🇺🇳 Today Amnesty International is with many of our partner organizations in New York City at #CPD57 session (aka #ICPD30 ) at the United Nations! 🇺🇳

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Breaking news

UN experts lead the way in the call for urgently needed Torture-Free Trade Treaty to combat “increased use of force to suppress protesters”
ohchr.org/sites/default/…

#ProtectTheProtest #TortureFreeTrade

Amnesty International and other climate justice organizations are deeply concerned about restrictions imposed on the participation of civil society organizations at the first board meeting of the Loss and Damage Fund for climate change next week. amn.st/6019bohGL

This op-ed, based on Amnesty International research, highlights how petrochemicals tainted by human rights abuses in the USA are entering Europe's plastics supply chain, and calls for a robust #PlasticsTreaty to protect human rights, the environment & climate. amn.st/6013bSZ4t

Last words from @NiematA to the #UNSC : “The intl community’s failure to act in #Sudan and in all other contexts should be a stain on our collective conscience. Only you have the power to change this. Please act now.” #KeepEyesOnSudan

Read her statement: wps.ngo/ahmadi

Important initiative to increase transparency around elections to the UN Human Rights Committee. Look out for:✔️Expertise and competence in human rights✔️Independence✔️Impartiality ✔️Gender representation✔️Geographical distribution & representation of different legal systems

Human rights obligations require stopping finance for fossil fuels and phasing them out fast, fair, funded and forever. See: Fatal fuels: Why human rights protection urgently requires a full and equitable fossil fuel phase out tinyurl.com/53etvp78

The European Court of Human Rights has set an historic precedent by ruling that the Swiss government has failed to comply with its duties under the European Convention concerning climate change and not done enough to protect older Swiss women from harm. amn.st/6016wbaWk

Research out today into 51 major companies showed they are doing far too little to curb their greenhouse gas emissions to keep global warming within an internationally agreed target of 1.5°C this century. amn.st/6015wK8Sc

Three priorities
1. Wealthy States dramatically increase $$ to the loss & damage Fund
2. Funds rapidly disbursed to States in greatest need due to climate crisis impacts
3. Accelerate fossil fuel phase out to minimize further impacts
All applying a human rights based approach!

This week Amnesty International international joins Global Justice Center & other civil society organizations in New York to urge UN member states to support moving the draft treaty on #CrimesAgainstHumanity into negotiations. There is no time to waste. We need a treaty now. amn.st/6017ZFC3v

The adopted UN resolution is long overdue. The resolution must pave way for an enduring ceasefire to alleviate mass suffering in Gaza ⬇️
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

🚨Breaking news: All three #climatechange cases (Klimaseniorinnen v. Switzerland, Carême v. France, and Duarte Agostinho v. Portugal and 32 others) will be delivered at a public hearing at 10.30 a.m. on 9 April 2024 at the Human Rights Building in #Strasbourg ECHR CEDH

🚨 #CSW68 Day 2

Join our side event on Afghan women journalists today at 1:15PM at UNHQ in NY.

Co-organized by Amnesty International IMS UN Women UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 Denmark MFA 🇩🇰 Sida

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Only a few hours until #CSW68 opens.

Come meet Farahnaz Forotan Lima Anwari & Wahida Faizi at Amnesty International + IMS in-person parallel event on Monday 11 March at 2:30PM.

Details below ⬇️

🗓️Mark your calendars
12 March 2024 - 1:15PM-2:30PM
UNHQ, Conference Room D

Join Amnesty International & partners at #CSW68 side event on women journalists in #Afghanistan .

Farahnaz Forotan
Lima Anwari
Wahida Faizi
Zaki Daryabi
IMS
UN Women
UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳
Denmark MFA 🇩🇰
@SIDA

One week until #CSW68 opens!

Please join @Amnesty & IMS on 11 March for this parallel event on women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Details below ⬇️