@UN annual review paints a bleak picture of the challenges faced by #LGBTQ individuals in #UK. The rise in hate crimes, discrimination, and violence against the LGBTQ community is deeply distressing. #humanrights#backslidingdemocracy#UnitedKingdom
It's been a month the most encouraging #Saudi-#Houthi#Yemen peace talks round in Sanaa, but there is still no word about when the peace process may continue. Have our hopes that the end of the #YemenWar is within the reach been unrealistic? #EndYemenWar
How can a conference promoting any kind of activism, be that climate or something else, be held in a country that regularly oppresses, imprisons and assaults #humanrights activists? #climateawareness is tied to #democracy! #UAE#COP28
#UAE is waging a sustained assault on civil society and #humanrights organizations. They use of repressive laws and practices to target NGOs and activists including #arbitrarydetention, #enforceddisappearances, and #torture Despite these actions, the UAE is set to host COP28!
The news from the #UAE that #climate campaigner attendees at an environmental conference trailing the country's hosting of #COP28 were issued with written guidance that they "do not criticise the government, corporations or individuals", "do not protest", is depressingly familiar
If the #UAE is really going to host he #COP28 in Dec this year, something must change. BUT FOR REAL! For more than 10 years, UAE have been unjustly detaining at least 60 Emirati #humanrights defenders, civil society activist & political dissidents. This is ridiculous...
The UAE's hosting of #COP28 in Dec 2023 must not be used as a cover-up to conceal the govt's ongoing assault on #humanrights. The int'l community must hold the #UAE accountable for its actions and demand an end to the targeting of activists and repressive laws!
More than three-quarters of #prisonersofconscience in the #UAE have completed their sentences yet remain in arbitrary detention to date, as the authorities refuse to release them. Given their #humanrights record, UAE is simply not fit to serve as the #COP28 host! @HRW@Amnesty
.@Amnesty, @HRW & 40 other #humanrights organizations have signed the joint statement regarding the upcoming #COP28, which will be hosted by the #UAE! The sustained assault on human rights and freedom continues in that country, and now they want to talk about #climate...
Is anyone really thinking about the #humanrights record of the #UAE ahead of #COP28, except @HRW, @Amnesty & other human rights organizations?! I wouldn't say so! To begin with, all those detained solely for the exercise of their human rights must be released, NOW! IT'S SHAMEFUL
By mid-2023, many of the #UAE94#prisonersofconscience in the #UAE will have spent almost 11 years behind bars. Some have been denied family visits and communication w/their families for up to five years. Is such a country adequate to host #COP28? Definitely not! @HRW@Amnesty
Despite the UAE's disregard of the rights to #freespeech, association, and assembly, the #UAE government may attempt to cynically project a fake image of openness and tolerance during its presidency of the #COP28 in December. @HRW@Amnesty