Joie Chowdhury
@joie_chowdhury
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Lawyer working on climate justice & human rights @CIEL_tweets. Roots in India & the US. (Views are my own, RTs≠endorsements, etc.)
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Joined November 2017
🍃 Nature has rights. The @IACourtHR made it clear in its historic #AdvisoryOpinion on the climate emergency. 👇 Our attorney @viejadeambiente unpacks what this means for those working to protect ecosystems and advance #ClimateJustice. 🔗 READ HERE: https://t.co/0NvsIrCrfz
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🗣️ Indigenous Peoples have long said: climate inaction threatens fundamental rights. #AdvisoryOpinions by @CIJ_ICJ & @CorteIDH now confirm it. 🔎 A paper written w/@landislife explains what this means for #ClimateJustice & Indigenous Peoples’ rights 👉 https://t.co/Iyxhgbr5PT
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📣 Ahead of #COP30, learn how the Advisory Opinion by the @IACourtHR can help advance climate justice and #accountability 👉 https://t.co/ZI3oUjok8C 📝 A new analysis by CIEL’s Upasana Khatri breaks down the Court's transformative conclusions. 🧵 Want to dive deeper? 👇
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🛡️ #COP30 is a crucial moment to protect environmental defenders: https://t.co/5DTfWY1y5M Explore why protection is a legal duty + what JTWP & GAP must deliver in Belém. 📣 Guarantee civic space, ensure FPIC, add gender-responsive protections, advance #Escazú.
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At the upcoming climate talks #COP30, we desperately need climate ambition & to make #PollutersPay. The latest climate ruling by the International Court of Justice offers tools to achieve this. States at #COP30 can (& must) comply with the law! Read more in our guide 👇
At COP30, we need ambition and accountability. The #ClimateICJAO offers tools to achieve this. Download our COP30 Guide for details on leveraging strong outcomes in Belem: https://t.co/jO8KlxqPab
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🚨 BREAKING: The European Court of Human Rights @ECHR_CEDH has ruled in @GreenpeaceNorge and Others v. Norway. The decision is an important step for #ClimateJustice. Here’s why it matters 🧵
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One year after #UNGA resolution on @CIJ_ICJ ruling, UN experts urge States to comply with the Advisory Opinion and cut ties with #Israel's unlawful occupation of #Palestine. "This means that sanctions cannot be avoided," they explain: https://t.co/0Vc5TPj6oN
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READ HERE: A summary of the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory https://t.co/yMPoLmdsZy
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🌎 Ahead of #COP30, we need less politics & more law. 🗣️ CIEL's @eribears, says countries attending @Cop30noBrasil must break the political gridlock & must take ambitious climate action or risk violating their obligations under int'l law.👇 https://t.co/VzZwi0guzb
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📅A privilege to reflect on the @CIJ_ICJ #AdvisoryOpinion on #ClimateChange with #Caribbean experts: join us online on Wed 22nd October! 🙏Prof Alana Lancaster University of West Indies for bringing us together
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🌍⚖️Behind the @CIJ_ICJ's historic climate ruling: youth leadership, solidarity & movement lawyering. 👉🏽Read the new @IISD_news blog from colleagues at @pisfcc, @WY4CJ & CIEL — ‘Movement Lawyering Matters’: https://t.co/F7kaBkHSej
#ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ #HumanRights
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By Cynthia Houniuhi, Aditi Shetye, Johanna Gusman, and Joie Chowdhury Since the delivery of the historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations in respect of...
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It is clear that with this ceasefire Western governments and media want us all to let bygones be bygones. Never. Israel committed a genocide, we all witnessed the most obscene violence it is possible to imagine, and we need to see the perpetrators locked up in The Hague.
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How youth, frontline communities, and movement lawyers came together to ensure the #ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate obligations defied the status quo Read ➡️ https://t.co/U32EDqBwAy
#ICJAO @ciel_tweets @PISFCC @WY4CJ #climate
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By Cynthia Houniuhi, Aditi Shetye, Johanna Gusman, and Joie Chowdhury Since the delivery of the historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations in respect of...
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My name is Professor Ahmed Hankir. I am a Consultant Psychiatrist and recipient of the World Health Organisation Director General Award for Global Health. I am demanding for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who is being held captive by the Israeli
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Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. He is a hostage, he is a hero, he is caged without cause.
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This belongs in every headline today!! Abducting him from inside a hospital was a war crime. Killing his son, Ibrahim, was a war crime. Destroying the hospital was a war crime. Holding him, torturing him, for ten months now, is a war crime. Staying silent in the face of all
⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal. “The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday. 💔💔💔💔 So you call it a “peace plan”?
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My last 3 UN reports (on genocide, its colonial origins and corporate complicity) are available in a book curated by Mandy Turner & @LTakkenberg with foreword by my illustrious predecessors Richard Falk, John Dugard, @MichaelLynk5. 🔸Ebook free 🔸Paperback proceedings for UNRWA
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles @FranceskAlbs's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023. The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @UNRWA to support their critical work: https://t.co/jeEWD5m1ls
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Doctor Hussam Abu Sufiya has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Doctors for Gaza from the Netherlands nominated him.
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