Tens of thousands of refugee and asylum-seeking children in Egypt are out of school, in many cases due to significant bureaucratic registration barriers and a lack of free, publicly available education. New from HRW: www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

By way of reminder: US policy explicitly prohibits arms transfers to states “more likely than not” to use them in violations of international law. At least for now, murdering journalists is a violation. Thank you @humanrightswatch.bsky.social

Kenya's human rights record worsens says watchdog nation.africa/kenya/news/k...

3/ Turkish police consider mere phone calls made from payphones allegedly associated with the movement as grounds for detention, even without recorded conversations.

9/ HRF calls for the immediate release of those unlawfully detained and urges the Erdogan regime to respect the Turkish people’s rights to religious freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and access to justice.

8/ HRF condemns the practice of arbitrary detentions based on suspected affiliation with a religious group.

6/ Currently, at least 13,000 people remain in Turkish prisons, either in pre-trial detention or serving sentences for terrorism-related charges linked to Hizmet.

5/ Turkish officials banned the Hizmet movement as a terrorist organization, blaming it for an alleged coup attempt in 2016. Since then, more than 700,000 individuals have been prosecuted for supposed links to the movement.

2/ Turkish prosecutors say the detainees promote the religious movement through social media, payphones, and the use of ByLock, a secure messaging app banned in Turkey.

1/ Turkish police on Tuesday conducted a large-scale raid across 66 provinces, detaining 459 individuals for alleged links to the Hizmet religious movement.

Today marks 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia’s war has killed over 11,700 Ukrainian civilians and injured close to 27,000. At least 6.7 million people have fled Ukraine and millions more have been internally displaced.

Incredible story. While reading it, I felt a sense of guilt and anger, as a Han Chinese, for our willful ignorance and inability to understand. I hope one day there will be a collective "sorry" from all Chinese to all Uyghurs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/m...

Every year, over 200,000 women and girls die from pregnancy-related complications in Africa. Most of these deaths are preventable with access to high-quality maternal health services. Read our Q&A on "Obstetric Violence" in Africa: