Eric Friedman

I am the Global Health Law Justice scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

[Eric Friedman @EricFriedman18]

Help stave off a 2nd wave of death from injuries, hunger, illness, cold. Consider donating to organizations on the ground in affected areas, including indigenous Syrians orgs like the @SyriaCivilDef (#WhiteHelmets). Many listed here: https://t.co/6ylubZRrHu

[Eric Friedman @EricFriedman18]

Victims of #earthquake in NW #Syria were already victims of Syrian/Russian bombs, & now continue to be victims of Assad/Putin war, with limited humanitarian access. Their lives are doubly devastated.

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Contact President Biden to urge him to provide Ukraine all the military equipment and assistance it requires, directly and through NATO -- now: https://t.co/CUhjzaBSYk

[Eric Friedman @EricFriedman18]

President Biden responded to Russian atrocities outside Kyiv by calling for accountability for Putin through international criminal justice mechanisms. Wrong focus. Accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine is necessary, but secondary....

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Priority #1: Save lives now. Provide Ukraine all the military assistance its gov't is requesting. Justice comes too late. Never Again didn't mean Nuremberg. It means Never Again. @nprscottsimon and @M_Ignatieff are right: https://t.co/mCTg3ZMdLP #StandWithUkraine @SaveUkraineSave

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Massive humanitarian assistance necessary -- but not sufficient. Other measures required to start economy & save lives, as David Miliband of @RESCUEorg testifies. https://t.co/9oFZJf7QQu. @AfghansTomorrow has a plan. You can support: https://t.co/JS3cq0H3Tw

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As catastrophe looms for the rights, freedom & democracy of the people of Ukraine, people of #Afghanistan in full throes of humanitarian catastrophe, with risk of mass starvation. Families already resorting to selling children. https://t.co/g8mRGba7Kn

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Here is what Afghans face: https://t.co/8JdlfburxJ
You can also help directly, including through UN refugee agency -- https://t.co/rjTQaLiibN -- or by supporting people everywhere who are experiencing #humanitarian crises: https://t.co/IsUKjU1Xnc (International Rescue Committee)

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Massive $5 billion UN appeal for hunger & humanitarian crisis in #Afghanistan & facing Afghan #refugees in neighboring countries. US bears extra responsibility, but responded w/meager $308 million https://t.co/KUWGuu2BqI. Urge Biden to cover the shortfall.
https://t.co/CUhjzaBSYk

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3/3 More possibilities to help the people of #Afghanistan through: https://t.co/joJXFeLdiM
https://t.co/ULSaXPgRmg

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1/3 As #Afghanistan begins to recede from headlines, don't forget the millions of refugees & IDPs & all Afghans still at grave risk and in need of help -- those associated with the US/NATO countries, #women and other #humanrights defenders, journalists, judges, more.

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2/3 Support those supporting the people of #Afghanistan
Women's Regional Network: https://t.co/ilLKmbR4cH
International Rescue Committee: https://t.co/F2kGVT5lkk
Women for Afghan Women: https://t.co/mPJOENcceV
Avaaz: https://t.co/JEn6SZWWE4
Afghanaid: https://t.co/ZuHJvmHBUu

[Eric Friedman @EricFriedman18]

Precious Matsoso, Paulo Buss & Leigh Haynes argue Framework Convention on Global Health & #righttohealth necessary to prepare for next pandemic & respond to vast health #inequities. Call for leaders to "urgently launch a process to establish the #FCGH." https://t.co/E8mM9fVmjt

[Lawrence Gostin @LawrenceGostin]

Compelling argument for #FCGH and #righttohealth as key to pandemic preparedness and response, and to rectifying unconscionable health #inequities #COVID19 has exposed in our world

https://t.co/qzVNwIackc

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The gun violence and carnage continues....there are many factors behind gun violence, but one factor behind all gun violence: The gun. Tom Paxton puts to music the basic truth: "What if he couldn't lay hands on a gun?" https://t.co/KQBD5jHn5P

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"The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer." -- President Joseph R. Biden, January 20, 2021

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“History says, / Don't hope on this side of the grave, / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up, / And hope and history rhyme." -- Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and a favorite of President of the United States Joseph R. Biden

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(2/2) Join growing number of civil society advocates from around the world in a campaign to achieve a #RighttoHealth Capacity Fund. Campaigners have established a Google group. Fill in your details on this form, and we'll add you to the group. https://t.co/OpMlNwz9cY

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THREAD (1/2) A new right to health campaign is underway. Civil society orgs campaigning for the right to health & #healthequity shouldn't struggle for funding. A solution: a new #RighttoHealth Capacity Fund. Keep reading to get involved. The proposed fund: https://t.co/LS371CHNv8

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(3/3) The words of John Lewis, a man who lived a life of justice and love, of courage and peace, must now be our deeds. #BelovedCommunity

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THREAD (1/3): John Lewis: "If you want a better, more just society, you cannot wait for someone else to do it. Through your own efforts, through your own action, through your own creativity and vision, you have to do it...." https://t.co/YNKqclzNPN #JohnLewis

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(2/3) "....You must make our world a better place. We have to save and leave this world better for generations yet unborn. That is your calling." -- John Lewis, Boston University, May 20, 2018 #HumanDignity