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Jamil Dakwar
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Personal views & account. Director, Human Rights Program. Adjunct lecturer . Formerly with
New York, NYJoined November 2010

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While Israel’s fascist national security minister Ben Gvir instructed the police to criminalize raising the Palestinian flag, Brazilian fascists and Bolsonaro supporters raise an Israeli flag during the illegal storming of government buildings in Brasília.
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This is outrageous. Twitter has suspended Said Arikat, a Palestinian journalist who is a staple at the daily State Department press briefings and pushes the administration on its lack of accountability for the Israeli government.
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WPLC is honored to be included to sign this letter to Susan Rice calling for an establishment of a domestic human rights institution. Indigenous rights are human rights.
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New: Broad coalition of 84 civil and human rights groups and academic partners urge the White House to establish a presidential commission to explore the creation of a national human rights body. aclu.org/press-releases @ACLU @davidakaye @civilrightsorg
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1. TWITTER FILES PART 8 *How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign* Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.
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So many English words originated from Arabic #ArabicLanguageDay 👇🏽
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For 1000 years, Arabic was the primary international language of commerce, scholarship & politics, much as English is today. Over the centuries, English adopted many words that were borrowed directly from Arabic For Arabic Language Day, here are 20 words with Arabic origins…
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The US continues to lag behind other nations in translating global human rights promises into actual domestic policies. Nearly all our democratic partners have their own domestic human rights monitoring bodies — it’s time for our country to catch up.
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Encouraging to see these ongoing efforts to encourage the United States to establish a national human right body! #NHRI #HumanRights
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New: Broad coalition of 84 civil and human rights groups and academic partners urge the White House to establish a presidential commission to explore the creation of a national human rights body. aclu.org/press-releases @ACLU @davidakaye @civilrightsorg
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NEW: We’re calling on the Biden administration to explore creating a National Human Rights Institution to implement US human rights obligations. Our government has neglected decades of landmark human rights treaties for far too long. We need accountability.
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unlike most of our democratic partners, the United States lacks a National Human Rights Institution. a coalition of 84 orgs & 37 individuals calls on the Biden Administration to launch a commission to explore creating an American NHRI.
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NEW: We’re calling on the Biden administration to explore creating a National Human Rights Institution to implement US human rights obligations. Our government has neglected decades of landmark human rights treaties for far too long. We need accountability.
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Brilliant. Thank you
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Meanwhile, while the second day of #ASP21 continues to roll inside the World Forum, this little Ape car parked outside sends important message to the @IntlCrimCourt and States' delegates #Israel #Apartheid #Justice #Palestine #ICC #InternationalCrimes
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Take few moments to watch this important perspective on #Qatar2022 I would add that many of the people calling to boycott #WorldCup in #Qatar hypocritically oppose the right to boycott Israel when it comes to apartheid and other rights violations against the Palestinian people.
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“While it’s fair to question Qatar, I wonder if this debate is truly about human rights or is it that European countries can’t stomach the idea that an Arab Middle Eastern country will host?” says @AymanM on the backlash of Qatar hosting the FIFA World Cup.
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The child welfare system is supposed to help children and families. Instead, it responds to poverty with needless surveillance, charging parents with neglect, and removing children from Black and Indigenous families at disproportionate rates.
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Briefing starting now. 👇🏽
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Join the #NewYork Advisory Committee to @USCCRgov virtual public briefing on #ChildWelfareSystem. #CivilRights WHEN: Friday 11/18/22 1pm-3pm ET Online registration: tinyurl.com/y7csh24 LEARN MORE: tinyurl.com/584e69mw
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Did I miss U.S. government statement and tweets in support of ?
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#Israel must immediately end attacks against Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro & lift the closed military zone on his house –UN experts. This is yet another unilateral Israeli attack on civic space across occupied #Palestine. 👉ow.ly/ROKR50LGUcT
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That’s not surprising and yet still very outrageous.
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BREAKING: The Biden administration declared Saudi Arabia's crown prince should be shielded from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist. That's a big contrast with President Joe Biden's campaign trail denunciations of the prince. apnews.com/article/biden-
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