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'Intelligence sources claim that Israeli military officials permitted large numbers of Palestinian civilians to be killed, particularly during the early weeks and months of the conflict.' theguardian.com/world/2024/apr… #Gaza

🚨TODAY: UNGA 6th Comm 2nd resumed session on a potential draft crimes against humanity treaty begins.

Looking for states to commit to moving forward on a gender-competent treaty, including codification of gender apartheid.

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Every day a new unbearable report of #GazaIsStarving .
The facts R not contestable. Every legal & moral argument has been made. Every state now has a perfect duty directly corresponding to its power to pressure #Israel to change course.

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There is no law - none - to support the US position that today’s resolution is non-binding and/or reciprocal. It is both binding and non-reciprocal, along with the IHL it is based on.
Department of State Department of Defense 🇺🇸 The White House

Following the release of the UN Fact-finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s report to the UN Human Rights Council United Nations Human Rights Council | #HRC55 today in Geneva, Mnemonic is launching the Iranian Archive as a project forensically preserving over 1.3 million pieces of open source digital…

Yesterday Int'l Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for alleged war crimes impacting Ukraine’s power infrastructure. Read more about Conflict Observatory's newest report created by Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH detailing Russia’s alleged attacks in Ukraine:
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I welcome the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Russia's Long-Range Aviation and Black Sea Fleet commanders, who are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Russia's bombing campaign against Ukrainian civilians and…

'In a period of just 5 months, more children, more journalists, more medical personnel & more United Nations staff have been killed than anywhere in the world during a conflict'

United NationsLazzarini tells United Nations General Assembly: the death toll in📍 #Gaza is staggering, more than 30,000 people killed.

Unbelievable… There is a serious risk of genocide and in response the US is proposing to airdrop supplies, while continuing to arm the perpetrator that has engineered the so-called humanitarian crisis, and continuing to veto ceasefire.

Why are airdrops so risky?

✅Parcel drops ⬆️ risk for civilians, esp. in urban areas w unexploded bombs
✅Non-state actors (Hamas) are good at consolidating drops & distributing as they see fit
✅Air drops 'erode humanitarian space + humanitarian capacity'

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BREAKING: I join many UN experts in urging all countries to halt all exports of weapons & munitions to Israel for use in Gaza. Such transfers would violate international humanitarian law & the Genocide Convention & risk criminal complicity in war crimes ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Blockbuster line up of smart thoughtful women in tech ⁦UCLA School of Law⁩ #AIsymposium ⁦Promise Institute for Human Rights⁩

Doing Trump impressions isn’t how we beat Trump.

Seeking asylum is a legal right of all people. In the face of authoritarian threat, we should not buckle on our principles - we should commit to them.

The mere suggestion is outrageous and the President should refuse to sign it.

📣 (1/3) UN human rights experts are calling for gender apartheid to be codified as a crime against humanity.

This call to action recognizes the severity of the crisis in #Afghanistan and the importance of the draft crimes against humanity treaty currently under consideration.

Heading to LA later this week to join in conversation with some fabulous people about the role of human rights in AI: promiseinstitute.law.ucla.edu/symposium/huma… UCLA School of Law Promise Institute for Human Rights Raquel Vazquez Llorente Shannon Raj Singh Alexa Koenig Marlena Michael Karanicolas

The United States has again voted - alone - against an immediate humanitarian ceasefire 👇

See you there! ✨