Ryan Brightwell

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Human rights and research at BankTrack, comms at Save Our Bank. I'm a migrant from England living in the Netherlands. He/him.

So, I got suspended on Twitter today, after these three tweets.

It took Twitter about 20 minutes after I posted - quite efficient work from Twitter HQ!

I tweeted this in a spirit of exploration and amazement rather than anything else, and obviously getting banned was a predictable consequence in hindsight. But I don't think that posting a link to a flight tracker website constitutes doxxing, or anything of the kind.

Fifa is running a #SaveThePlanet campaign during a World Cup for which it chose QatarEnergy as Official Partner. 🤡

BankTrack's study on the emissions behind QatarEnergy's expansion plans, and the banks supporting them, is in the Guardian today:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/qatar-gas-output-increase-catastrophic-global-heating-report

Qatar’s gas output increase could cause catastrophic global heating, report says

If Qatar exploits all its reserves it will add 50bn metric tons of CO2 to atmosphere, more than entire annual emissions of whole world

The Guardian

Today we release the new BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2022, assessing 50 large commercial banks on their implementation of the #UNGPs.

We find no commercial banks fully meeting the Guiding Principles - a minimum requirement for business. And more than 3/4 of banks score less than half marks.

All banks covered need to raise their game to respect human rights, and the slow pace of voluntary action shows the need for strong #mHREDD legislation.

https://www.banktrack.org/article/new_human_rights_assessment_of_banks_shows_slow_progress_and_lack_of_action_to_address_key_gaps_on_reporting_and_remedy

New human rights assessment of banks shows slow progress and lack of action to address key gaps on reporting and remedy

The fourth edition of BankTrack’s Global Human Rights Benchmark, published today, finds that 38 out of 50 of the world’s largest commercial banks are implementing less than half…

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