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President Trump will continue to spin his fake news and hateful rhetoric while visiting the US/Mexico border but Americans know the truth.
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The U.S./Mexico border wall wouldn’t just cost us billions of dollars — the human cost, in tribal lands divided, families torn apart, and lives lost in dangerous border crossings — would be immense. http://fal.cn/r0LW#NoBanNoWall
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Families, like the one in tonight’s #MadamSecretary, are constantly making the difficult choice to leave their homes and flee from violence and persecution.
Head over to our Twitter at 10PM ET for a live tweet. We’ll be featuring posts from the cast and crew of the show as well as our refugee rights researchers and campaigners. #FamiliesBelongTogether
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In our new #ToxicTwitter study, our sample group of women, on average, received 1 abusive or problematic tweet every 30 seconds. http://fal.cn/rilW
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@ur-favorite-gay: Do you think it’s important for people such as artists/musicians/social media influencers to talk on the top of women’s rights?
@carlotagj:I’m a sixteen-year-old lesbian girl and an advocate on women rights. How do you think teens can contribute to the fight? What’s the most important factor to consider when you are trying to educate your community?
@demiharmonies: What advice would you give to people who want to help stand up for women’s rights, but don’t know where to start?
Anonymous:Why are you still choosing to partner with Tumblr despite their recent policy changes?
@truerdiabla: If every woman in the world could listen to you right now, what would you say?
@lyonne-dlm:What do you think we could do to create more safe spaces for trans women?
@haunted-hitodama:As a bisexual queen, what kind of stigma do you face in the music industry that some of your heterosexual artists may not understand?
Anonymous: How can men be a part of the feminist movement? I think some men don’t know that they are also being affected by the patriarchy?
@marrymetoday: How do you see women’s role in politics nowadays?
@all-intime33: What would you say to all the women who think women’s rights are not important because they personally have never experienced oppression?
@phychoosocial: People still tend to believe that if a woman is successful, it means that she has a man besides or above her - even if that means her boss/supervisor/work partner/boyfriend. Have you witnessed this phenomenon in the music industry? What did you do or will you do in that case?
Women will be silent no more. #StandUp4HumanRights
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28 June 2018
Turkey: Istanbul Pride march must go ahead unhindered
As the annual Istanbul Pride due to take place on Sunday 1 July approaches, Amnesty International, ILGA-Europe and All Out stand in solidarity with Turkey’s LGBTI+ communities and their allies, calling on the authorities to ensure Istanbul Pride march takes place without any unlawful restrictions.
Fotis Filippou, Campaigns Director for Europe at Amnesty International said:
“In the current climate of fear, where authorities are clamping down on civil society, freedom of expression and diversity, it is all the more important for LGBTI individuals to be visible and freely celebrate pride. People around the world are standing in solidarity with Turkey’s LGBTI activists and their allies, who, against all odds are marching for human rights and equality.”
The last time it took place in 2014, an estimated 90,000 people participated in the vibrant Istanbul Pride parade in Istiklal Avenue, the city’s main shopping street. This was the largest of the gatherings since 2003, when just 30 LGBTI+ activists had been present in the first ever Pride march. But all this changed when the Istanbul Governorate banned the 2015 Pride march in Istanbul, police violently dispersing participants with water cannons, tear gas and pepper ball projectiles, detaining dozens of people in the process. In 2016 and 2017, small groups of LGBTI+ activists and allies were also prevented from marching following bans by the Governorate.
Björn van Roozendaal, Programmes Director for ILGA-Europe said:
“In 2018, Pride is undoubtedly a litmus test for democratic values – a test that over the past few years, Turkey has failed to meet. It’s particularly disappointing when you consider the incredible history of Pride in Istanbul. Sadly, the restrictions on LGBTI public events since then in the region are indicative of the attempted erosion of civil society organising and human rights. History is repeating itself. And make no mistake, this is harming all of society, not just the LGBTI communities and their allies. Attacks on activism and dissenting voices, a constant refusal from authorities to engage with their citizens, and persistent disregard for fundamental rights - this is something that should provoke a reaction from all communities, not only the LGBTI movement.”
Turkey’s LGBTI+ communities are determined to exercise their right to peacefully celebrate pride. In fact, on 11 May, students at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara did just that, despite the ongoing city wide blanket ban on all LGBTI+ events. In Izmir, hundreds took part in the 6 th annual Pride march on 10 June.
Matt Beard, Executive Director for All Out said:
“We will continue to stand in solidarity with LGBTI people in Istanbul and across Turkey. Authorities can ban peaceful gatherings, they can silence dissent, they can use hard, raw power to bully and coerce others. But they will never extinguish the hunger for freedom, respect, and dignity that are at the very heart of Pride.”
Under domestic and international law, Turkish authorities are under obligation to protect the rights to freedom of peaceful expression and assembly. On 1 July, Istanbul Pride must be allowed to go ahead unhindered and be protected.
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Donna, serva della mia casa è uno spettacolo teatrale organizzato dall’Accademia Filarmonica Romana con il patrocinio di Amnesty International, Telefono Rosa, Casa Internazionale delle donne e Donne per la dignità.
Due opere in prima assoluta per raccontare due storie universali. Due giovani donne oppresse, ma infine più forti del loro oppressore. Due vicende ispirate dalla cronaca del nostro tempo, per due lavori di teatro musicale che affrontano tematiche contemporanee.
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Two weeks ago a lesbian was removed from a Zoom conference hosted by the Dutch branch of Amnesty International when she asked about respecting lesbians’ rights to exclude TIMs from their dating pool. Someone in the chat also told her she ought to reconsider why she didn’t think transwomen were women (and reconsider her sexuality because of it).
This was how Dutch Amnesty advertised their event for International Women’s Day last year (2020):
The attacks on women’s and gay rights are not just happening in the UK, Canada and the US. The impact is far greater than a select few “first world” countries.
18.03.2016 idomeni, greece. the european governments have chosen the path of barbarism, leaving all behind that they claim to stand for in the last 70 years. after the second world war the nations met 1948 in paris to pass a bill, the universal declaration of human rights.also this declaration is not written and passed as a international law treaty, it actually transformed into one. “the 1968 united nations international conference on human rights advised that the declaration “constitutes an obligation for the members of the international community” to all persons. there has been numberless breaches of the bill from country´s all over the world since it was launched from 48 nations in 1948, but the western world was always claiming that this is one of their fundamental roots. when you analyze the latest policy of the european union and it´s members, you have to come to the conclusion that these governments unlinked from these rules during the last year.
the new practice to “handle” the refugee crisis uses methods far beyond what is the substance of the declaration of human rights.
in greece and in the mediterranean sea, there is a actual military war mission ongoing, a mission that includes war ships, submarines, planes, drones, helicopters and thousands of military personal from the nato and frontex. the military is officially deployed to fight smugglers and human traffickers, therefore they also approved to use lethal force.
it is pure disinformation by the eu to call this a rescue mission. the mission is launched and created to stop the refugees from coming to europa.
big and small non-governmental organisations like amnesty international,human rights watch,doctors without borders and many more, recently issued press releases that are strongly contrary to the latest actions of how the eu is handling the refugee crisis, including the deal with turkey.
https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=eu+plan+for
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20.03.2016 port of mytilini, lesbos/greece. this is the last ferry loaded with refugees from the camps in lesbos for this day. there are still hundreds of syrian in kara tepe, about 700 pakistanis in the olive grove and a few other cases. about the main camp moria we have no confirmed information, since all the ngo´s are expelled from the hotspots now. there was a ferry leaving lesbos today around noon with about 2000 refugees heading to the islands in the south to pick up more refugees and then to go to kavala in the north of greece. i don´t have the exact number but the guess is around 4000 refugees arrived 20.30 o´clock in kavala harbor. they will be brought to several camps in the area. the refugees have to go on the ferry´s to pireaus and kavala, because the eu want to clear all camps on the islands for the new coming refugees, so they can be separated from the ones that comes from the 20.03.2016 on. these one will be handled on the new rules, that are part of the new deal with turkey. the deal implants the plan to deport all incoming refugees back to turkey and for every refugee coming the eu will accept an approved asylum seeker from turkey. this deal is bullshit on many levels and is breaking a lot if european laws, as well as the geneva convention of human rights, which strictly forbid mass deportation. the deal use not the term of mass deportation but use a cover up term which means the very same. this goes along with the fact that turkey is actually not approved as a “safe third country”, so any kind of extraction of migrants and refugees to turkey would be illegal. apart from that it creates other issues. when the plan is to accept refugees from turkey for every “returned” refugee, and only then, and this is done to discourage the refugees from coming “illegal” to europa, the refugees actually knows that there will be a huge need to have them come on boats to greece so even if they are returned other will have the chance to enter. this is dividing and rule at the malicious level. with no people coming to “illegal” to eu, the eu don´t have to accept “approved” refugees from turkey. think about this for a while. if you want to know more about the legal issues of this deal, here is a good read: http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.gr
in some of the photos you can see laura jansenfrommovement on the ground from holland. the last weeks she was part of a team helping the refugees directly in the harbor, providing food and clothes, helping to organize the boarding procedure, negotiate with the police forces to keep them calm and give an incredible amount of love and care to the refugees before they leave into a unknown future. she and a lot of other volunteers from ngo´s like movement on the ground,team humanity, proactivia/open arms,lifeguards hellas, starfish foundation,northern lights aid,scm and more are working over the limits around the clock to make this transition as endurable as possible. again i can not point out enough my deepest respect and admiration for these volunteers and their work. one more detail in the end: the refugees actually have to pay the ferry tickets themeselves.
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Creative Amnesty International Advertisement: Fear can’t shut your voice up - Yaratıcı Uluslararası Af Örgütü Reklamı: Korku Susturamaz
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