Alison Clark

human rights research assistant

[Bea Robertson @BeaRobertson14]

A disconcerting attempt by the authorities in #Iran to intensify the control and punishment imposed on #women who defy the compulsory hijab by the proposed "Chastity and Hijab" bill, sustaining further a climate of oppression and limitation on personal #freedom. @ICHRI

[Laura Bradlay @LauraBradlay]

Not only are #Nigeria's “#blasphemy” laws in clear breach of international human #rights obligations, they are also contrary to the Nigerian Constitution, which guarantees #religiousfreedom and #freedomofexpression. Free #MubarakBala and #YahayaSharifAminu!

[Sofia Andersson @SofiaAn46613560]

A grim reminder in the last @GlobPeaceIndex report. Over the last 15 years, the world has become less peaceful, w/the average country score deteriorating by 5%. Of the 163 countries in the GPI, 95 recorded deteriorations, w/conflict-related deaths rising by 96% in 2022! #peace

[Floke Blosser @BlosserFloke]

From severe beatings to sexual humiliation, rape, fake executions, abuse of family members, #torture is used as a means of war in more than 100 armed conflicts raging worldwide. It's truly shocking what horror human beings are capable of inflicting on one another! @UN

[Lauren Young @LaurenYoung2021]

The end DOES NOT justify the means! End the suffering and harm caused by these indiscriminate weapons! #clustermunitions @noclusterbombs https://t.co/Qm1CViGttm

[John Miller @JohnMiller2019]

#Torture is a widespread practice across the #MENA, partly because of a lack of accountability for perpetrators and the abuse of supposed counterterrorism tactics as a pretext for torture. #victimsoftorture #InternationalDayAgainstTorture @ALQST_eng https://t.co/6aGI3FJAD1

[Justin Andrews @JustinAndrews70]

Two decades of #enforceddisappearance, #arbitrarydetention, #torture, other #rights violations, not a single fair trial. #Guantanamo will forever remain a huge stain on the #US rights record. It is well past time to close if once and for all @Amnesty https://t.co/DBwnHZeDQS

[Benny Hunter @BennnyH]

It's hard to wrap your head around the scale of the tragedy unfolding in Greece.

Boat capsized with as many as 750 people on board. There were reports of 100 children in the hold. Only 100 people pulled from the waters. Total catastrophe.

https://t.co/kKo1zVDT7B

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Another horrific shipwreck in the Mediterranean - this time near Greece - has claimed the lives of scores of people.

As I’ve said before - every person searching for a better life deserves safety & dignity.

[Vedat Yeler @vedatyeler_]

Thousands of people in Athens, the capital of Greece, took to the streets and marching for the refugees who lost their lives in the ship accident off the coast of Greece.

#Greece #Πυλος #ναυαγιο #Pylos #shipwreck

[Vedat Yeler @vedatyeler_]

The fact that the people of Greece took to the streets in Athens, Thessaloniki and many other cities today to demand accountability for the murderers of refugees should be an example for all peoples. As a refugee journalist living in Greece, I am grateful!!!

#Greece #Πυλος #ναυαγιο #Pylos #shipwreck

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

This tragedy is the latest in a long chain of similar shipwrecks in Greece and Europe that could have been prevented 💔

[Center for Human Rights in Iran @ICHRI]

At least 40 female students have been temporarily barred from attending classes at Tehran's Art University for "failure to fully observe the hijab." 

Students and professors across Iran are facing a renewed crackdown on their basic human rights: https://t.co/D3DxObmGFR.

[Amnesty Iran @AmnestyIran]

Iran's authorities are intensifying using the death penalty as a tool of political repression. They are using it to torment & terrorize people and impose silence and subservience through brute force. Take action to call on states to urgently intervene now! https://t.co/VrJ8lC9wcf

[United Nations @UN]

Ending racism, discrimination, xenophobia & intolerance is our shared responsibility.

Everyone, everywhere can take action to spread compassion & acceptance.

Here's how you can take action to #FightRacism: https://t.co/PWxqEMAxTC

[Benjamin Myers @Benjami77169852]

The watering down of the #MLA on #warcrimes, #genocide, #crimesagainsthumanity, ratified in Ljubljana on May 26, is quite disappointing. Once again, #UK, #France's own agendas and interests have been prioritized over universal justice.

[Lee Phillips @LeePhillips85]

A devastating new round of rations cuts for #Rohingya refugees in #Bangladesh has been announced by the @UN. The cuts will reduce the value of rations provided to Rohingya refugees to $8 per month, or 27 cents per day! The world cannot do better than 27 cents a day?! Shameful...

[Emilie Christensen @EmilieChris2019]

Distressing accounts by #female #politicalprisoners in #Egypt on the ill-treatment they received in prison. More than 200 female political prisoners are in Egyptian prisons at the moment, as reported by the Till the Last Prisoner Campaign! @TimepDC https://t.co/bW067Cfirj

[Diana Amber @DianaAmber9]

#US Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged #Egypt to immediately release academic #SalahSoltan amid ‘neglect in prison’, following warning by dozens of human rights organizations that Soltan, 63, is “at risk of death” & requires urgent life-saving medical care. #freeSalahSoltan

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

At least 23 people have been killed during the protests that have broken out in Senegal since 1 June, and a further 390 have been injured.

The Senegalese authorities must carry out an independent investigation into the deadly crackdown on protests 👇
https://t.co/tsLPvPB7QO