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Ketty Nivyabandi

@kettynivyabandi

i dream awake, write asleep, tweet erratically & take injustice personally. poems pop up once in a bright while. secretary general @AmnestyNow.

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Jean Guerrero(@jeanguerre) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm sending love to all of the journalists, truth tellers and storytellers out there who must live with death threats and fear of violent extremists killing them.

Hoping that Salman Rushdie survives this.

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Ketty Nivyabandi(@kettynivyabandi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Interesting Hillel. You didn’t seem this delighted a few weeks ago, when I was discussing Israel’s system of apartheid at the Parliament of Canada. Change of heart?

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#WOMENSART(@womensart1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Your life is already artful, just waiting for you to make it art'
Remembering Toni Morrison, US novelist (Feb 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019)

'Your life is already artful, just waiting for you to make it art' Remembering Toni Morrison, US novelist (Feb 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019) #WomensArt
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Olivia Rania Bowden(@OliviaBowden__) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Canada denying visas for panelists from the global south for crucial, urgent discussions on HIV/AIDS is truly colonialism in action and the continued silencing of those voices.

Really upsetting to see this unfold last weekend.

thestar.com/news/canada/20…

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حيدر(@dialectichiphop) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.'

'You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.'
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Amnesty International(@amnesty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In New York, facial recognition technology has been used to target people of color in protests, threatening their right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest.

So we sued the NYPD, and won 🧵

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Mark Kersten(@MarkKersten) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A win for dignity & human rights!

British Columbia will no longer use jails to lock up migrants coming to Canada. BC is terminating its detention contract w the Canada Border Services Agency news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2022P…

Congrats Human Rights Watch Canada Samer Muscati Ketty Nivyabandi!

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Ketty Nivyabandi(@kettynivyabandi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Powerful editorial on immigration detention by the Toronto Star today: 'provinces should cease incarcerating individuals on behalf of the Canada Border Services Agency'.

This practice is inhumane and casts a huge shadow Canada's human rights commitments. It must end.

thestar.com/opinion/2022/0…

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African Union(@_AfricanUnion) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Africa’s Women’s Day is observed annually across the continent to recognise and affirm the role of women’s organising in achieving the political freedom of Africa and advancing the social and economic status of women. The first Pan-African Women’s conference was held in July 1962

Africa’s Women’s Day is observed annually across the continent to recognise and affirm the role of women’s organising in achieving the political freedom of Africa and advancing the social and economic status of women. The first Pan-African Women’s conference was held in July 1962
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Reuters(@Reuters) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Participants at Pope Francis' Mass in Quebec, Canada, unfurled a banner asking him to formally rescind 15th century edicts, known as the doctrine of discovery, in which the papacy justified the taking of Indigenous land reut.rs/3S8gB3Q 1/5

Participants at Pope Francis' Mass in Quebec, Canada, unfurled a banner asking him to formally rescind 15th century edicts, known as the doctrine of discovery, in which the papacy justified the taking of Indigenous land reut.rs/3S8gB3Q 1/5
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CBC News Alerts(@CBCAlerts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pope Francis say the residential school system and its forced assimilation of Indigenous children amounts to genocide: cbc.ca/1.6537203

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CIJ_ICJ(@CIJ_ICJ) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PRESS RELEASE: the finds that it has jurisdiction to entertain The Gambia’s Application in the case v. , and that the said Application is admissible bit.ly/3aVYBJk

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ finds that it has jurisdiction to entertain The Gambia’s Application in the case #TheGambia v. #Myanmar, and that the said Application is admissible bit.ly/3aVYBJk
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Cohérence(@coherence_e) 's Twitter Profile Photo

« Pour qu’une pensée change le monde, il faut d’abord qu’elle change la vie de celui qui la porte. Il faut qu’elle se change en exemple. »
Albert Camus

« Pour qu’une pensée change le monde, il faut d’abord qu’elle change la vie de celui qui la porte. Il faut qu’elle se change en exemple. » Albert Camus
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Hanna Gros(@Hanna_Gros) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you to all those who made this possible by sharing their personal experiences in immigration detention. Today’s decision is a momentous step towards ensuring this pain and trauma is not multiplied.

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