Big agribusiness will be out in force at #COP30 to protect the status quo that promotes and finances their pesticide-driven businesses, but delegates should listen to those who live near these farms and suffered from the health harms from constant pesticides.
www.nexojornal.com.br/ensaio/2025/...
Israeli troops fire ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank
After deliberately blocking humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza for 78 days, Israel has begun allowing in a “basic amount” of aid.
Israeli authorities’ blockade and use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war amounts to war crimes and acts of genocide.
The UN Child Rights Committee condemns mass starvation of children in Gaza amid aid blockades: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
The UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) says nearly 3,000 aid trucks are piled up at Gaza’s border, unable to cross due to Israel’s now two-month blockade.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/aszkn6
The Trump administration’s first 100 days in office have been a relentless barrage of actions that violate, threaten, or undermine human rights.
This is what a descent into autocracy looks like:
www.hrw.org/feature/2025...
Reports that Myanmar’s military has continued with airstrikes after the earthquake tells you everything you need to know about the junta - obsessed with its brutal repression of civilians and desperately trying to win the war whatever the human cost. www.bbc.com/news/article...
UN relief chief warns that food is ‘rotting’ at the Gaza border as Israel continues to breach humanitarian law with the blockade imposed on March 18 ⤵️ aje.io/43pq7y
Prior to the earthquake, Myanmar was already facing a humanitarian crisis as a result of the junta's aid blockages & economic collapse which has left millions of people at risk of starvation and half the population in poverty. Now it's even worse. www.bbc.com/news/live/c4...
Russia tightens its grip on occupied Ukraine, forcing Ukrainians there to "regulate their legal status"—get a Russian passport or register as a foreigner—or leave. This paves the way for forced deportations, a potential war crime and crime against humanity
@hrw.org bit.ly/41TTyzC
“If we tolerate an Israel exception to our rights of free speech, we can be sure that other exceptions will follow.“
Israel carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, say UN experts.
Read more: aje.io/pup0ac
Recent atrocities in Syria's coastal regions are deeply alarming. Government action to protect civilians and prosecute perpetrators of summary executions, and other grave crimes must be swift and unequivocal.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
“Duterte’s arrest is a long-overdue victory against impunity that could bring victims and their families a step closer to justice. This momentous event sends a message to rights abusers everywhere that one day they could be held to account.”@HRW
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
For comment and updates on #Duterte for @hrw.org follow @carlosconde.bsky.social
Cutting off electricity to an entire civilian area, as collective punishment, is a war crime. #TurnItOn
Israel has cut off electricity to Gaza’s last functional desalination plant, forcing the plant—which served 500K people—to come to a halt.
(1/3) We join human rights orgs in asking UNSG Antonio Guterres ahead of his trip to #Bangladesh to urge the Interim Govt to ensure justice for victims of abuses, protect civic space, and reform institutions including the security sector, with UN support.
rfkhumanrights.org/our-voices/l...
UK, France and Germany say Gaza aid freeze could breach international law
In two words: this is Poisonous Profit. The Zambian government should urgently suspend operations and revoke the licenses of companies involved in hazardous mining activities in Kabwe. Profit should never come before children’s health.
#leadfreekabwe
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
from my brilliant colleague @eminacerimovic.bsky.social
Inching toward a full-on break with the rule of law: @propublica.org reports on what looks like the administration's "fake" review of aid programs, which would mean it "will have defied a federal judge’s order in a brazen gambit to continue dismantling USAID." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Deeply troubling that 40+ Uyghur men held in Thai detention for more than a decade are now at imminent risk of being sent to China.
We iterate our call to Thai PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra not to send them to China where they risk imprisonment & torture.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
New @hrw.org report: The Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group fighting alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces, intentionally targeted civilians in a January attack on Tayba village, killing at least 26 people including a child. This constitutes war crimes. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02... 🧵
Just in time for #RightsCon2025, see our joint statement with techglobalinstitute, @peninternational.bsky.social, @accessnow.org, @article19.bsky.social + @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social on the digital legal landscape in #bangladesh, and why we're concerned.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
5. The report issues key recommendations for justice, accountability, and reform. Many of which are also reflected in our @hrw.org report.
Among them is an important call to disband the rapid action battalion.
www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
4. The army was involved in abuses: the report found that army soldiers fired military rifles with live ammunition directly at protesters on at least 3 occasions. They also provided physical cover for police and RAB carrying out abuses.
3. Intelligence forces contributed to and concealed abuses, these include: The DGFI, NSI, NTMC, and the specialised branches of the Police (DB, CTTC).
These units have previously been implicated in abuses, including extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. www.hrw.org/report/2021/...
2. Attacks on healthcare: security forces denied/obstructed medical care for injured protesters + interrogated patients. They intimidated medical personnel and seized hospital CCTV footage without due process, in an apparent effort to identify protesters and to conceal evidence of state abuses.
1. Command responsibility: extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, and torture "were carried out with the knowledge, coordination and direction of the political leadership and senior security officials as part of a strategy to suppress the protests.”
🚨 Read paras 282-289 re the "core committee"
The much anticipated UN human rights report on the #monsoonrevolution in #Bangladesh estimates 1,400 people were killed and thousands injured, the vast majority of whom were shot by Bangladesh’s security forces. More than 10% were kids.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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