Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."

We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.

Read in full here ➡️ https://drive.google.com/file/d/190Tg6VoNvWEj8x3Qw2FZnxPO2DRC3gdP/view

#Rwanda #rwandabiill #humanrights #Sunak #ukpolitics

A sad day for human rights and a terrifying one for asylum seekers in the UK, who are made scapegoats for a failing government.

#Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #UKPolitics
UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/rwanda-deportations-bill-passes-parliament-sunak?CMP=GTUK_email

#Ukraine Gets Their Billions Despite #CIA Director Reportedly Warning Zelenksy To Stop Stealing So Much Money 🤑🤑🤑

https://archive.ph/BtGtZ

Some of the 400 bodies discovered in mass graves at #Nasser Hospital in #Gaza.

According to reporting, these bodies include children with their hands tied behind their backs — murdered while in captivity, a direct breach of the #GenevaConvention.
#Genocide
#apartheid
#IsraelWarCrimes

Goodbye #Hetzner. Actions have consequences.

The good news:
Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary has come out forcefully in support of the ECHR....

The bad news:
Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary thinks the solution to the UK prison problem is to build more prisons....

And while she is right, 'Change will not happen overnight... We cannot wave a magic wand & return our legal system to its former glory'... lets hope at least the mood music will change quickly!

#ruleoflaw #prison #ECHR

h/t FT

In light of Rishi Sunak's comments on long-term sickness (and his inferred position on disability), I thought I'd re-post this from some time ago..

still apposite!

#disability #ableism

Being neutral on starvation means people get starved. Being neutral on genocide means people get exterminated.

This is so you know what academics and journalists who are framing their neutrality as the high road are doing.