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Meghna Abraham

@meghnaabraham.bsky.social
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International human rights lawyer, strategist, and campaigner. Formerly Executive Director, CESR and Director, Global Thematic Issues, Amnesty International.

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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Netherlands is being sued by Shell and ExxonMobil for lost profits after shutting down a harmful gas field.🏭☣️ Sounds surreal? Yet, it’s happening, through a completely legal mechanism called Investor-State Dispute Settlement. More about the Groningen case: www.somo.nl/aftershock-i... (1/2)
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
It was a pleasure to collaborate with @somoamsterdam.bsky.social and write this short piece on reparations for their 'Reclaim the Wealth' series.
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is an initial salvo but we would love to hear your feedback. @audreygaughran.bsky.social
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
the city I live in is occupied by armed federal agents checking people's papers at random public transportation stops and people are still doing this
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Chris Smalls, the American labour activist known for leading the successful effort to unionise Amazon workers in Staten Island in 2022. ... Smalls was not only detained but also violently beaten by Israeli soldiers"
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 24/07/2025
📣 The world’s highest court has spoken. Our daily brief unpacks the #CIJ_ICJ's landmark opinion on climate—what it means, why it matters, and how it changes the fight for climate justice. Dive in 👉 bit.ly/4mdTKlL
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 21/07/2025
🧵Historic milestone coming up, following the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: On July 23, the International Court of Justice – the world’s highest court – will deliver its much-anticipated ruling on States’ obligations to address #ClimateChange & uphold #HumanRights.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 03/07/2025
🗣️ The #ClimateOpinion by the Inter-American Court of #HumanRights is clear: States must take action to STOP the climate crisis. ➡️ Swipe for our experts’ take. 👇 Read CIEL’s statement. #AOLetsGO 🔗 bit.ly/3I9M2KN
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
BREAKING: This new report by the UN Special Rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social identifies the main corporations that are profiting from occupation and genocide in Palestine.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
For those keeping score, the Senate Bill adds $18 billion in new handouts for Big Oil. We are a joke nation, and it's a bad joke www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The GOP Wants to Give Big Oil a Handout It Doesn’t Need
Lawmakers are proposing giveaways to fossil-fuel producers that would cost the US $17.9 billion over a decade.
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 29/06/2025
People in #Gaza continue to live through suffering. Relentless bombing, no fuel, no clean water, growing hunger. For nearly 22 months, Gaza is being pushed to the edge while people struggle to survive.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 26/06/2025
14 fossil fuel companies raked in $100B in profits last year. Now the GOP wants to give them $1.1B more - in tax loopholes. Meanwhile? Families lose healthcare and lifesaving food + utility benefits. This is a fossil fuel scam. We say #StopTheCuts ➡️ familiesoverbigoil.com/
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Families Over Big Oil
We don’t need more tax breaks for billionaires and pipeline companies. We need a government that invests in children, caregivers, and working people.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 26/06/2025
Debt is strangling the Global South‼️ #CancelTheDebt fully, and unconditionally. We call for a just financial architecture that puts people & planet 🌍 first. Debt payments are draining resources that should be used for rights, public services & climate action. #CancelTheDebt #FfD4People
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 25/06/2025
Children in Gaza dying of thirst after trucks carrying water blocked - UNICEF
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Children in Gaza are dying of thirst, says UNICEF
UNICEF has warned that while the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the situation in Gaza is "at the worst it has ever been" with the Palestinian territory hitting "rock bottom".
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 24/06/2025
The UK millionaire population grew 10 times faster than the rate of millionaires leaving the UK since 2017 41,400 millionaires supposedly left since 2017, but there are 435,000 more millionaires in the UK today New outlets are reporting a millionaire "exodus" today that never was. #TaxTheSuperRich
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 24/06/2025
🚨 New data 🚨 ⚠️”Blended finance” plans by rich gov’ts & international institutions that rely heavily on private finance for #JustTransition are attracting 4-7 times LESS investment than promised. More in report: oilchange.org/publications...
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
After all the brutality inflicted by Israel on Palestinians over the last 20 plus months, even putting aside all the cruelty of the occupation, this feels like a new level of inhumanity - to force people into starvation and then target them as they queue in desperation for trickles of aid.
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Jeff Bezos pays his staff poverty wages and dodges tax. No wonder he can afford to shut down half of Venice for his wedding this week. Tax billionaires NOW. Location: Piazza San Marco, Venice @greenpeace.org #JeffBezos #TaxTheSuperRich
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
France, UK, Germany and the EU have again demonstrated their #doublestandards for different countries. The attacks by US and Israel on Iran are illegal under international law. Not only do they fail to condemn the illegality, they welcome "ongoing US efforts to seek a negotiated solution" Seriously?
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E3 + EU Foreign Ministers' statement: 20 June 2025
Joint statement by the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, the UK and the High Representative of the EU on escalation of tensions in the Middle East
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Keir Starmer in the FT today with the most explicit ambition to date for the British derisking state @cornelban.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/a033...
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The industrial strategy will provide certainty for business
Debates about big or small government belong in the past; being agile enough to seize future chances is what matters
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Audrey Gaughran @audreygaughran.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Major victory in a UK High Court case against Shell. The Court found Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy oil pollution. A critical win for the affected communities, and also for work on a just energy transition. www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...
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Shell & ex Nigerian subsidiary responsible for legacy spills
The High Court has ruled that Shell plc and its former Nigerian subsidiary can be held legally responsible for legacy, or historic, oil pollution
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
call me crazy but I don't think we should.
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on billionaires, the French Senate has revealed just how out of touch it is with the issues of our time. www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...
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Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the up...
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
“We Israelis must understand — we are not immune. A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat.” www.972mag.com/israels-grea...
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Israel's greatest threat isn't Iran or Hamas, but its own hubris
A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat.
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Jon Sward @jonsward.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
NEW: 80+ NGO leaders, parliamentarians, economists & academics call for Keir Starmer to stop blocking critical debt reform, support measures to tackle debt crisis in lower-income countries and attend #FfD4 w/ @carladenyer.bsky.social & @jayatighosh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Starmer urged to attend UN summit and back plans to tackle global debt crisis
Charity leaders want PM to attend FfD4 conference amid claims UK and US among countries blocking reforms
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 16/06/2025
🚨 NEW 🚨 Four rich Global North countries are responsible for nearly 70% of projected CO2 pollution from new oil and gas 2025 - 2035, equal to 3X the annual emissions of all the world’s coal power plants combined. oilchange.org/blogs/planet...
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
As usual governments in Europe such as #Germany and the #US of course choose to ignore international law when it comes to #Israel and its acts of #aggression (now against #Iran). See Marko Milanovic’s analysis rejecting any claims of anticipatory self-defence: www.ejiltalk.org/is-israels-u...
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Is Israel’s Use of Force Against Iran Justified by Self-Defence?
This morning, Israel launched a major military operation against Iran targeting its nuclear programme, including facilities, individual scientists and military leadership. In this post, I will provide...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/06/2025
An Indian government official said there were 209 confirmed deaths in the crash, including those on the ground on.ft.com/45Z5cN4
Firefighters extinguish flames at Air India wreckage
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · 09/06/2025
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds. @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system. wid.world/news-article...
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Photo of the Madleen flotilla with text that says “ALL EYES ON DECK”
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Remember when Republicans argued that changing the names of military bases and removing statues was tantamount to erasing history? They forgot to add that this only holds for straight white men, who made war on the United States during the Civil War.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today we release polling showing: 62% of Brits support economic sanctions on Israel, with only 11% opposed 65% support an arms embargo with Israel, 11% opposed 60% support suspending our trade deal, 13% opposed The majority is well ahead of Westminster. #SanctionsNow
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We want to make sure Rachel Reeves MP sees some important % and ££s: 🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m 🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share We’re proud to pay and here to stay #taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The state of this
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GRAIN @grain.org · 03/06/2025
Madagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs dangles 36 million hectares of arable land - "an immense potential for agribusiness" - before UAE investors farmlandgrab.org/32883
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Madagascar seeks UAE investment to counter US tariff risks
Madagascar's Minister of Foreign Affairs tells UAE business leaders that "with 36 million hectares of arable land, there is immense potential for agribusiness and agricultural transformation” in her c...
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"Last year, between October and December alone, Labour approved more arms exports licences to Israel than the Conservatives approved between 2020 and 2023. This was in spite of the government’s announcement of a part suspension in September 2024" #Israel #genocide #complicity
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How exactly has Britain supported Israel’s military assault on Gaza? The public has a right to know | Jeremy Corbyn
When I was Labour leader, the Chilcot report condemned the party for its disastrous war in Iraq. We need a similar inquiry now, says MP Jeremy Corbyn
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Everyone. Everywhere. Scream at the top of your lungs. STOP THE GENOCIDE!!
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Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.
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The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
@casmudde.bsky.social points out that young women turning to the left creates a political opportunity for more progressive politics on issues like #climate, if politicians could "reject the male gaze distorting our politics... chasing an outdated interpretation of the “working-class” voter"
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The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to | Cas Mudde
There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
But also a “colorblind” way to inteoduce deeply racist policies, as this will disproportionately affect non-white legal residents and not Stephen Miller’s preferred (white) Scandinavians.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
“Is all this horror for us?” Abu Sultan muses. “It’s hard to believe that all this firepower in the sky is reserved for civilian families whose only concern is to save their children from bombardment and feed them so they don’t die of hunger.”
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
More than 400,000 people march in London today to ask the #UnitedKingdom to stop arming #Israel #endthegenocide #Palestine #complicity
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
On way to the Annual meeting at Islington Council, pausing to join an emotional gathering for the children of Gaza outside. Islington children speaking up clearly and beautifully for lasting peace, a ceasefire and an end to the violence and starvation that are killing the children of Gaza.
People standing in the street listening to a child speaking with squares each remembering a child from Gaza. 

And with a letter for the council written by children at different schools in Islington. 

Squares made for children who have died in Gaza. With Palestinian flags and text saying “we stand with you”.
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We urge MPs to vote against disability cuts – and instead tax wealth more to meet the government's fiscal rules. They could raise up to £24 billion a year by introducing a 2% wealth tax on fortunes over £10 million. taxjustice.uk/blog/mps-sho...
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MPs should vote against disability cuts – and support wealth taxes instead
Up to 100 Labour MPs are considering rebelling over cuts to social security for people with disabilities.
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Meghna Abraham @meghnaabraham.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Finally, @theguardian.com and former senior officials within the EU are willing to admit the truth: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... #gaza #complicity #israel #EU
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says EU’s former top diplomat
Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war
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