You have to look very hard to spot human rights here. Last week's @ec.europa.eu Joint Communication on the EU-India strategic agenda has even less commitment on rights than last time in 2018. And not a mention of the profound rights crisis affecting people across India.

We call on the EU to: ➡️facilitate diplomatic spaces ➡️support projects defending human rights & the Amazon ➡️monitor the situation There's no time to lose for international action to guarantee the rights of Indigenous children & protect those defending life in the Amazon.

Peru's repressive laws increase risks for indigenous communities & threaten their human rights. Still, MANTHOC Perú activists highlight acts of resistance🌱 👉Botanical gardens preserving medicinal plants 👉Work to strengthen ancestral knowledge & protect their territory

Last Friday, activists from MANTHOC Perú with support of Amnesty International Peru met with the European External Action Service in Brussels. They raised the alarm about river pollution and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and weak protection for environmental defenders in Peru.

Unprecedented. The United States might be on track to become the first country to fully walk away from the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a regular, important human rights related review. www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

🎂 Happy birthday to Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan. After a brief moment of freedom, she has now spent over a year detained on vague criminal charges, awaiting an unfair trial. Illustrator: @badiucao.bsky.social

Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.

No more excuses. No more delays. Every EU failure to act is a greenlight for Israel to continue its genocide in Gaza. As EU ministers meet today in Denmark, @amnestydk.bsky.social sent them a message they can't ignore: 👉Suspend the EU–Israel Agreement NOW.

We @amnesty.org join 80+ Afghan & 20 international organizations in grave concern on the human rights & humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan We urge the UN Human Rights Council to finally establish an independent international accountability mechanism for Afghanistan www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Many Uyghur families remain separated, silenced and searching for justice. Governments must act now to end repression in the Uyghur region and ensure a process for accountability.

On 31/08/2022, the UN released a historic assessment concluding that serious human rights violations in the Uyghur region "may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity". The international community & the UN have yet to act on these findings.

Three years ago, a UN report concluded that China was responsible for grave human rights violations in Xinjiang. It is shameful that the international community has failed to act.

👉Support Congolese rights defenders in DRC and those displaced by conflict 👉Maintain full EU support to the UN Human Rights Council 👉 Fact-Finding Mission on DRC and to efforts by the Office of the Prosecutor of the Intl' Criminal Court to investigate crimes under international law in DRC

What else can the EU do? 👉Effectively review the raw minerals deal w/Rwanda & ensure the partnership doesn't contribute to violations including in DRC 👉Keep DRC on the agenda at November's EU- African Union summit 👉Boost humanitarian aid including to sexual violence survivors

🚨We urge EU and its member states to press DRC & Rwanda at the highest level to demand accountability for abuses and ensure all armed groups prioritize protection of civilians

“They said we would die” @amnesty.org new briefing exposes grave abuses in North & South Kivu, DRC. Gang rapes, summary executions, torture & attacks on health facilities by #M23, Wazalendo & the Congolese army (FARDC). Many may amount to war crimes. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

@ec.europa.eu must urgently request clarifications from the Greek authorities on these reported measures and launch infringement procedures on Greece’s wider crackdown on refugees and migrants’ rights.

Greece: Disturbing statements from migration minister Thanos Plevris indicating that NGOs challenging govt migration policy before courts will be subject to audit. The seemingly punitive measures would amount to an assault on freedom of association & have a chilling effect on civil society 🧵

🚨 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...

Out today! My talented friend @kimberlytso.bsky.social has written a delightful picture book about a real-life chicken that played tic tac toe in an arcade in New York City’s Chinatown. With beautiful illustration by Louie Chin. Find it on bookshop.org and/or your local independent bookstore!

🎉🇪🇺 🎉 Great news from the EU as it significantly strengthens its measures preventing the transfer of law enforcement equipment to those who would use it for torture & other ill-treatment. 🔗: omegaresearchfoundation.org/news/europea... #torturefreetrade

Our takeaway? It's a positive entry point to 👉Further expand the scope of goods prohibited by the EU, by adding direct contact electric shock devices & multiple-projectile ammunition 👉Aim for more ambitious regulations in the EU & worldwide-including a Torture-Free Trade Treaty

This welcome change in EU policy reflects how torture and other ill-treatment happen in detention and on the street, including repression of protesters. We @amnesty.org have documented severe injury and death from state misuse of law enforcement equipment.

📢 Last week the EU expanded its pioneering Anti-Torture Regulation, adding more equipment used for torture and other ill-treatment to the trade ban and control lists – a key move to protect detainees, protesters and human rights defenders.

Every day the EU fails to act is a greenlight to Israel’s genocide. EU Member states must unilaterally suspend all forms of cooperation that may contribute to Israel's serious violations of international law.

Disgraceful. Shameful. The EU can't even muster the barest minimum measures to even start to hold Israel to account. This failure comes just as Israeli human rights organizations join others in finding that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]

11/ 🔗Read our joint letter : hrw.org/news/2025/07... @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social, @kderderian1.bsky.social, @fbermingham.bsky.social

10/ ⏳ The Summit is a moment of truth. Will the EU stand with victims & survivors—or let repression go unchallenged? Read the full joint letter from @amnesty.org, @hrw.org; @hrw-brussels.bsky.social, @fidh-official.bsky.social, @uyghurcongress.bsky.social, @omctorg.bsky.social & many others.

9/ 🇪🇺 After 50 years of EU-China relations, it's time for the EU to take a hard look at reality: Human rights in China are in free fall. It’s time for new strategies—not business as usual. #EUChina #HumanRights

8/ 📜 The EU must demand the repeal of abusive laws like: — The Hong Kong National Security Law — “Picking quarrels” & “subversion” charges — Secret detentions under “residential surveillance” These violate China’s own treaty obligations.

7/ 🕯️ Protecting freedom of religion and belief must include defending Tibetan religious traditions—like resisting interference in the selection of the next Dalai Lama.

6/ 🌍 The EU should lead on ending transnational repression, including Chinese surveillance, intimidation & harassment of activists in Europe. These abuses affect not just Chinese citizens, but global civil society. #StopTNR

5/ 🛑 They call for the immediate release of detained human rights defenders, including: Gui Minhai 🇪🇺 Ilham Tohti Ding Jiaxi Xu Zhiyong Zhang Zhan …and dozens more. Silence is complicity.

3/ ✊ The EU has spoken out before—on Xinjiang, detentions of rights defenders, and the repression in Hong Kong—but words are not enough. The current approach hasn’t stopped Beijing’s abuses. #HumanRights must be a top priority at the Summit.

2/ 🇨🇳 Under Xi Jinping, Chinese authorities have escalated a systematic assault on human rights—from arbitrary detention & torture to transnational repression reaching into Europe. Europe must respond with clarity and courage.

🧵1/ Ahead of the #EUChinaSummit (July 24), leading human rights orgs are calling on EU leaders to put human rights at the core of their China strategy. Here's what they’re urging Presidents @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu & @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to do 👇

This year marks 50 years of EU-China diplomatic relations. Let’s not forget 50 brave human rights defenders silenced by Beijing. As leaders meet in Beijing this week, the EU must turn words into action 🧵

➡️Strengthen technical, political & financial support for Venezuelan rights defenders, journalists & civil society inside & outside Venezuela Read more here 👇 #DetencionesSinRastro #DetentionsWithoutATrace

➡️Press the Venezuelan authorities to disclose the fate & whereabouts of those detained & release all arbitrarily detained ➡️Exercise universal or other forms of extraterritorial jurisdiction to investigate & prosecute suspected perpetrators of enforced disappearance

International justice mechanisms such as the International Criminal Court, can and should provide justice to victims of enforced disappearances and ensure #JusticiaParaVenezuela What can the #EU and its member states do?

@amnesty.org documented the alarming situation of 15 victims of enforced disappearance in #Venezuela since July 2024. 11 remain disappeared. @exterioresgob.bsky.social, @francediplomatie.bsky.social, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, @ec.europa.eu, @consilium.europa.eu, your own nationals are among them.

📢New @amnesty.org report on how the Venezuelan authorities commit enforced disappearances as part of a widespread & systematic attack against the civilian population, particularly those they consider dissidents. These amount to crimes against humanity. Inaction is not an option.

➡️Publicly call by name for the release of detained human rights lawyers & defenders, at the UN Human Rights Council & all meetings w/Chinese officials ➡️Demand the authorities drop charges & quash convictions of those detained for peacefully exercising/advocating human rights

The #EU should: ➡️Support establishment of an independent, international investigation into Chinese government human rights violations ➡️Increase support for lawyers & other human rights defenders in China, including their families

The 709 Crackdown led to the unjust prosecution & persecution some of China’s most diligent human rights lawyers & legal activists. But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

"The Nigerian government must recognise formally that they are innocent of any crime and fully exonerate them... Full justice for the Ogoni Nine is only a first step –much more needs to be done to get justice for communities in the Niger Delta." #Nigeria #Shell www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In eastern DRC, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters gang-raped women, tortured detainees, attacked rights defenders Amnesty International's Tigere Chagutah wrote in @euobserver.com how the EU critical raw minerals deal with Rwanda risks putting profits before Congolese lives euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

New @amnesty.org investigation out today. Advanced Chinese weaponry provided by UAE identified in #Sudan in breach of the UN arms embargo. Time to enforce the embargo & extend it to all of Sudan. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...