
Valentina Azarova
@valentinaazarov
scholar-activist, anti-oppression educator, trauma-informed movement lawyer, transformative justice practitioner @FAC_research @EJC_org @_de_border
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https://manchester.academia.edu/ValentinaAzarova 04-05-2013 15:29:07
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A key finding from new Human Rights Watch reports on the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is the devastating effects of missiles, rockets, and heavy artillery in populated areas. Here are just a few examples of what these attacks did to children: π

Late to this damning and moving account of the struggle of a double-victim β both of the US drone war & of denial of justice & lack of accountability in German courts for Germanyβs enabling role in the US drone operations in Yemen via Ramstein base foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/08/gerβ¦


BREAKING First #pushback case accepted by the #UN #humanrights Committee: after 6 #pushbacks into #BiH, the 21 yo. Syrian filed a complaint in 2019 with ECCHRβs support. The case was now accepted and communicated to #Croatia. ππΎRead more about the case: ecchr.eu/en/case/push-bβ¦

βAn international human rights system that shields powerful actors from accountability, including through misplaced faith in liberal democratic institutions is not just an obstacle to racial justice; [it] itself embodies and perpetuates structural racism.β ejiltalk.org/black-lives-maβ¦

[1] The use of technology in pushback practices has only contributed to the ease in which racist and repressive procedures are carried out against people-on-the-move in the Balkans. Read more about these practices in our newly available OHCHR submission borderviolence.eu/ohchr-submissiβ¦


THREAD: πππ ππππππ ππ ππππππ πππππππ ππππππππ ππ πππ ππππππ legalcentrelesvos.org/2021/02/01/criβ¦ Since March 2020, collective expulsions in the Aegean Sea have been perpetrated with impunity. [1/16]
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Since March 2020, collective expulsions in the Aegean Sea have been perpetrated with impunity. [1/16] THREAD: πππ ππππππ ππ ππππππ πππππππ ππππππππ ππ πππ ππππππ legalcentrelesvos.org/2021/02/01/criβ¦
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NEW: Our joint report w/ GLAN | Global Legal Action Network & ICJ looks at 10 legal challenges to stop the #UK, #US, #France, #Canada, #Italy, #Spain, #Belgium, #Netherlands & #SouthAfrica from supplying tens of billions of dollarsβ worth of arms into #Yemen. Read here: bit.ly/3juWSwb

THREAD: Last October, 82 Lebanese and Syrians sold everything they owned and left #Lebanon to Italy by sea for a better life. The Greek coastguard pushed them to Turkey, where they were detained in an EU-funded facility. W/Federica Marsi Al Jazeera English aljazeera.com/features/2022/β¦


Starting now, a hearing takes place in PETI Committee Press on EU funding to border management in Libya, notably on mismanagement of funds and compliance in human rights violations. The Commission should take the concerns serious and prove that EU funds are not complicit in violations.

INVESTIGATION: Multiple testimonies &court documents gathered & analyzed by Lighthouse Reports &partners indicate that the Greek Coast Guard was towing the boat that capsized killing 100s near Pylos. Also suggest evidence was tampered with 2 exonerate the coastguard of any responsibility


πpracticing re-orientation & adaptation within Emergent Justice Collective, we have decided to re-open the call for participants for our 2024 Support & Solidarity offering. π find more information about the offering, our reasons for re-opening and how to register in the π§΅below:
