Oxford MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies | formerly Associate (Litigation & Pro Bono) at NRFA and RACS volunteer solicitor | LLB / BA at UTS
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And allthe highest international courts can do is grant Israel more time to continue its slaughter instead of preventing its genocide.
Gaza is truly the graveyard of a #UnitedNations controlled by colonial powers.
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Israel can carry out a massacre and the media won’t even call it a ceasefire violation. That’s how much they’ve normalized the slaughter of Palestinians.
BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say. apnews.com/article/israel-pa…
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All charges have been dropped against Kneecap’s Mo Chara.
I strongly welcome this decision.
These charges were part of a calculated attempt to silence those who stand up and speak out against the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
Kneecap have used their platform on stages across the world to expose this genocide, and it is the responsibility of all of us to continue speaking out and standing against injustice in Palestine.
ALT Mo Chara of Kneecap
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Your attempt to claim a moral high ground here, presenting yourself as a champion of tolerance, is shameless.
You voted to proscribe Palestine Action, whose motives are opposing genocide.
You voted to make them legally equivalent to ISIS and al-Qaeda.
You voted to make anyone who expresses support for them at legal risk of being sent to prison for up to 14 years.
You voted, in literal practical terms, for frail elderly citizens to be hauled into police vans because they clutched placards opposing genocide.
Then you try and position yourself as someone trying to defend democratic discourse from intolerant people calling you evil on social media, when you have LEGALLY BRANDED an organisation as evil (by making them LEGALLY EQUIVALENT TO ISIS).
How are you not overwhelmed with shame and hypocrisy?
I will ask you again.
Why do you laud the suffragettes as heroes, when they used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action, when you voted to make Palestine Action a terrorist organisation with a punishment of up to 14 years if someone expresses support for them?
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If you want an actual history, read this.
Israel and the Palestinians: History of the conflict explained bbc.in/3UEKFXD
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I am impressed (and touched) by the how many are speaking out in defense of my work. Standing united against abuse is critical, and even more critical is to stop the genocide.
TOGETHER WE CAN.
middleeasteye.net/news/un-ur…
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Our latest piece on the repatriation of citizens by Australia, with @profjmcadam and @ThomasMulderPhD in @ConversationEDU @KaldorCentre
theconversation.com/australi…
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this isn't 'racially charged' - this is racism. let's at least have the dignity to name exactly what's going on here.
theage.com.au/national/victo…
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Meanwhile, away from the @elonmusk & @realDonaldTrump spat, in news from people w/o power... important refugee reporting in @GuardianAus by @BenDohertyCorro in PNG, w/pix by @mpbowers :
“How long do we wait? What will happen to us? We deserve answers.”
theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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I'll say it again.
Not all migration can be "safe, regular and orderly."
And IOM's member states drive migrants into irregularity by means of their border control policies.
At IOM, we know that when migration is safe, regular and orderly, it helps people, communities, and nations thrive. Migration isn’t a crisis—it’s a solution.
Great talk with @MaxFosterCNN at @AstanaIntlForum on how getting migration right leads to growth, dignity, & opportunity.
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UN Special Rapporteur @RapporteurUn deeply concerned by reports that #Rohingya refugees were forced off an Indian navy vessel & into the Andaman Sea. Any forced repatriation of Rohingya refugees, who face grave human rights violations in Myanmar, must end.
ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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NO! This is horrific and unlawful. Time for the international community to end this madness. U.S. developing plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya, NBC News reports | Reuters reuters.com/world/us-develop…
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50,000 people show up in Naarm, we shut down the main roads leading into the city for hours, and @abcnews reports it as ‘hundreds’. Anti-Palestinian racism is wild. zionism only continues through lies and erasure.
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One small problem.
They are not refugees.
wfae.org/united-states-world…
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🔴 #KeepEyesOnNiger I contacted several journalists who had covered the "humanitarian center" in Agadez including:
1 of them seemed ready to listen to new developments, but never responded to me
1 never responded
1 told me that it would be appropriate to investigate and tell the story, but he can't find the budget from his publishers (it could be interesting to do a crowdfunding action to find the budget)
Between April 16th and today, 3 refugees: 1 young woman, 1 young man and a woman giving birth who died after giving birth to her son have died. Most likely all 3 could have been saved, but medical negligence and late rescue created the sad epilogue.
Shall we continue?
Maybe though @Helenngoh could answer as Communications Officer & Spokesperson for @Refugees with @UNHCRNiger
cc: @DavidYambio @refugeesniger @RefugeesinLibya @BaobabExp @MeltingPotEU @LauraMorreale8 @LidiaGinestra @fanpage @ciropellegrino @RescueMed @lukacasa @IaconaRiccardo @riccardomagi @corradoformigli @AngiKappa @gignac_emmanuel @saracreta
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The Israeli media has fully adopted the term “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from Gaza, when everyone knows there is no such thing. This is further normalization of radical Jewish supremacist politics of Ben Gvir. They adopt the language even as they condemn his politics
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Should IOM & UNHCR be merged?
Don't their activities & interests increasingly overlap?
Would a merged agency really lose UNHCR's protection impact?
Wouldn't major savings come from having fewer meetings, staff, offices, vehicles, senior management salaries & travel costs?
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“I ask every man and woman, all of us, to overcome the paralysis of fear, the indifference that kills, the cynical disregard that nonchalantly condemns to death those on the fringes.” – @Pontifex
theguardian.com/world/2025/a…
