Craig Foster AM LLB HonLLD. 419th Mantilda. 40th Captain. Member, Australian Multicultural Council. Adjunct Professor, Sport & Social Responsibility. Broadcaster. Social justice and human rights campaigner #SaveHakeem
The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted people on earth.
Myanmar is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as over a million people fled to Bangladesh and, just in recent weeks, hundreds of thousands more.
Some were able to escape to a better life. Over a million are still stuck, in horrific conditions.
We’ll discuss this and other human rights issues at @vividsydney film screening, June 15 @amnestyaustralia @msf_anz @refugees
There were Hinga people, we are indigenous people of Myanmar and we've called that home for hundreds of years. And our people, we've been persecuted since 1942. So that's 81 years. There was a operation called clearance operation, literally targeting our people to clear us away, ethnic cleansing, where they wanted to wipe out the Rohingya from earth. Due to this, there's been an exodus of Rohingya refugees. I was born in Arakan, our ancestral homeland in Myanmar. I was just a baby when we had to leave Arakan with my two older brothers, my two older sisters from Myanmar. We took every boat possible, every bus possible. We were living on the streets, we were homeless, we lived in abandoned buildings. We I had to hide in the jungles. It it was quite scary for a child to experience that. Luckily, in 2003, the Australian government granted us asylum, so we resettled in Australia. My life completely changed. We felt the air, the fresh air just hit our face and we knew we were able to start speaking our own language, we were able to practice our culture, went to school in year three in Australia. That was the first time I entered the classroom and now I've graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Education and a Masters of Peace and Conflict Studies. I do believe Australians are very generous people and people that are keen to learn and keen to help and that we we. Though I've been outdoors to the Rohingya.
Every human on Earth is a descendent of the same little fish that walked out of the ocean many years ago.
Those who make decisions and discriminate against others based on any of the illusory human constructs of race, religion, ethnicity, colour, gender, age - are literally insane and there are many of them. Nature guides us that all life on this precious and tiny Earth is of equal and sacred value - from the ant to the Elephant and all else in between.
Perhaps someday we will awaken to the lived understanding and alignment with that truth - and there will be no refugees, as we will have evolved beyond such unconscious and illusory ie: made up ways of categorising and mistreating our brothers and sisters, however they appear, wherever they choose to live and regardless of what was unconsciously historically lived.
Co-Founder and Director of Rohingya Women's Network┃NSW Young Woman of the Year 2024 ┃Global Citizen 2024 ┃Refugee Expert for UNHCR 2019 & 2023 ┃OYW Ambassador
𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀? Although yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ratified the day after the Genocide Convention in 1948, consider what is happening in the world at this very moment:
War in Gaza
War in Ukraine
Genocide of the Uyghurs in China
Genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar
Devastation in Syria
Famine and war in Ethiopia
Civil war in Sudan
Floods and famine in Somalia
Starvation, disease, and violence in Venezuela
Threats of a coup in Guatemala
And the list goes on and on.
𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.
We hope – and we act – for law, not war, and justice, not impunity.
#genocide#justice#HumanRights
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Every life matters.
Resistance matters.
International law matters.
Human rights matter.
Innocent children matter.
Right to return matters.
Accountability matters.
Except for the children of Palestine.
Genocide since 1948.
• RECLAIM • THE • NARRATIVE • #RTN
🇵🇸Resisting decades long military occupation, apartheid and settler colonialism in the 21st century🕊️ #HumanRights#ReclaimTheNarrative: The theft, oppression and exploitation of Palestine and Palestinians is being sold to us at the cost of truth and justice. ‘Reclaim The Narrative’ challenges the bias that exists in mainstream media and actively work towards reshaping and presenting a more balanced perspective.
‘Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity’ Amnesty Int. 2022
#BreakingTheSilence#FreePalestine#Gaza#FreePalestine#GazaUnderAttack#Genocide#WarCrimes#CrimeaAgainstHumanity#CollectivePunishment#PalestineGenocide#IsraelGazaWar#WeStandWithPalestine
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parallels are not surprising
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A way toward regional peace. A way forward so starving people can be fed:
I wish the USA could be removed from the UN Security Council for aiding and abetting genoc!de. How is it that a nation that actively opposes the security of civilians can continue to sit on the UNSC and have over-riding veto power? Are there mechanisms for removal of “Security” Council members whose nations fail by promoting genocide? [yes. Invoke the 6th] Is the General Assembly powerless to do so? [No. Invoke the 6th] The overwhelming majority of the General Assembly should at least unite on this point, no?
I did not write the following, or start this official campaign. I support the plan to not merely remove the USA from the Security Council, but to remove it entirely from the UN. And, let’s move the UN headquarters, fund the UN independently, and admit First Nations (Native American nations and others) to the new UN! We can and must do this. As a US citizen, I do not support my nation’s genoc!dal ways.
Article 6 : UN Charter
“A Member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council”
…✍🏻In the 75 years since the UN was founded, no country has violated the principles of the UN Charter more than the United States of America.
This is exemplified in the case of Palestine, where a ceasefire and an end to the genocide is persistently prevented by the United States, which cynically uses its veto power in the Security Council to overrule the will of the majority.
Symbolic demonstrations are important, but focused action with a tangible goal is even more so.
This is why it is time to demand the invocation of Article 6 – to expel the U.S. from the United Nations.
Article 6 allows for any member of the UN to be expelled – even if they sit on the Security Council – for persistently violating the principles of the United Nations.
We call for the expulsion of the United States from the United Nations because that is a real objective that may not only result in a ceasefire in Gaza but can also invite much-needed reform of the United Nations and Security Council.
To this end, we invite all those who desire an end to the tyranny of injustice to join our movement to Invoke the 6th
Let’s demand that our leaders rule with justice and integrity. Let’s demand that all member states have a meaningful voice on the international stage. Let’s act for change. Let’s do it now!
It is time for the world to say enough is enough…
#InvokeThe6th
👉🏼Official Campaign: https://invokethe6th.org/#neveragain#freepalestine#onestatesolution#BDStheUS#movetheUN#honourthetreaties#honorthetreaties
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The unrelenting human rights violations by 🇮🇱 🇺🇸
Both US and Israel deny victims their right to justice and fundamental freedoms to send a signal of complacency and acquiescence to the world.
A symbol of torture and indefinite illegal detention for thousands held without charge or trial. Both #USA & #Israel enjoy impunity with little or no regard for the rule of law. Arbitrary detention without trial accompanied by torture. Such ill treatment is simply unacceptable for any government, particularly the US government which has a stated claim to protecting human rights.
Israel Detention Centres and Guantanamo Bay are sites of unparalleled notoriety, defined by the systematic use of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment against thousands, including children, brought to the sites and deprived of their most fundamental rights.
The facilities have become emblematic of the gross #humanrights abuses and torture perpetrated by the very people who fly the flag for human rights. A profound symbol of the systematic lack of accountability for and censorship of the practice of state-sponsored torture and ill treatment and the unacceptable impunity granted to those responsible.
#gaza#savethechildren
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1moEvery human on Earth is a descendent of the same little fish that walked out of the ocean many years ago. Those who make decisions and discriminate against others based on any of the illusory human constructs of race, religion, ethnicity, colour, gender, age - are literally insane and there are many of them. Nature guides us that all life on this precious and tiny Earth is of equal and sacred value - from the ant to the Elephant and all else in between. Perhaps someday we will awaken to the lived understanding and alignment with that truth - and there will be no refugees, as we will have evolved beyond such unconscious and illusory ie: made up ways of categorising and mistreating our brothers and sisters, however they appear, wherever they choose to live and regardless of what was unconsciously historically lived.