📢On eve of 2-year anniversary of Myanmar military illegal coup, Canada and UK took important action: Canada banned aviation fuel to military; UK sanctioned 2 cos + 2 persons - key players in the aviation fuel industry fueling war crimes.
https://t.co/U5qbYmFsA7
Breaking News: a Swiss court has rejected criminal defamation charges and acquitted the three authors of a report which alleged that Swiss fuel trader Kolmar Group AG (Kolmar) may have violated international law by buying smuggled Libyan oil (thread)
@AP reports that UNESCO is urging Cambodian authorities not to carry out forced evictions at the renowned Angkor Wat temple complex, after @amnesty detailed the impact on evicted residents.
https://t.co/P3WjbQPI2g
Unesco has "fallen short of its responsibility to uphold and promote human rights" amid mass evictions of ~10,000 families at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex, Amnesty International has claimed in a new investigation. For @guardian https://t.co/mSzFwfdAnt
"As I move from one area to another, I witness the life of fear and misery on children’s faces". An Amnesty fieldworker describes the daily life of civilians trapped in the occupied Gaza strip.
📢 NEW RESEARCH 📢 Mass evictions affecting thousands of families at the Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site violate international human rights law. 1/6
https://t.co/dtGaWNBaZi
NEW REPORT: Cambodian authorities cruelly uprooted families who have lived in Angkor for several generations, forcing them to live hand to mouth at ill-prepared relocation sites. https://t.co/kKtwrKLSgH
📢 📢 COMING TUESDAY @amnesty's NEW investigation into mass forced evictions from UNESCO World Heritage site Angkor in Cambodia. Please email [email protected] for embargoed materials, interview requests, & original photos & video.
A married couple and their newborn daughter were among the 18 Palestinians killed when an Israeli air attack hit Gaza’s oldest church.
A Palestinian pastor has called the bombing of Saint Porphyrius, where hundreds were sheltering, a ‘war crime’ ⤵️
The King of Jordan said it all in less than a minute. Double standards and discrimination. And that message, the Arab world is not the only one to hear it. The Global South does as well. And peoples across the world do.
.@amnesty International has documented and verified damning evidence of #WarCrimes as #Israel’s indiscriminate bombardments wipe out entire families in #Gaza, including more than 1,000 #children in the past 2 weeks. https://t.co/l8Lr0v890B
We call on Israeli forces to immediately end unlawful attacks in Gaza and ensure that they take all feasible precautions to minimize harm to civilians and damage to civilian objects.
⚖️The Swiss trader #Kolmar Group AG claims 1.8 millions US dollars from @PublicEyeSuisse and @Trial. Never before has such a large amount been demanded from an NGO in #Switzerland on the grounds of an alleged infringement of personal rights! Our PR👇https://t.co/eMZI2HFzHG
#1 @amnesty stands in solidarity with @Trial and @PublicEyeSuisse, which are being sued for defamation by oil trading company Kolmar Group. This comes after the two organisations published research linking Kolmar Group to Libyan fuel smugglers.
https://t.co/fUxM21vFRb
Today is the 6th anniversary of the Myanmar military’s brutal operation during which they burned down entire villages, and killed thousands.
@Meta should immediately pay reparation to the Rohingya for the role that Facebook played in the ethnic cleansing.
https://t.co/fuiU1yr5pI
📢The upcoming #election in #Cambodia takes place amidst a human rights crisis. The situation has severely deteriorated, as authorities have spent the past 5 years picking apart what’s left of the rights to freedom of expression, assembly & association
https://t.co/DFU8Wug5GW
Hundreds of oil spills a year have devastated the Niger Delta - contaminating fields, creeks and aquifers. Shell now plans to sell up - but will it clean up before it goes?
Our concerns @amnesty:
https://t.co/AMlsbuK2mW