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The vote barring Russia’s readmission to the UN Human Rights Council (UN Human Rights Council) sends a strong message that Russia’s repression at home and aggression abroad render it unfit for membership in the world’s premier human rights body. 🧵

Today’s report from UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture to #UNGA exposes the production & trade of equipment used for torture. ohchr.org/en/documents/t…

The UN #SRTorture is reflecting at #UNGA on a “bleak” year in global compliance with the absolute prohibition on torture and other ill-treatment, particularly sexual torture.

Alice Edwards advises that UN Member States adopt a #torturefreetrade treaty to ban the use of 20 inherently abusive “tools of torture” and regulate the manufacture and sale of others by 335 companies in 54 countries.

"Attorneys defending officers have cited the [ACEP white] paper to admit testimony on excited delirium, said Joanna Naples-Mitchell, an attorney and research adviser for Physicians for Human Rights, which produced a report last year on the diagnosis and deaths in police custody." The Associated Press:

Physicians for Human Rights is proud to stand with the #TortureFreeTrade Network in seeking a legally binding international agreement to ban and regulate “tools of torture” — here at the UN General Assembly session and in the months ahead.

The UN Human Rights Council has signaled that it doesn’t want to hear about the atrocities being committed in Ethiopia anymore — even though it knows they’re happening. ICHREE’s report yesterday ohchr.org/sites/default/… must be heeded.

Ethiopia’s Atrocity Victims Broaden UN Appeal After Human Rights Council’s Failure justsecurity.org/89486/ethiopia…

Reflections on UN Human Rights Council session phr.org/blog/

“There has been almost absolute impunity for these attacks," PHR's Sam Zarifi tells NBC News. "Looking at Ukraine, looking at Syria, going back into Yemen, all of the conflicts we’ve documented, no one has been prosecuted, although it is a clear war crime.” nbcnews.com/health/health-…

NEW: Mission of Jordan to UN has uploaded Arab Group #UNGA draft resolution for #UN member states to consider/co-sponsor. It calls for an immediate ceasefire & the rescission by #Israel of the North #Gaza evacuation order. It also firmly rejects any attempts of forced transfer of civilians.

Today, the UN General Assembly has been put on notice that new atrocity crimes are being committed in Ukraine, including systematic torture and sexual violence.

Some colleagues in the campaign for #TortureFreeTrade & Physicians for Human Rights are in The Lancet noting their concerns about the use of dangerous equipment in policing protests: thelancet.com/journals/lance… Rohini J. Haar Ranit Mishori MD MHS Sam Zarifi Attn: World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), APT Geneva, FIACAT, @REDRESSTrust, IRCT

PHR joined nearly 200 organizations urging the U.S. Congress to reject attempts to pass anti-immigrant proposals in the emergency spending bill. We must uphold the legal & human right to seek asylum. Help us in urging President Donald J. Trump to #RestoreAsylum bit.ly/477pGRD

It was an honor to present Physicians for Human Rights’s and @INCLO’s documentation on the health and human rights harms of crowd-control weapons at WOLA. Great panel!

In a historical precedent, an international arrest warrant was issued against Bashar al-Assad, Maher al-Assad, and others based on their involvement in the chemical massacre in Ghouta 2013. Investigative judges in France have their say. In this sort of crime, there is no immunity

Hospitals are not battlegrounds. #Gaza

Evidence of justice. Inching closer.

Today a civil court in Türkiye arbitrarily dismissed the 11-member elected leadership of the Turkish Medical Association, the country’s largest professional medical group. Government persecution and judicial harassment of independent doctors in Türkiye must stop.

In Ukraine, Russian forces seek to control access to and delivery of health care by: ❗️requiring forced changes of nationality ❗️detaining and harassing health care workers ❗️misusing health facilities for non-medical purposes youtu.be/cBWqMTKEfW0