At #COP28, Fossil Fuels Continue to Threaten Human Rights

📢 Join us @hrw tomorrow, Nov 8, at 3pm GMT for a news conference on human rights abuses in the #UAE & how fossil fuels finance governments that engage in arbitrary detention of critics.

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Over 100,000 people in Uganda and Tanzania will lose their land for the oil developments. Many activists told Human Rights Watch that the constant threats from local government and security officials make it more difficult to provide support to those who have lost land.

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The East African Crude Oil pipeline (#EACOP) is one of the most significant fossil fuel infrastructure projects currently under development.

Despite warnings that, to limit the worst impacts of climate change, no new fossil fuel projects can be built.

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Those who have raised concerns about #EACOP or taken to the streets in protest have been subjected to a steady barrage of harassment, arrests & threats.

This crackdown has created a chilling environment that aims to stifle all criticism of the project.

Ugandan authorities seem hell bent on silencing all those critical of the environmental & human costs of the East African Crude Oil pipeline project (EACOP), a new @hrw report "Working on Oil is Forbidden" finds.

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Environmental defenders and anti-fossil fuel activists in Uganda face arbitrary arrests, harassment, threats for raising concerns over planned EACOP oil pipeline.

New Human Rights Watch report going out on November 2.

Reporters can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests or more info.

Nothing can justify the Hamas-led massacres of Israeli civilians on October 7. These were war crimes.

Neither can anything justify the war crimes Israel is committing in Gaza.

Including by depriving civilians of humanitarian aid.

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