Helle Jacobsen (she/her/hers)

LIBE Advisor S&D Group, The European Parliament. Feminist. Tweets about #gender #EU #women #SOGI #Rule of Law #Fundamental Rights #equality

[Helle Jacobsen (she/her/hers) @Helle_Jac]

Copenhagen saying no to the almost total ban on #abortion in #Poland

[Equinox: Racial Justice Initiative @Equinoxrji]

🤔 Does intersectionality just mean more representation in policymaking?

@sarahchander's intervention at the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (@EP_Justice) last week answers this question with 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[S&D Group @TheProgressives]

To be gay in Uganda is already a crime. Now the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill will criminalize ‘promotion’ of homosexuality targeting activists working on LGBTI rights.

This is unacceptable!

We call on the 🇺🇬 govt to respect the 🏳️‍🌈 community ensuring full protection & rights

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

Thank you to @EP_GenderEqual for meeting with me today and speaking about how we can work together to advance women's rights around the world.

We discussed the importance of protecting reproductive health care and ensuring every woman everywhere has the right to choose.

[Thijs Reuten 🇪🇺🌹 @thijsreuten]

Important step! I welcome this decision by the member states. Coming up soon: vote in the home affairs committee and then in the European Parliament’s plenary. At the latest at 1 January 2024 Kosovo will get the well deserved and long overdue visa free travel. 🇪🇺🤝🇽🇰

[Frank Mugisha @frankmugisha]

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein.

[Frank Mugisha @frankmugisha]

LGBTQ Ugandan office raided and individuals arrested

[Hussein Baoumi @husseinmagdy16]

I told the Guardian that I won't be going home for #COP27 “The Egyptian authorities are continuing to arrest opponents and critics, and subject human rights defenders to travel bans...They don’t want us back home.” https://t.co/ZeAVNSfKba

[Eve Geddie @evegeddie]

#Greece: @amnesty is taking steps to hold the Greek authorities to account for the devastating health impacts of austerity measures they introduced following the economic crisis of 2009/2010, and their failure to protect the Greek population's right to health.

[Saskia Bricmont @saskiabricmont]

Breaking: EP refuses granting budgetary discharge to #Frontex. Strong signal from EP, human rights violation, disregarding EU law and internal dysfunctions are not tolerable from the most financed EU agency! #Eplenary

[Frank Mugisha @frankmugisha]

Ugandan anti gay extremists are fueling so much hate to towards me. They want to assisnanite me. I can’t recall the last time I felt safe in my own country. Such hate fueled the murder of my colleague David Kato.

[CIVICUS @CIVICUSalliance]

📣Attention #artivists, activists-storytellers‼️

We are looking for 5 grassroots activists with experience producing powerful video stories for the #GrassrootsSolidarityRevolution.

Selected activists will receive USD 5,000 to produce the video.✊

Apply: https://t.co/ex6qmlOzIp

[Adriana Tidona @AdrianaTdn]

⁦@washingtonpost⁩ reporting on ⁦@amnesty⁩ research on #Latvia. #UNHCR Baltic rep. comments that they continue to receive “information and reports of people being denied entry into Latvia from Belarus as well as ‘reports on violence and abuse’.” https://t.co/Jf5Lhd1Mf6

[Adriana Tidona @AdrianaTdn]

1/For 460 days Latvia's borders with Belarus have been under a “state of emergency” which allows border guards to push back refugees & migrants and suspends the right to seek asylum. Latvia denies these human rights violations. @amnesty report, out today, tells a different story.

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

🤯Shocked but not surprised

The report by the EU's anti-fraud agency revealed today shows the lengths to which @Frontex has gone to protect those who use illegal and violent pushbacks to keep people out of #Europe at any cost.

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

For 460 days #Latvia's borders with #Belarus have been under a “state of emergency,” which allows border guards to push back refugees & migrants & suspends the rights to asylum.

Latvia denies any #humanrights violations, but @amnesty's new report tells a different story.👇

[monica costa 🍉🍉 @mcostariba]

Activist Justyna Wydrzyńska faces prison charges accused of helping a woman with a safe abortion.

She has done nothing wrong.

On Friday 14 October she is back in court. #Poland

Show solidarity and call on the authorities to drop all charges https://t.co/C0nV9gVH2G

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

⚽ No one should lose their life at a football match.

[Sepideh @Sepidesahar]

I was so nervous about disrupting the biggest aviation conference in the world in Amsterdam today

But I felt I had to call on airlines to reject the UK govt's horrific Rwanda plan

We have to #StopTheFlights