“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

Plutôt que de faire abusivement des personnes migrantes la source de tous les maux à Mayotte, le gouvernement français devrait agir pour enfin garantir les droits sociaux et économiques de tous les habitants de l’archipel. www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...

Nearly 1,000 Bangladeshis lost their lives fighting for democracy, ushering in a landmark opportunity to build a rights-respecting future in Bangladesh. What’s next after Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution? Read the new report from HRW ⤵️

HRW new report highlighting how #Egypt's Declining Funding Undermines Education. The lowest budget in decades for education reflects where Sisi's government priorities lie. No civil rights either. Just oppression. No delivery. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Here's @hrw.org's submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its examination of the UK government's record, next month in Geneva. We'll be there along with other UK civil society organisations. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Today @hrw-fr.bsky.social published a statement recognizing the overlap of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the presidential inauguration. Our statement reminds President Trump that human rights are sacred, and like his predecessors, he is responsible for applying those rights to all.

It exists!, it’s a real book — after two years travelling & writing and accumulated journalistic travels & human rights advocacy before that. Coming to a bookshop near you soon. Renewed thanks to so many. Feeling the nerves, as always. 6 February, watch this space.

#Poland's invitation to #ICC fugitive badly undermines @intlcrimcourt.bsky.social & is a blow to all victims of int'l crimes. Donald Tusk's gov't should reverse course, commit to arrest Netanyahu if he visits Poland & stand with victims rather than wanted war criminals. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

This direct and blatant political discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina affects minorities including Roma and Jews, and stems from its Dayton constitution, which the US and key European states were responsible for.

Lebanon today unlawfully deported Abdulrahman Youssef al-Qardawi, an Egyptian-Turkish poet, to the United Arab Emirates, where he faces a near-certain unfair trial and serious risks of other abuses including torture: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

In a new report @hrw.org documents how Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate access to water for over a year, thus committing the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

Today marks 5,000 days of arbitrary detention for Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja in Bahrain. Al-Khawaja should never have spent a day in jail. We urge the governments of Bahrain and Denmark to ensure his release.

This is a fantastic read.

This is by design - as article notes legislation adopted in 2022 and 2023 made it easier to crackdown on protest. It also led to protestors being jailed for acts that previously would not have led to a prison sentence. Time for UK to set a different *positive* example by repealing those laws.

Today on Human Rights Day, we mark 76 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! #StandUp4HumanRights #HumanRightsDay2024

Thank you to so many people (starting with brilliant @littlebrown.bsky.social /Bridge Street Press team) who have helped bring Prosecuting the Powerful into the light

The fall of Assad’s government offers Syrians an unprecedented opportunity to chart a new future built on justice, accountability, and human rights. For Syrians, the dream of accountability for years of crimes and brutality is closer to becoming a reality. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

To all those who wanted so desperately to declare #Syria as safe for refugee returns, I hope you watch the scenes emerging from Sednaya and other prisons and feel shame and remorse. To all those that revoked protection and deported thousands: This should be a reckoning.

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Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced the establishment of two committees to address land disputes in the country’s northern Ngorongoro district. President Hassan’s steps so far are significant, but more needs to be done to ensure rights are protected.

For the past six months, the Houthis in Yemen have arbitrarily detained and disappeared at least 17 United Nations staff as well as scores of employees of nongovernmental, civil society organizations, and private companies. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

Victoire historique pour le mouvement des réparations ! Un tribunal belge a déclaré le gouvernement belge coupable de crimes contre l'humanité au Congo pendant la période coloniale belge et lui a ordonné de verser des indemnités à titre de réparation.