Comment la détermination de l’avocate Jehosheba Bennett et le courage de 5 femmes métisses victimes d’enlèvement par le régime coloniale du Congo Belge ont abouti à la condamnation de l’État Belge pour crime contre l’humanité. amn.st/63322B6XxM4

EU: @europarl.europa.eu greenlights punitive detention & deportation plans. The agreement – the result of a collaboration between @eppgroup.bsky.social & political groups that support anti-migration policies – was rushed w/o scrutiny or meaningful human rights assessments.

Today marks two years since enactment of legislation under Hong Kong’s Article 23. In the past year alone, people have been arrested, charged, even prosecuted for writing graffiti in a toilet, sharing a song on social media and creating an online petition.

📢 On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we’re raising concerns re China’s new ‘Ethnic Unity’ law. It aims to forge a single national identity, promoting Mandarin in education & what authorities call “integration” of ethnic groups across society.

Rwanda opposition politician Victoire Ingabire & 9 others have been arbitrarily detained & face subversion charges for legitimate peaceful political activities. Authorities must immediately release all 10 individuals detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights.

The shocking return of anti-personnel mines to Europe. Many of us dreamed that one day these indiscriminate weapons would be eradicated, but these ghosts of 20th-century warfare are making a comeback. euobserver.com/204280/the-s...

👉Angola must conduct timely, effective investigations into evidence on use of commercial spyware and digital threats against the country's civil society and media. 👉The EU must tighten export controls and increase transparency, oversight & accountability of the spyware trade.

Spyware is not a neutral tool. When deployed against journalists & activists it becomes an instrument of repression, incompatible with human rights. Unchecked sale & use of surveillance technologies, linked to EU-based companies, risks facilitating human rights abuses worldwide.

Prominent Angolan journalist Teixeira Cândido was targeted by Predator, a highly invasive mobile phone spyware. This is the first forensic confirmation of its use in Angola, amid a tightening authoritarian environment in the country.

Today EU and Angolan ministers meet in Brussels - an opportunity for both sides to act to curb spyware abuses. A recent @amnesty.org investigation underlines the real-world cost of the development, sale and use of spyware technologies.

Not a moment too soon. Tomorrow, 1630-1830 CET, @droi.europarl.europa.eu discusses "The EU's role in upholding human rights in its external action, even with traditional allied countries: the case of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)". Live stream👇

Together with @hrw-brussels.bsky.social and @fidh-official.bsky.social, we @amnesty.org urge the EU to move from concern to action for human rights: protection of civilians and accountability for rights violations.

Murder, torture, gang rape, abductions, forced displacement & recruitment of children by M23. Killings, rape & abduction by Wazalendo (armed groups partly supported by the DRC army). All documented by the UN & rights organizations, well known to EU officials. How many more?

Next week's meeting of EU foreign ministers marks one year since they committed to review the critical raw minerals deal with Rwanda, backer of the abusive armed group M23 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. It's still pending today.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

🚨 "I feel naked.” A new @amnesty.org investigation has established that prominent Angolan journalist Teixeira Cândido, was targeted with Intellexa’s Predator spyware in 2024. This is the first forensic confirmation of its use in Angola. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Yesterday, @europarl.europa.eu urged Ugandan authorities to end all post-election violence, threats, harassment & arbitrary detention of opposition figures, activists and critics, Voicing concerns on Bobi Wine and his wife, Dr Kizza Besigye and Dr Sarah Bireete. europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

♥️ On Valentine’s Day, @amnesty.org wishes for all rights defenders to be reunited with their loved ones ASAP. Hong Kong human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung is detained for her role in organizing the city’s Tiananmen crackdown vigil & faces up to 10 years in jail under the National Security Law.

EU moves closer to offshore detention and deportation camps "With this attack on asylum the EU is capitulating to a decades-long campaign to strip away human rights, starting with the rights of asylum seekers, refugees & migrants," says @oliviasundberg.bsky.social👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

👉Engage DRC & Rwanda to protect civilians 👉Speak out on abuses 👉Support justice & accountability efforts by ICC, @UN_HRC Commission of Inquiry, Congolese authorities 👉Review the critical raw minerals deal with Rwanda 👉Protect rights defenders in the region (4/4)

For months, the reason for their abduction & their location are unknown. What can the EU do? 👉Press M23 authorities to disclose their fate & whereabouts 👉If in M23 custody, ensure these 3 men (and many others like them) are released immediately and unconditionally (3/4)

Aloys Bigirumwami, Bahati Nshangalume and Patient Basimike Bukombe Barhuze are Congolese men from eastern DRC. They are just 3 of countless people forcibly disappeared by fighters from Rwanda-backed M23 armed group in the midst of the current armed conflict. (2/4)

As EU Foreign Ministers discuss the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tomorrow, they must act with urgency matching the seriousness of this devastating conflict. Quiet diplomacy is not enough. Congolese need to see you act. (1/4)

La @sncb-nmbs.bsky.social décide d'acheter des centaines de nouvelles rames à CAF, une entreprise impliquée dans l'expansion des colonies israéliennes illégales dans le territoire palestinien occupé. Un choix décevant qui va à l'encontre des droits humains et du propre code de conduite de la SNCB.

Symbolische actie van XR aan ingang Europese wapenlobby www.bruzz.be/actua/samenl...

We at @amnesty.org @hrw.org @fidh-official.bsky.social urge the EU and its member states to redouble action on the conflict in eastern DRC. And put human rights and accountability for violations at the centre of their response. www.amnesty.eu/news/joint-s...

Next Monday EU Foreign Ministers discuss DRC as violence escalates. This week Uvira, 2nd largest town in South Kivu, fell to M23. Civilians are being killed, injured, displaced. The EU & member states must act with an urgency to match the seriousness of this ongoing conflict.

“It’s appalling that international diplomats including from the US, European Union and African Union, are shirking their moral and international obligations by not applying direct & consistent pressure on Rwandan & DRC leaders to stop supporting abusive armed groups" @amnesty.org's Tigere Chagutah

Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan was sentenced to another 4 years in prison on 19 September for the charge of “picking quarrels & provoking trouble.” After her appeal in late September, reportedly neither her family nor her lawyer was allowed to visit her.

👉Ensure the UN Human Rights Council's Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan has the necessary resources & support to document, report & preserve evidence of crimes under international law 👉Exercise universal jurisdiction over crimes under international law committed in Sudan (4/4)

👉Protect & support people fleeing Sudan 👉Call all countries-including UAE-to respect the UN Security Council arms embargo on Darfur & refrain from transferring weapons & ammunition to Sudanese Armed Forces, RSF & others 👉Work to expand the UNSC arms embargo to all Sudan (3/4)

What can the EU do? 👉Call all conflict parties to end all attacks on civilians & civilian infrastructure now, and ensure unrestricted & immediate humanitarian access 👉Increase emergency funding for humanitarian response in Sudan & refugee camps in neighbouring countries (2/4)

A new @amnesty.org report documents how Rapid Support Forces attacked Zamzam camp in Darfur, Sudan in April. RSF killed civilians, took hostages, pillaged & destroyed civilian structures including a mosque, school & clinic. These violations must be investigated as war crimes. (1/4)

The EU has long championed human rights in Cuba. It's time for the EU to demand concrete protection measures & urge Cuba to: 👉End harassment, arbitrary detention & violence against women rights defenders 👉Urgently work toward a comprehensive law against gender-based violence

“Women defenders are punished not only for speaking out, but also for being mothers, journalists & community leaders” says @anaamancay.bsky.social. “The state wields gender-based violence as a tool of repression, seeking to break their dignity, their families & their collective strength"

A new @amnesty.org report reveals how the Cuban state systematically targets women activists, journalists & rights defenders. Arbitrary detention, unlawful surveillance, enforced disappearance & other institutional violence - amid impunity & a lack of judicial safeguards.

🚨So much at stake as #EPlenary discusses human rights in Tanzania this week Former ambassador & gov't critic Humphrey Polepole was abducted 6 Oct by unidentified security forces Authorities must disclose his whereabouts & if he is in their custody, release him now. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Drawing on exchanges between 20 civil society experts, our paper points to the potential of the EU and the AU to positively shape human rights agendas, policies & practices in Europe & Africa And to effectively protect human rights and all those who defend human rights. @amnestyeu.bsky.social

In Europe & Africa, civil society is witnessing ➡️Cuts in funding to civil society & human rights institutions ➡️Mis- & disinformation about civil society & its work ➡️Active undermining of norms & institutions including international human rights law ➡️Authoritarian practices

African and European leaders meet next week for the AU-EU summit. Civil society from both continents urges them to act for human rights in a rapidly changing global landscape. Read our joint paper issued today 👉 www.fiacat.org/representati...

👉Uphold the rights of refugees & migrants 👉Champion justice for rights violations, supporting the work of the ICC & regional courts 👉Defend the international human rights system with its crucial norms & safeguards that protect people on both continents

The AU & EU should deliver on their shared human rights commitments, working together toward principled positions & consistent action: 👉Respond to conflict & crisis in line w/int'l human rights standards 👉Protect rights defenders, activists, civil society & their important work

Conflict & crises. Authoritarian practices & closing civic space. Attacks on the international human rights system. At 25 years of their partnership, leaders at the EU-AU summit must rise to challenges in both regions & worldwide.

And as European and African leaders meet at next week's EU-AU summit, the human rights and humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC must be high on the agenda. The time to act is now! www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

@amnesty.org documented gang rapes, summary executions, torture & attacks on health facilities by #M23, Wazalendo & the Congolese army. 100,000s of lives are at stake. The EU must demand accountability for abuses & ensure all armed groups prioritize protection of civilians.

EU inaction in DRC kills! Today activists from LUCHA RDC & @amnesty.org gathered outside the European Council to demand EU act to end horrific abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

At UN HRC Sp. Session on #Sudan, UN Human Rights chief calls all States to "take urgent concrete action to ensure protection of civilians in El Fasher" #EU FAC conclusions said no less. @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should step up efforts & mobilize EU's partners to act. www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

On Thursday EU ministers will debate their #Sahel strategy, as civilians pay cost of conflict & repression. @eudiplomacy.bsky.social: make clear there'll be no security & stability unless protection of civilians is at the center. Our take 👇 euobserver.com/africa/ard19... #Mali #Niger #BurkinaFaso

Crisissituaties zoals in #Darfoer vragen onmiddellijke actie. België, als ondertekenaar van het Genocideverdrag, moet het voortouw nemen om de genocide te voorkomen en te stoppen. Onverschilligheid == medeplichtigheid. België moet nú handelen. #Sudan #Darfur #HumanRights

European and Latin American states must act now for *all* those forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained in Venezuela. And support consistent international scrutiny and mechanisms that can deliver justice for these crimes. 9/9