We need a treaty guaranteeing #TortureFreeTrade now. Crowd-control weapon abuse by police to threaten and harm demonstrators curtails freedom of expression and amounts to torture when used indiscriminately or intentionally harmfully against protesters. Former UN Special Rapporteur FoAA rights Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture

🎉🎉So proud that #HoldingOurOwn has been nominated for #SMKAwards2024 Amplifying Voices Award

The Guide wouldn't have been possible without the incredible organisations doing the work day in, day out, and ground-breaking work of campaigners dating back decades

🚨Palestine solidarity protests: know your rights

With a new wave of student protests across UK universities, here's what you need to know about your rights and police powers🔗
libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_informa…

The ACLU helped establish the right to protest as a central pillar of the First Amendment. We have defended those principles for more than a century. The First Amendment compels public universities and colleges to respect free speech rights. And while the Constitution does not…

⚠️ Last weekend saw more trials of of AI Surveillance ahead of the Paris Olympics. ⚠️

This time, it was Black Eyed Peas concert-goers and football fans at PSG v Lyon who were the test subjects, less than two months after a ‘successful’ test 🧵

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Lithium Fever: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Under Attack in Jujuy, Argentina. Last August, @dejusticia and Human Rights Law Centre were part of the NGO fact-finding Jujuy mission. Read their expert report on land and protest rights violations around extractivism.
hrlc.org.au/news/2024/04/1…

As 100s of students were arrested for exercising their right to p/assembly in support of #Palestine , I remind Columbia University to respect academic freedoms and student’s fundamental rights. The right to p/assembly is key for people to speak out against injustices& to mobilise for  #peace

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New report: A constitutional change in Argentina has opened the door to a scramble by mining companies for lithium on Indigenous ancestral lands, with no informed consultation and restrictions placed on the right to protest. @DavidHRLC INCLO
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“During the campaign, Milei refused to say whether he believed in democracy,” Paula Litvachky, director of @cels_argentina told Canadian news outlet La Presse about the threats to civic space looming in #Argentina . lp.ca/ufJLKn?sharing…

“The response is the same in every protest: tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, arrests and injured journalists.”We must not normalise this. #CrowdControlWeapon use is a last resort in case of urgent life-threatening danger, not a public security routine to shut down dissent

“My eye is gone. I cannot change that.

But the way these weapons are used?

That can be changed.”

Leidy isn’t letting the story end here. Neither should we.

#ProtectTheProtest and sign here for a Torture-Free Trade Treaty: amn.st/6010Z4mg4 ✊

📢With civil society from around the world, we're calling for a #TortureFreeTrade Treaty.
🌟We greatly appreciate the support of the Special Rapporteur in raising awareness of the need to end the trade in tools of torture.
➡️Sign Amnesty International's petition: amnesty.org/en/petition/ta…

Las organizaciones de la red INCLO nos unimos para expresar nuestra preocupación por las violaciones de las libertades civiles que se están produciendo en varios países en relación con la guerra de #Gaza .

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza.

An investigation by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם, in partnership with שיחה מקומית.

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We endorse INCLO expressing grave concerns about civil liberties infringements in various countries in connection with the war in #Gaza

Rights to speech, protest and information must be guaranteed globally to fight islamophobia and antisemitism hrlc.org.au/news/2024/4/4/…

👉🏾The endorsing INCLO member organisations, including HRLC, have come together to express grave concern about civil liberties infringements occurring in various countries across the world in connection with the war in Gaza. Read the statement here. hrlc.org.au/news/2024/4/4/…

#ProtectTheProtest