Dr Stephanie Berry 🧡

Senior Lecturer in Int. Human Rights Law, Sussex Law School. Tweets human rights, politics, food/wine, football. VTID. RTs not endorsements.

[Dr Stephanie Berry 🧡 @se_berry]

Really pleased to have written this report for @MinorityRights @IdeasForEurope on a minority rights approach to refugee and migrant communities in Europe. https://t.co/ZCfsyTbfzs

[Minority Rights Group @MinorityRights]

Applying lessons learned from minority rights protection in Europe to newly arrived #migrants & #refugees is most positive & effective approach to integration and inclusive societies – new report & podcast (Photo: Panos/Iva Zimova) https://t.co/SBZLb39bTF #HumanRights

[Liberty @libertyhq]

WE'RE HIRING 🚨

We have two exciting new vacancies in our legal and fundraising teams:

- Individual Giving Manager
- Legal Team Manager

Click the link below for more info and how to apply 👇
https://t.co/bfteywF00U

[cez @cezthesocialist]

Almost half of British people, and almost three quarters of Green voters, say that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.

Only a small minority of people hold antisemitic beliefs, the lowest rate being among people who are more likely to be anti-Zionist.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is racism, pure and simple. It’s also a test. The UK press needs to describe it for exactly what it is: that Reform’s candidate made a racist and inflammatory losing statement

[Human Rights Consortium, University of London @HRC_News]

📣 We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2026 Global Minority Rights Summer School! 📣 Deadline: 9 March 2026.

Jointly organised with @TLIBudapest @uni_nke @UNPOintl

https://t.co/o6UFNmsZQJ

#HumanRights #MinorityRights #SummerSchool

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Israel's top human rights group finds evidence of widespread sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners. By the world's "most moral army." https://t.co/dx8VFjAOas

[Liberty @libertyhq]

We're hiring!

We're looking for an Interim Head of Policy & Campaigns to help us defend civil liberties in the UK.

⏰ 12-month FTC
💸 £57,795
🏢 Hybrid - 2 days per week in our Westminster office
⏳ Deadline: 9am, Mon 26th January

Apply below

https://t.co/bfteywF00U

[Hadja Lahbib @hadjalahbib]

Following Israel’s NGO registration deadline, many humanitarian partners are not allowed to operate in Gaza anymore.

Life-saving aid to civilians in Gaza is being choked off. This must stop.

The NGO registration law, as it stands, cannot be applied.

https://t.co/FkbDPnc14U

[MSF International @MSF]

As of 31 December 2025, MSF is still awaiting renewal of its registration to operate in Gaza and the West Bank under new Israeli requirements, including staff lists.
The Palestinian health system is decimated, essential infrastructure is destroyed, and people struggle to meet basic needs. People need more services, not less. If MSF and other INGOs lose access, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be cut off from essential care.
We currently support one in five hospital beds and the delivery of one in three births in Gaza. In 2025 alone, we provided nearly 800,000 outpatient consultations, treated over 100,000 trauma cases, performed 22,700 surgeries, assisted more than 10,000 births, and distributed nearly 700 million litres of water.

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

Less than 24 hours after the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, Israel suspends most international humanitarian organisations working in Gaza. Independent Humanitarian Aid is ending. Israel’s genocide continues. https://t.co/WL7Ihr0Bz0

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

On 5th July this year, Palestine Action was proscribed after a vote in Parliament invoking the Terrorism Act 2000.

Since then, police have made over 2,700 arrests for peacefully protesting. These arrests are unlawful.

Amnesty UK has intervened in the Judicial Review in the courts and over 130,000 Amnesty supporters have called on the UK government to stop the prosecution of peaceful protestors.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Shocking that @Keir_Starmer will not order even a compassionate release for the hunger strikers who did what they did to end a GENOCIDE by Israel of the Palestinians in Gaza.

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

UK: Palestine Action hunger strikers' dire situation 'a shameful moment for the UK government.
It's shocking that these activists have been forced to resort to such desperate measures to bring attention to their plight and the cruel misuse of terrorism law https://t.co/Xgux5mLS4O

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🇬🇧 Perhaps the UK gov has not enough on its conscience that can let Anti-Genocide activists die??
I trust the UK people will appreciate that this is not about Palestine anymore: it is about their own freedoms.
Full solidarity to PalestineAction hunger strikers and their families.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "Phase 1 of the ceasefire is Gaza is holding, but its precarious"

@FranceskAlbs: "The ceasefire is not precarious, its not existent. Since the day the ceasefire was proclaimed nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army in Gaza"

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

Mary's dismissal at Harvard should be a major scandal across US public health and medicine. This is obvious suppression of principled free speech, a betrayal of the universalism that's supposed to underwrite public health, and a clear sign of capitulation to fascist pressure.

[Volker Türk @volker_turk]

On the 10th anniversary of #GenocidePreventionDay, the world needs to do more to prevent and end this horrific crime.
Let’s support the courts and human rights mechanisms that are holding perpetrators accountable.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Europe today.
Citizens opposing genocide attacked by police.
Journalists & activists exposing genocide criminalised.
Conferences investigating genocide cancelled.
Dissent labelled ‘antisemitism’ by law.
Europeans' taxes used to repress freedoms & shield those committing genocide.

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I condemn Israel’s flagrant breach of the inviolability of UNRWA premises and interference in its humanitarian work, which is mandated by the member States of the United Nations

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

In reality some of Polanski’s preferred policies, like a wealth tax, have the support of economists like Thomas Piketty, Gabriel Zucman, Joe Stiglitz (Nobel winner), Mariana Mazzucato & Branko Milanovic.

Beyond silly to say these are marginal figures.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ BREAKING: UN Committee Against Torture: Israel now has a “de facto State policy of organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” that has “gravely intensified” since October 7.

The UN Committee is made up of ten independent UN experts and periodically monitors states’ compliance with the Convention against Torture, issuing binding assessments of state conduct. Their latest findings of Israel’s conduct include repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboarding, prolonged stress positions, sexual violence, humiliation such as being forced to act like animals or being urinated on, denial of medical care, excessive restraints causing amputations, surgery without anaesthetic, exposure to extreme heat or cold, deprivation of food, water, hygiene, clothing, sleep, and the use of hallucinogens on detainees.

The Committee found at least 75 Palestinians have died in custody since October 7 amid a deliberate state policy of collective punishment, with autopsies showing signs of torture, malnutrition and untreated medical conditions — and no officials held accountable. Israel has also suspended ICRC access to detainees.

It warned that Israel’s sweeping administrative detention regime has reached “unprecedented” scale, with Palestinians held for months without charge, denied lawyers for up to 15 days, and presented to judges after 12 days. Settlers, however, were exempted from the same military order.

Under the Unlawful Combatants Law, Palestinians — including older people, disabled people, pregnant women and children — have been detained in groups without individualized assessment, held incommunicado, and placed outside legal protection in what the Committee says amounts to enforced disappearance.

The Committee further warned that Israel’s cumulative policies — the blockade on aid, destruction of civilian infrastructure, forced displacement, and a system of movement restrictions and segregation — may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of the Palestinian population as a whole.

(Photo: Addameer)