Valentina Azarova

🔈Out now on SSRN & soon in JICJ 🌀 Based on our (dis)embodied experiences within IJ NGOs, we reorient towards abolition feminisms, transformative justice + embodiment and offer reflections towards a counterculture in international justice 🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 💙 Pls share

🌀practicing re-orientation & adaptation within @EJC_org, we have decided to re-open the call for participants for our 2024 Support & Solidarity offering. 🌊 find more information about the offering, our reasons for re-opening and how to register in the 🧵below:

INVESTIGATION: Multiple testimonies &court documents gathered & analyzed by @LHreports &partners indicate that the Greek Coast Guard was towing the boat that capsized killing 100s near Pylos. Also suggest evidence was tampered with 2 exonerate the coastguard of any responsibility

Starting now, a hearing takes place in @EP_Petitions on EU funding to border management in Libya, notably on mismanagement of funds and compliance in human rights violations. The Commission should take the concerns serious and prove that EU funds are not complicit in violations.

[thread][#hcg][[#greecepolicestate][#EU][#ISF][1] A (short) thread about the upcoming purchase of new "toys" for social media tracking, by the Hellenic Coast Guard, funded by ISF and the EU. According to a document published in the Greek transparency register, the HCG >

THREAD: Last October, 82 Lebanese and Syrians sold everything they owned and left #Lebanon to Italy by sea for a better life. The Greek coastguard pushed them to Turkey, where they were detained in an EU-funded facility. W/@federica_marsi @AJEnglish aljazeera.com/features/2022/…

NEW: Our joint report w/ @GLAN_LAW & @ICJ_org looks at 10 legal challenges to stop the #UK, #US, #France, #Canada, #Italy, #Spain, #Belgium, #Netherlands & #SouthAfrica from supplying tens of billions of dollars’ worth of arms into #Yemen. Read here: bit.ly/3juWSwb

European Parliament has suspended the discharge of the Frontex budget, because of the delays in recruiting fundamental rights monitors and concerns over complicity in human rights violations.

1/ The final WG internal report is a cunning document but surely falls short of "finding no evidence". On the contrary admits that "it has not been possible to completely resolve the incidents beyond any reasonable doubt". But it also introduces a number of maneuvers that could..

Fadi's attorneys at @GLAN_LAW argue that he was subject to “enforced disappearance.” With commentaries by me, @itamann, @GraBaranowska, @a_danson_brown, @ValentinaAzarov, @Alonso_GD, and based on the report of @Border_Violence and reconstruction by @ForensicArchi

UNHCR is alarmed at the increasing number of violent pushbacks at 🇪🇺 land and sea borders; calls for states to investigate and end these practices. Countries have the legitimate right to manage their borders, but they must also respect human rights. bit.ly/3punttK

[1] The use of technology in pushback practices has only contributed to the ease in which racist and repressive procedures are carried out against people-on-the-move in the Balkans. Read more about these practices in our newly available OHCHR submission borderviolence.eu/ohchr-submissi…

THREAD: 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐀𝐍 legalcentrelesvos.org/2021/02/01/cri… Since March 2020, collective expulsions in the Aegean Sea have been perpetrated with impunity. [1/16]

Our new report outlines the system of punishment and incarceration of migrants who are accused of human smuggling at the EU-external border in the Aegean. It bears witness to the fates of people who have been sentenced to life long imprisonment in Greece. bordermonitoring.eu/wp-content/upl…

I wrote a thing a long time ago. journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php…

“An international human rights system that shields powerful actors from accountability, including through misplaced faith in liberal democratic institutions is not just an obstacle to racial justice; [it] itself embodies and perpetuates structural racism.” ejiltalk.org/black-lives-ma…

BREAKING First #pushback case accepted by the #UN #humanrights Committee: after 6 #pushbacks into #BiH, the 21 yo. Syrian filed a complaint in 2019 with ECCHR’s support. The case was now accepted and communicated to #Croatia. 👉🏾Read more about the case: ecchr.eu/en/case/push-b…

We also can’t pretend that the legal organization of such complicity, at all levels — corporate, state, intl org — is not (un)wittingly reproduced by the minimalist agendas of the (business &) human rights institutions that lose sight of the underlying laws of irresponsibility

A key finding from new @hrw reports on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the devastating effects of missiles, rockets, and heavy artillery in populated areas. Here are just a few examples of what these attacks did to children: 👇

Late to this damning and moving account of the struggle of a double-victim — both of the US drone war & of denial of justice & lack of accountability in German courts for Germany’s enabling role in the US drone operations in Yemen via Ramstein base foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/08/ger…