For 18 months, hostilities in #Gaza and severe restrictions on humanitarian assistance, which now include a complete humanitarian blockade, have devastated 2.2 million lives, destroying essential civilian infrastructure. Since the ceasefire collapsed, Israeli attacks on Palestinians have intensified.
In parallel, in the #WestBank, rampant settler violence and operations by Israeli security forces are leading to the deaths and injuries of Palestinians, as well as their forced displacement.
Read the full statement ⤵️
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Given that the event was hosted @SOAS the institution should exercise basic due diligence in vetting guests to avoid legitimizing oppressive regimes. Accepting some culpability here might be a good starting point
Shame on @SOAS for inviting Tun Aung Kyaw, a rep of the illegal Myanmar military junta, to their campus for a film festival. By doing so, SOAS legitimised the junta and provided fodder for its propaganda.
SOAS should stand with the ppl of Myanmar, not #MyanmarMilitaryTerrorists!
IDLO is looking for an ADR Expert to develop an intensive training programme on ADR, with a focus on mediation and negotiation.
DM if of interest and feel free to circulate widely in your networks
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A release of wrongfully arrested prisoners is always good news, but it does not change the regime under which the Myanmar people live.
At anytime, anywhere, anyone can be (re)arrested, false sentences (re)charged.
IN #MYANMAR, NOWHERE IS SAFE UNTIL THE JUNTA IS OVERTHROWN
Some wise words from Angela #Merkel to graduates at #Harvard U. -- we can't take democracy for granted, and to preserve it we have to tear down walls of ignorance and fight to defend the truth.
In #Myanmar, government must stop "hiding behind principles of non-interference in judicial affairs when travesties of justice are credibly reported" says @BenedictDunant in an excellent read in @FrontierMM on rule of law (or lack thereof) in Myanmar https://t.co/VRuaOUXjGv
A reminder that this day could and should have come much earlier, but did not. Aung San Suu Kyi's government could have declined to go through this farcical prosecution, and freed them at any point in the process: https://t.co/0Oxp2tCcC0
Wa Lone, Pulitzer Prize-winner, minutes after his release from prison. "I'm really happy and excited to see my family and my colleagues. I can't wait to go to my newsroom." #WaLoneKyawSoeOo
The moment when @Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo walked free outside Myanmar's Insein prison after receiving a presidential pardon. More here: https://t.co/0VMLYTaz9n
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are included in the third round of presidential pardons alongside 6,520 other prisoners. We will confirm later whether other political prisoners are included in this final pardon. More to follow.
Wa Lone & Kyaw Soe Oo FREE after 500 days behind bars! Their arrest/conviction was always a travesty of justice, reflecting precarious state of press freedom in Myanmar where reporting the truth alone is grounds for imprisonment https://t.co/UY7mYnMHU7
#Myanmar authorities should promptly release human rights lawyer Khin Khin Kyaw, sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment for "contempt of court." Politically motivated charges and a major affront to rule of law, justice in #Myanmar@amnesty https://t.co/2LQqp2mV8A