This week world leaders made commitments to fulfil rights at #WSS2. But this won’t happen without money. We’re now looking at Nairobi where the UN Tax Convention #UNTC negotiations are resuming on Monday - it could be the key to deliver on those commitments. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...

Police have failed to take crucial steps to investigate 121 killings during a raid in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Police didn´t preserve crime scenes and the chain of custody of evidence. Authorities should ensure a thorough, independent investigation. New from @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

An anti-drug police operation in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro has resulted in more than 100 killings. Rio authorities’ decisions leading to such a disastrous operation should be investigated. Families of victims deserve truth and justice.

🧵1️⃣ ضمن حصارها لمدينة الفاشر طيلة 18 شهرا، حفرت "قوات الدعم السريع" السودانية خندقا وبنت ساترا رمليا حول المدينة. منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.

As part of its 18-month siege of El Fasher, the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan dug a trench and built a sand berm around the city. Since RSF captured El Fasher, HRW documented and geolocated videos near the berm to the northwest — videos that could be used to prove crimes. 1/7🧵

NEW: US state laws requiring healthcare providers to notify a parent about a young person’s abortion decision are causing harm. In a new report, HRW and If/When/How document how state-mandated parental notification laws in six US states threaten young people’s health and safety. Learn more ⤵️

Cutting aid has a human cost. The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.

بحسب تقارير، اعتقلت "قوات الدعم السريع" الصحفي معمر إبراهيم في #الفاشر. على قوات الدعم السريع أن توقف فورا هجماتها على المدنيين، بمن فيهم الصحفيون، وتسمح للمدنيين بالفرار الآمن. (الصورة: لقطة شاشة من صفحة "نقابة الصحفيين السودانيين" على فيسبوك)

Vietnam’s long record of cracking down on online dissent sadly makes it a fitting host for the signing ceremony of the deeply flawed UN Convention against Cybercrime this weekend. Read more in this @thediplomat.com oped by @hrw's @deblbrown.bsky.social & me thediplomat.com/2025/10/un-t...

This weekend, governments will head to Hanoi to sign the deeply flawed UN Convention on Cybercrime. @hrw.org and partners issue new recommendations on how governments can prevent and mitigate the human rights risks posed the treaty www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

سيستمر الفلسطينيون في المعاناة والموت ما لم ترفع إسرائيل حصارها غير القانوني عن قطاع غزة وتعيد الخدمات الأساسية إليه. على الدول الضغط على إسرائيل لتحترم القرار الصادر عن "محكمة العدل الدولية" بشأن الإغاثة. اقرؤوا المزيد: https://bit.ly/3WoHe8a

This week Brazil hosts the 4th National Conference on the Rights of LGBTQIA+  people to chart new directions for public policy on equality & inclusion. The conference also underscores 🇧🇷‘s reemergence as a key voice in global equality debates. @hrw.org analysis 📃: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Returning colonial-era cultural belongings & ancestral remains is an international human rights & reparations issue. Communities' rights should be at the core. Yet Germany's new guidelines distance themselves from international law. Returns aren't goodwill gestures. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

NEW: @homelandgov.bsky.social federal agents have used excessive force against protesters, medics, legal observers, and journalists at numerous protests outside a US ICE facility in Illinois. This isn’t crowd control but a campaign of intimidation. Congress must act. https://bit.ly/476v5uS

New report: DHS used excessive force on protesters, medics, observers & media at protests outside ICE facility in #Illinois. This isn’t crowd control: it’s intimidation. Should raise @eudiplomacy.bsky.social concerns in context of erosion of rights protection in USA. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

1/ 💥 Federal agents in Illinois have used excessive force against protesters, journalists, medics, and independent observers over the last month and a half. Here are some of their stories. 🧵https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/23/united-states-federal-agents-use-excessive-force-in-illinois

🚨 NEW: @homelandgov.bsky.social federal agents used excessive force against protesters, medics, legal observers & journalists at numerous protests outside ICE facility in Illinois. This isn’t crowd control—it’s intimidation. Congress must act. 📢 Read the @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

1/ 🚨 New @hrw.org report: Federal agents used excessive force against protesters in Illinois. Here’s what we found. 🧵https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/23/united-states-federal-agents-use-excessive-force-in-illinois

“This is not crowd control, but a campaign of intimidation. Federal agents are using chemical irritants and firing projectiles at peaceful protesters, volunteer street medics, and journalists in broad daylight. The message is clear that dissent will be punished.” - @belkiswille.bsky.social

La Russie a attaqué un convoi de l'ONU en Ukraine à l'aide de drones. Le lendemain, elle a publié une vidéo de l'attaque pour que le monde entier puisse la voir. C'était loin d'être la première fois. @taylorrobin.bsky.social 👇 www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...

Russia, using drones, attacked a UN Convoy in Ukraine. The very next day, they posted video evidence of the attack for the world to see, and not for the first time. Latest for @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

The drone operators knew they were targeting a UN convoy. That they shared the video... indicates they do not believe they will face any consequences. They should not count on it. The ICC and authorities from several countries are investigating war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine.

New calls on Microsoft to suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses & international crimes by the Israeli military & other government bodies www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @hrw.org @accessnow.org @amnesty.org @7amleh.bsky.social @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org

The EU’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 reaffirms that equality and democracy are inseparable. The EU and its member states should now back their words with concrete action—political, legal, and financial—both at home and abroad. 📄 @hrw.org : www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

By embedding #LGBTIQ+ equality in #EU external action, the new strategy positions the EU as a global defender of LGBTIQ+ rights. Next step: turn ambitions into action through political will, adequate funding, enforcement mechanisms, and implementation at home & abroad. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

🧵 As #EU governments prepare to meet amid a fragile #Gaza ceasefire, pressure is mounting for them to "drop the stick" they never used on #Israel Caving to that pressure would be yet another blow to their credibility, and to hopes for rights and justice: hrw.org/news/2025/10... #EUCO #FAC ⤵️ 1/7

The Trump administration signals deep cuts in refugee admissions and prioritizing remaining places for Europeans who oppose immigration & white South Africans. @hrw.org's @billfrelick.bsky.social says this 180° resettlement turn "adds deep insult to even deeper injury." www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

When visiting China, Swedish Foreign Minister Malmer Stenergard should focus on 1) human rights and growing Chinese repression including in Xinjiang and 2) Chinese transnational repression, to secure the release of bookseller Gui Minhai. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

إذا كان بإمكان حكومة #المغرب البذخ على بناء ملعب كرة، فهي قادرة على تمويل نظامها الصحي #GenZ212 https://bit.ly/47d1qPq

Despite decades of growth, Sri Lanka’s economy collapsed and its once-vaunted public school system is struggling. New @hrw.org report on how a UN tax treaty can help governments uphold human rights www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Low tax revenues helped drive Sri Lanka to economic crisis. New report from @hrw.org on how tax policies favoring companies & the wealthy have for decades been undermining human rights, including to education www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Sri Lanka was once a global leader in education. New @hrw.org report documents low tax revenues starved schools of funding and squandered this lead www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Today, @hrw.org released the 1st major report on tax, documenting how policies that favor the rich drove Sri Lanka into economic crisis & starved its public education system. UN tax treaty negotiations are historic chance to address a root cause. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We’re hiring a deputy director for Arms in the Crisis, Conflict & Arms Division at @hrw.org to help us advance humanitarian disarmament & protect civilians from weapons like landmines, cluster munitions & killer robots. To learn more, visit: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

The German government's plan for social security "reform" is bad news for #humanrights. I tried to set out why for @hrw.org here, a couple of weeks back, as we awaited details of these plans: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

يوفر وقف إطلاق النار أملا للمدنيين الفلسطينيين في غزة بعد عامين من القتل والتجويع والتهجير، وكذلك للرهائن الإسرائيليين والمعتقلين الفلسطينيين وعائلاتهم، ولكن ستستمر الانتهاكات ما لم تتخذ الحكومات إجراءات لدعم الإغاثة والمحاسبة. بيان "هيومن رايتس ووتش" كاملا: https://bit.ly/3L3XI2X

🚩On @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, Aziz Ansari said he would donate part of his Riyadh Comedy Fest fee to @hrw.org While HRW cannot accept the donation, it's not too late for him to call for the release of detained Saudi activists Manahel al Otaibi & Waleed Abu al Khair www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

5 questions you might have about #COP30 and why it’s a pivotal moment for climate action & human rights. Governments should phase out fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and protect forests & communities. hrw.org/news/2025/10/09/qa-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop30

🚨Judges of the International Criminal Court in The Hague have just convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region.

Country-wide protests initiated by the youth group GenZ212 have gripped Morocco, as protesters criticize the government over corruption and spending. Morocco’s government should hear protestors’ demands. Learn more ⤵️

دافع العديد من الكوميديين المشاركين في "مهرجان الرياض للكوميديا" عن حرية التعبير. هل سيدافعون الآن عن هذا الحق في #السعودية؟

Trump’s memorandum directing law enforcement to investigate a sprawling, imaginary conspiracy to foment political violence in the US is a serious threat to human rights and democratic institutions: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

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...