Mark Wiliams
@MarkJoseWil
Women's cricket tragic, social work student, bushland regenerator, living on Darkinjung land
Another woman in Iran faces execution for defending human rights. Women's rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in a sham retrial solely for her peaceful activism. She has been subjected to torture and inhumane treatment and now…
An existential problem, of planetary proportions, daunting and self-inflicted. That’s how the UN’s top judges described the climate case dreamt up by a group of students. They said countries are obliged to protect the planet and show due diligence in meeting the Paris climate…
History in the making… #ICJ
Great to see the UK lowering the voting age to 16. The @Greens reckon it’s time for Australia to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote.
Gender Apartheid to be an International Crime: Watch out BCCI, for enabling the Afghanistan MEN'S Cricket Board.
Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides. justsecurity.org/116780/gender-…
Catherine Corless, on a local history quest, found 796 death certificates & no grave-sites. Setting: St Mary's Children's Home, run by the Catholic Church & Galway County Council, Ireland (1925 - 1961). Finding: a mass grave in an underground chamber. google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…
Happy Bastille Day folks! Maybe time for a revolution America!
Impacts craters: the source of death & possibly life: "Named after space pioneer Sergei Korolev, this site is a major target for life-hunting missions like ESA’s ExoMars, which continues exploring Mars’ frozen secrets"
BREAKTHROUGH on MARS! WATER ICE CONFIRMED! This stunning image from ESA’s Mars Express reveals Korolev Crater — a massive, 82 km-wide basin filled with year-round ice! Thanks to a natural cold trap, the crater’s 2 km-deep floor keeps cold air locked in — preserving a central…
From Chomsky’s 1967 essay titled “The Responsibility of Intellectuals.” In that essay, he emphasizes that intellectuals should critically examine power structures, expose propaganda, and challenge authority, not conform to it.
Illegally converted electric bicycles to attain speeds of 40-50 km/hr used by the precariously contracted delivery rider sector in England's cities.
It was good to talk on BBC Breakfast this morning about what's driving the rise in fake ebikes in the UK. Food delivery app firms need to take responsibility for the risks their business practices are creating and be held to account for ending it
Hello, X. Today, I’m taking over @SaraWahedi’s account from Kabul, Afghanistan. My name is Muzhda. I want to tell you about my final year of university when the Taliban banned classes. How I found a job in secret, and how that job became one of the scariest decisions I made.
“Economics is not a science. It is the art of presenting the decimation of nature as an act of creation when it is in fact an act of destruction” open.substack.com/pub/georgetsak…
Fascinating map comparing parts of Australia with other parts of the world by climate.