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Claudio Francavilla
@claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social
Associate EU Director at @hrw.org

Posts about #EU foreign policy on #HumanRights, mainly #MiddleEast, #Asia, #EUtrade, #UN #HRC

Slowly transitioning here from an irredeemably ruined Twitter. Usual caveats
Ask a "tough" question. Go viral. Lose your job.

It's what happened to journalist #GabrieleNunziati, fired by Italy's #AgenziaNova for asking the EU whether Israel should pay for Gaza’s reconstruction 👇🏽
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A fragile #ceasefire *may* pause #Israel 's genocidal campaign in #Gaza; but its occupation, #apartheid, torture, and settlement expansion continue unabated

Shelving #EU sanctions proposals now would only fuel the impunity driving past & ongoing atrocities

👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=34OO...
نائب مدير منظمة هيومن رايتس ووتش: إسرائيل لم تدفع الثمن حتى الآن
YouTube video by AlJazeera Arabic قناة الجزيرة
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Claudio Francavilla
At the 4th #EU–#CELAC Summit, leaders should tackle key human rights challenges in both regions:

🔵Back rights-based responses to crime & violence
🔵Defend democracy & fundamental rights
🔵Act on climate & environmental harm
🔵Support the bi-regional care pact

Our letter: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🔴 Today: EU Parliament hearing on EU–Gulf trade & investment relations, with HRW’s @joeyshea.bsky.social

Our recs to the EU: link closer ties to concrete labor rights & human rights progress & reforms: hrw.org/news/2024/09...

📷 Livestream from 2h30 👉🏽 multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
#Bahrain: As European officials head to #IISSMD25, EU citizen Abdulhadi al-Khawaja prepares to starve for justice

Almost 15 years of "private diplomacy" have failed: hrw.org/news/2024/03...

How much longer will Europe let this injustice continue?

#FreeAlKhawaja #Not15Years @kajakallas.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Let’s be clear: the #EUEgypt summit was an orchestrated whitewashing event to sanitize Sisi’s image as a brutally repressive ruler.

With its moral compass buried under Gaza’s rubble, the EU no longer subtly but openly, proudly bankrolls authoritarianism: dw.com/en/eu-embrac...
EU embraces authoritarian Egypt for help on Gaza, migration – DW – 10/23/2025
As the EU held its first-ever bilateral summit with Egypt, activists said the bloc was rewarding an authoritarian government. But experts told DW the EU needs Egypt if it wants to help in Gaza and cur...
dw.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ceasefire or not, Israel’s occupation and apartheid, displacement, torture across the OPT continue unabated

As #EUCO leaders meet, they should reject calls to drop sanction proposals - or they'll deal yet another blow to their credibility, and to hopes for rights and justice
hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Ceasefire or Not, EU Should Keep Pressure on Israel to End Abuses
As European Union leaders and foreign ministers prepare for meetings to discuss the situation in Israel and Palestine, some of their representatives in Brussels, and Israel’s new ambassador to the EU,...
hrw.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#Vietnam was just re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council, but its crackdown on dissent is only intensifying

Wave of arrests ahead of Communist Party congress - including activist Huynh Ngoc Tuan, who already spent 10 years in prison for his writing: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Vietnam: Former Political Prisoner Rearrested
The Vietnamese authorities arrested a former political prisoner, Huynh Ngoc Tuan, on October 7, 2025, for his comments on social media.
hrw.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
At #EUEgypt summit, @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu have a choice to make: use EU leverage to press Sisi to end repression, or continue to bankroll it.

Joint NGO statement: cihrs.org/eu-egypt-fir...
The first #EUEgypt summit will take place tomorrow in Brussels.

EU and Egypt leaders will discuss bilateral relations and how to further deepen their political and economic partnership.

Read the agenda → link.europa.eu/vywNmK
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
It's important that @kajakallas.bsky.social managed to keep #EU sanctions on the table after FMs meeting; but governments must stop blocking them

"What may have changed is the scale and intensity of #Israel ’s atrocity crimes in #Gaza, but its unlawful occupation and #apartheid continue unabated" 👇🏽
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#India: @consilium.europa.eu endorsed new strategy that completely overlooks the country's human rights crisis: hrw.org/news/2025/09...

#FAC conclusions mention human rights in par. 15, human rights concerns nowhere

This will only embolden Modi’s repression and authoritarian drift
🇪🇺🇮🇳 The Council stressed the importance of enhanced cooperation between the EU and #India and welcomed:

☑️ efforts to conclude a balanced, ambitious and mutually beneficial free trade agreement
☑️ closer collaboration on security and defence matters

Read the conclusions: link.europa.eu/3ngKkt
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
As @kajakallas.bsky.social & EU foreign ministers discuss sanctions for ongoing Israeli crimes, kind reminder that a ceasefire stops:
✅ Bombs (does it, really?)
❌ Occupation
❌ Apartheid
❌ Torture
❌ Forced displacement
❌ Unlawful detentions
❌ Impunity

Yes, EU should act: hrw.org/news/2025/10... #FAC
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Claudio Francavilla
Spot on analysis from @hrw.org. Today, with 40 other members of the European Parliament, I sent a letter to the Council echoing many of these points and expressing the need to keep up pressure towards Israel to respect human rights and international law, including through our trade policy #EUCO
🧵 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
Ceasefire or Not, EU Should Keep Pressure on Israel to End Abuses
As European Union leaders and foreign ministers prepare for meetings to discuss the situation in Israel and Palestine, some of their representatives in Brussels, and Israel’s new ambassador to the EU,...
hrw.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🧵 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
Ceasefire or Not, EU Should Keep Pressure on Israel to End Abuses
As European Union leaders and foreign ministers prepare for meetings to discuss the situation in Israel and Palestine, some of their representatives in Brussels, and Israel’s new ambassador to the EU,...
hrw.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
“Now is not the time to sanction Israel,” an EU diplomat said.

Tell that to those mourning, starving, maimed, living under occupation and apartheid.

Sanctions, suspension of EU-Israel deal must be squarely on the table - and leave it only once adopted.
👉🏽 euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w... #EUCO #FAC
October 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held

Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed

New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10...

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
October 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
#Morocco' s youth took to the streets for their rights to healthcare and education. Their protests were met with violence and mass arrests.

Authorities should halt the crackdown, investigate abuses, and heed #GenZ212 protesters’ calls ⤵️
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence
Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests.
www.hrw.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#Cambodia: predatory microloans, backed by IFC & #WorldBank, are driving Indigenous families into hunger and land loss.

At #WBGMeetings, leaders should treat borrowers as affected people, apply safeguards, provide justice and remedies. @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Cambodia's Microloan 'Debt Traps’ Test the World Bank
Cambodia has the most microcredit debt per capita anywhere in the world — debts held mainly by people living in poverty who receive loans to help with small businesses and emergency expenses. In 2024,...
www.hrw.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
If you don’t address justice, unlawful occupation, apartheid, reparations, return, that “road towards peace” will go the same way as it has for decades, @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu.
Hope begins today in Sharm El-Sheikh.

Thanks to President Trump, to all the mediators, and to all those who kept working along the way and never gave up, today we celebrate hope and look forward to peace.
October 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🧵 #Gaza: several Foreign Ministers are gathering in Paris to discuss the peace plan.

If they want more than another fragile ceasefire, they must walk the talk, take concrete, overdue steps, focusing on what’s been ignored for too long: justice and Palestinians' rights. 1/6 ⤵️
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“Right now, our choices are to be either jailed as terrorists or to face a mob”

Anti-terror law in #Bangladesh is being used to target perceived critics and opponents. Ill-treatment allegations, mob attacks echo Sheikh Hasina-era abuses: hrw.org/news/2025/10...

@euambbangladesh.bsky.social
Bangladesh: New Crackdown Under Anti-Terrorism Law
Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace laureate, is increasingly using the recently amended counterterrorism law to arrest alleged supporters of the deposed Awami League ...
hrw.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Many of the amazing comedians who performed in Saudi Arabia often portray themselves as free speech champions, denounce "cancel culture"

Yet they didn't didn't say a word about those jailed in the country precisely for speaking up: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Saudi Arabia: Comedians Silent on Detained Activists
Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists
www.hrw.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
All #EU states are legally bound to do all they can to prevent a #genocide. On #Gaza, they have massively failed.

While meaningful, Von der Leyen's proposals are too little, too late - and unlikely to be approved, as many EU governments remain reluctant 👇
youtube.com/shorts/bpjuD...
2 years of Gaza genocide: EU’s complicity shattered its credibility, warn critics
YouTube video by Anadolu English
youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thought Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s release meant #Egypt was easing its repression? Think again

Journalist Ismail Iskandarani - already jailed for 7 years - was detained again over Facebook posts: hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Meanwhile, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu prepares to roll out the red carpet for Sisi
Egypt: Journalist Detained over Facebook Posts
Egyptian authorities detained prominent independent journalist Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts.
hrw.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Historic step for justice in #Afghanistan: UN Rights Council creates new mechanism to advance prosecution for past & ongoing crimes: hrw.org/news/2025/10... #HRC60

Kudos to @euatun.bsky.social for principled leadership 👏🏽

And may this commitment to justice be applied consistently, everywhere 🤞🏽
The international community recognises the gravity of the human rights situation in Afghanistan, esp for women & girls. #HRC60 adopts a resolution by consensus to establish an independent investigative mechanism, taking a decisive step to strengthen accountability & end impunity.
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM