Giada Negri

She/Her | Coordinates policy & advocacy on civic space @EUCivicForum | passionate about culture of care
Views are my own

[European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social @EUCivicForum]

Our next #CivicPride Month movement is #PalestineSolidarity 🍉

From the student encampments to boycott movements and massive street demonstrations, this movement has been remarkable for its size, determination and diversity. 👏
https://t.co/UtVWfu23ZO

[European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social @EUCivicForum]

📢 📕 NEW REPORTS:

Together with @EUCivilSociety and nine other NGOs, we’re publishing two papers focusing on how to #ProtectRightsDefenders and CSOs in Europe.

Check them out and spread the word! 👇
https://t.co/vUeyx5RfYF

#CivicSpace

[European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social @EUCivicForum]

📕 NEW: @EUCivicForum's #CivicSpace2024 report is out now, documenting a deterioration in civic freedoms, despite the EU’s democracy agenda.

🧵 1/6

https://t.co/1FlaioW4SM

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

“Germany is violating international human rights standards, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly through the banning of protests, arresting and harassing of protesters, silencing of activists, shutting down of organisations.” - Civic Forum report

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

🚨EU Migration Pact passed ❌

The Pact will bring a deadly new era of digital surveillance of migrants & more tech will be used to criminalise people entering Europe.

👉🏾Read our #ProtectNotSurveil statement 'A dangerous regime of migrant surveillance'
https://t.co/Ivx7G8iB1k

[Liberties.EU @LibertiesEU]

@EUCivicForum @EU_Commission @CIVICUSalliance @Solidar_EU @ENAREurope @Equinoxrji @EuroMedRights @LDH_Fr @HRW_Brussels @AmnestyUK @amnestyfrance The right to peaceful protest was severely restricted across Europe in 2023, with many blanket bans selectively targeting pro-Palestinian and climate demonstrations, according to Liberties’ latest report on the state of the rule of law in the EU. 👇
https://t.co/G4r1BwAwrs

[Giada Negri @GiadaNegri]

“It’s not just that you can kill any person who is a Hamas soldier, [...] “But they directly tell you: ‘You are allowed to kill them along with many civilians.’ … In practice, the proportionality criterion did not exist.”

https://t.co/bPJePrH68N

[European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social @EUCivicForum]

@EU_Commission @CIVICUSalliance @Solidar_EU @ENAREurope @LibertiesEU @Equinoxrji @EuroMedRights @LDH_Fr @HRW_Brussels @AmnestyUK @amnestyfrance We urge European governments to adhere to international legal obligations and safeguard the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression.

@EU_Commission must address these restrictions at the highest political level.

Read our joint statement 👉 https://t.co/I2gXzLAYPx

[European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social @EUCivicForum]

NEW: Six months on from 7 October, we're calling on the @EU_Commission to urgently address ongoing restrictions against those expressing solidarity with #Palestine in Europe.

Read our joint statement 👉 https://t.co/I2gXzLAYPx

[CIVICUS Monitor @CIVICUSMonitor]

Over the past 5 years, 10 countries have been downgraded in Europe🇧🇾🇧🇪🇧🇦🇨🇾🇩🇪🇬🇷🇵🇱🇷🇺🇸🇮🇬🇧

In many countries, the narrowing of civic space has been linked to growing restrictions on protest rights & criminalisation of activists.

New multi-year report 🔴🟡🟢: https://t.co/N7IsDyRmY9

[European Civic Forum @eucivicforum.bsky.social @EUCivicForum]

Today, national ministers will be discussing the @EU_Commission's proposed foreign funding directive.

What is the directive, why is #CivilSociety concerned, and what needs to change?

Read our analysis or check out our factsheet to find out!
👉https://t.co/eYg9JrkwYR

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@ICJ just recognised that the horror in Gaza plausibly constitutes genocide. A CEASEFIRE is the only sure way to fully abide by the Court's provisional measures to halt this horror.
Third States should now work to achieve it & avoid breaching their obligation to prevent genocide.

[Un Ponte Per @UnPontePer]

Comincia in questi minuti a L'Aia la prima udienza del processo #Sudafrica vs #israele di fronte alla Corte di giustizia internazionale .
La diretta si segue qui: https://t.co/UXNaUX4had
#EndIsraelsGenocide

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I commend the @GovernmentZA for invoking #GenocideConvention & requesting #ICJ provisional measures to stop the carnage in Gaza.
I encourage other member states to make meanigful/honest submissions & contribute to save lives. The survival of an entire people is on the line.

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

In both decisions,the judge reiterated that criticism of the Israeli state is protected by freedom of expression, stressing that the slogans are directed against Israel & not against the Jewish population of Germany, thus rejecting any inflammatory allegations of antisemitism. /6

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

While this may seem obvious, German authorities are outrageously trying to criminalise these slogans and other expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian people, even more so since 7 October. https://t.co/OrLMouZEwD /3

[European Legal Support Center (ELSC) @elsclegal]

➡️ The Münster Administrative Court stated that the slogans “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” & “Child murderer Israel” are not illegal and are protected by freedom of expression. So is “Stop the genocide in Gaza”, as the Cologne Administrative Court recalls. /2

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Voluntary migration? No matter how ISR gvt calls it, Forced Displacement is a CRIME, prosecutable under the Rome Statute.Its architects shall be investigated/prosecuted by @IntlCrimCourt & other courts under #UniversalJurisdiction.
@KarimKhanQC: Justice delayed is Justice denied.

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

Quick reminder to everyone who thinks it's absurd that the @EU_Commission unblocks €10B for Viktor Orbán a day after Hungary passed new laws targeting the opposition, NGOs, and the remainder of independent media: Sure, it's absurd, but let's not forget that the Commission never even had any serious reservations about Orbán's previous similar crackdowns in the first place.

No EU fund was frozen due to:

-the persecution of NGOs and smear campaigns against them, going as far as hiring Israeli private intelligence firms to conduct sting operations

-the distortion of Hungary's media industry through buying up and shutting down media outlets while creating a pro-government propaganda empire exempt from anti-trust scrutiny, or discriminating media outlets through channelling all state advertisements to pro-Orbán media companies

-the illegal surveillance, including with Pegasus spyware, of the opposition, political activists, lawyers, independent journalists, media company owners etc.

-the blackmailing and harassment of businessmen–both foreign and Hungarian–to sell their assets to pro-government proxies

-detaining anti-government activists and even opposition MPs

-government-controlled authorities' harassment of opposition parties, including huge fines that may well sabotage their next election campaign

-anti-LGBT laws and government-led hate campaigns against vulnerable minority groups

-the inhumane and unlawful treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.

And I could go on for much longer, but I think this was enough to make my case.

The EU never in the first place stepped up against the Orbán regime's most serious violations of rule of law and democracy. The particular issues they raised and eventually tied to blocking EU funds were just nuisances. It was always expected from the very beginning that these funds will be unblocked sooner or later, because the Commission is not interested in a prolonged conflict with the Orbán government. Nor is it interested in trying to achieve real change in Hungary. They just think it's not their business – this is their technocratic approach to how the EU should be run.

Orbán regularly labels them "faceless Brussels bureaucrats." I'm sorry to say but he's absolutely right.

[sarah chander 🇵🇸 @sarahchander]

As we continue to demand a #FreePalestine protests are over policed and solidarity censored.

Europe needs to stop arming the police to watch us, criminalise us, harm us.

This is the context the #AIAct negotiations are happening