Kenneth RothVerifisert konto

@KenRoth

Executive Director, Human Rights Watch . Proudly "sanctioned" by the Chinese government

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  1. for 55 minutter siden

    The problem isn't lack of human rights "training of state employees," as Egypt's new human rights strategy pretends. The problem is that President Sisi has ordered the most intense and brutal crackdown in Egypt's modern history.

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    Just one day after Egypt's Pres Sisi announced a "human rights strategy," Patrick Zaki, a human rights researcher, was indicted for "spreading false news for publishing an article accusing the state of discriminating against" Egypt’s Christian Copts.

    3 svar 15 retweets 16 liker
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    The audacity: Egyptian President Sisi proclaims, “2022 is the year of civil society,” as he crushes civil society as part of his silencing of independent voices in political and public life.

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    The Myanmar junta adds these two journalists to the 54 whom it is already detaining: Mizzima News former editor-in-chief Myo Thant and Channel Mandalay news agency journalist Win Naing Oo.

    32 svar 230 retweets 287 liker
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    The International Criminal Court's launching of a formal investigation into the thousands of Philippine Pres Duterte's "drug war" executions suggests the court sees a state policy, not merely "excesses." Here's an analysis from .

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    Remarkably, Thailand doesn't have a law explicitly criminalizing torture or enforced disappearances. Predictably, Thailand has a history of such abuse. The House of Representatives took a step toward changing that.

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    "The Chinese government should have investigated a lawyer’s torture allegations, not tortured him again" -- forcing him to sit on a “tiger chair” for six days straight for round the clock interrogation while subjecting him to prolonged sleep deprivation.

    3 svar 10 retweets 14 liker
    Angre
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    China’s recent retaliation against Australia for raising questions about the origins of Covid-19 — "slashing imports of coal, wine, beef, lobsters and barley" and detaining two Chinese-Australians — pushed Australia to embrace the US submarine deal.

    4 svar 16 retweets 25 liker
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    An investigation into manipulation of an annual World Bank report finds that "Kristalina Georgieva, the bank’s former chief executive, who now leads the IMF, directed staff to alter data to placate China," improving its rating for doing business in China.

    4 svar 34 retweets 54 liker
    Angre
  10. for 9 timer siden

    By picking a fight with the Supreme Court — which has opened several investigations of him including of his role in a potentially corrupt vaccine procurement scheme and undermining the vote — Brazil's Pres Bolsonaro "is effectively threatening a coup."

    3 svar 15 retweets 13 liker
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    "Thousands of Salvadorans took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against President Nayib Bukele, who they accuse of a power grab aimed at weakening democratic institutions and consolidating his grip on power."

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    "Corruption wasn’t a design flaw in the war. It was a design feature. We didn’t topple the Taliban. We paid warlords bags of cash to do it. As the nation-building project got underway, those warlords were transformed into governors, generals and MPs."

    5 svar 20 retweets 40 liker
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    68 rights groups write to Biden saying that the extreme heat in the United States in the summer of 2021 underscores the urgency of adopting a climate-informed approach to policies affecting border communities, migrants, and asylum seekers.

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    With support for Russian President Putin’s ruling United Russia party at an "historic low of 29%," it has gone all out with its dirty tricks, taking "election shenanigans in Putin’s sham democracy to another level." Kremlin repression is intensifying too.

    3 svar 10 retweets 20 liker
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    The UN rights chief's vow soon to report on Chinese repression in Xinjiang despite Beijing's refusal to grant unfettered access sends an important signal that even major (and retaliatory) powers like China are not above rights scrutiny.

    4 svar 11 retweets 26 liker
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    "It already seems a long time ago that Joe Biden arrived in the White House promising to defend democracy and protect human rights worldwide. Now..., the president is offering only the merest pretense of preserving human rights in Egypt."

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    The International Committee claims that the Tokyo Olympics didn't spread any new Covid-19 variants to Japan, but since the IOC either didn't do or isn't sharing the results of genomic testing, it's impossible to say.

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    European Union foreign affairs chief says he wants “a more robust China strategy.” The European Parliament has just given him one. The EU would be wise to follow it. No more economic excuses for pulling punches on Beijing's repression.

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    "Friction between pragmatists and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified since the group formed a hard-line Cabinet...more in line with their harsh rule in the 1990s than their recent promises of inclusiveness." Pressure for rights is needed.

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    At least 174 Syrian bakeries have been attacked during this decade-long war, 149 of them by the Syrian-Russian alliance: new report. Deliberately attacking such civilian institutions is a war crime.

    4 svar 30 retweets 68 liker
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