Davis McCaughey Scholar at the University of Cambridge ⚖ | Human Rights, Criminal Law, Int'l Law focus 🔍 | Views are my own
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Melissa Chen retweeted
Aid worker’s family backs war crimes investigation
“Two of Australia’s foremost international law experts said there were strong grounds to believe Israeli soldiers might have committed a war crime by launching a direct strike on aid workers” #Gaza
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"That's the kind of person she was, if there was trouble somewhere she'd drop everything and be there."
This is the final photo Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom sent to her family before she crossed the checkpoint into Gaza sbs.com.au/news/article/zomi…
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Statement from @WCKitchen re the murder of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom & her 6 colleagues:
“7 members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza… Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse”
RIP Australian Zomi Frankcom reportedly killed by an Israeli airstrike in #Gaza People like Zomi are absolute heroes. Rushing in to help as Gazans are being starved, while our leaders provide cover for these Israeli crimes. Heartbroken for her family abc.net.au/news/2024-04-02/a…
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What gets me about this is the unnecessary trauma @ClareONeilMP’s department put these Gazan refugees through - by cancelling and then reinstating these visas.
The inhumanity of it is just so jarring.
The ABC understands a number of visa cancellations are now being reversed, with additional security and other checks conducted by Home Affairs now complete. ab.co/4chlH8a
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Delighted to present my first report as Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & Counter-terrorism to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. My thanks to the 52 countries & 10 NGOs who spoke in the interactive dialogue ohchr.org/en/documents/thema…
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I’m actually almost speechless at this story. This is so breathtakingly, brazenly, cruelly depraved that I don’t know what to say. Every time you think this country can’t possibly sink further into the darkness in its treatment of refugees, it finds a new layer of hell.
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Palestinians fleeing the war in Gaza have been left in despair and financial distress after being granted Australian visas only to be told they were cancelled while en route to Australia. smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
Melissa Chen retweeted
These laws will lead to more children, especially First Nations children, in custody. Locking children up doesn't make communities safer. We urge the government not to introduce these reforms.
Melissa Chen retweeted
A 🧵 on Australia's callous negligence towards Palestinians in Gaza trying to come here, based on a talk I gave at a @rac_sydney forum last night. 1/20
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1. To mark International Women's Day, @KobraMoradi and I just published an article on @just_security about the invisible experiences of #HazaraWomen at the intersection of gender and ethnicity under the Taliban's apartheid rule.
justsecurity.org/93123/hazar…
Melissa Chen retweeted
A brilliant article by Dr. @FarkhondaAkbar and lawyer @KobraMoradi on "#Hazara Women: How Gender and Ethnicity Intersect in the Taliban’s Repression"
🔗:justsecurity.org/93123/hazar…
Key Words: Taliban, apartheid, Discrimination, Gender, Human Rights, Religion, Taliban, Women, Gender
Melissa Chen retweeted
On IWD we mourn the 9000+ Palestinian women killed by Israel and all those disappeared, lost to forced famine & poor hygiene.
And we stand with the 1 million Palestinian women & girls still enduring genocide.
1/ On International Women’s Day, Palestinian women in Gaza continue to endure an ongoing genocide at the hands of the Israeli military. See thread to hear from them.
#internationalwomensday #StopTheGenocide
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Doron Almog is walking around freely in Australia. He has been too scared to visit the UK since his 2005 evasion of justice because he fears he will be forced to answer to the allegations against him. Why should he walk freely while his victims suffer? @SenatorWong @andrewjgiles
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Melissa Chen retweeted
We need to recognise the link between asylum policy and justice for survivors of gender based violence in war: @HelenaKenedy highlights the willingness of Germany to grant Yazidi women asylum and provide the support that enabled to them to give accounts and come witnesses that facilitated the prosecution of ISIS members who perpetrated horrific abuses.
#IWD2024 #DoughtyStWomen #InspireInclusion
Melissa Chen retweeted
The horrific #FlourMassacre & genocidal act, a blatant violation of legally-binding provisional measures order issued by the @CIJ_ICJ in Jan, comes when #Palestinians in northern #Gaza are enduring unprecedented levels of famine. Full statement: alhaq.org/advocacy/22752.htm…
Melissa Chen retweeted
Proud to have signed this with all my @greens colleagues - ending the export of weapons to Israel is a simple and necessary step.
I have joined more than 200 parliamentarians across Israel’s top military partners in backing @ProgIntl’s call for an immediate arms embargo.
We will not be complicit in Israel’s grave violation of international law.
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Immediatiely defunding UNRWA in response to flimsy evidence, and then some stern words in response to state sponsored massacre of starving civilians … these double standards won’t be forgotten.
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"A month after Israeli allegations that a dozen United Nations staff were involved in the 7 October Hamas attack, UN investigators have yet to receive any evidence from Israel to support the claims." Yet governments still have suspended UNRWA funding.
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Melissa Chen retweeted
Glad you’ve gone from concerned to horrified, Minister. You should be. But why don’t you summon the Israeli ambassador? Why don’t you cancel our defence contracts with Israel? Why don’t you restore UNRWA’s funding? Why don’t you actually DO SOMETHING in response to this horror?
Melissa Chen retweeted
The @UNHumanRights chief calls for an immediate ceasefire and for the war in #Gaza to end.
"There appear to be no bounds to – no words to capture – the horrors that are unfolding before our eyes in #Gaza," @volker_turk tells the @UN Human Rights Council.
"There appear to be no bounds to – no words to capture – the horrors that are unfolding before our eyes in #Gaza," @volker_turk told the @UN Human Rights Council.
"This is carnage."
The @UNHumanRights chief called for an immediate ceasefire and for the war to end.
#HRC55