🧵Ahead of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s urgent debate on the draft Artificial Intelligence Convention on 18 April, we have flagged several serious gaps in human rights safeguards
@CoE PACE PACE_Legal

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What a moment! Georgians are unwaveringly defending country’s European choice! Georgia is Europe 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #NoToRussianLaw

While Russia's strikes are hitting civilians, rescuers and electricity grids, 'Ukrainian forces are running critically low on ammunition, troops & air defences'

We must do better and #StandWithUkraine , which means weapons for it to defend its population! bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

1 year of civil war in #Sudan , the 'world worst hunger crisis'.

People are starving and have endured sexual violence, ethnic killing, displacement & more horrors. Yet, the world looks away. We must take action: aid, arms embargo, justice!
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🧵On this day one year ago, Sudanese had their lives turned upside down as conflict broke out first in Khartoum before spreading to other parts of🇸🇩 Despite the magnitude of destruction and abuses, the world’s response has been shameful hrw.org/news/2024/04/1…

The warring parties have no intention of changing tact without consequences for their actions. Today should mark a step change. Global leaders shld concretely act to
👉🏿Push for unfettered, safe aid access
👉🏿Support accountability
👉🏿Sanction abusers, extend arms embargo nationwide

Iran’s massive drone and missile attacks on Israel demonstrated callous disregard for civilians lives, endangering them and installing fear.

Amnesty International reiterates its call to all for full respect of international law, including the principles of humanity and distinction.…

Wrong. It is exactly when international law is violated that we need to double down in our support for it & insistence that all states abide by it.

The opposite risks more death, more suffering, and more dehumanization.

International law is not an a la carte menu.

'We were hoping that the war would end soon, believing that maybe the international community would intervene to stop this madness' By Zeinab Mohammed Salih on #Sudan

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The European Parliament has adopted changes to EU migration and asylum rules that will lead to rights violations.

The changes are based on deterrence, an approach proven to be both ineffective and abusive.

🖋️On #Iran , #Israel , and the events in the last 24 hours (unfolding, this statement might evolve).

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Iran's labour movement coming out against the attacks on Israel:

'With firing at Israel, the Islamic Republic has adventurously began a war which is hurting a nation of 90 millions... this regime is doing its last mission to destroy Iran'

Independent Iranian Workers Union

Friendly reminder, the genocide in Gaza continues.

No one - literally no one - who yesterday defended war crimes, attacks on aid workers, or the starvation of civilians in Gaza should be informing policy on international law today.

The nightmare scenarios feared in the wake of Israeli's offensive in Gaza have all come to pass: so many hostages lost, so many Palestinians dead or starving, violence in the West Bank, and escalation toward regional conflict.

If only our ceasefire calls were heeded sooner.

When Israeli political leadership hides from aerial bombardment in a tunnel under a residential home, they're not using civilians as a shield, they're simply using a 'fortified bunker' twitter.com/BarakRavid/sta…

Dr Victoria Rose — a British plastic surgeon, has been documenting her work in #Gaza while trying to operate in an israeli-ravaged environment