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[United Nations @UN]

Schools are #NotATarget.

Hospitals are #NotATarget.

Children are #NotATarget.

Civilians are #NotATarget.

Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.

#NobelPrize

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

— Franz Kafka

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

“The richest 10% of the global population currently takes 52% of global income [...]." Inequality is a corrosive force that has been on the rise since Covid. Proud to have signed this letter.

Read the letter here @guardian: https://t.co/Iaxba2yRxA

[AB @AlexaBwrites]

The illegal migration bill has passed, and here’s what will happen: children lost, abused and exploited | Enver Solomon | The Guardian https://t.co/bWBQlse8Cq

[United Nations Association - UK (UNA-UK) @UNAUK]

The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill has passed - a dark turn for human rights in this country, and for Britain’s role in the world.

This attempt to deny the inalienable rights of refugees contravenes international law and threatens global systems of protection.

No human is illegal.

[AB @AlexaBwrites]

Illegal Migration Bill passes Lords hurdle and is set to become law. What a sad day! Another “inhumane” action… #HumanRights

[Chelsea Clinton @ChelseaClinton]

This report from the @UN simply confirms what we already knew to be true: abortion bans put all women and girls at risk, erode the right to privacy, and compromise doctors’ ability to provide comprehensive medical care.  https://t.co/mYhn7j9KuO

[AB @AlexaBwrites]

The core journalistic principles are:
•Getting the facts right
•Getting both sides of the story
•Not publishing rumours
•Upholding accuracy, fairness, independence, and accountability.

[AB @AlexaBwrites]

According to the UNHCR the Bill represents ‘a clear breach of the Refugee Convention’, to which the UK is a signatory, because it amounts to ‘an asylum ban’. #humanrights #ECHR #UNHCR https://t.co/8M22N9piA0

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Hazara students Marzia and Haajar were both killed in a suicide bombing at an education institute in Kabul yesterday. The United Nations says at least 35 people, most of them female students, died in the blast #Afghanistan

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Mahsa Amini’s brutal death may be moment of reckoning for Iran https://t.co/NEeV84eOvx

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

To anyone normalizing forced hijab as a "cultural" dress code: There's nothing cultural about something that is widely opposed by the people of that culture to the point where some even risk being imprisoned, tortured or killed for protesting against it. #MahsaAmini

[AB @AlexaBwrites]

Mahsa Amini: dozens injured in Iran protests after death in custody 💔#mahsaamini https://t.co/PCjltX8oSR

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

Dear World, You may be wondering what happens next in terms of the British constitution. The answer is that 3 newspaper owners - all of whom are non domiciled in the UK for tax purposes - get together and choose our next Prime Minister or “Poodle”. The Queen then anoints them.

[Financial Times @FinancialTimes]

Breaking news: The US Supreme Court has limited the ability of America’s top environmental regulator to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a landmark ruling that deals a blow to the Biden administration’s fight against climate change https://t.co/AGtMYHd9a2

[Michael Luo @michaelluo]

.@jiatolentino "We have entered an era not of unsafe abortion but of widespread state surveillance and criminalization—of pregnant women, certainly, but also of doctors and pharmacists and clinic staffers and volunteers and friends and family members..." https://t.co/iIyyA4UlH7

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Abortion rights for millions will evaporate because anti-abortion politicians have accumulated immense power at the state & federal level

Accumulating that much power is very expensive

Cash from major corporations helped make this happen

🧵

https://t.co/UIkgATIrGC

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

My thoughts on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.