US Servicemembers’ Exposure to Criminal Liability for Lethal Strikes on Narcoterrorists By Daniel Maurer, former career judge advocate officer and former court-martial prosecutor #MilitaryJustice #SouthCom #LOAC www.justsecurity.org/121167/us-se...

“A Call for Meaningful Action to Support Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo” My remarks at a UN General Assembly side event in New York this week, on the climate of impunity driving cycles of violence and abuse in DRC & concrete steps that can be taken now: hrw.org/news/2025/09...

🚩Saudi govt is using the Riyadh Comedy Fest to deflect attention from its brutal repression The festival takes place on the 7th anniversary of Khashoggi's murder Lineup includes: Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson and others @mazjobrani.bsky.social @sammorril.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

خلال الاجتماعات الرفيعة في دورة "الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة" هذا الأسبوع، على قادة الدول اتخاذ إجراءات عاجلة لوقف الإبادة والجرائم الإسرائيلية الأخرى بحق الفلسطينيين في #غزة.

🚨 As world leaders gather in NYC for #UNGA80, the atmosphere is grim amid attacks by powerful countries (incl. US) on multilateral institutions, human rights & international accountability. See @hrw.org's overview & recommendations below. #Gaza #Sudan #Haiti #Ukraine #ICC #Myanmar #Afghanistan etc

منذ انهيار حكومة الأسد في ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2024، توغلت إسرائيل في المنطقة المنزوعة السلاح التي تشرف عليها "الأمم المتحدة" والتي تفصل هضبة الجولان – وهي أراضٍ سورية تحتلها إسرائيل منذ 1967 – عن الجزء الذي ظل تحت السيطرة السورية من محافظة القنيطرة، وأنشأت تسعة مواقع عسكرية.

Germany’s government is set to make major social security cuts, and replace the only recently-created “Citizen’s Income” with a more punitive “New Income for Jobseekers”. These plans will increase poverty. Human rights can help guide the debate back to what matters. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Während sich Schwarz-Rot um die geplanten Sozialreformen und das #Bürgergeld zankt, geht die tägliche Realität vieler Menschen mit geringem Einkommen in #Deutschland unter. Viele kommen schlichtweg nicht über die Runden. Ein Kommentar von @kartikraj.bsky.social: www.hrw.org/de/news/2025...

Germany’s chancellor: “No one in our country falls into poverty because they become unemployed.” („Niemand fällt in unserem Land in die Armut, weil er arbeitslos wird.”) Lived experience of unemployment benefits strongly suggests otherwise. Screengrabs via @sanktionsfrei.bsky.social

When politicians undermine the European Court of Human Rights, we all lose. With Europe facing some of the gravest threats since the end of WW2, European governments should be bolstering regional institutions, not undermining them. Read my new analysis for @HRW www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

#UK's @phsombudsman.bsky.social finds: 1/ deep flaws in management of Home Office's #Windrush Compensation Scheme 2/ compensation offers should account for private pension losses. #WindrushScandal @hrw.org will say it again: Windrush claimants need access to legal aid. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

The US maritime attacks on alleged Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessels violate international human rights law and amount to extrajudicial killings www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Mi nota sobre la ley de amnistia 🇵🇪 y cómo vulnera el Derecho Internacional. Gracias @idehpucp por publicarla www.hrw.org/es/news/2025... My piece on the 🇵🇪 amnesty law and why it breaches international law. Thanks to @idehpucp for publishing www.hrw.org/news/2025/09... @hrwespanol.bsky.social

On Sept 12, an ICE officer shot at Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Mexican migrant, near Chicago, who then died. CCTV footage of the incident calls ICE’s account into question and highlights the need for independent investigation www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

1/3 #Gaza: the European Parliament adopted a resolution urging the EU Council & Commission to: - Suspend the #EU - #Israel trade deal - Sanction Ben Gvir, Smotrich & settlers - Support the ICC, activate the EU blocking statute against US sanctions - Halt arms exports amid risks of complicity ...

"أسطول الصمود" وأساطيل الإغاثة الأخرى تضع قادة الحكومات أمام مسؤوليتهم: عليهم العمل فورا على كسر الحصار الإسرائيلي غير القانوني على #غزة لإنهاء المجاعة https://bit.ly/4mSMj4d

فرضت إدارة الرئيس ترامب عقوبات على "المركز الفلسطيني لحقوق الإنسان"، و"مركز الميزان لحقوق الإنسان"، و"مؤسسة الحق"، إثر إجراءت مماثلة ضد قضاة ومدّعين عامين في "المحكمة الجنائية الدولية"، وخبيرة حقوقية في الأمم المتحدة.

The escalating women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan demonstrates a gap in international protection of rights of women and girls. The international community should fill this gap by making gender apartheid a crime against humanity under international law. gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/09/02/g...

🚨 Broken bones. Amputated finger. Loss of vision. Concussions. Deep lacerations. Severe bruising. Law enforcement responded to protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles with deliberate brutality, in clear violation of int'l human rights law. NEW @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Human Rights Watch is hiring a new executive director: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

A powerful account by a Bosnian @hrw.org colleague of her childhood memories of malnutrition and lack of access to medical care during the war, and its parallels to the realities people in Gaza are living through today. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

📢 New @hrw.org report: A US-backed aid system in Gaza has become a death trap. Israeli forces and private contractors have turned the journey to food distributions into mass killings. #Gaza #Accountability 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

🚨 Israeli forces have killed hundreds of starving Palestinians seeking food in Gaza. These are not isolated incidents; these are war crimes. Our latest investigation lays out the evidence. #Gaza #WarCrimes 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Israeli forces have killed hundreds of starving Palestinians seeking food in Gaza. These are war crimes. Our latest investigation lays out the evidence 👇 #Gaza #WarCrimes @belkiswille.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/08... @hrw.org

🚨 New from @hrw.org on #Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes @belkiswille.bsky.social: “US-backed Israeli forces and private contractors have put in place a flawed, militarized aid distribution system that has turned aid distributions into regular bloodbaths.”

🌍 Governments must suspend arms sales to Israel, impose sanctions, and demand accountability. The world cannot stand by as Israel guns down starving Palestinians trying to get food. States should act to stop Israel’s extermination of Palestinians. 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

🇮🇱 Israel must immediately stop using lethal force against civilians seeking aid, lift unlawful aid restrictions, and dismantle the deadly GHF system. These killings are war crimes. #Israel #HumanRights 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

THREAD: What must be done to stop the killing of Palestinians seeking food in Gaza? @hrw.org lays out urgent recommendations. #Gaza #WarCrimes www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

THREAD: What does it mean to seek food in Gaza today? For many Palestinians, it means risking death. These are the stories behind the hundreds killed. #Gaza #HumanRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

🚨 BREAKING: Israeli forces and US-backed contractors have turned Gaza aid distribution into a death trap. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while seeking food. Our new @hrw investigation exposes the system behind the slaughter. 1/6 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

🇺🇸 The US is funding a system that facilitates the gunning down of starving Palestinians seeking food. Congress must investigate, suspend funding to GHF, and halt arms transfers to Israel. Complicity in war crimes must end. #USForeignPolicy 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

📢 New @hrw report: A US-backed aid system in Gaza has become a death trap. Israeli forces and private contractors have turned the journey to food distributions into mass killings. #Gaza #Accountability 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

🚨 Israeli forces have killed hundreds of starving Palestinians seeking food in Gaza. These are not isolated incidents; these are war crimes. Our latest investigation lays out the evidence. #Gaza #WarCrimes 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

In a new report, Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South looked at three Florida detention centers. Conditions are not just inhumane — they actually violate international law. @belkiswille.bsky.social of @hrw.org:

The UK gov plans to experiment with facial age estimation tech on vulnerable young people. But refugee children need care, not algorithms. This tech isn't the solution - instead, it creates new potentially life-changing risks, as @techchildrights.bsky.social and I write. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Did you know that the UK gov't is planning an AI experiment on children seeking asylum? 🤯 Experimenting with unproven tech to decide whether to protect a child is cruel and unconscionable. Do better, UK. Here's my latest with @abacci.bsky.social: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Today, @hrw.org released a report documenting growing isolation and pervasive censorship that internet users face in #Russia. www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

“One man described being denied medical care for a strangulated hernia for hours until he collapsed in painm” says my colleague Vicki Gaubeca @hrw.org in piece about how a surge in enforcement is fueling widespread human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

A bill passed by Brazil's Congress that would allow projects to proceed without environmental impact assessment could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon. It'd be the biggest setback for Brazil’s environmental protection in decades. Lula should veto it. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Having interviewed Ukrainians in frontline areas who have had their legs blown off in anti-personnel landmine attacks, this development is so heartbreaking

The U.S. immigration detention system is broken. Here’s what needs to change. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

NEW REPORT: “You Feel Like Your Life is Over” — @hrw.org ‬AI Justice @sanctuarylegalservices.com expose abusive conditions at 3 Florida immigration detention centers. Overcrowding, medical neglect, and degrading treatment are rampant. #HumanRights #ImmigrationJustice www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

@sanctuarylegalservices.com www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Maksym Chernyak died in ICE custody after being denied medical care. He was a Ukrainian humanitarian parolee. He should not have been detained. He should not have died. #JusticeForMaksym 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

“You feel like your life is over.” That’s how one man described immigration detention in Florida. Here’s why. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Florida has highest rate of 287(g) agreements in US. Here’s why that’s a problem. Speak up. Demand oversight. Demand dignity. Demand an end to the inhumane treatment of immigrants in Florida and beyond. #EndDetention #HumanRightsNow 🔗 www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... 🧵