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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Apr 24

This month marks the 200th anniversary of the "independence debt" imposed by France to Haiti.

@amnesty.org joins activists & orgs from Haiti and its diaspora to urge France to address the enduring harmful effects of the debt and provide reparations.

Full statement ➡️ www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · Apr 24

📢Journalists!

@amnesty.org will hold its global launch of the State of the World’s Human Rights Report in Brussels.

🗓️April 28
🕐12:00 PM (CET)
📍The Press Club, Brussels Rue Froissart 95, 1040

RSVP: In-person ✉️[email protected]
Online: amnesty-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Mar 4

In June 2023, #Nahel was shot at short range by a police officer in France. Today, the prosecutor requests a trial for murder.

The death of the French-Algerian teenager triggered massive protests & unrests against longstanding racist policing. This was met with heavy repression by the authorities.

l'Humanité @humanite.fr · Mar 4

Mort de Nahel : le parquet requiert un procès pour meurtre contre le policier qui a tiré sur l’adolescent

➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/aK8

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Mar 3

While No Other Land won an Oscar, the Palestinian community of Shi’b Al-Butum in #MasaferYatta is at imminent risk of forcible transfer due to increasing state-backed settler attacks, home demolitions, restrictions on access to land & illegal settlement expansion.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Israel/OPT: Masafer Yatta community in occupied West Bank under imminent threat of forcible transfer

The Palestinian community of Shi’b Al-Butum in Masafer Yatta is at imminent risk of forcible transfer due to increasing state-backed settler attacks, as well as home demolitions, restrictions on acces...

www.amnesty.org

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Feb 25

New @amnestyuk.bsky.social report on a phenomenon at the core of racist policing in many countries.

Imposing a “crime label” based on racist data keeps feeding the cycle of harm. Read about the stories of people having their life impacted because of the use of racist data by the police.

Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Feb 25

Racist data in, racist policing out.

Our new report exposes how police use of technology to “predict crime” means thousands are being racially profiled.

It is automated racism. And it must be banned.

Sign the petition: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/ban-...

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨 Table ronde importante à venir le 4 Mars au sujet du conflit en #RDC 🇨🇩

Des experts et activistes congolais ainsi que le député Carlos Martens Bilongo.

Beaucoup disent ne pas comprendre ce qu’il se passe, alors informons nous en suivant cette table ronde. Pas d’excuses pour ignorer ce conflit.

La France Insoumise - Royaume Uni @lfi-royaumeuni.bsky.social · Feb 25

🚨 Nouvelle Table Ronde en ligne : "République Démocratique du Congo: autopsie d'un conflit"

avec @cmbilongo.bsky.social , l'équipe du podcast Pretafrica et un militant d'une association locale

📆 le 4 mars à 18h30 (UK) / 19h30 (France)

Lien YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SRl...

Détails👇

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Erika Guevara-Rosas @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social · Feb 17

Here is our @amnesty.org message to European leaders:

Stop punishing Palestinian solidarity, start punishing those who commit genocide!

Read here my latest OpEd for the @indyvoices.bsky.social 👇https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gaza-palestine-germany-protest-police-ban-arabic-b2696733.html

German police banning Arabic at a pro-Palestine protest is a new blow for democracy

International law must protect everyone, or it protects no one, writes Erika Guevara-Rosas

www.independent.co.uk

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Feb 17

Imam Hendricks fought tirelessly for the rights of the LGBTI people, despite reportedly receiving regular death threats. His legacy will live on.

There must be a prompt, effective and thorough investigation into his murder.

South Africa: LGBTI Activist and the first openly gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks, has been murdered

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Feb 10

German authorities must stop their crackdown on speech and protests and the discriminatory restriction of freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

#ProtectTheProtest ✊

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Feb 5

Medine, Mennel, Rima, Merwane. La liste est longue et le procédé toujours le même.

Ce pays est tout simplement invivable pour nous autres.

Sihame Assbague @sihame.bsky.social · Feb 5

C’est donc officiel : l’humoriste Merwane Benlazar n’interviendra plus dans l’émission C à vous. C’est la ministre de la culture qui l’a annoncé à l’Assemblée. Une affaire d’État donc. Parce qu’un arabe-barbe-bonnet a parlé 5 min à la TV & que ce pays est profondément raciste, islamophobe.

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Feb 5

See more in this thread by @amnestyeu.bsky.social.

#StopTradeWithSettlements

bsky.app/profile/amne...

Amnesty EU @amnestyeu.bsky.social · Feb 5

The @CIJ_ICJ has been clear: trade and business with Israel's settlements are illegal and must stop.

When will the EU comply? @amnesty.org and 162 civil society organizations and trade unions wrote a letter to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇

#StopTradeWithSettlements www.amnesty.eu/news/israel-...

Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Feb 5

In a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, @amnesty.org joined 162 civil society organizations and trade unions in calling on the EU to ban trade and business with Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

www.amnesty.eu/news/israel-...

A message to the EU
Drawing of hands shaking with a yellow cross on it
Ban trade with Israel's settlements

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 31

Today was the launch of #TheHagueGroup with the mission to end Israel’s impunity.

“The aim of the nine-nation Hague Group – which includes Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Senegal and Namibia - is to defend the institutions and rulings of the international legal order.”
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...

South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect international justice

Formation of Hague Group comes amid challenges to ICJ and ICC rulings

www.theguardian.com

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 25

In London, you can watch this play based on Les Années d’Annie Ernaux. This book is a reference for many. Annie Ernaux has been supporting every struggles and been a constant vocal figure of the French left.

Five women playing across the decades. It’s about the collective, being a woman and time.

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 19

We will never fully comprehend what we witnessed for the last 15 months.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jan 19

Forcibly displaced Palestinians return to what’s left of their homes across Gaza after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes into effect.

— in pictures aje.io/axybur

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 16

La belle époque de nos 20 ans 🥹
Mais on est là ⚔️

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 16

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 15

“For Palestinians who have lost countless loved ones; in many cases had their entire families wiped out or seen their homes reduced to rubble, an end to the fighting does not begin to repair their shattered lives or heal their trauma.” @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Israel/OPT: Tragically overdue ceasefire will not repair lives of Palestinians shattered by Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Reacting to the news that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal that will commence on 19 January 2025, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General said: “The news that a ceas...

www.amnesty.org

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Jan 15

For the people of Gaza.

The struggle to end the genocide and the apartheid in Palestine continues. Justice and repair in our lifetime. It’s on all of us.

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Dec 13

Les vraies raisons du LFI bashing

David Perrotin @davidperrotin.bsky.social · Dec 11

Le milliardaire Bernard Arnault était paniqué à l'idée de voir le député LFI Coquerel présider la commission des finances et consulter son dossier fiscal.

Son entourage a donc tenté de le faire classifier «secret défense».

Révélations de @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Un dossier fiscal classifié « secret-défense » : la folle demande visant à protéger Bernard Arnault

À l’été 2022, Bernard Arnault panique à l’idée qu’un député LFI arrive à la tête de la commission des finances de l’Assemblée nationale. Des représentants du patron de LVMH demandent alors à faire cl…

www.mediapart.fr

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Dec 13

En espérant qu’elle revienne ❤️

Lina Rhrissi @linarhrissi.bsky.social · Dec 12

« Ce serait bien d’avoir quelqu’un qui représente les gens d’en bas, moi ou quelqu’un d’autre. Il faut des invisibles en politique », dit l'ancienne députée, s'imagineant présidente de la République.

La vie d'après de Rachel Keke, par @clara-monnoyeur.bsky.social
www.streetpress.com/sujet/173391...

La vie d’après de l’ancienne députée LFI Rachel Keke

Rachel Keke, première femme de chambre à entrer à l’Assemblée nationale sur les bancs de la France insoumise, n’a pas été réélue après la dissolution. La déception passée, la révoltée continue de lutt...

www.streetpress.com

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Avner Gidron @avnergidron.bsky.social · Dec 12

Amnesty: #Sudan - SAF air strike on crowded market in North Darfur a flagrant war crime www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Sudan: SAF airstrike on crowded market a flagrant war crime

Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) killed dozens in an air strike on a crowded market in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled town of Kabkabiya in North Darfur

www.amnesty.org

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Najat (she / her) @najat.bsky.social · Dec 6

#blackskyFR #CarribeanSky

La France Insoumise - Royaume Uni @lfi-royaumeuni.bsky.social · Dec 6

*** Update lien ***
🇫🇷 Ce lundi 9 décembre à 19h heure de Paris (18h heure de Londres), LFI UK vous propose une rencontre autour de la vie chère aux Antilles, la première d'une série de tables rondes sur les Outre-Mers et leur rapport à la métropôle
Ça se passe ici: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Wp...

www.youtube.com

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Dec 5

Many have been warning about it already in October & denouncing it in the following months. As day after day, night after night we were witnessing the absolute destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.

@amnesty researched, analysed and now published this so it can be used to STOP it.

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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · Dec 5

This is genocide.

@amnesty landmark new report concludes today that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

To read the full report ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’ and learn the extent of evidence and legal analysis ⬇️

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

www.amnesty.org

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