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Marija Ristic

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Technology and human rights fact-finding. Currently @amnesty. Lecturer @BardCollege. Posts about IHL, ICL. Occasional travel diaries. And Yugoslavia.

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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Iranian authorities tried to silence those who are uniquely positioned to describe the magnitude of the carnage and share the stories of the injured and the dead: Iran’s frontline medical workers. Powerful essay featuring doctors that treated wounded protesters. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The Iranian Regime Has Committed a Massacre
We surveyed medical workers across 14 cities and 11 provinces in Iran about their experiences treating wounded protesters.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New @hrw.org report: authorities in Iran have carried out mass arrests, enforced disappearances, held detainees in secret facilities, and aired coerced “confessions,” including of children — while imposing near–martial law conditions. www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
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Iran: Tsunami of Arbitrary Arrests, Enforced Disappearances
Iran’s authorities have waged a brutal campaign to terrorize the population through mass arbitrary detentions, torture, and enforced disappearances in the aftermath countrywide massacres of protesters...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court declared inadmissible a complaint by a Palestinian in Gaza challenging German arms export licences to Israel. Germany is among Israel’s top suppliers of weapons components. www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/P...
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Inadmissible constitutional complaint against licenses granted for the export of military equipment to Israel
In an order published today, the Second Chamber of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court did not admit for decision a constitutional complaint, submitted by a Palestinian complainant l...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We spoke with witnesses and analysed dozens of videos since 8 January from 10 cities in the provinces of Alborz, Gilan, Kermanshah, Razavi Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan and Tehran. They reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Iran: Massacre of protesters demands global diplomatic action to signal an end to impunity
Verified videos and credible information from eyewitnesses in Iran reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale amidst an ongoing internet shutdown imposed by the authorities sinc...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New from @amnesty.org & @hrw.org: The Iranian security forces unlawfully used rifles, shotguns, water cannon, tear gas & beatings to disperse & punish largely peaceful protesters. Recent crackdown resulted in the killing of at least 28 people, including children. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Deaths and injuries rise amid Iran’s renewed cycle of protest bloodshed
The crackdown has resulted in the killing of at least 28 protesters and bystanders
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Good overview from @apnews.com on ongoing clashes in Serbia. Dozens arrested, many injured and police struggling to contain violence from pro-govt groups. apnews.com/article/serb...
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Clashes erupt for a second day at anti-government protests in Serbia in a major escalation
Clashes have erupted for a second day at protests in Serbia between opponents and supporters of the government.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Large anti-govt protests are underway in more than 30 cities and towns across Serbia. This is Novi Sad, where clashes broke out after pro-govt groups threw pyrotechnics at peaceful protesters:
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Christoffer Horlitz @chorlitz.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
We are currently seeing human rights research being questioned and attacked around the world. This is why we’d like to take you behind the scenes of how we come to our conclusions.
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Márta Pardavi @martapardavi.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hungary's government is being accused of handing more than €1,000,000,000 in unlawful subsidies as advertising revenue to pro-Orbán newspapers, television stations and online platforms in 2015-2023, two media outlets claim in a state aid complaint lodged with the European Commission.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The Trump admin dismantled key efforts to hold Russia accountable for war crimes in Ukraine—pulling out of an EU-led group, downsizing DOJ’s war crimes team, ending asset seizures, and leaving a legally mandated coordinator post vacant. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump administration unwinds efforts to investigate Russian war crimes
The Trump administration has backed away from several initiatives intended to hold Moscow accountable for war crimes in Ukraine, including an intelligence coordinator office.
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Ben Ward @bpward.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Hungarian government has amended the country's constitution (again) to suit its narrow political purposes, this time to justify attacks on LGBT people and threaten its critics with the power to suspend Hungarian citizenship for dual nationals. EU action is needed. www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
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Hungary: Fundamental Law Changes Attack Rule of Law, Rights
The amendments to Hungary’s Fundamental Law represent yet another escalation in the Orbán government’s ongoing efforts to dismantle rights, undermine the rule of law, and diminish democracy in Hungary...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Israeli PR guru Srulik Einhorn worked to burnish the image of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and facilitate the flow of Serbian arms to Israel. Now wanted for questioning in Israel, he has set up shop in Belgrade. balkaninsight.com/2025/04/16/b...
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Billboards and Bullets: An Israeli Spin Doctor at the Service of Serbia
Israeli PR guru Srulik Einhorn worked to burnish the image of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and – BIRN/Haaretz can reveal – facilitate the flow of Serbian arms to Israel’s war in Gaza. Now wanted...
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Steve Crawshaw @stevecrawshaw.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It sometimes seems telling lies is easier than ever — partly true. But: Exposing lies is also possible in previously unthinkable ways. A remarkable BBC Verify report on the paramedic killings and cover-ups that followed
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Gaza medics killing: Israeli army fired as close as 12m, audio suggests
The analysis shows Israeli troops fired 100 shots during the attack which killed 15 people.
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Emma Quaedvlieg @emmaquaedvlieg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Some thoughts on the student protests in Serbia ⬇️
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted widespread sexual violence on women and girls throughout Sudan’s war. The RSF’s atrocities, including rape, gang-rape and sexual slavery, amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, @amnesty.org new report. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Sudan: Rapid Support Forces’ horrific and widespread use of sexual violence leaves lives in tatters
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted widespread sexual violence on women and girls throughout Sudan’s two-year civil war to humiliate, assert control and displace communities across the countr...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is an excellent thread of even better investigation into the human rights record of Frontex leadership 👇
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
New compelling database by SHARE Lab with more than 3000 testimonies and other visual evidence documenting the effects of the use of sound cannon during Belgrade protests last month. zvuk.labs.rs
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Christoph Koettl @ckoettl.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed, and buildings throughout the rest of the enclave would likely be razed to the ground.“ www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
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Israel’s latest vision for Gaza has a name: Concentration camp
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Anyone who thinks Israeli forces have been upholding the principle of distinction—differentiating between civilians, medics, journalists, humanitarian workers, and combatants in Gaza—should read this story. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
They „would like to see “millions of AI pilots”, so the US and its allies are ready for the future of war.“
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Sometimes I think Serbia can’t surprise me, but here we go. Apparently Russian FSB is in Belgrade this week to determine if sonic weapon was used against peaceful protesters on March 15. beta.rs/content/2222...
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Vučić: Stigli stručnjaci ruske službe da utvrde da li je bilo zvučnog topa
predsednik države aleksandar vučić izjavio je da su sinoć došli stručnjaci iz federalne službe bezbednosti rusije i od jutros rade, ostaće nekoliko
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/
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Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics
A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New day, new spyware in Serbia. @amnesty.org uncovers a new case of misuse of a Cellebrite product to break into the phone of a youth activist in Serbia. And more evidence that the government continues their campaign of surveillance of civil society. securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Cellebrite zero-day exploit used to target phone of Serbian student activist - Amnesty International Security Lab
Amnesty International’s Security Lab uncovers sophisticated Cellebrite zero-day exploit, impacting billions of Android devices.
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Rumu @chrisrumu.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Passionate about business and human rights? Join Amnesty International and collaborate with partners and communities at the forefront of the energy transition, addressing its impact on human rights. #EnergyTransition #JustEnergyTransition #DRC #DRCongo www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
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Amnesty International hiring DRC - Business and Human Rights Consultant in Nairobi County, Kenya | LinkedIn
Posted 10:42:10 AM. Purpose and Background Amnesty International's Regional Office for East and Southern Africa (ESARO)…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Guess who loves a good old “smart city” with cameras and face recognition at every corner? Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions
The Taliban say 90,000 CCTV cameras in Kabul will reduce crime but there are fears for human rights.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My latest @amnesty.org research documents a rise in Israeli settler violence targeting Palestinian shepherds in grazing areas surrounding Shi’b Al-Butum. They face an imminent threat of forced displacement. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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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...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
NEW: Cellebrite halts product use in Serbia, reinforcing @amnesty.org findings that Serbian police and intelligence routinely misused Cellebrite’s digital forensic equipment outside legally sanctioned processes to target civil society and independent media. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Serbia: Cellebrite halts product use in Serbia following Amnesty surveillance report
Cellebrite has stopped the use of its digital forensic equipment in Serbia following Amnesty International's surveillance report.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
German elections saw the highest turnout since reunification in 1990s - 84% of voters cast a ballot. And half of them voted for conservative and far-right parties. Scary times ahead. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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German election live: Conservatives projected to win and far-right AfD in second
Friedrich Merz claims victory for CDU/CSU alliance as incumbent chancellor Scholz concedes defeat; Alternative für Deutschland almost doubles vote share to 20%
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The Netherlands is set to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria - the largest repatriation of the looted antiquities to date. UK still holds around 900 artefacts - stolen during the British attack on Benin City in 1897. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Netherlands to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
The Netherlands has agreed to return more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to Africa, the Dutch embassy in Abuja said on Wednesday.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Between 2023 and 2024, the value of Serbian arms sales to Israel increased 30 times - from 1.4 million euros to 42.3 million. The „collaboration“ goes both ways - Serbia sells 155mm and shells, and imports drones and surveillance softwares. balkaninsight.com/2025/01/28/r...
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Regardless of War Crimes Claims, Serbia’s Arms Sales to Israel Soar
Between 2023 and 2024, the value of Serbian arms sales to Israel soared from 1.4 million euros to 42.3 million, unaffected by widespread allegations of Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Berlin crowds, I am doing a workshop at this year’s Transmediale on how to use open source tools to document police violence. We will be using case studies from Germany, Iran, USA, Sri Lanka et al. No prior knowledge of OSINT needed. Registration here 👇 transmediale.de/en/2025/even...
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transmedialetransmediale 2025 | Pro Test: Monitoring Protests from Afar with Bard College Berlin and Amnesty International
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Since 2018, carbon emissions from data centers in the US have tripled. One key shift in AI right now means that the field’s emissions are soon likely to skyrocket.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I was today years old when I learned of “bicycle blitzkrieg” - Japanese WW2 tactics to use bicycle infantry to move quickly through the jungle of South Asia.
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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🚨We're hiring for a short term consultancy!🚨 Amnesty Tech are looking for a consultant to work on Competition Law and Human Rights Policy Research - with a focus on Big Tech. More details here: careers.amnesty.org/jobs/vacancy...
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Amnesty International Careers
Amnesty International Careers, Jobs, Search and Apply
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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories. After months of claims of 'shadow banning' we looked at the data and found news pages from Palestinian territories had a 77% drop in engagement compared to a 37% rise in Israeli news pages. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
After some EU counties paused asylum applications from Syrian nationals, Bulgaria now seems to be pressuring Syrians into accepting ‘voluntary return’ to their home country. balkaninsight.com/2024/12/17/p...
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Post-Assad, Syrian Refugees in Bulgaria ‘Intimidated to Accept Voluntary Return’
Syrian asylum-seekers in Bulgaria claim they are being pressurised into accepting ‘voluntary return’ to their home country following the collapse of the Assad regime.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New research from @hrw.org identifies a mass grave and a summary execution site in Tadamon area of Damascus. Residents say executions in the area were common, with at least 10 other incidents of summary killings between 2012 and 2014 in surrounding areas. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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Syria: Mass Grave in Damascus Should be Protected, Investigated
The state of a mass grave in Damascus and statements by people living in the surrounding area suggest that the area is a mass crime scene and may have been the site of other summary executions
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New @amnesty.org investigation reveals Serbian police is using phone spyware to unlawfully target journalists & activists. Our report details how Serbian spyware NoviSpy & Israeli forensic products Cellebrite are extracting data from mobile devices. More here 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Serbia: Authorities using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists
Serbian authorities are using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists in a surveillance campaign.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Too soon and potentially very harmful. Until further notice, Germany puts on hold all asylum applications of Syrian nationals. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Germany pauses asylum applications for Syrians after fall of Assad
Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has put all asylum applications from Syrian nationals on hold until further notice after the toppling Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Monday.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
IIIM urges Syrians to preserve high-value information and evidence of government repression - images, videos, documents from govt buildings, detention centres, army barracks. iiim.un.org/statement-fr...
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Statement from the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism   – IIIM
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The IDF warns its soldiers who fought in Gaza not to travel abroad, after discovering about 30 cases of criminal proceedings being initiated against Israeli army members for war crimes. Israel also apparently set up a team to assist them in case of proceedings. www.ynetnews.com/article/rjxb...
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The Hague Effect: IDF combat soldiers at risk of arrests abroad
Israel prepares legal response after footage posted by officers, soldiers operating in Gaza distributed online exposing them to danger when overseas; at least 8 had to leave countries immediately afte...
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Alia Al Ghussain @aliaalghussain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
People in Gaza are starving - & this is all deliberate. As well as attacking aid workers, aid convoys, community kitchens, the Israeli military's activities have destroyed the local food production and distribution system - 83% of Gaza's plant life has been destroyed. reliefweb.int/report/occup...
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Food shortages in Gaza: A Protection nightmare (02 December 2024) - occupied Palestinian territory
Analysis in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Food and Nutrition, Gender and more; published on 2 Dec 2024 by CP AoR, GBV AoR and 3count other organizations
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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In a historic move, Belgium has been convicted of crimes against humanity for acts committed during colonization which must signal as a turning point for European States, said African Futures Lab and @amnesty today. www.afalab.org/news/2024-12...
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African Futures Lab and Amnesty International Joint Press Release: Belgium Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity for Acts Committed During Colonization | African Futures Lab
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Very thoughtful and nuanced discussion on genocide and Gaza with professor Schabas in Spiegel- now available in English. „We cannot peer into a state’s head to determine its intent. We must also look at its behavior, the policy a state pursues. It’s actions. „ www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Human Rights Expert: "A Strong Case that Israel's Response Constitutes the Crime of Genocide"
In an interview, Canadian academic William Schabas discusses the historical development of the term "genocide," why Israel’s war in Gaza might meet the legal standard and what responsibility Germany b...
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Revenues from sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $632 billion in 2023, a real-terms increase of 4.2 per cent compared with 2022, according to new data released today by SIPRI. www.sipri.org/visualizatio...
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The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world, 2023
The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world, 2023
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Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Private Businesses & Armed Conflict" explains the why, when & how of international humanitarian law (IHL) for private business. Newly published by the ICRC together with Australian Red Cross and French Red Cross. Download here!: shop.icrc.org/private-busi...
Cover of ICRC, Australian Red Cross, French Red Cross publication on business and international humanitarian law.
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Sergey Vasiliev @sevslv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Today the faith in the integrity of the International Criminal Court and its judges, and the idea of international justice has been strengthened. Regardless of how long it takes for Netanyahu & Gallant to appear before the judges, no one can now claim in good faith the ICC is useless or corrupt.
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Marija Ristic @marijaristic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
US continues to violate international norms. Now Biden administration approves sending antipersonnel mines to Ukraine, despite the harms this weapon can cause to civilians. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Biden approves antipersonnel mines for Ukraine, undoing his own policy
The controversial White House move to send Kyiv land mines comes as Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine threaten to overwhelm front-line defenses.
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Avner Gidron @avnergidron.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Gangs looting Gaza aid operate in areas under Israeli control, aid groups say
A U.N. memo obtained by The Post concluded that gangs “may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” from Israel’s military.
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