Landmark win for the reparations movement!
A Belgian court ruling found the Belgian govt guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule & ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation.
Hard fought justice for survivors!
https://t.co/zPB4KAUhYE
Federal Court rejects bid by CSIS officials to testify behind closed doors re their role in Montrealer Abousfian #Abdelrazik spending years in a foreign jail without charge. Trial starts next month! https://t.co/04DKn6XXUD
📣 The Foreign Minister is pleased to announce that New Zealand pilot, Phillip Mehrtens, taken hostage in Papua, Indonesia, is now safe.
Press release: https://t.co/iZkFNT7oaW
In Federal Court today to fight a last minute motion by Canada to hold historic #Abdelrazik trial behind closed doors. CSIS was complicit in the arbitrary detention of our Montreal client by Sudanese security agency renowned for torture. https://t.co/JyIAftqtir
Harold Wilson's Labour government secretly armed and backed Nigeria's aggression against Biafra during the 1960s, declassified files show.
👉How Britain's Labour government facilitated the massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria
https://t.co/htdvwywqAB
Short piece from me in The Conversation alerting to NZ's #IHL Report launched yesterday at Parliament: A new report lays out NZ’s humanitarian duties under the laws of war – now it needs an action plan https://t.co/1jN8KbaKQY via @ConversationEDU
“New Zealand has quietly signed up to help the United States in its new strategy to expand the weapons-making defence industrial base across the Indo-Pacific region.
The government endorsed a 'Statement of Principles for Indo-Pacific Defense Industrial Base Collaboration' in June.”
https://t.co/CEngcLfTWh
Approved in first reading: UNRWA to be declared by the State of Israel as a terrorist organization; all relations between UNRWA and the state to be severed-https://t.co/HVrv4qcTQv
A summary of today's final report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Care:
The Royal Commission of Inquiry says "unimaginable" and widespread abuse in care between 1950 and 2019 amounts to a "national disgrace."
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https://t.co/Yo6qTOIo9b