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Katharine Derderian
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Working @amnestyeu.bsky.social for human rights in EU foreign policy (Africa, Asia, Americas). Posting on all things human rights and humanitarian. Nomad happily landed in Belgium.
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Michael Ineichen @ineichenm.bsky.social · 11h
Das bedeutet unter anderem, die schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen in #Xinjiang anzusprechen, die auch drei Jahre nach dem Bericht des UN-Hochkommissars für Menschenrechte noch immer weitergehen... 2/3 www.amnesty.ch/de/laender/a...
Auch drei Jahre nach Uno-Bericht: Keine Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit in Xinjiang
Auch drei Jahre nach dem Uno-Bericht, der China schwere Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Xinjiang attestierte, setzt sich die Repression in der Uigurischen Autonomen Region fort. Angehörige der Inhaftier...
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Michael Ineichen @ineichenm.bsky.social · 1d
Der chinesische Aussenminister Wang Yi besucht die #Schweiz für einen „strategischen Dialog“ mit Bundesrat #Cassis. @schweiz.amnesty.ch erwartet, dass Ignazio Cassis die #Menschenrechte ausdrücklich zur Sprache bringt! www.scmp.com/news/china/d... 1/3
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Amnesty Suisse @suisse.amnesty.ch · 11h
Il faut également exiger la libération de courageux·ses défenseur·e·s des droits humains tel que #ZhangZhan. En outre, l'instrumentalisation du système judiciaire sur le continent chinois et à #Hongkong pour harceler et persécuter les militant·e·s et opposant·e·s doit cesser.
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Amnesty Suisse @suisse.amnesty.ch · 11h
Il faut notamment aborder les graves violations des droits humains au #Xinjiang, qui n'ont toujours pas cessé, trois ans après la publication du rapport du Haut-Commissaire des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme. www.amnesty.org/fr/latest/ne...
Chine. Trois ans après un important rapport de l’ONU, nul n’a été amené à rendre des comptes pour les crimes contre l’humanité commis dans le Xinjiang
Des familles de personnes détenues dans le Xinjiang décrivent leurs souffrances, trois ans après un rapport de l'ONU dénonçant de graves violations des droits humains par la Chine.
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Amnesty Suisse @suisse.amnesty.ch · 11h
Le ministre chinois des Affaires étrangères, Wang Yi, est en visite en #Suisse pour un « dialogue stratégique » avec le conseiller fédéral Cassis.
@suisse.amnesty.ch attend d’Ignazio Cassis qu’il aborde explicitement la question des droits humains !
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Michael Ineichen @ineichenm.bsky.social · 1d
Der chinesische Aussenminister Wang Yi besucht die #Schweiz für einen „strategischen Dialog“ mit Bundesrat #Cassis. @schweiz.amnesty.ch erwartet, dass Ignazio Cassis die #Menschenrechte ausdrücklich zur Sprache bringt! www.scmp.com/news/china/d... 1/3
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 6d
Rubber bullets, chemical substances, experimental acoustic weapons have been used recently by various police on Europe's streets against peaceful protests, writes the UN special rapporteur on torture.
Torture weapons are being used on Europe's streets to put down protests
Rubber bullets, chemical substances, experimental acoustic weapons have been used recently by various police on Europe's streets against peaceful protests, writes the UN special rapporteur on torture.
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 5d
Torture weapons are being used on Europe's streets to put down protests
Torture weapons are being used on Europe's streets to put down protests
Rubber bullets, chemical substances, experimental acoustic weapons have been used recently by various police on Europe's streets against peaceful protests, writes the UN special rapporteur on torture.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 2d
The Chinese government must immediately release all those imprisoned solely for exercising their fundamental freedoms.

Read more 👉
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China: Courts used as tools of systematic repression against human rights defenders
Chinese courts are systematically weaponizing vague national security and public order laws to silence human rights defenders, Amnesty International said today in a new report exposing the judiciary’s...
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 2d
When lawyers are jailed for defending clients, petitioners are punished for seeking justice, and writers are imprisoned for their words, the message is clear: nobody is safe.

Yet still, Chinese human rights defenders persist – and the world must stand with them.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 2d
🚨 ICYMI - a new @amnesty.org report out last week

On how China’s courts are used as a tool to silence journalists, activists, lawyers and citizens - often for nothing more than their peaceful expression.

⚖️ Our research on 68 cases shows systematic fair trial violations.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13d
Afghanistan & Iran show how international failure to engage consistently allows the deterioration of gender rights to go unchecked & emboldens regimes to institutionalize oppression.

Only decisive, coordinated action can close this gap between principle & practice.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13d
Listen below from 16:30:37👇
Subcommittee on Human Rights Ordinary meeting - Jointly with the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13d
➡️Establish accessible well-resourced protection pathways for women at risk in Afghanistan, Iran & worldwide
➡️Ensure EU work on women’s rights addresses intersectional forms of discrimination
➡️Actively mainstream women’s rights & gender sensitivity across all EU external action
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13d
What can the EU do?

➡️Work for recognition of gender apartheid as a crime under international law
➡️Anchor EU policy on women’s rights in genuine consultation with women rights defenders & civil society
➡️Include women in all peacebuilding & conflict resolution initiatives
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 13d
“There is no worst-case scenario left to imagine, [...] an increasing number of UN experts and Afghan women describe what they are enduring today as gender apartheid.”

Yesterday @amnestysasia.bsky.social's Regional Director Smriti Singh spoke at the DROI Committee and FEMM Committee hearing.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 16d
Read our take on how the EU can be visible, strategic & impactful on human rights at a critical time.

Only with human rights at the core of their partnership will the EU and India be equipped to confront today's challenges at home & in the wider world.

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https://amnesty.eu/news/india-amnesty-internationals-submission-to-the-european-commissions-new…
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 16d
We @amnesty.org urge the EU to
👉Speak out unequivocally on serious abuses & repressive trends in India
👉Be clear that deepening bilateral relations will be linked to concrete, measurable progress on human rights
👉Ensure human rights remain at the very heart of EU-India relations.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 16d
You have to look very hard to spot human rights here.

Last week's @ec.europa.eu Joint Communication on the EU-India strategic agenda has even less commitment on rights than last time in 2018.

And not a mention of the profound rights crisis affecting people across India.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 16d
We call on the EU to:

➡️facilitate diplomatic spaces
➡️support projects defending human rights & the Amazon
➡️monitor the situation

There's no time to lose for international action to guarantee the rights of Indigenous children & protect those defending life in the Amazon.
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 16d
Peru's repressive laws increase risks for indigenous communities & threaten their human rights.

Still, MANTHOC Perú activists highlight acts of resistance🌱

👉Botanical gardens preserving medicinal plants

👉Work to strengthen ancestral knowledge & protect their territory
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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · 16d
Last Friday, activists from MANTHOC Perú with support of
Amnesty International Peru met with the European External Action Service in Brussels.

They raised the alarm about river pollution and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and weak protection for environmental defenders in Peru.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · 26d
And here it is!

Tic-Tac-Toe Chicken by @kimberlytso.bsky.social!

With huge thanks to @fontsbooks.bsky.social in McLean Virginia, one of my happy places!
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · Sep 8
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MEPs concerned over US disengagement from UN human rights review | News | European Parliament
The Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Chair of the Delegation for relations with the United States, have issued the following statement.
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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · Sep 3
The move shows a troubling disregard for international accountability and human rights.

The US might shamefully be on a path to set a new precedent worldwide, and to abandon a process the US itself helped build and support.

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Katharine Derderian @kderderian1.bsky.social · Sep 3
Unprecedented.

The United States might be on track to become the first country to fully walk away from the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a regular, important human rights related review.

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Trump Administration Seeks to Elude Human Rights Scrutiny by Not Participating in UN Human Rights Review
The UPR is one of the few processes where every government, including our own, has an opportunity to both report on its progress and hold others to account.
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