Intersectional, decolonial Feminist🇿🇦. Civic Space expert, currently @EUCivicForum, formerly @CIVICUSMonitor. Former journo. Chevening Alumni 2018.
Brussels, Belgium
Joined May 2011
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📣 NEW RESEARCH ALERT:
For the past few months, @EUCivicForum has been documenting undue restrictions on the 🪧right to protest & expression of those standing in solidarity with 🇵🇸#Palestine.
Read our +20 page analysis & our joint press statement below 👇🏾
#civicspace
#Europe
🪧🇵🇸Over the past six months, solidarity protests with Palestinian people have been banned in at least 12 #EU countries.
New research from @EUCivicForum on the scope & scale of the restrictions: web.civicus.org/ECFReport
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Breaking: UN special rapporteurs raise the alarm about the “persistent pattern of police violence and apparent suppression of Palestine solidarity activism by Germany”
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How do you say genocide in the EU's 24 languages?
As EU leaders meet in Brussels to discuss Israel's actions in #Gaza, we sent them a message they can't ignore #EndGazaGenocide 👇
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🎙️Post-truth be told🎙️
📻Listen to Episode#2 - Protecting EU Elections... From What Exactly? 🤔
🎧 Spotify: spoti.fi/3UOTYom
🎧 Apple: apple.co/4hF9DQR
🌐 More info on the RECLAIM website: reclaim.hi.is/en/
🎤Host: @LucasProto, @UAM_Madrid
Guest Editor: @AlvaroOleart, Postdoctoral Researcher at @ULBruxelles
Special Guests:
@YoungsRichard, Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at @Carnegie_Europe
@ajnarsee, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at @EUCivicForum
@AMS_IIA, @uni_iceland, @tepsaeu, @UAM_Madrid
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NEW: Repression of #Palestine solidarity in Europe continues to be widespread.
In our new briefing, we document a pattern of unprecedented #CivicSpace restrictions across Europe since May.
Our PR 👇
civic-forum.eu/press/repress…
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🎙️ New Episode Alert! Dive into the latest from the RECLAIM podcast - Post-Truth be Told!
Episode #02: Protecting EU Elections... From What Exactly? 🤔
In this episode, we explore whether democracy needs defending in the post-truth era. Who or what should we be protecting it from? And could the focus on post-truth phenomena be pulling attention away from deeper challenges facing democracy today? Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on safeguarding democracy in the EU in 2024! 🇪🇺
🔊 Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe!
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/09B…
🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/is/podcas…
🌐 More info on the RECLAIM website: reclaim.hi.is/is/
🎤 Host: @LucasProto
Guest Editor: @AlvaroOleart, Postdoctoral Researcher at @ULBruxelles
Special Guests:
@YoungsRichard, Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at @Carnegie_Europe
@ajnarsee, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at @EUCivicForum
@AMS_IIA, @uni_iceland, @tepsaeu
#podcast #PostTruth #RECLAIM #NewEpisode
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"If we want to protect democracy in the current global scenario, we need to ensure that CS is empowered and solidarity and justice for all are guaranteed. Rights cannot be selective", @ajnarsee of @EUCivicForum
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🎙️Happening now at @FestivalSabir
Seminar: "How Israel’s Genocidal War in #Gaza Affects Human Rights Politics in the Euro-Mediterranean Region” organised by @EuroMedRights & @ArciNazionale
🔗Join us online: t.ly/iJmPx
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Now: @FranceskAlbs : “There is a clear disconnection today btw dominant politics and #humanrights. In my whole career as an expert and scholar, I’ve not seen one day where pal could enjoy their HR”. #MoreThanEver
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One year later, @vonderleyen & @EP_President still fail to recognise the root causes of the violence in #Gaza & hold #Israel accountable. The reality of Palestinian suffering under Israeli occupation, apartheid & ethnic cleansing continues to be distorted in their narratives.
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📣 BREAKING: We are suing the Dutch state for failing to prevent genocide in Gaza & uphold international law w/
@AlMezanCenter @SOMO, @elsclegal @EAJGnieuws, Groningen-Jabaliya, NPK, Stichting Kifaia, Stichting Palestina. @ErevRavNL & @Plant_olijfboom. alhaq.org/advocacy/24745.htm…
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🌍 Join us for a seminar: "How Israel’s Genocidal War in #Gaza Affects Human Rights Politics in the Euro-Mediterranean Region”. @FranceskAlbs
🗓️ 12.10.2024 📷 09:30 – 12:30 CET
🌐Rome
🎙️Programme & speakers👉 t.ly/3wBGy
🔗Follow online: t.ly/iJmPx
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New #civicspace watchlist looks at deterioration of rights in:
🇹🇭Court dissolves opposition party
🇦🇿Hundreds of political prisoners behind bars before #COP29
🇿🇼Crackdown on civil society & political opposition
🇦🇷Violent repression of protests
➡️ web.civicus.org/WatchlistSep…
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The widespread devastation and massacres of the Israeli army in #Jenin and other parts of occupied northern West Bank, where Hamas is not ruling, are a powerful reminder that Hamas is just the last excuse for the State of #Israel to wreak the Palestinian territory havoc. Everywhere for 57 years Israel has made life impossible for Palestinians under a brutal military occupation, seeking to realize a “#GreaterIsrael”.
In agreement with the Palestinians in the oPt, an int'l #ProtectionPresence must be immediately deployed to stop the massacres, wanton destruction and forced displacement.
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Absolute trash humans who are going after a young woman who has had the strength, wherewithal, to find words and energy to report on surviving genocide.
They want us to die the most horrific deaths and to do it quietly.
Let our victory be our revenge.
#Gaza #Genocide #Nakba
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To be clear, around 33 times more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis (and 99.9% of those Israelis were killed 10 months ago). Palestinians continue to be killed right now - with Biden-supplied arms - as I type out this tweet.
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We are concerned by videos & reports of excessive use of force by police against protestors at a Palestine solidarity demonstration in Berlin on Saturday.
We demand independent investigations into the police officers involved.
#Protecttheprotest
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Dems have to listen. This is not about niceties or identity politics but accountability. Democrats cant be leading a genocide for 10 months and demand respectability politics by threatening that the alternative is worse. Genocide is not better if facilitated w empathy.
#Gaza
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Shame on every journalist in the West who has sat silently by and not said a word as over a hundred of their colleagues in Gaza have been killed by Israel, again and again and again. What happened to ‘journalism is not a crime’? To standing for press freedom? Shame on them.
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“We do everything. We wear our press jackets. We wear our helmets. But we have been targeted in normal places where normal citizens are.”
Al Jazeera's journalist Hind Khoudary reports on the killing of her colleagues, journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifee, who were killed by an Israeli air strike that targeted their car in Gaza.
Al-Ghoul and al-Rifee were targeted after they finished their coverage. They were on their way to al-Ahli Arab Hospital after being asked to leave the area by Israeli forces.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has reported that 108 media workers have been killed as of July 5, making this the deadliest period since the group began gathering data in 1992.