Human Rights Likeminded Office - Geneva

The last week at the UN: Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, AI, a new Cybercrime convention and migration. patreon.com/posts/un-weekl…

@frankctangberg Ranking 25 out of 100 in Internet freedom according to @freedomhouse, it was indeed absurd to host the Internet Governance Forum there. It’s great that you were able to attend.

🧵 This last week, I was part of Amnesty International’s first official mission to #SaudiArabia (perhaps ever), as a group of colleagues and I attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh. This is how it went ⬇️

The Internet Governance Forum @intgovforum convenes in Riyadh, holding discussions on human rights (among other topics), focusing on equitable data use and privacy protections. @freedomhouse ranked Saudi Arabia's freedom on the net as 25 out of 100 (not free) in 2023.

Satirizing the massacre, thereby legitimizing and inciting to violence is not a part of legitimate protected speech. A press outlet definitely knows better. Al Jazeera’s actions and intentions were obviously unethical and criminal.

🎗️ Remember the October 7 massacre. Remember the responsibility to protect the human rights of everyone, Jews and Arabs. We are all witnessing and acknowledging a terrible human tragedy in Gaza and Lebanon, yet so many ignore Jewish victims & survivors. Bring them home now!

Dear @TPGeneva, your public transport system is broken. Too many delays, too many changes in routes, unoptimized options shown by your app and disconnect from GoogleMaps (see line 1).

Starting the day with meetings with diplomats and activists in Geneva, ahead of the Human Rights Council 57th session - consulting and preparing inputs to support them.

I share @UNAMAnews concern about the grave ramifications of #Taliban “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice” and with other #UNspecialprocedures mandate holders am continuing to assess the law and its consequences for the human rights of all #Afghans More soon

Here's our take on the outcomes of the Human Rights Council session that ended last week. patreon.com/posts/highligh… @URGthinktank @ippf

@PlanGlobal Indeed. And in the Human Rights Council which concludes its session today, the idea that girls should be excluded was the least supported among amendments attacking gender equality.

All children and young people have the right to freely speak out and influence the decisions that shape the world around them.

It is encouraging that there was especially low support in the Human Rights Council for two Russian amendments that sought to exclude girls from participation in decision-making and deny the concept of gender. @MisionMexOI @ChileONUGinebra @ippf @WILPF @PlanGlobal

🇩🇪💃 At the Human Rights Council, @GermanyUNGeneva could not be clearer about the absurdity of Russia's amendment against a resolution, seeking to remove references to women's and girls' bodily integrity and autonomy, and eliminate girls' right to any autonomy. @ippf @WILPF

Listening to Qatar's explanation for the amendment the GCC presented to HRC resolution on tech-facilitated gender-based violence. They wanted to replace "gender" with "sex" for clarity in order to properly designate the target groups [and not accidentally protect LGBTQI+ people.

@GayeDalton @UNSRVAW That’s not even funny. All amendments tabled by Arab countries focused on gender. Reem Alsalem is appreciated by them for the same reason that women’s and LGBTQI organizations have criticized her like no other mandate holder before.

@HRLOgva @UNSRVAW Not particularly, Qatar has a Sunni Muslim culture, Reem AlSalem was raised with that culture and is a native Arabic speaker, there are many potential reasons to require her involvement.

When conservative countries insist on requiring the involvement of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women & girls in the drafting of a report, that means she - Reem Alsalem - is a conservative. @UNSRVAW hrcmeetings.ohchr.org/HRCSessions/Re…

Some of the most painful amendments against the Human Rights Council are aimed against girls' rights, denying their right to bodily autonomy, allowing legal barriers to their access to sexual & reproductive health and excluding their participation in processes that shape society.

Most of the many amendments tabled by Russia against Human Rights Council resolutions are about sex. Same for the few amendments tabled by Arab countries.

🇷🇺 Russia is a signatory to 70% of the amendments against resolutions in the current Human Rights Council session. That's 21 out of 30 amendments. It was joined by others in only 2 of those amendments, less than 10%. #multilateralism

#HRC56 panel on climate change begins at 3pm Geneva. When the session opened, High Commissioner @volker_turk said #ClimateChange is exacerbated by wars and called to integrate human rights into environmental policies and respect obligations. Our summary: hrlo.org/post/high-comm…