Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival

Est. 2013 | The Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival aims to draw attention to human rights issues at home & abroad | 4th-10th December 2022

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

Gil Scott Heron - Alien (hold on to your dream) LIVE https://t.co/tZhMPXMZ1V

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A British-Ugandan athlete has arrived in London after running all the way from South Africa to raise awareness about racism.

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@dianemontagna @Pontifex @VaticanNews #PopeFrancis must also call for an international arms embargo, sanctions & a boycott of Israel. Under current conditions, it is only through an arms embargo, sanctions on & a boycott of Israel that Israel can be compelled to stop dispossessing & exterminating Palestinians. 2/

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@dianemontagna We commend the leadership that @Pontifex @VaticanNews is showing in calling for an end to the genocide that Israel is committing against Palestinians. 1/

[UN Palestine Committee @UNISPAL]

#BREAKING
🇺🇳 UN demands Israel, the occupying Power, cease the exploitation, damage, cause of loss or depletion & endangerment of the natural resources in Palestine & in the Syrian Golan.
✅ 162 Countries
🚫8 - Israel USA Canada Argentina Palau Nauru Papua New Guinea Micronesia

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@NBPhillips1872 @LabourTogether @LabourList @instituteforgov This is also why Labour won't #LiftTheBan. Doing so would mean it'll have fewer people to warehouse; the fewer people there are to warehouse, the less money that can be siphoned from the public purse & transferred onto the ledgers of corporations they subcontract execution to. 3/

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@NBPhillips1872 @LabourTogether @LabourList @instituteforgov At the same time, successive govts have built a >£5bn industry around cruelty towards refugees, asylum seekers & migrants. Based on this & on the last govt's conduct, Labour is continuing with the cruelty because there is big money to be made in brutalising & destroying people 2/

[Hassan Ould Moctar @aloueimin]

As part of a timely new Handbook on Border Criminology, I draw on the work of Samir Amin to theorise the relationship between border externalisation and uneven development between Europe and West Africa.

See below for an blog post summarising the chapter👇

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

.@civicleicester @refugee_arts & @RegulariseUK are proud to reveal the cover of "Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration" featuring 63 poems from 20 poets exploring themes around African and African diasporic migration and (im)mobility. 1/

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

"Japa Fire" is the first in a series of poetry anthologies, the Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series exploring themes around African and African diasporic migration and (im)mobility. 2/

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

As organisers, we believe "Japa Fire" and the anthology series make a vital contribution to the conversation taking place around the world on the themes. 3/

[CivicLeicester @CivicLeicester]

To cover some of the costs associated with bringing the series of poetry anthologies out, we have set up a GoFundMe appeal. Any support you can lend us will be most appreciated https://t.co/RVdrgp47rt 4/

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@MelissaFleming @IOMchief @UNmigration Saying "False information & outright lies about migrants are surging online leading to increased xenophobia" doesn't capture the gravity of the matter. 1/

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@MelissaFleming @IOMchief @UNmigration EU Member States, Britain included, are using military-grade propaganda strategies to turn refugees & migrants into hate objects. At the same time, they have built, e.g. in Britain, a >£5bn industry around cruelty towards refugees, asylum seekers & migrants. 2/

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@MelissaFleming @IOMchief @UNmigration EU Member States, Britain included, are using military-grade propaganda strategies to turn refugees & migrants into hate objects. At the same time, they have built, e.g. in Britain, a >£5bn industry around cruelty towards refugees, asylum seekers & migrants. 2/

[Leicester Human Rights Arts & Film Festival @LeicsHraff]

@MelissaFleming @IOMchief @UNmigration Saying "False information & outright lies about migrants are surging online leading to increased xenophobia" doesn't capture the gravity of the matter. 1/

[African Stream @african_stream]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has filed criminal complaints against tech giant Apple and its French and Belgian subsidiaries for using conflict minerals in its supply chain.

Congo's legal team claims Apple is guilty of covering up war crimes, money laundering, handling stolen goods and misleading consumers about the ethical sourcing of its products. They say Apple benefits from minerals extracted through illegal mining operations in the country and then laundered through complex global supply chains, making the tech giant complicit in human-rights abuses. Apple has countered by saying it audits suppliers and funds organisations working to ensure minerals are responsibly acquired.

Apple's products, which are widely available for sale, are unfortunately contributing to the exploitation of children working in mines. This, in turn, is fuelling Congo's unending resource-war - involving more than 100 armed groups in the mineral-rich eastern part of the country. The local communities in Congo are the ones bearing the brunt of this exploitation, a fact that cannot be ignored.

[UN Human Rights Palestine @OHCHR_Palestine]

Israel is accelerating steps to consolidate the annexation of the Occupied West Bank, including East #Jerusalem, and to appropriate Palestinian lands, replacing Palestinian communities with settlers in violation of international law. These actions go counter to the findings of the International Court of Justice last July which concluded that the continued presence of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful and must end as rapidly as possible and called for the immediate evacuation of all Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Recent developments are of particular concern with mass demolitions in East Jerusalem and demolitions carried out for the first time in a natural reserve in Area B which is under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian authorities.

Read the full statement 👇
https://t.co/rYwZEaI3Ng

[UN Palestine Committee @UNISPAL]

#BREAKING
🇺🇳 General Assembly reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination including the right to their independent State of Palestine 🇵🇸
✅ 172 countries
🚫 7 (Israel, USA, Micronesia, Argentina, Paraguay, Nauru, Papua New Guinea)

https://t.co/QKauiuGlon

[LouiseMichel @MVLouiseMichel]

Migration is a fundamental part of our existence and history.

Together, we want to embrace diversity that comes from migration and build stronger, more unified societies.

Freedom of movement for all!

📷 @saracreta

#InternationalMigrantsDay #FreedomOfMovementForAll