Candy Ofime

Researcher / legal adviser on climate justice at @Amnesty. RTs ≠ endorsements

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

Today, the UN adopted a key resolution welcoming the @CIJ_ICJ's opinion on states' duty to respond to climate change. Kudos to Vanuatu and @pisfcc who brought a landmark ruling by the world's highest court back to the UN, calling for urgent political action & accountability🎉

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

📢📢GOOD NEWS: A new climate accountability resolution at the UNGA was adopted by an overwhelming consensus today. 🙌
It has the potential to shape global climate accountability for years to come. Read more: https://t.co/59YjWb4syu

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

The Santa Marta conference sent a strong political signal that the age of fossil fuels must end. This “coalition of the doers” must now turn political commitments into effective international cooperation paving the way for rights-based just transitions: https://t.co/AFnp9j50vc

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

"Governments have a legal duty to act now and must choose courage over delay, justice over profit, and people over fossil fuels," said @candyofime

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Nuevo informe de @amnesty “Extinción por Extracción” documenta como las infraestructuras de combustibles fósiles amenazan los derechos humanos y ecosistemas críticos.

Datos clave:
📌2.000 millones de personas viven cerca de estas instalaciones, expuestas a riesgos graves para la salud y el medioambiente.
📌520 millones son niños y niñas.
📌El ciclo de vida de carbón, petróleo y gas destruye ecosistemas irremplazables y agrava la crisis climática.

Mensaje claro: ¡La era de los combustibles fósiles debe terminar ya!

Masℹ️: https://t.co/8JgM0jFeDI

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

🚨TODAY: Extraction Extinction, @amnesty's groundbreaking report documenting the climate and human rights harm of fossil fuel infrastructure globally just dropped. As #COP30 unfolds, it's critical to amplify calls to defossilize from defenders worldwide🔊https://t.co/z12B7MMTpc

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

📢 LAUNCHING TODAY from #COP30 🇧🇷, new @Amnesty's report "Extraction Extinction":

Fossil fuel infrastructure is putting rights of 2 billion people and critical ecosystems at risk:

📌First-of-its-kind mapping exercise
📌520 million children live within 5km of fossil fuel infrastructure – including potential ‘sacrifice zones’

JOIN US
WHEN: 13:00 Hrs GMT, 12 November
WHERE: COP30, Press Conference room 2, Area D, Belem, Brazil or online at: https://t.co/u75Jr9w7AJ

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

🌐📢 In 1/2 hour, the #ICJ will speak for the 1st time on the climate crisis, a *defining* moment for the climate justice movement that could shift global responsibility from people on the frontlines to polluters who must act.
🔗Watch live: https://t.co/wrAwbVBux0
#ClimateICJAO

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Month after month, the world has watched as Israel treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

"We're living under this sound of threat; constant, ongoing, day and night"

Our colleague, Sahar, describes daily life under bombardment during the armed conflict in Lebanon.

[Steve Cockburn @stevecockburn]

Yet again, exploitation of workers has been found in a major global company in Saudi Arabia – this time French retail giant @CarrefourGroup.

@Amnesty’s new investigation reveals treatment that may amount to forced labour & human trafficking.

For more 👇 https://t.co/eteAh8wtvk

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

1/ 🚨NEW research reveals the ongoing oil shipments fueling Israel's war machine. 65 tankers of crude oil & refined petroleum products have shipped to Israel since Oct, 1/2 after @CIJ_ICJ ruled in January that Israel is plausibly committing genocide. https://t.co/GEBB25Phnl

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

🚨 NEW @amnesty briefing analyzing landmark climate rulings of @ECHR_CEDH is out! Enjoyed putting my litigator's hat back on for this one. Helpful reading for activists & journos following @KlimaSeniorin case & #Switzerland's response expected next week https://t.co/38V4NMnPnb

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

New @amnesty briefing 'Climate inaction, ruled out!' analyzes 3 landmark climate judgments of @ECHR_CEDH - focusing in particular on @KlimaSeniorin case.

It highlights the potential for achieving climate justice through strategic litigation @ECHR_CEDH
https://t.co/s2Ze13yL3X

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

Without climate finance, the climate crisis will continue to take lives and livelihoods. Global North governments should take responsibility for their emissions and #PayUp $trillions a year to people & communities suffering the worse effects of global heating.

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

Global funds to tackle climate change are woefully inadequate. Without significant climate finance, the climate crisis will continue to take lives and livelihoods. 1/4

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

📍Made it to Tana & so excited to be working on new human rights research for @amnesty on climate-induced internal displacements in #Madagascar with my brilliant colleague @wa_nciko

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Israel/OPT: Israeli air strikes that killed 44 civilians is further evidence of war crimes.

@amnesty investigated three Israeli strikes on al-Maghazi and Rafah last month which killed 32 children playing foosball or at home.

In all three cases, Amnesty International did not find any evidence that there had been any military targets in or around the locations targeted by the Israeli military, raising serious concerns that these attacks amount to direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects, which are war crimes. Israel has not provided any information about the attacks in Rafah, and has only provided general allegations, which it later contradicted, regarding the attack on al-Maghazi.

Even if Israeli forces had intended to target legitimate military objectives in the vicinity of these three strikes, the evidence indicates these attacks did not distinguish between military objectives and civilian objects, and as such would therefore be indiscriminate. Indiscriminate attacks that kill or injure civilians, or destroy or damage civilian objects, are war crimes.

The evidence collected by Amnesty International also indicates the Israeli military failed to provide warning – at minimum to anyone living in the locations that were hit – before launching the attacks.

The cases documented here illustrate a clear pattern of attacks over the past seven months in which the Israeli military has flouted international law, killing Palestinian civilians with total impunity and displaying a callous disregard for human lives.

Full investigation is here: https://t.co/02xclWlIDC

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

@PriceofOil’s new #BigOilRealityCheck shows how oil & gas companies – #climate arsonists fueling climate chaos – cannot be trusted to put out the fire. New research finds that 8 companies alone are on track to use 30% of our remaining 1.5°C carbon budget https://t.co/kUStNZY1Z2

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

BREAKING: Despite claiming to be part of the solution, Big Oil and Gas companies are failing to align with the new international climate agreement to phase out fossil fuels. They need a #BigOilRealityCheck https://t.co/sj9d8MDOUe

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

🪩🎉TODAY: @ITLOS_TIDM's opinion sets a landmark precedent for climate justice globally, holding that GhG emissions are a form of pollution of the marine environment. Ruling will help protect oceans & ppl from climate harm. @AILitigation 's take 👇🏽https://t.co/2lIqINrKHr

[Candy Ofime @candyofime]

#Nigeria must urge @Shell to right its wrongs. @amnesty's research has shown that the company's decades of polluting oil extraction have turned the Niger Delta into a sacrifice zone. Divesting doesn't absolve the company from its responsibility to remediate & rehabilitate

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

With Shell currently seeking regulatory approval for the sale of its business in the Niger Delta, it is essential that it is held fully to account for decades of grievous human rights abuses related to oil spills. https://t.co/syTVHmkZBe