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[Freedom from Torture🧡 @FreefromTorture]

🚨BREAKING: We took the government to court on their plans to pushback refugee boats - and we just found out we WON! They’ve backed down 🥳

Today’s victory shows that, when we come together, we CAN beat this government’s toxic anti-refugee agenda.

[Amnesty India @AIIndia]

On the demolition of homes in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

OUT NOW: Every year, we take a look at the state of human rights around the world. In 2021, we found betrayal & collusion and conflict & repression led to deeper inequality and greater instability.

Here’s how we can move forward: https://t.co/BWjMzEc46G

[Katy Fallon @katymfallon]

Horrifying account of pushback of two minors, taken from the Samos camp, forced on a Hellenic Coast Guard vessel & finally left adrift in a life raft at sea - case filed by @GLAN_LAW at the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of one of the *children* https://t.co/lSu1fz9ckh

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

In 4 DAYS Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe *should* be flying home.

🚨 RT our daily countdown & help us call on UK government & Iranian authorities to reunite Nazanin with her daughter & husband at the end of her sentence 🚨

#FreeNazanin @Iran_in_UK

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Philippine senator Leila de Lima, a vocal critic of the war on drugs, has been unjustly detained for 4 years now. We will never stop fighting until she is released.

[peace_news @peace_news]

@UYAmnesty We'd be really interested in hearing your groups experiences of effective anti-racism in action, please complete our survey (open til 7 Mar): https://t.co/JeIROUiSfk and share it with others. Let's make groups, events, spaces and projects more racially-inclusive

[Shadia Edwards-Dashti @ShadiaED]

Asylum seekers staging peaceful protest at Crown Plaza hotel now being dubbed #Napier2 as 400 asylum seekers ‘housed’ in what they say is totally inadequate conditions. Hotel now surrounded by 8ft wall. Signs read “where is humanity?”
#AsylumSeekersUK

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Good news from Angola 🎉🏳️‍🌈

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

The Indian government must immediately stop its escalating crackdown on protesters, farming leaders and journalists, amid ongoing nationwide demonstrations against three recently introduced farm laws. https://t.co/fZg5l0wxQf

[Free The Flow @FreeTheFlow_]

Contraception Conversations: Your Stories Part 2 ❤️🩸

[Choose Love @chooselove]

Meet Israa. She’s six years old and lives with her family in a camp near Aleppo. Her favourite animal are sheep and when she grows up, she wants to be a seamstress. ⁣
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Behind the headlines, statistics and labels there are individual people, just like Israa, just like you.⁣

[Choose Love @chooselove]

Napier Barracks in Kent has been used to house around 400 people seeking asylum.⁣

Not only are 22 people on suicide watch, but now over a quarter of the entire population of the facility has contracted COVID.

This is scandal, but not a surprise.

1/3

[MR @MarcusRashford]

Thank you @Tesco
Please take a read 👇🏼

[Choose Love @chooselove]

Hygiene items arriving onto the Greek island of Chios!



You made this possible! To everyone who donated items and funds, packed boxes, stacked pallets, drove trucks and helped spread the word: THANK YOU.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Remember Guantánamo?

Close it.
Close it.
Close it.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Tuna scraped into a money bag, a slice of carrot you wouldn't feed to an animal and half a tomato?

The message that this government sends is that just because a child relies on free school meals and a family has fallen on hard times they don't deserve basic dignity and respect.

[MR @MarcusRashford]

A reminder...

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Your activism makes change. ✊

Following the release of human rights defender Narges Mohammadi from prison, she urges us to continue to fight for human rights and freedom in #Iran

[University of York @UniOfYork]

Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year! 🎉