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Innovative legal action across borders - challenging powerful actors involved in human rights violations, environmental harms & systemic injustice.

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GLAN Legal Co-Lead and solicitor for the Applicants, Gerry Liston said, “This ground-breaking result demonstrates that companies and their senior executives with commercial links to the Israeli settlements face risks of extremely serious criminal consequences...” 2/5
GLAN Legal Co-Lead and solicitor for the Applicants, Gerry Liston said, “This ground-breaking result demonstrates that companies and their senior executives with commercial links to the Israeli settlements face risks of extremely serious criminal consequences. Every person working for a company involved in such activity should take note.”
October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🚨 MAJOR DEVELOPMENT: Airbnb faces war crimes investigation over accommodation listings in Israeli settlements, after Irish court annuls police refusal to investigate criminal complaint made by GLAN and Sadaka 1/5
October 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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200,000+ tonnes of toxic mining waste is dumped into West Papua's Ajkwa River everyday by the Grasberg mine.
Infographic - dumping waste known as ‘tailings’ is banned almost everywhere in the world. West Papua is one of the few places where it still happens. Infographic - contamination from Grasberg’s pollution is causing serious health problems and reducing life expectancy for communities in West Papua.
September 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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On World Rivers Day, we reflect on how critical river systems are for our planet, wildlife and communities, raise awareness of the threats they face, and aim to inspire action to protect them! Alongside @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social today we want to spotlight the Ajkwa River, #WestPapua.
Picture of the Ajkwa River - Text reads: World rivers day: spotlight on The Grasberg mine’s profound harms to the Ajkwa river and West Papua’s Indigenous communities The Grasberg mine in West Papua is one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines. The environmental and human harms caused by the mine are jaw-dropping. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of mining waste (called tailings) are dumped into the local Ajkwa river systems every single day. This devastates the ancestral lands and way of life of Indigenous communities, such as the Amungme and Kamoro peoples. Vital water sources are completely polluted with heavy metals and dangerous mining waste, causing huge health impacts to communities that rely on them as well as devastating the delicate aquatic ecosystem.
September 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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GLAN and @alhaq.bsky.social are appealing against the High Court decision that failed to stop UK made F-35 parts being used by Israel as they commit #genocide in Gaza.

An expedited oral hearing for permission will take place on 9th Oct: www.glanlaw.org/single-post/...
August 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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GLAN director @gocuinn.bsky.social said "The Belgian federal prosecutor’s decision to refer this case to the ICC marks a crucial acknowledgment of the gravity of the alleged crimes committed in Gaza...but domestic authorities can and should do more to arrest and prosecute war crimes suspects..."
"The Belgian federal prosecutor’s decision to refer this case to the ICC marks a crucial acknowledgment of the gravity of the alleged crimes committed in Gaza by these ISF soldiers and the rights of victims to justice. But domestic authorities can and should do more to arrest and prosecute war crimes suspects, to do so is to comply with obligations under international law. Instead Belgium released alleged perpetrators who are potentially free to return and commit further criminal acts in Gaza."
July 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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📰 News this week has shown that the era of impunity is coming to an end! ⚖️ We believe that those in power must be held accountable. Do you agree✅ ? Will you stand with us ✊?

➡️Become a GLAN supporter here: www.glanlaw.org/donate
July 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The report concludes through open source investigation that the 79th Brigade of Russian Armed Forces, led by Colonel Evgeny Yurievich Geraschenko, played a significant role in cluster munition attacks in the region during the initial stages of the full scale invasion of Ukraine.
July 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The new report with @bellingcat.com is based on 32 in-depth investigations of separate incidents that took place between February and April 2022. It offers one of the most detailed looks yet at the use of cluster munitions against civilian areas in the early stages of Russia’s full scale invasion.
July 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Breaking news: on Monday, the UK High Court will issue its judgement on our challenge to the government's decision to continue supplying F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel. #Gaza #StopArmingIsrael
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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NEW coordinated legal cases show that companies like #Airbnb & Booking .com who do business on stolen land face major legal risks.

Governments must ban business in the illegal settlements.

More at glanlaw.org/palestine-ai...
June 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Today, on the final day of Al Haq vs The UK Government, UK healthcare workers who gave evidence in the case have joined outside Court to share their support and experience of working in Gaza. Video of Dr James Smith speaking this morning. #F35s #HighCourt #gaza #StopArmingIsrael
May 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Our challenge over the UK governments continued supply of F-35 warplane parts to Israel, began yesterday at the High Court in London. Read our Director, @gocuinn.bsky.social's full speech on our website www.glanlaw.org/single-post/...
Photo of a person in a suit, wearing a Keir Starmer mask - holding a placard that reads 'What Genocide?' written over a photo of the destruction in Gaza. GLAN's Director Gearóid Ó Cuinn speaks with a reporter outside of the High Court. Photo of a man being interviewed by a woman with a mic in front of crowd of people outside court.
May 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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We’re at Parliament briefing MPs on the UK’s legal obligations to prevent genocide & to stop UK arms exports reaching Israel as they bomb & intentionally starve Palestinians.

This government is complicit in the Israeli genocide - help us stop this now: glan.live/stop-arming-israel
May 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Important update: The High Court hearing has been moved back a day and will now begin on the 13 May 2025. Al Haq
and GLAN are fighting to uphold international law and end UK arms exports to Israel. #StopArmingIsrael
May 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We must hold UK companies accountable and ensure they're can't just ‘cut and run’ from environmental and human rights harms committed around the world 🌏. The UK urgently needs mandatory due diligence legislation - the Cerrejón mine shows us why.
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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The Antigua and Barbuda central govt is imposing a colonial-era land adjudication law that would strip Barbudans of their communal rights & hand legal titles of land to developers.

⏰ We have 24 hours to reach our #greenmatchfund goal to help their legal fight: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
April 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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2/ GLAN & the Hind Rijab Foundation have formally submitted a request to the UK’s Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions for consent to apply for an arrest warrant against Sa'ar. #JusticeForPalestine
April 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🚨 Four weeks to go until we and Al-Haq face the UK government in the High Court.

Our case will finally be heard over four days, starting on Monday 12th May. Support this urgent legal fight to uphold the rule of law if you can - every donation counts:
glan.live/stop-arming-israel
#stoparmingisrael
April 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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🌍WIN for the #KlimaSeniorinnen: @coe.int says the Swiss Govt is not doing enough to fulfil its duty to limit harmful emissions & keep warming within 1.5°C.

Switzerland must now plan to take real action to reduce emissions & protect human rights! #UnitedForClimateJustice #ClimateTrials
KlimaSeniorinnen and Youth for Climate Justice celebrate the landmark climate case win outside the European Court of Human Rights
March 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Together with Al-Haq we have not stopped pushing for the UK govt to end all arms exports to #Israel. Our case will finally be heard over 4 days starting 12 May.

Join us in this crucial fight to uphold the rule of law: glanlaw.org/updates

#warcrimes #uklaw #starmer #F35 #Palestine
March 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Access to justice is a crucial part of democracy and essential to hold people in power accountable for failing climate policies.

These resilient young people will not give up. The #Aurora legal team is already looking at the next steps.

Support their fight: auroramalet.se/en/

📷Albin Haglund
Swedish youth protest on the streets, holding placards and chanting.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Despite contravening human rights law, 'pushbacks' are known to be a routine practice at Europe's borders. Today the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will exam three important cases. #humanrights #borders #europe #ECTHR
Picture of the European Court of Human Rights on a lime green background. GLAN logo in top right corner. Text reads: European Court of Human Rights hears three cases concerning alleged 'pushbacks' by member States (Latvia, Lithuania and Poland) to non-member state Belarus. Black text on a white background reads: Today the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has an important opportunity to provide clarification on how the Court should evaluate evidence in pushback cases to ensure asylum seekers who have been subject to abuses of their human rights can access justice. States routinely prevent asylum seekers from documenting violations at their borders - authorities confiscate people's phones during apprehension, restrict access to border areas, and fail to maintain proper records, preventing victims of border violence from gathering evidence. The Court has shown willingness to shift the burden of proof to the State and has acknowledged systematic pushbacks by EU member States. Today's hearings could determine whether the Court's evidentiary standards can adapt to deliver accountability, including when tactics used to push people back at Europe's borders, eliminate proof of the pushback itself.
February 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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GLAN & @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social act against 'dirty copper' on the London Metal Exchange. We've filed a complaint with the Financial Conduct Authority warning copper from Grasberg Mine, West Papua could constitute 'criminal property' due to serious environmental harms caused by its production.
Picture of copper sheeting with text on black background reading: GLAN and London Mining Network issue warnings that copper being traded in the UK could constitute ‘criminal property.  Bottom text banner reads: Production of 'dirty copper' causing serious environmental harm in West Papua. GLAN and London Mining Network Logos. Slide two: London Metal exchange must act now on ‘dirty copper’ One of the world’s largest copper and gold mines, the Grasberg Mine in West Papua, Indonesia, is discarding vast amounts of mining waste (known as tailings) into rivers in and around the New Guinea rainforest. Polluting the local area and water streams in this way would qualify as a serious environmental crime if it were to occur in the UK, this means that copper produced at the mine could amount to “criminal property” under the Proceeds of Crime Act, irrespective of whether the production process is lawful in Indonesia. GLAN and the London Mining Network have alerted the London Metal Exchange (LME) and their regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to the risk of trading metal products using copper produced at the Grasberg Mine. "For over 50 years, the Grasberg mine has extracted copper from the mountains of West Papua to the detriment of the lands and livelihoods of the people of West Papua. It is estimated that the mine dumps more than 200,000 tonnes of toxic tailings waste every day directly into the river Ajkwa. For the indigenous people living and farming nearby and for a hundred kilometres along the river and out to sea, the mine has caused untold destruction, bringing pollution, conflict and corruption into their everyday lives. The vast profits that have been made from this mine have not benefitted the West Papuans themselves.” Quote Andrew Hickman, London Mining Network
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM