Human rights lawyer, poet, climate advocate, 🌱 based, memory studies (all views my own) 341ppm
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What we are seeing is the disintegration of the last remnants of the international rules-based order and the precarious dawn of a new era of might-is-right in international affairs. You might start the clock with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or even earlier with the US war in Iraq, but the fact remains that the UN has lately proven itself both incompetent and irrelevant. Make no mistake, this is a troubling state of affairs- the world would be a more perilous place in the absence of international law. But to carry on as though this is not the case, to rail against the violation of international law which this war undoubtedly is and not to mention the fact that these same international laws and norms did not prevent the slaughter of 30,000+ innocent Iranians just 6 weeks earlier, nor stop the regime from terrorising its people and others in the region for decades... at best you a misdiagnosing the problem. At worst you are complicit in it.
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So, it turns out that in 2024 Randa Abdel-Fattah along with nine other authors wrote to the Adelaide Writers Festival demanding that a pro-Israel author be removed. Story in SA’s InDaily just published.
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Chills all over my body. This is Tehran right now, the masses screaming “azadi azadi azadi” (freedom freedom freedom). For reference, 48 hours ago, @PahlaviReza issued a directive to take to the streets today at 8pm (it’s now around 11pm). The video was viewed almost 90 million times. The population of Iran is about 90 million. They heard his word and poured into the streets, unafraid.
To everybody that said the people of Iran don’t want regime change—echoing the regime’s propaganda that this was American imperialism or a “Zionist psy-op”—it’s time to disappear into the bushes like Homer.
The Iranian people have trampled every lie under foot. They are coming for the terrorists.
Stand back. It’s go time.
ALevin retweeted
Hundreds of Israelis are now marching in the center of Tel Aviv against the starvation of Gaza at the hands of the Israeli government. Some are holding sacks of flour.
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If you haven't already, please sign this petition calling for Reza's immediate and unconditional freedom:
change.org/p/free-reza-khand…
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Read this moving letter from Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to her jailed husband Reza Khandan, who is languishing in Evin prison for the 'crime' of supporting women's rights. Both Nasrin and Reza helped me during my own time in prison.
msmagazine.com/2025/04/24/re…
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up @DoctorVive's indispensable guide to talking climate action & fighting fossil fuel propaganda 🧵
ALevin retweeted
This week Australia led a joint statement at UNGA about serious human rights violations in Xinjiang and Tibet. They should continue to publicly call out grave human rights abuses in China and should not be bullied into silence @hrw and @amnestyOz ⬇️ hrw.org/news/2024/10/24/aust…
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"We’ve looked from Mount Everest to the deep sea, from the poles to the equator. We’ve found microplastics everywhere."
Richard Thompson, who first discovered microplastics 20 years ago, explains why we urgently need a global treaty on plastic pollution.
e360.yale.edu/features/richa…
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The Taliban will be taken to the International Court of Justice for gender discrimination by Canada, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands in a groundbreaking move -- the first use of the ICJ to challenge a government for systematic gender discrimination.
theguardian.com/world/2024/s…
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The world should be responding with outrage, not a shrug, to the gender apartheid that the Taliban have imposed on Afghan women and girls. france24.com/en/tv-shows/per…
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1. This horrible ending to these hostages' ordeal is a blatant war crime by Hamas.
2. It shows the extraordinary danger of Israel trying to rescue the hostages militarily rather than negotiate their release, but Netanyahu keeps stalling on a deal.
💥Now it's official, @IDFSpokesperson confirms hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23; Eden Yerushalmi, 24; Ori Danino, 25; Alex Lubanov, 32; Carmel Gat, 40; and Almog Sarusi, 25, "were murdered by their Hamas captors a short time before being located by IDF forces in Gaza yesterday."
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Celebrating Father's Day in Australia, Emerge Australia sends support to families affected by ME/CFS or long COVID. To the wonderful fathers and father figures dealing with these challenges, your tremendous efforts are greatly acknowledged. Thank you for the love & support!
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At a meeting of the EU’s foreign ministers. High Rep Josep Borrell will press for sanctions against Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich," two far-right Israel ministers "whose inflammatory statements and behavior" have rightly drawn global condemnation. theguardian.com/world/articl…
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When you're a career journo like @RayMartin used to asking the big questions, how to you approach the biggest question there is - what happens when we die?
Ray joins us for a special episode of Grave Matters with Nadine J Cohen and @AnthonyLevin.
sbs.com.au/audio/podcast-epi…
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Amid global distractions, the regime in #Iran carried out a mass execution of at least 29 prisoners this morning.
Khamenei’s regime exploits this moment to act, while the Iranian people pay the ultimate price.
The only answer is to bring an end to the Islamic Republic.
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The International Court of Justice confirms that Israel's settlements violate Art. 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention (prohibiting an occupiers population moving into occupied territory). They are war crimes. The International Criminal Court should also act. theguardian.com/world/articl…
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Netanyahu believes that Israelis can live wherever they want between the river and the sea but that Palestinians cannot. The International Court of Justice overwhelmingly rejected that claim. trib.al/mUAicbD
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Human Rights Watch published a major report on Hamas atrocities on October 7 even though the Israeli government denied @HRW"s repeated requests to visit kibbutzim and other communities attacked, despite their having been "open for media tours." forward.com/news/633807/huma…
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AMOC is one event could wreak global #climate havoc. Yet politicians has got a clue about its capacity to trigger social collapse on a grand scale. climatecodered.org/2024/05/o…
AMOC are the four most important letters in my life.
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the main ocean current system in the Atlantic Ocean.
Scientists are predicting its collapse. That means the UK would cool by an average of 10°C and Norway by 15°C. A new ice age.
As much as half of the world’s viable area for growing corn and wheat could dry out.
Even if we truly understood even a little of what is at stake, we would be spending days unable to speak - traumatised by horror and terror.
And then we would know what we are going to be doing for the rest of our lives.
Doing whatever it takes to stop this from happening.
