
Beryl Orao
@beryl_orao
ID: 2885126737
31-10-2014 13:06:27
2,2K Tweet
996 Followers
1,1K Following

Urgent reading for all who care about the human rights and humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC. And our recommendations to Kaja Kallas and EU foreign ministers at Monday's Foreign Affairs Council š amnesty.eu/news/drc-urgenā¦


#UNCCW #GGE lethal autonomous weapons systems #LAWS. Amnesty International believes that states should consider removing the word ālethalā as it is too restrictive, and lethality is an effect, not a characteristic. IHRL and IHL govern the use of all weapons, including less lethal weapons.



#DRC: "Since taking control of Goma, the #M23 has instilled a climate of fear and vicious reprisals ... The alarming scale and frequency of abuses in eastern #DRC should shock the world" - Tigere Chagutah #6MillionVoices for #Justice4Congo amnesty.org/en/latest/newsā¦

We urge the African Union Panel of the Wise to centre #humanrights and #protectionofcivilians during their visit to #SouthSudan.We are concerned by reports of incommunicado detention and enforced disappearances of opposition members by the #GoSS and reported attacks on civilians

Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the high court releasing Ugandan lawyer, Eron Kiiza on bail. The military court should not have convicted him in the first place. All charges against him must be unconditionally withdrawn.










What an emotional and rewarding scientific and intellectual journey started many years ago w/ Ludovic Hennebel. Hours and days of hard work, doubts, heated discussion before holding the volume in our hands. Thanks Cambridge University Press - Law for the trust and to friends/colleagues for accompanying us



