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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 1d
The latest UN HRC session proved wins are possible: it created an independent body to investigate abuses in Afghanistan, renewed vital UN monitoring on Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan & Cambodia, & adopted an important resolution to address systemic racism.

Read more: https://bit.ly/494Rqdn
UN Rights Council Strengthens Crucial Protections
The latest session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which concluded last week, offers a glimmer of hope in what are dark times for human rights around the world.
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Sarah Saadoun @sarahsaadoun.bsky.social · 11h
Today, @hrw.org released the 1st major report on tax, documenting how policies that favor the rich drove Sri Lanka into economic crisis & starved its public education system. UN tax treaty negotiations are historic chance to address a root cause. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Sri Lanka: Ruinous Tax Policies Stoke Inequality
Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and have contributed to the chronic underfunding of education and other public services.
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deblbrown.bsky.social @deblbrown.bsky.social · 5d
New calls on Microsoft to suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses & international crimes by the Israeli military & other government bodies
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

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Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses
Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies, Human Rights Watch...
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Ida Sawyer @idasawyer.bsky.social · 4d
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We’re hiring a deputy director for Arms in the Crisis, Conflict & Arms Division at @hrw.org to help us advance humanitarian disarmament & protect civilians from weapons like landmines, cluster munitions & killer robots. To learn more, visit: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 5d

يوفر وقف إطلاق النار أملا للمدنيين الفلسطينيين في غزة بعد عامين من القتل والتجويع والتهجير، وكذلك للرهائن الإسرائيليين والمعتقلين الفلسطينيين وعائلاتهم، ولكن ستستمر الانتهاكات ما لم تتخذ الحكومات إجراءات لدعم الإغاثة والمحاسبة.
بيان "هيومن رايتس ووتش" كاملا: https://bit.ly/3L3XI2X
غزة: وقف إطلاق النار لا يُغني عن إجراءات الإغاثة والعدالة
اتفقت الحكومة الإسرائيلية و"حماس" في 9 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2025 على المرحلة الأولى من "الخطة الشاملة لإنهاء النزاع في غزة" التي وضعتها الحكومة الأمريكية، والتي تشمل وقف إطلاق النار، وإطلاق سراح الرهائن...
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HRW_AR @hrwarabic.bsky.social · 6d
منزلق خطير في #تونس: أول حكم بالإعدام عقابا على التعبير السلمي عن الرأي
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تونس: حكم بالإعدام بسبب منشورات على "فيسبوك"
حكمت محكمة تونسية الأسبوع الماضي بالإعدام على رجل بسبب منشورات سلمية على "فيسبوك". حصل المتهم على عفو رئاسي، لكن هذا الحكم بسبب التعبير السلمي غير مسبوق في تونس.
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Myrto Tilianaki @myrtotilianaki.bsky.social · 6d
5 questions you might have about #COP30 and why it’s a pivotal moment for climate action & human rights.

Governments should phase out fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and protect forests & communities. hrw.org/news/2025/10/09/qa-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop30
Q&A: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)
The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference, COP30, will bring together states that are party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as thousands of experts, journalists...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · 6d
I am reading reports that the German coalition has agreed the main parts of its welfare "reform" package. Details still emerging.

This shift toward a more punitive logic and harsher sanctions will come at the cost of human rights.

I explain more in this recent piece.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
Rights Should Guide Welfare ‘Reform’ Debate in Germany
The partners in Germany’s governing Christian Democrat-Social Democrat coalition have been sparring over the contents of a planned replacement of the Citizen’s Income social security benefit, with a “...
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Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social · 5d
🚩On @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, Aziz Ansari said he would donate part of his Riyadh Comedy Fest fee to @hrw.org

While HRW cannot accept the donation, it's not too late for him to call for the release of detained Saudi activists Manahel al Otaibi & Waleed Abu al Khair
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Saudi Arabia: Comedians Silent on Detained Activists
Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 6d
A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts. He received a presidential pardon this week following widespread outrage, but this is an unprecedented sentence for nonviolent expression in Tunisia. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Tunisia: Death Sentence for Facebook Posts
A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts.
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Jean-Baptiste Gallopin @jbgallopin.bsky.social · 6d
@hrw.org: A new investigation by France 24, a French broadcaster, provides the first public elements to corroborate the US allegations indicating that Sudan’s military may have used chlorine in two incidents in September 2024.

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Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas
The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan’s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used ...
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Michelle Randhawa @michellerandhawa.bsky.social · 8d
Despite promising statements from PM Nawaf Salam and MEHE Rima Karami on education for all, #Lebanon gov decision to uphold residency requirement for public school registration risks barring 10s of thousands of refugee students from school @hrw.org
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 13d
Country-wide protests initiated by the youth group GenZ212 have gripped Morocco, as protesters criticize the government over corruption and spending.

Morocco’s government should hear protestors’ demands. Learn more ⤵️
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Almaz Teffera @almazteffera.bsky.social · 13d
The UN rights chief presented his office's report on #reparations for legacies of #colonialism and #enslavement in Geneva yesterday.

@hrw.org welcomes his call for a transformative, context-specific & rights-based approach to reparations led by affected communities.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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lamafakih.bsky.social @lamafakih.bsky.social · 12d
Military forces are trained for combat, not law enforcement; coupled w/Hegseth's plan to pursue “maximum lethality,” lower standards for misconduct, & weaken so called “politically correct” rules of engagement, there is an inherent risk of serious domestic & int'l law violations
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 12d
This week, President Trump claimed that the US military should be used domestically to confront a “war from within.”

There is no reason and no legal justification for any disastrous use of military forces on US soil.
United States: Trump Call to Militarize Cities Risks Abuse
Remarks by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump at a joint address to top military leaders on September 30, 2025 raise grave concerns that the administration will seek to de...
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lamafakih.bsky.social @lamafakih.bsky.social · 12d
Lawmakers in Rio de Janeiro have approved bonuses for police who kill suspects during raids. Rio police killed almost 2 people a day in 2024—86% of them Black. The bonus will spur officers to shoot instead of seeking arrests. The governor should veto this outrageous bill
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings
The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro should veto provisions in a new bill that would give civil police an economic incentive to kill suspects and would weaken forensic analysis, Human...
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Ilaria Allegrozzi @isiki79.bsky.social · 14d
#Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial
The prosecution of former PM Moussa Mara embodies heightened repression.
Authorities should drop all charges against Mara +release him, as well as all those arbitrarily detained +respect the right to freedom of expression, @hrw.org

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Mali Puts Free Speech on Trial
On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood calmly before a court in Mali’s capital, Bamako, while the judges rejected his lawyers’ application for his release on bail.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 14d
What if it took you more than 40 years to receive a work permit in a foreign country?

About 100,000 refugees from Myanmar are living in camps along Thailand’s border, many since the 1980s.

Starting October 1, they can finally work legally in Thailand. Learn more ⤵️
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Carlos Ríos-Espinosa @rioscarlos.bsky.social · 20d
In the 1950s, the false “refrigerator mother” theory fueled stigma & denied children with autism support. Today, Trump & Kennedy repeat unfounded claims linking vaccines or Tylenol to autism—risking more fear, blame & discrimination. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
Protecting Disability Rights Means Rebuking Harmful Autism Myths
In the 1950s, a so-called “refrigerator mother” theory falsely blamed autism on emotionally cold mothers, fueling decades of parental guilt and discrimination. That stigmatizing theory denied children...
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Lou Charbonneau @loucharb.bsky.social · 22d
🚨🧵 @hrw.org on Trump's #UNGA80 speech: -- He made too many false claims about world affairs to seriously address them. What is serious is Trump’s obvious lack of respect for international organizations that promote human rights, like the UN, which the US played a central role in creating. 1/x
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Juliane Kippenberg @jkippenberg.bsky.social · 23d
Illicit gold trade funds abusive armed groups in Venezuela & other conflicts.

A new gold industry requirement by the London Bullion Market Assiciation for global gold refiners could help shed light on these illicit trade routes, a first step towards ending them.

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New Industry Requirements Could Disrupt Abusive Armed Groups’ Trade in Gold
Deep in the forest in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups involved in the illicit gold trade.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24d
"About 52% of the patients that I’m operating on are [gunshot wounds], and the other half are explosive injuries."
“Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza
As Israel continues its full-fledged military ground invasion of Gaza City, Democracy Now! speaks with Kathleen Gallagher, a U.S. military veteran and general surgeon currently volunteering in Gaza, who describes the scene on the ground from Nasser Hosp...
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Ben Ward @bpward.bsky.social · 27d
When politicians undermine the European Court of Human Rights, we all lose. With Europe facing some of the gravest threats since the end of WW2, European governments should be bolstering regional institutions, not undermining them.
Read my new analysis for @HRW
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
When Politicians Undermine Europe’s Rights Court, We All Lose
The European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights are under attack again.
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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · 27d
The US maritime attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessels violate international human rights law and amount to extrajudicial killings www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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Ilaria Allegrozzi @isiki79.bsky.social · Sep 15
#BurkinaFaso
Islamist armed groups have been responsible for repeated atrocities against civilians since 2016. Authorities should provide better protection for all civilians at risk, investigate abuses, fairly prosecute those responsible.
New @hrw.org report👇

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
Burkina Faso: Islamist Armed Groups Massacre Civilians
Two Islamist armed groups have killed several dozen civilians in three separate attacks in northern Burkina Faso since May 2025.
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