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Deputy European Media Director . Tweets mostly in English & Dutch. #HoldTheLine kooyj{at}hrw.org. Mastodon: @JanKooy@mastodon.social
Den Haag, Nederlandhrw.org/about/people/j…Joined September 2011

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"Persvrijheid is de kanarie in de kolenmijn; die wordt als eerste ondergraven als de repressie toeneemt." - /
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Persvrijheid is ook in Nederland geen vanzelfsprekendheid meer, stelt Ruth Kronenburg van Free Press Unlimited. Het verbaast haar dat media zelf daar weinig aandacht aan schenken volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg
A classic of the genre: Scapegoat minoritised people in push to remove everyone's rights Either we all have human rights or no one does. If they're taken away from groups of ppl, they're not rights at all. They're just privileges granted by the powerful
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Must-read!
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Morgen in de Volkskrant, nu online: een uitgebreid interview met Afrika-nestor @KoertLindijer. Over veertig jaar correspondentschap, arrogante militaire leiders, journalistieke dekolonisatie, ijdelheid, het geluk van een goed gesprek bij een kampvuur. Kortom: van alles. Leest! ⬇️ twitter.com/volkskrant/sta…
At a time when civic space is shrinking in many countries in the region, Jordan takes a positive step in its engagement with global institutions, "a positive step, and we hope it will be accompanied by clear and concrete steps to address urgent and ongoing human rights issues.”
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“While most governments across the Middle East and North Africa are increasingly suppressing dissent and stymying the human rights movement, Jordan has taken a positive step for more human rights engagement in the broader region." - , 's MENA-director
Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
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In ordering the dissolution of these human rights groups, Putin’s regime is turning its back on the legacy of Soviet dissent. Worse, it is replicating the despotic practices of Brezhnev and Soviet totalitarianism. If it continues on this path, it risks ending up in the same place
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Having failed to achieve "quick victory in its war of aggression in Ukraine, the Putin regime has embraced increasingly repressive tactics in an effort to silence critical voices raising public awareness of its systematic targeting of Ukrainian civilians" project-syndicate.org/commentary/put
The Israel exception: Representative Omar regularly criticized various aspects of U.S. foreign policy. "None of this brought the attention or orchestrated backlash prompted by her views on Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians."
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New symposium over on some often overlooked aspects of #OSINT. and I wrote a piece on the fair trial implications of using open source evidence at the International Criminal Court which will be posted on Friday.
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Symposium on Fairness, Equality, and Diversity in Open Source Investigations: An Introduction opiniojuris.org/2023/02/06/sym
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Taliban arrests Afghan professor who backed girls' education. I interviewed Prof Mashal just last week and he remained defiant telling me "The only power I have is my pen, even if they kill me, even if they tear me to pieces, I won't stay silent now.”
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#SouthSudan This is just the latest heartbreaking incident in a cycle of violence that has been allowed to go unaddressed for far too long. There needs to be a swift solution to this and justice for victims.
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