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For those at the first Global Ministerial Conf on Ending #Violence Against #Children #EVAC2024 in Bogota today, join our side event on the role of #faith communities in ending violence against children, at 17.30-18.30 in Salon J - with @ArigatouGeneva, @WorldVision and others
Finally! UN Security Council resolution calls for Gaza ceasefire bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-…
Churches on Internat'l Affairs (WCC-CCIA) retweeted
"#Diplomacy as an instrument for dealing with the world’s biggest problems is in decline."
👉Read David Harland's insightful article: genevapolicyoutlook.ch/rever…
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💥The Geneva Policy Outlook 2024 is now online!💥
It places its finger on the pulse of Geneva’s global policy space and asks how #globalgovernance needs to adapt to new world orders, what it means for #Geneva and what can be done now, and by whom.
➡️genevapolicyoutlook.ch
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A potential full-fledged military incursion into #Rafah, where some 1.5m Palestinians are packed in, is terrifying.
Extremely high number of civilians, mostly children & women, may be killed or injured.
The world must not allow this to happen. There must be a ceasefire now.
Churches on Internat'l Affairs (WCC-CCIA) retweeted
"There is absolutely no safe place in Rafah anymore... They are asked to move - the question is, where to move?"
@UNLazzarini @UNGeneva: More than 100,000 people in📍#Gaza have been killed, injured or are missing.
People are anxious & fear a large scale military operation.
Churches on Internat'l Affairs (WCC-CCIA) retweeted
"If this military operation takes place, the question is: 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙜𝙤?
There is absolutely no safe place in #Rafah anymore."
- @UNLazzarini at @UNGeneva
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"A potential full-fledged military incursion into Rafah, where some 1.5 mln Palestinians are packed against Egyptian border with nowhere further to flee, is terrifying, given the prospect that an extremely high number of civilians will likely be killed & injured." - @volker_turk
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Our colleagues at London Mining Network (@londonmining) and Global Legal Action Network (@GLAN_LAW) have filed a landmark legal action at the UK High Court against the London Metal Exchange for trading metals from the environmentally devastating Grasberg Mine in #WestPapua.
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Together with co-claimant @londonmining we've launched a ground-breaking legal action to help those fighting for justice in #WestPapua & around the world - and force the London Metal Exchange to clean up its exchange for good.
Learn more: glanlaw.org/dirty-metals
#dirtymetals
We're taking the London Metal Exchange to court!
With the support of @GLAN_LAW, we're pushing for LME to stop allowing metals that have been procured through methods that abuse Human Rights and destroy the environment to be traded. Read more here:
londonminingnetwork.org/2024…
Important challenge to dirty business models of some int'l mining & extractive industry players.
There must be accountability for environmental, social & human rights harms in places like #WestPapua (@FM_FCX) & #Ogoniland #Nigeria (@Shell).
The Grasberg mine in West Papua has been dumping waste in local rivers for decades.
We're calling time on the environmental damage & suffering caused by the mine's owners & those like the #LME enabling them to profit from #eco crimes! Get case updates via glanlaw.org/dirty-metals
The voracity with which we have been devouring the resources of the planet for a few centuries now is compromising everyone’s future. We have pounced on everything, aiming at becoming masters of all things, even though they were entrusted to our stewardship. #GeneralAudience
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Repeated refusals by #Israeli authorities to allow UN aid teams to deliver desperately needed humanitarian relief inside #Gaza have effectively cut off five hospitals in the north from access to “lifesaving medical supplies and equipment”, warns @UNOCHA.
news.un.org/en/story/2024/01…
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One of the most chilling parts of South Africa's genocide case today was a video of Israeli troops dancing and chanting that there are “no uninvolved citizens.” That's a recipe for war crimes, showing they heard the message sent by Netanyahu and Gallant.
theguardian.com/law/2024/jan…
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I was quoted at the ICJ. Gratefully for having our voices aplified. "I want you to look in the mirror and ask: where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?"
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Gaza: 85% of the population has been displaced.
Nearly 1.4 million people are sheltering in UN facilities, but more than 300 people have died in attacks on these places of refuge.
Civilians are #NotATarget.
reliefweb.int/report/occupie…
via @UNOCHA
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Anyone who watched today's powerful presentation by South Africa to the International Court of Justice would recognize that the US government's facile dismissal of the case as "meritless" is actually "clueless." Israel has a tough job responding tomorrow. foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/10…
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Irish lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh who is supporting South Africa's legal team at the ICJ, says the number of orphans caused by ‘Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza’ has led to the need for a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.