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The time is now to reimagine how power in the world is exercised. We want to remind people: In a world where power is shifting, there’s opportunity for new voices and coalitions to be heard. hrw.org/world-report/2 #Rights2023

Laatste bewoners van Bachmoet: 'Wij leven dichtbij de dood”

Bureau Buitenland

@bbvpro

@3bergen

deed verslag vanuit Bachmoet, waar achterblijvers leven dichtbij de dood. ''De bewoners weten dat ze een groot risico nemen."

nporadio1.nl

In het oosten van Oekraïne, in de stad Bachmoet, wordt al maandenlang zeer hevig gevochten. Een loopgravenstrijd. De laatste weken rukken de Russen er nu op, al tot in de buitenwijken van de stad....

Een schokgolf gaat door de lucht, gevolgd door een knal. ‘Zoek dekking!’

Tom Vennink

@tomvennink

Feb 4

Dit leek een verslag te worden van één Russische raketaanval. En toen sloegen er nog twee raketten in bij het smeulende puin waar reddingswerkers naar overlevenden zochten.

volkskrant.nl

Een alledaagse beslissing betekent in Oekraïne het verschil tussen leven en dood, zien verslaggever Tom Vennink en fotograaf Daniel Rosenthal in Kramatorsk, waar een nieuw Russisch offensief burger...

HRW Nederlands

@HRW_NL

Het Taliban-bewind onthoudt meisjes in 🇦🇫Afghanistan al 500+ dagen van middelbaar onderwijs. Woensdag om 14:00 uur discussiëren

@Sahar_fetrat

@AzarNayera

erover met

@BirgitMSchwarz

, in een nieuwe Twitter Space aflevering. Doe mee via: twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxy #Mensenrechten

It’s been just over 500 days since the Taliban banned girls from secondary school in Afghanistan. Join us Wednesday to discuss what is lost when girls are denied an education, with

@Sahar_fetrat

@AzarNayera

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@BirgitMSchwarz

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"Persvrijheid is de kanarie in de kolenmijn; die wordt als eerste ondergraven als de repressie toeneemt." -

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Persvrijheid is ook in Nederland geen vanzelfsprekendheid meer, stelt Ruth Kronenburg van Free Press Unlimited. Het verbaast haar dat media zelf daar weinig aandacht aan schenken volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg

AFP News Agency

@AFP

Mali junta expels UN mission's human rights chief. The decision comes after a Malian rights activist last month gave a speech to a UN gathering accusing the regime's new Russian military partners of serious rights violations u.afp.com/iW5j

Philippe Dam

@philippe_dam

Pro-#China's #HongKong authorities put democracy on trial: 47 activists will face flawed courts on Monday.

@EU_EEAS

: EU cannot pretend it cares about human rights if it doesn't up its game on the deepening repression in China. aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/3/

Denial is not a good strategy when there is overwhelming evidence against you. In the #DailyBrief today,

@astroehlein

calls on #Rwanda to get real about its support for the abusive M23 armed group in Congo: trib.al/7DKdm8x

People displaced by fighting between the M23 armed group and Congolese government forces gather north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on November 25, 2022

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Emma Beals

@ejbeals

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Devastating footage emerging from across southern Turkey and north-west Syria after an huge quake (7.8) hit in the early hours of the morning—felt across the region. The damage appears vast, the human toll likely to be equally high.

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Quentin Sommerville

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The situation in Syria is especially bad. Hearing unconfirmed reports of entire villages flattened. There are 1.7m people displaced by the war and living in temporary shelters - half finished buildings, makeshift shelters. They lack rescue services for a disaster of this scale.

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Congratulations to

and the Security Lab team!

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Amnesty Tech

@AmnestyTech

Exciting week for us with the publication of “Pegasus”, the inside story of one of @amnesty most ground-breaking investigations of recent years: the #PegasusProject

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Liberty

@libertyhq

Tory MPs to push for UK exit from European convention on human rights

A classic of the genre: Scapegoat minoritised people in push to remove everyone's rights Either we all have human rights or no one does. If they're taken away from groups of ppl, they're not rights at all. They're just privileges granted by the powerful

theguardian.com

Reports say Rishi Sunak is considering proposal, backed by several ministers, to allow crackdown on migration

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Saskia Houttuin

@saskiahouttuin

Morgen in de Volkskrant, nu online: een uitgebreid interview met Afrika-nestor @KoertLindijer. Over veertig jaar correspondentschap, arrogante militaire leiders, journalistieke dekolonisatie, ijdelheid, het geluk van een goed gesprek bij een kampvuur. Kortom: van alles. Leest!

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At a time when civic space is shrinking in many countries in the region, Jordan takes a positive step in its engagement with global institutions, "a positive step, and we hope it will be accompanied by clear and concrete steps to address urgent and ongoing human rights issues.”

“Our Jordan country office will continue to address increasing restrictions on basic rights in Jordan and to advocate with the Jordanian government to make important human rights reforms.” hrw.org/news/2023/02/0

Fewer than half of the school-age refugee children in Lebanon are in formal education.

© 2017 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch

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“While most governments across the Middle East and North Africa are increasingly suppressing dissent and stymying the human rights movement, Jordan has taken a positive step for more human rights engagement in the broader region." -

@lamamfakih

's MENA-director

Lama Fakih, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch.

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As UN

chief says #Russia giving unlawfully deported #Ukraine kids Russian nationality &/or having them adopted without establishing identity of kids' families,

@TRIAL

@Philipgrant40

spotlights human rights reports condemning these abuses

@RTSinfo

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Anietie Ewang

@aniewang

There is a thick veil of violence shrouding #Nigeria's 2023 elections that undermines the right to vote and underscores the need for the authorities to swiftly restore public confidence in their ability to ensure the safety & security of all voters. hrw.org/news/2023/02/0

Birgit Schwarz

@BirgitMSchwarz

People with mental health conditions in #Ghana continue to be chained or confined in small cages in unsanitary conditions. United Nations member countries have urged the government to end these inhumane practices & enforce its existing ban on shackling. hrw.org/news/2023/02/0

Two men with a real or perceived mental health condition held by a chain around their ankle at Mount Horeb Prayer Centre in the Eastern Region in Ghana. © 2022 Shantha Rau Barriga/Human Rights Watch

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Miko Czerwinski

@MikoCzerwinski

Amnesty Polska and 5 others

Today we gave Justyna some of the over 650 emails of support she received over the last months. The letters are coming from all over Europe.

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Legalna Aborcja Bez Kompromisów

ICYMI: today,

’s Justyna back in court for yet another hearing for allegedly helping woman access abortion in #Poland. #IAmJustyna #JakJustyna #LegalnaAborcja

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"Oczekuję, że wyrok będzie uniewinniający" - mówiła Justyna Wydrzyńska podczas konferencji prasowej przed rozprawą

My także!

#JakJustyna @aborcyjnydream

🚨Good news! Human Rights Watch will open a regional office in Amman, 🇯🇴Jordan this month, in a move to intensify its advocacy on key human rights issues across the Middle East and North Africa. Congrats

@adamcoogle

+ team! hrw.org/news/2023/02/0

LGBT activists in Beirut, Lebanon shout slogans and hold up a rainbow flag as they march to demand equal rights in a country gripped by economic and financial crisis, June 27, 2020. © 2020 Hassan Ammar

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Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu

@NnokoMewanu

#Tanzania is evicting #Maasai from Ngorongoro district in the name of conservation, with serious costs to these communities. It’s abusive plan must 🛑! #Tanzania should adopt a rights approach in its conservation planning.

hrw.org/news/2023/02/0

In ordering the dissolution of these human rights groups, Putin’s regime is turning its back on the legacy of Soviet dissent. Worse, it is replicating the despotic practices of Brezhnev and Soviet totalitarianism. If it continues on this path, it risks ending up in the same place

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Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

Having failed to achieve "quick victory in its war of aggression in Ukraine, the Putin regime has embraced increasingly repressive tactics in an effort to silence critical voices raising public awareness of its systematic targeting of Ukrainian civilians" project-syndicate.org/commentary/put

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

Democrats’ Ilhan Omar defence weakened by party’s own attacks over Israel

The Israel exception: Representative

@IlhanMN

Omar regularly criticized various aspects of U.S. foreign policy. "None of this brought the attention or orchestrated backlash prompted by her views on Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians."

theguardian.com

Party’s criticism of Omar’s Israel position has greased the path for Republicans to oust her from the foreign affairs committee

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The Economist

@TheEconomist

Are diversity statements a threat to academic freedom?

“There clearly is a certain cancel culture in American universities,”

@KenRoth

says. Listen to “Checks and Balance” podcast to hear why he thinks this

economist.com

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, we look at ways ideological homogeneity is spreading across campuses

New symposium over

on some often overlooked aspects of #OSINT.

@SZarmsky

and I wrote a piece on the fair trial implications of using open source evidence at the International Criminal Court which will be posted on Friday.

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Opinio Juris

@opiniojuris

Symposium on Fairness, Equality, and Diversity in Open Source Investigations: An Introduction opiniojuris.org/2023/02/06/sym

TIME

@TIME

Several Hundred Dead After Earthquake Jolts Syria and Turkey

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing at least 641 people. Hundreds were still believed to be trapped under rubble

time.com

The quake—felt as far away as Cairo—toppled buildings and sent panicked residents pouring out into the cold winter night

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

Aftershocks following the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria can continue for “several days, several weeks, maybe even several months”, says expert. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/jnzloa

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@ewither

Terrifying scenes from Kahramanmaraş city in Turkey

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meenakshi ganguly

@mg2411

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With security forces under scrutiny after US sanctions and in the lead-up to elections, #Bangladesh govt should investigate recent allegations of police abuse including by Detective Branch, implement UN Committee Against Torture recommendations

hrw.org/news/2023/02/0

Gerbrig Klos

@gerbrigklos

Feb 4

Veiligheidsgevoelens. Daarmee probeert

@GerritvdBurg

, topman van het #OM een excessief middel als preventieve arrestaties van klimaatactivisten te rechtvaardigen. Ik ben sprakeloos.

Yalda Hakim

@BBCYaldaHakim

Ismail Mashal: Taliban arrests Afghan professor who backed girls' education

Taliban arrests Afghan professor who backed girls' education. I interviewed Prof Mashal just last week and he remained defiant telling me "The only power I have is my pen, even if they kill me, even if they tear me to pieces, I won't stay silent now.”

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Prof Ismail Mashal is an outspoken critic of the Taliban's restrictions on women's education.

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letting #Saudi Arabia sponsor the Women’s World Cup? Are you kidding? Sadly, it’s no joke. Read

@kooyjan

's take in today's Daily Brief: trib.al/nC2fi3L

Peter Beinart

@PeterBeinart

Feb 1

There's a subtext to the

@IlhanMN

expulsion effort that echoes through US history: From Paul Robeson to Muhammed Ali to Andrew Young. Black public figures who endorse anti-imperial critiques of US foreign policy are almost always punished.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

Let’s examine one of the GOP’s arguments yesterday: that criticism of US/Israeli gov’s role in the Palestinian human rights crisis, which orgs from

@amnesty

are sounding the alarm on, is equivalent to antisemitism. It’s a dangerous conflation, and we must recognize that.

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@Pontifex

and other church leaders should use their #SouthSudan visit to get commitments from the country’s leadership to address the ongoing human rights crisis, widespread impunity and civic space violations. New from

@MausiSegun

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South Sudan President Salva Kiir meets Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican on March 16, 2019.

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Good news out of #Finland: it just became much easier for people to change their legally recognized gender. Some other countries could learn a lesson, says

@astroehlein

in today's Daily Brief: trib.al/Yf7HB8v

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Nyagoah Tut Pur

@Ny_Tut