Rachel Denber

@Rachel_Denber

Deputy Director, Europe and Central Asia division Human Rights Watch

New York
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Joined March 2011
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    Dec 3

    European Commission proposals to weaken asylum rights will make a horrible situation on Poland-Belarus border even worse

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  2. 7 hours ago

    Last week police in Azerbaijani broke up peacefully gathering before it could even start, & brutally beat Tofig Yagublu. His horrific mistreatment was an attack on both an individual and the right to peaceful assembly. New

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  3. 7 hours ago

    Badas* lawyers of ! It takes nerves of steel and the keenest of minds take on the steamroller of the state in Russian courts to defend rights. All respect and admiration to you!

    А ещё сегодня День юриста! Мы поздравляем наших дорогих коллег с их профессиональным праздником, а также всех причастных к такой сложной и ответственной профессии 🧡
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    23 hours ago

    authorities showed brazen contempt for people’s right to hold peaceful protests & used violence to quash dissent on Dec 1 & detained dozens, including opposition leader, Tofig Yagublu, who sustained multiple injuries in police custody. See

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    Dec 2

    Pages 6-7 Four civil society activists have been featured in the Prove They Alive! lists. The fate of only one of them – Omruzak Omarkuliev – is still unknown.Victim of enforced disappearance, Azat Isakov, who lived in Russia.

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  6. Dec 2

    Good summary of crisis on Polish/Belarusian border. 🇧🇾 not 1st to instrumentalize migrants. Plus: "By supporting 🇵🇱’s hard-line tactics,... the EU appeared not just callous but hypocritical: instead of upholding EU asylum law ... it looked on as migrants were pushed back into 🇧🇾"

    The recent crisis at the Polish-Belarusian border reflects a dangerous pattern of authoritarian governments using the threat of mass migration to extract concessions and financial aid, writes .
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    Dec 2

    Research by shows that the human crisis exists on the Polish side of the border as well. Deeply worrying that Poland continues to restrict access to life-saving help and independent observers

    Poland’s new Border Protection Act perpetuates many restrictive measures introduced by the state of emergency, with negative effects for humanitarian actors, media, and the local population on the eastern border. Read my statement 👇
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    Dec 1

    ⚠️ Tofig Yagublu, prominent Azerbaijani oppositionist, after release from police detainment today. ©️ His daughter Nigar Hazi posted. ⚡ Yagublu was detained in protest in Baku today. Rustamov, activist in prison, is on 26th day of his hunger strike.

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  9. Dec 1

    Turkmenistan gov contiues to deny any Covid cases. WHO finishes 2nd trip to 🇹🇲, urges government to look harder for Covid. Why can't WHO just come out and say that the gov is hiding the truth about Covid in Tkm?

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  10. Nov 30

    “No forgiveness for people like you” is what the Taliban have said to some former Afghan government officials. New report documents summary executions and enforced disappearances by the Taliban.

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  11. Nov 29

    In October, far-right radicals marched in march in Irpin, Ukraine, calling for violence against Roma. It's a painful reminder of the gaping need for accountability for violence against Roma in Ukraine. New dispatch

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    Nov 26

    “Men, women, and children have been ping-ponged across the border for days or weeks in freezing weather, desperately needing humanitarian assistance that is being blocked on both sides,” says .

    Two women and a child huddle in sleeping bags on the forest floor after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border near Michalowo on October 6, 2021.
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    Nov 24

    🇪🇺🇦🇲Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Let us stand up and speak out to help end violence against women and girls.

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    Nov 25

    International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. 17 out of 29 media representatives imprisoned in Belarus are women. Often for women create "special conditions of detention". Read the story of journalist Katsyaryna Karpitskaya about a month in the detention center

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    Nov 24

    Political crisis in destroys people’s livelihoods. Those who are neither activists nor journalists are also affected. Impressions from Hrodna.

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    Nov 24

    This week’s groundbreaking ruling by European Court of Human Rights means the world to Luisa Tapayeva, applicant from Chechnya, and to many other women in Russia’s North Caucasus who are struggling to regain custody or even visit with their children.

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    Nov 24

    Crisis of humanity on the Poland-Belarus border, where babies are literally freezing to death, with responsibilities on all sides. report out today

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    Nov 24

    Thank goodness the jury in the Ahmaud Arbery case recognized the gravity of this crime, finding all three defendants guilty of murder to varying degrees.

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    Nov 24

    Black people in the US know a history all too well where juries set white men free who took justice, and the lives of other Black people, into their own hands. Today’s Arbery trial verdict helps to write a new and more just chapter in the history of race in the US for all.

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    Nov 18

    Honored to work with my colleague to shine a light on how Voter ID laws in Australia and any democracy weakens the power and access of voters.

    The Coalition’s push for US-style voting ID laws in Australia will weaken democracy, write ’s and in . Voting laws should strengthen democracy by making it easier to cast a ballot, not harder.
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