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    Feb 3

    End Apartheid End Apartheid End Apartheid End Apartheid End Apartheid End Apartheid End Apartheid End Apartheid

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  2. 17 hours ago

    People around the world have demanded to . The Government of China must dismantle the internment camps. No more draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang ✊

    China: Free Xinjiang Detainees Now!
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  3. 19 hours ago

    Apartheid is…denying the right to live with loved ones 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

    End Israel's Apartheid
    Take action.
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  4. 19 hours ago

    By bravely sharing their own stories, Vian and Barzan have helped shine a light on the struggles that remain for Yezidi former child soldiers today. Many of these young men continue to have serious physical and mental health conditions, having endured unimaginable trauma.

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  5. 19 hours ago

    In 2014, Vian and Barzan were abducted in their childhood by the Islamic State armed group. They were indoctrinated and forced to fight. They escaped and are now living in northern Iraq. This is their story 👇

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  6. Feb 10

    The world has known for years about the policy of repression in Venezuela. Our latest research highlights instances where there is an extremely high correlation between public stigmatization and politically motivated arbitrary arrests 👇

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  7. Feb 10

    👀 Anyone 👀 committing 👀 human rights 👀 abuses 👀 we’re 👀 watching 👀 you 👀

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  8. Feb 10

    Human 👏 rights 👏 violations 👏 cannot 👏 be 👏 sportwashed 👏

    Human Rights Violations in China Cannot Be Sportswashed
    11 replies 195 retweets 377 likes
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  9. Feb 10

    Displacing Palestinians is a crucial pillar of Israel’s apartheid system. Today, at least 150,000 Palestinians are in danger of losing their homes. We need to mobilize against this racist system. Take action.

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  10. Feb 9

    Whether living in the occupied West Bank or Gaza, or within Israel itself, Palestinians are treated as an inferior racial group and systematically deprived of their rights. This cruel system of domination and oppression is apartheid 👇

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  11. Feb 9

    The death of a child in al-Hol sends a chilling reminder to the world of the harrowing conditions in which tens of thousands of children have been living for years. Shameful international inaction has consequences, in this case, children being shot.

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  12. Feb 9

    A reminder: Women have the right to choose what to wear. Women have the right to choose what to wear. Women have the right to choose what to wear.

    Women Have The Right To Choose What To Wear
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  13. Feb 8

    The High Judicial Council has stood as Tunisia’s last bastion of judicial impartiality. If the President enacts a decree to dissolve or suspend the institution, it will sound the death knell for judicial independence in the country.

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  14. Feb 8

    President Kais Saied’s attack on the High Judicial Council represents a grave threat to fair trial rights in Tunisia. Since last July, President Saied has dismantled almost all institutional checks on his power.

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  15. Retweeted
    Feb 6

    Glad the US is finally also raising the devastating human rights and humanitarian cost of a invasion of . Just as emphasised last week, human rights must be at the center, not peripheral to the crisis:

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  16. Feb 8

    Apartheid is… restricting access to clean water 💧 Join the global call to End Israel’s Apartheid system: ✊

    Apartheid Is Restricting Access To Clean Water
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  17. Feb 8

    Hejaaz Hizbullah, a lawyer and prisoner of conscience, was granted bail after almost 2 years of pre-trial detention under Sri Lanka’s draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act. He should have never been detained in the first place.

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  18. Feb 7

    ❤ Right to life. ⚖️ Right to access the law. 📢 Right to freedom of expression. 💭 Right to freedom of thought. 👯‍♀️ Right to peaceful assembly & association. 📚 Right to education. 😴 Right to rest. These — and more — are our fundamental human rights.

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  19. Feb 7

    GOOD NEWS 🎉 Human rights defender Germain Rukuki was finally reunited with his family in Belgium. He met his youngest son for the first time, since he was arrested when his wife was pregnant. He should never have been detained in the first place.

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  20. Feb 5

    Ecuador is getting closer to decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape 👏 It’s time to pass a law that provides justice and remedy to survivors of rape.

    Call on Ecuador's Assembly to Decriminalize Abortion
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  21. Feb 5

    A reminder. Abortion should be: ✅ legal. ✅ safe. ✅ up to the person getting the abortion.

    26 replies 148 retweets 526 likes
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