A step towards accountability and justice for victims in Afghanistan.

Want to hear rare good news? A Belgian court opened a criminal trial against a former Belgian official for his alleged involvement in the killings of Lumumba, the DRC's first PM, & two senior officials during decolonization. Justice delayed shouldn't be justice denied. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... Donald Trump suggests the Chagossians are an Indigenous people who haven’t seen their island. Read the @hrw.org report on how the Chagossians are an Indigenous people, forcibly displaced by the US and UK, a crime against humanity. www.hrw.org/report/2023/...

A history of #slavery & dispossession: The UK and the US were found responsible for crimes against humanity on Chagos Islands but so far there are no plans of #reparations or #justice for Indigenous people. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Trump has been speaking about the Chagos islands. The US & UK are responsible for crimes against humanity against the Chagossian people. The two governments forced them from their homeland years ago & still prevent them from returning home. My piece on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Did you know that a historic case is being pursued in a Belgian court seeking individual criminal responsibility for colonial crimes in the court of a former colonial power? The court's decision on whether to pursue a criminal trial is expected on March 17. Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

I guess this is one way for a former human rights lawyer to be elected, become head of government, and then wish everyone a happy international human rights day. 😐😑🙄🫠

Após um mês da operação policial mais letal da história do Rio de Janeiro, as comunidades continuam controladas por facções. O Rio e o Brasil precisam de uma estratégia de segurança que ataque o cerne do crime organizado e suas ligações com policiais e políticos. www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...

Good riddance to rubbish policy. The end to the UK's "two child limit" social security policy has been announced, and it will soon be gone. We @hrw.org welcome the news, as one of many, many, many voices calling for an end to this arbitrary, cruel social security policy.

🚨New @hrw.org report finds #Israel committed war crimes, crimes against humanity + ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 #Palestinian refugees from 3 refugee camps, prevented return + systematically destroyed parts of the camps.👇 hrw.org/node/392462

A polícia do Rio de Janeiro não adotou medidas investigatórias cruciais para determinar as circunstâncias das 121 mortes durante a operação desta semana. Não houve preservação do local, nem perícia ou cadeia de custódia rigorosa das provas. Novo relatório da @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...

La policía no siguió pasos clave para investigar las 121 muertes ocurridas durante un operativo en Río de Janeiro esta semana. No preservó ni analizó el lugar de los tiroteos, ni mantuvo la cadena de custodia de pruebas. Nuevo informe de @hrw: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

We @hrw.org are glad to be able to support this initiative led by @bigissue.com calling on the UK government to set child poverty reduction targets. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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...

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...

O Brasil celebra a 4ª Conferência Nacional dos Direitos das Pessoas LGBTQIA+ para traçar novos rumos para as políticas públicas de inclusão. A conferência também ressalta o ressurgimento do 🇧🇷 como uma voz importante nos debates globais sobre igualdade. www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...

Next week - #advisoryopinion by the International Court of Justice #ICJ on obligations of #Israel in relation to the #UN and other #IOs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories #OPT. (This is distinct from the contentious case by South Africa relating to the #Genocide Convention)

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated Indigenous & small farmers’ lands in Brazil’s Amazon region that will host #COP30. New @hrw.org report finds that world’s largest meat company, JBS, may have exported beef to the EU from these illegal sources. Read our investigation 🌎👉 https://bit.ly/4ojyU5y

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

Dois projetos de lei do Rio enfraqueceriam seriamente a perícia, que é essencial para levar os responsáveis por crimes à justiça. O governador Cláudio Castro deveria vetar essas propostas e promover a qualidade e a independência dos órgãos periciais. www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...

The UN rights chief presented his office's report on #reparations for legacies of #colonialism and #enslavement in Geneva yesterday. @hrw.org welcomes his call for a transformative, context-specific & rights-based approach to reparations led by affected communities. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

“A unified approach to #reparations could be the game changer that empowers communities in Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora" - African and Caribbean states will meet in Addis Ababa this Sunday for the second Africa-CARICOM Summit. Read more here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

@hrw.org published a Q&A on #reparations for historical & ongoing colonial atrocities ahead of a AU-CARICOM summit. A unified African-Caribbean rights-based position on reparations shaped w civil society & communities would be a gamechanger for the reparations movement. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

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...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has made it clear that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis. In a new landmark decision, the Court says authorities have a duty to take urgent action to curb global warming and protect forests. Governments need to act now. apnews.com/article/lati...

1/15 🧵 Today, the UK government will ask MPs to railroad through social security legislation that makes cuts to disability-related benefits to the next stage. @hrw.org joins 80+ other orgs asking MPs to reject the UCPIP Bill. It is bad news for human rights. www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...

UK Parliamentarians should reject the government’s plan to cut disability benefits, and be clear that budget savings should not come at the cost of the rights—especially the right to social security—of people with disabilities. Human dignity must come first. @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

1/6 The UK government can spin its "welfare reform" legislative package as much as it likes. But these aren't welfare "reforms". inasmuch as they are "cuts" to social security support for people with disabilities. There is no shying away from that truth, or the bottom line motivating it.

🚨 My latest for @hrw.org in the @thenewarab.bsky.social If the UK is serious about exerting pressure on 🇮🇱, there is a glaringly obvious ‘concrete action’ it can take: A COMPLETE & COMPREHENSIVE ARMS EMBARGO ON ISRAEL NOW ⬇️ www.newarab.com/opinion/with...

Libya's fragmented & polarised justice sector suppresses fundamental freedoms, obstructs accountability. Authorities should urgently overhaul judiciary, reform repressive legislation, end military trials of civilians, arrest ICC suspects. New @hrw.org report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

The UK-Mauritius Chagos deal is public. Will it end the colonial crime of the UK/US forced displacement of the Chagossian people, and provide them with the reparations they are owed ?Here's a look at some issues. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682f25...

Beyond disheartening to see the modest progress made in the UK on protecting the rights of trans people rolled back and undermined, including by so-called progressive politicians. As always the voices of those who are actually impacted - trans humans beings - are ignored.

Want to join the GLOBAL REPARATIONS HUB? The Global Reparations Hub is an online community space looking to unite #reparations movements worldwide. @hrw.org supports the creation of this grassroots-led space. Register for this event on April 15 at 1:30-2:30pm EST: 👉 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨Israeli Prime Minister - and #ICC fugitive - #Netanyahu is set to travel to #Hungary on April 2: ➡️Hungary should deny him entry or arrest him ➡️ICC states parties should call on Hungary to abide by its obligation to cooperate with the ICC From @hrw.org 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

NEW: Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is historic. It’s a reminder for governments that they have an obligation under international human rights law to end systemic racism & address ongoing impacts of linked historic legacies. #Reparations www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

A single father who self describes as having “mental health issues” and being “diagnosed with autism”, involved in the @changingrealities.bsky.social project, writes in the Guardian about the disability benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... What is the *moral case* for this?

#WestBank: @unhumanrights.bsky.social report echoes #ICJ finding that #Israel is responsible for #apartheid: ohchr.org/sites/defaul... Facts are clear, as is the law. #EU inaction untenable at best, complicit at worst: www.hrw.org/news/2024/10... @kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Thrilled to join BlueSky and share a new @hrw.org report just launched today ‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

On BBC Radio 4's The Law Show, I, with Sarah Nouwen & Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, hosted by @joellegrogan.bsky.social discuss war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide - how to gather evidence, prove claims and ensure fair trials. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

THIS is the scandal of the UK social security system with regard to disability benefits, not the tired tropes being trotted out by politicians spinning workshopped soundbites about Labour, clues, and names. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Social security is a human right. The UK government should follow the CESCR's calls to: - reverse the two-child limit - end the benefit cap - cut waits for Universal Credit - assess cumulative impact of austerity-based welfare policy Every day of inaction pushes more people into poverty @hrw.org

European governments are lining up to defy the International Criminal Court and ignore arrest warrants. International justice doesn't work if you pick and choose who it applies to. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Great op-ed that European leaders should read. Why, amidst these turbulent times, are #reparations & accountability for enduring impacts of #colonialism & #enslavement more urgent than ever? Liliane Umubyeyi at African Futures Lab hit the nail on the head. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US/EU/UK sanctions imposed on the former Syrian government, remain & lack clear, measurable conditions for removal. They are exacerbating the suffering of millions of Syrians struggling to access critical rights, including to electricity & an adequate standard of living www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

"Apart from anything else, Chagossians are best placed to hold the UK and US feet to the fire, particularly when it comes to proper reparations for the wrongs committed by both countries and the costs of the planned resettlement programme" @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are launching a new push for slavery and colonial reparations www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Child poverty is the visible tip of an iceberg of rights failures in the UK. The UK government is falling short on a wide range of social and economic rights. My letter with @justfairuk.bsky.social’s director Jess McQuail in today’s @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @hrw.org

📢 NEW: The US government permitted Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine without prior consent from even a single Tribe impacted, violating indigenous peoples’ human rights. Our HRW + ACLU report says, out today. 🧵 1/4

EU states should allow Syrians to pay “go-&-see” visits to #Syria w/out losing protection in Europe. It isn't just right thing to do. It would also allow them to make informed decision about possible return & take part in political transition. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02... @magnusbrunner.bsky.social