My colleague @hrw.org Angelica Oun on the imperative for Congress to end DHS abuses: www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Whether they perform surgery, pick fruit or tobacco, teach children, play music, or pack meat, immigrants' hands deserve dignity: not human rights violations. #ConEstasManos #WithTheseHands HRW shares this video in solidarity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXq...

US President Donald Trump toured the newly opened immigration detention complex nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” this week. By opening the complex, the US government is expanding a system already rife with inhumane conditions, neglect, and dehumanizing treatment.

🚨 New @hrw report: Russian attacks in Ukraine are killing more civilians in 2025 than last year. Playgrounds. Apartments. Hotels. City centers. No military targets. No warnings. Possible war crimes. 📄 Read the full report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... Ukraine #WarCrimes #HumanRights

Right now, the US House is considering a bill that would make health care less available, less affordable, and of poorer quality for millions If you live in the US, use the info below to get in touch with your Congressmembers and tell them to reject these cuts! #HandsOffMedicaid

New @hrw.org report: a deep dive on the gig economy in the US, by @lenasimet.bsky.social, @amostoh.bsky.social + me. It looks at 7 major platform companies, the extractive business model, and a growing workforce reliant on precarious work that denies them hard-won rights. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Alien Enemies Act Doesn’t Belong on the Books in 2025 www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

🚨 Indigenous leaders in #Guatemala are facing terrorism charges for participating in peaceful protests. It is a blatant attack on their rights, and it follows the footsteps of other abusive attorneys general in a.o. Venezuela and Nicaragua. Read @hrw www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

NEW from #HRW: Without accountability mechanisms, "those with power may become tyrants and no one under their rule is free or safe." www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... Authored by: @treywalk.bsky.social + John Raphling

The Alien Enemies Act doesn’t belong on the books in 2025, my colleague Akshaya Kumar in @JURISTnews argues the law offers a convenient excuse to circumvent due process, which President Trump is leveraging to supercharge his mass deportation machine. www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

Civil Rights Watchdog under Assault by Trump Administration www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

NEW from HRW: United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

NEW from #HRW: Interactive feature cataloguing 100 human rights harms in Trump administration's first 100 days. www.hrw.org/feature/2025...

Happy Birthday to Us, a thread: For too long, border residents and border crossers alike have been plagued by deadly and abusive over-policing and militarization. 1/

The Frontera Federation Board, including Chris Rickerd, Karen Gonzalez, and Hooky Guajardo. /END

My colleague, Juanita Goebertus' excellent (and sobering) declaration on prisons in El Salvador filed in case challenging USG deportations there (J.G.G. v. Trump): www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

Today the US Congress introduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Congress should pass this important bill and strengthen the right to vote in the US. More from HRW's Trey Walk ⤵️

This week, the Trump administration announced it will require undocumented immigrants in the #US to register with the govt. This move will likely create further stigmatization and criminalization and facilitate mass arrests. Read our latest here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

📣 NEW from @HRW: Car chases by TX troopers and local sheriffs/police killed at least 106 people (incl. bystanders and children) + injured 301 in Texas’ dangerous Operation Lone Star. Trump policies to increase this type of enforcement will entrench the chaos and harm. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

NEW today from me & @hrw.org: Vehicle pursuits by TX troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star. Reckless and high speed pursuits often occur in sensitive areas, in neighborhoods, & near schools.

Join the virtual event hosted by @UnlockTheBoxNow and @HumanRightsWatch: 'Solitary Confinement: A Human Rights Crisis in the United States' on February 20, 2025, at 8pm EST / 5pm PST! 👉 Register for access here (tickets are free): bit.ly/40DHG5q!

📢 NEW: The US government permitted Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine without prior consent from even a single Tribe impacted, violating indigenous peoples’ human rights. Our HRW + ACLU report says, out today. 🧵 1/4

NEW: The Mississippi state and US federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women in the Mississippi Delta. New report from the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice and Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

President Donald Trump has effectively closed regular migration pathways, particularly for people fleeing conflict and abuse. What happens next? Lawlessness and chaos, my colleague @billfrelick.bsky.social writes. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the citizenship executive order from taking effect. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades,” the judge said. “I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

NEW from #HRW on Trump immigration EOs: "All people, regardless of immigration status or criminal history, have the right to fair treatment before the law and a chance to argue for their liberty and rights when they are detained or face deportation." www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Today @hrw-fr.bsky.social published a statement recognizing the overlap of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the presidential inauguration. Our statement reminds President Trump that human rights are sacred, and like his predecessors, he is responsible for applying those rights to all.

NEW from HRW today: Border Patrol Agents Block, Mistreat Mexican Asylum Seekers www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

NEW FROM ME: The government will do things that hurt people. But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him. Here’s a start. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Take 15 minutes to understand the economics of immigration, labor markets, inflation and economic growth...and why ending legal immigration and deporting millions of immigrants is an economic self-inflicted head wound on the scale of Brexit that is headed our way in 2 months.

So happy to see @hrw.org here! @blibal.bsky.social came down to investigate the use of Pepper Balls in Eagle Pass this past September, here's the report www.hrw.org/news/2024/09...

Texas can’t give its teachers a raise but can buy massive ranches to turn into deportation camps…

New UK data show 5.2 million kids live in poverty. It's great that there's now a Child Poverty Taskforce, but you don't need a Taskforce to state the obvious: End the #twochildlimit www.hrw.org/news/2024/11... Time for a Taskforce to do its work is a luxury kids in poverty can't afford @hrw.org