Simon Adams
@SAdamsR2P
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President & CEO of the Center for Victims of Torture @CVTorg. Working with torture survivors & human rights defenders around the world. Also, @Skateistan
New York
Joined September 2011
The UN Security Council failed to uphold its responsibility to protect during the 2017 #Rohingya genocide, but #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar today requires a coordinated international response. Statements of concern won't be enough. (My comments on @CNN ⬇️)
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This is what a world of impunity looks like. Both sides of #Sudan’s civil war have used "rape and other forms of sexual violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, as well as torture." And yet the weapons and political support continues to flow.
bbc.com
Emergency Lawyers group alleges the army is operating "execution chambers" in the capital.
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#Myanmar’s illegal and illegitimate military junta is trying to stage an “election” later this year. But there can be no free, fair, or credible election while the country’s democratic opposition remain in detention, and the country is in flames. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar 🇲🇲.
Myanmar’s UN ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun urged member states to “respect the aspiration of the people of Myanmar and to categorically reject the junta’s sham election” on Tuesday. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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#Myanmar continues to face high levels of hunger, poverty and displacement. But the military junta’s solution is to bomb another town, killing civilians. #WarCrimes
irrawaddy.com
Karenni State’s Interim Executive Council said the airstrike was the deadliest ever in the state and urged global action in response to the junta’s war crimes.
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Today is #WorldHumanitarianDay. But in far too many places around the world our colleagues and the populations we serve are being killed. Funding is being stripped away. Humanitarian workers need protection.🌍.
🚨 Humanitarians are the last lifeline for millions caught in war, disaster & crisis. Yet, they’re under attack — and support is vanishing. An attack on humanitarians is an attack on humanity. On #WorldHumanitarianDay, let’s #ActForHumanity . 🔗
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Falsely accused of eating pets, Haitian migrants abandon Ohio for jobs in Canada. “You leave your home to survive, you do everything right,” (but) “they don’t like you, they don’t want you.”
nytimes.com
Springfield faced a crisis after Donald Trump falsely claimed Haitians were eating pets. Now his policies are driving out workers like Wilford Rinvil, who left for Canada.
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RT @SAdamsR2P: New UN investigation reveals “systematic torture” in #Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including electrocution,….
news.un.org
UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape – a...
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RT @newtactics: The trend we’d like to see? Respect for human rights. ✨️. Instead, the current administration has chosen to obscure abuses….
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The US govt’s official human rights reports should fearlessly expose abuses around the world. Instead, they are now part of a “conspiracy of silence” that feeds a culture of “denial, indifference, impunity.” . (My comments in @StarTribune ⬇️)
startribune.com
The State Department’s recent report whitewashes some of Washington’s favored countries while leveling outsized criticism against others, John Rash writes.
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RT @CVTorg: NEW: John Rash quotes @SAdamsR2P - repressive regimes make “a consistent attempt to say that you do not matter, the world does….
startribune.com
The State Department’s recent report whitewashes some of Washington’s favored countries while leveling outsized criticism against others, John Rash writes.
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RT @nadiainitiative: Eleven years after ISIS brought genocide to Kocho, @NadiaMuradBasee returns to Iraq to lay her brothers to rest. Read….
time.com
Nadia Murad returns to Iraq to say goodbye to her brothers, Elias and Jalo who were killed nearly 11 years ago by ISIS.
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RT @SAdamsR2P: Facing growing conflicts, atrocities, and attacks on international law, the United Nations appears unable to do little more….
globalr2p.org
This op-ed was originally published via Devex here. This year, the United Nations turns 80. In its lifetime, the U.N. has been and remains to be a crucial lifeline for millions around the world...
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New UN investigation reveals “systematic torture” in #Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including electrocution, strangulation and gang rape. The Generals responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable under international law.🇲🇲 .
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UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape – a...
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RT @SAdamsR2P: Trump’s “Deportation Industrial Complex” wants to find, chase, detain, and deport 1 million immigrants per year. This includ….
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At @CVTorg, we are honored to receive the 2025 Freedom From Fear Award from @rooseveltinst. We are humbled to be among this group of recipients, including World Central Kitchen, and others who refuse to be cowed by creeping authoritarianism and are standing up for human rights.
📣 Happening next month: The 2025 Four Freedoms Awards will honor leaders advancing democracy, dignity, and justice. This year’s laureates embody FDR’s bold vision of freedom—from the power of journalism to the fight against hunger. Learn more:
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RT @CVTorg: “This kind of “nothing to see here” approach to gross human rights violations, from the United States, is how the global human….
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Cold blooded murder. An unconscionable war crime. Killed for the crime of practicing journalism in #Gaza.
Amnesty strongly condemns Israel’s deliberate killing of journalists in an air strike on a media tent in occupied Gaza City. Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues have been the eyes and voices of Gaza. Starved and exhausted, they continued to bravely report from the frontlines,
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