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15% of fossil fuels extracted each year are used to make fertiliser, run farms, process foods and transport them. In a very real sense our food is made from oil and gas.

We are about to feel a very painful food shock.
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In the face of unlawful aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the EU has to be pushed.

To hold a discussion.

And maybe a review of the Israel association agreement.

Maybe.

The status quo will likely remain, which is complicity in extreme violations of international law.

In the face of unlawful aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the EU has to be pushed.

To hold a discussion.

And maybe a review of the Israel association agreement.

Maybe.

The status quo will likely remain, which is complicity in extreme violations of international law.

This is a genuinely mindblowing combination. 1) Deliberately false information, 2) promoted in schools, 3) using public money, 4) in the service of private profits, 5) at the cost of our collapsing ecosystem.

Human Rights Groups Demand Ireland Stop Letting Trump Use Airport for 'Unlawful' ICE Flights | Common Dreams ​"If Ireland is facilitating the monstrous ICE project, then we fear the government has lost its way. Rather than cower and capitulate, it must show courage, compassion, and principle," said the head ...

“If Ireland is facilitating the monstrous ICE project, then we fear the government has lost its way. Rather than cower and capitulate, it must show courage, compassion, and principle”.

Amnesty Ireland and @humanrightsfirst.org on Shannon airport stopovers

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"The woman said she withdrew the rape charges after consultations with her lawyer, the police and the prosecutor ...They thought that I was an unreliable witness due to my mental state, that I would break down and not be able to withstand cross-examination.”

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This is who Roger Randle is. And Munster hired him?!

As usual, there were not enough women in the room when that decision was made.

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Prominent Palestinian human rights advocate barred from entering France Shawan Jabarin, the general director of Al-Haq, a West Bank-based NGO that is currently under US sanctions, was scheduled to speak before the European Parliament's human rights committee in Strasbourg...

Liberté etc

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Prominent Palestinian human rights advocate barred from entering France Shawan Jabarin, the general director of Al-Haq, a West Bank-based NGO that is currently under US sanctions, was scheduled to speak before the European Parliament's human rights committee in Strasbourg...

Liberté etc

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Prominent Palestinian human rights advocate barred from entering France Shawan Jabarin, the general director of Al-Haq, a West Bank-based NGO that is currently under US sanctions, was scheduled to speak before the European Parliament's human rights committee in Strasbourg...

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

UN experts condemn Israel’s unprecedented bombing in Lebanon after ceasefire announcement, demand immediate halt to hostilities GENEVA — UN experts* today condemned Israel’s illegal aggression and indiscriminate bombing campaign against Lebanon on 8 April, only hours after a ceasefire agreement was brokered by Pakistan between...

“This is not self-defence. It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter, a deliberate destruction of prospects for peace, and an affront to multilateralism and the UN-based international order”

UN human rights experts condemn Israel’s attack on Lebanon

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Brutal

A Trumpian guide to war: Don’t tell the public, ignore international law, and forget about maps Here it is, Mr President: a simplified guide on how to sell a war to faithful followers, having told them up to now you would not launch one

Political scientist Prof Brendan O’Leary turning the sarcasm up to 11

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Amazing result.

French court rules cement company Lafarge guilty of funding Syria jihadists The French company, since acquired by the Swiss group Holcim, and former executives were charged with paying several million euros to armed jihadist groups in 2013–2014, through its Syrian subsidiary ...

Huge news coming out of Paris this morning! Immense congratulations to @ecchr.bsky.social & Sherpa for tireless advocacy & for the courage & persistence of victims: www.lemonde.fr/en/syria/art...

🎉 Publication day! My book 𝙎𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙖𝙬 is out in the Edward 𝘌𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. If you want to know more about the ICC, the interpretation of its statute, prosecutorial decisions & policies, and judicial review, this book might be your next reading 1/

AP reveals exclusively that ICC prosecutor could resume work despite UN findings of sexual misconduct | The Associated Press Molly Quell’s deep sourcing and sustained coverage of the International Criminal Court led to an exclusive that set AP apart on a complex and sensitive

"Molly Quell’s deep sourcing and sustained coverage of the International Criminal Court led to an exclusive that set AP apart on a complex and sensitive global story."

The modern version of the Nuremberg war crime is "extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by
military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly".

Video below shows one of several villages destroyed these past weeks.

"Extensive" hardly captures it.

For info: The process of accepting ICC jurisdiction started in April 2024 after Israel murdered the journalist Issam Abdallah www.newarab.com/news/lebanon...

But then Lebanon backtracked a month later. I have to assume they're going to reconsider it now. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

When entire villages were destroyed in the Former Yugoslavia, after civilians were murdered, raped and expelled, the United Nations Security Council created an international criminal tribunal to hold the perpetrators to account.

Lebanon could give the International Criminal Court jurisdiction

Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.

No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

How Ireland's far-right movement got involved in the fuel protests and tried to hijack them While many are protesting fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

While many protesters in Ireland are complaining about fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

Not a thought given to the trauma for the victim’s family and friends of her last moments being shared in this way.

Callous.

Beyond the CSDDD saga: why the business and human rights treaty negotiation matters more than ever - Business and Human Rights Centre Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre

Check out this great post by Nadia Bernaz via the Business and Human Rights Centre
#CSDDD #BHR #LBI
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The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks.

Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December.

So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland.
#fuelprotests #speirgorm

@oxfamireland.bsky.social are holding an excellent workshop on climate justice and human rights activism at the Irish Centre for Human Rights @uniofgalway.bsky.social on Tuesday 14 April:

“Ground Up Conversations: The Europe We Want”.

Sign up here: www.oxfamireland.org/blog/join-us...

Today in Beirut. #lebanon

The International Court of Justice's landmark decision last year said that states can be made legally liable for not acting on climate. “Too small to matter” is not a valid argument in favour of infrastructure projects. Courts can use this to compel stronger national action.
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@oxfamireland.bsky.social are holding an excellent workshop on climate justice and human rights activism at the Irish Centre for Human Rights @uniofgalway.bsky.social on Tuesday 14 April:

“Ground Up Conversations: The Europe We Want”.

Sign up here: www.oxfamireland.org/blog/join-us...