Abir Ghattas
@AbirGhattas
Acting CIO & Director of Information Security @HRW • Feminist •🥋• @[email protected] •
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https://www.abirghattas.com 15-03-2010 09:26:09
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Breaking: New 100-page report by University Network for Human Rights & human rights centers at Yale, Cornell, University of Pretoria & Boston University finds that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & calls on govts to avoid complicity & act to bring end to this grave crime.
🎯TRAVEL BAN OVERTURNED 🎯
After weeks of difficulties, Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta has won a huge victory as lawyer Alexander Gorski, ICJP lawyers and @ELSClegal succeeded in challenging Germany's Schengen-wide travel ban on the war surgeon.
After returning from working in Gaza
Amputated limbs due to over-cuffing. Stripped detainees in diapers fed thru straws. Revenge beatings. CNN reports on Israeli detention based on accounts by whistleblowers & released Palestinians. What we know about Gaza is only tip of atrocity iceberg. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/mid…
Yesterday some of my students at Bard College Berlin attended a Gaza protest at Freie Universität that was forcibly dispersed, at university's request, by police. Today I join teachers and profs from Berlin and beyond to condemn this trampling of free assembly & speech.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
🚨 Out today 🚨
Amnesty Tech’s new technical explainer on the Samagra Vedika system shows how introduction of new technologies in automated social protection systems can threaten rights.
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Another Syrian detainee, Wael Ashi, also faces imminent deportation. His and Atia's unlawful deportations would violate Jordan's international law obligations, which forbid govts from returning people to places where they have a well-founded fear of persecution. #SyriaIsNotSafe
Breaking: State-backed Israeli settler attacks displaced 7+ entire Palestinian West Bank communities since Oct 7. Israeli authorities are responsible—they participated in attacks or looked on, arm settlers & ensure impunity. Sanctions needed. New from Human Rights Watch
hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…
Mohammad & Tareq have for 15+ years documented atrocities in Gaza for the indefatigable Palestinian rights org Al-Haq الحق. They’ve lived through unfathomable horror. They/their families lives now hang in the balance. They’re seeking support to find safety.
gofund.me/832c59eb