15Apr23.

Amnesty Intl said French military technology was being used, in violation of a UN arms embargo.

Myanmar-Australia Visiting Fellowship Program 2025 | ANU Myanmar Research Centre Call for expressions of interest for a fully funded short term research fellowship in Australia for a Myanmar academic or researcher, closing on Friday, 22 November 2024.

Please circulate through your networks.

Call for expressions of interest for a fully funded short term research fellowship in Australia for a Myanmar academic or researcher

Members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

Available to Watch: Federica Caso on Settler Military Aesthetics — Roland Bleiker Dr Federica Caso is interviewed by Dr Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about her new book Settler Military Politics: Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). T...

Here a video of our latest Visual Politics Program event: Federica Caso talks to Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about Settler Military Aesthetics and her new @edinburghup.bsky.social book. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Here is our amicus curiae submission to ICC, that offers some context 👇🏾

www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

‘The international order is breaking down in Gaza’: UN experts mark one year of genocidal attacks on Palestinians GENEVA – Marking one year since the start of Israel’s genocidal offensive in Gaza, a group of independent human rights experts issued the following statement:

In Oct, we called on all leaders to move beyond dehumanising & polarising narratives, & actively work for an immediate cessation of all hostilities & crimes in Palestine/Israel & the region, for the release of those arbitrarily detained, both Israelis held in Gaza & Palestinians held by Israel. 👇🏾

During humanitarian emergencies situation reports & SITANs (situation analysis) offer invaluable information.
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UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war NEW YORK (14 November 2024) – Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palest...

Great leadership by global south states offering an example of reimagining a new international order 👇🏾

The Special Committee is composed of three Member States: Malaysia, Senegal and Sri Lanka.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

‘Should Israel carry out the decision, the Committee will consider it a grave violation of Israel’s obligations in accordance with the CRC, & other IHRL & IHL. It’d
violate the ruling of the ICJ order to guarantee the delivery of aid & to facilitate access to essential services.’
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COP29: States must prioritise effective climate action and sufficient finance in accordance with human rights, say experts GENEVA – As the 29th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) begins in Baku, Azerbaijan, UN experts called on States to prioritise the protect...

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#COP29
#HumanRights

‘International obligations on children’ and women’s human rights, on the prohibition of racial and other forms of discrimination, and international human rights guidance on intersectionality should be integrated in all decisions.’

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Cascades of Violence <p>War and crime are cascade phenomena. War cascades across space and time to more war; crime to more crime; crime cascades to war; and war to crime. As a result, war and crime become complex phenomen...

'Cascades of Violence' - Professor John Braithwaite and my nine-year project with 4,000 interviews, & primary research in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma/Myanmar, India, Nepal, Pakistan, & Sri Lanka is open access:

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press.anu.edu.au/publications...

If interested, other academic books are here 👇🏾