Friederike Mager
@friederikemager.bsky.social
Coordinator, EU Advocacy @hrw.org | RTs ≠ endorsements.
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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...
🔵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...
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...
🔵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
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...
🔵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...
Police have failed to take crucial steps to investigate 121 killings during a raid in Rio de Janeiro, #Brazil. They didn´t preserve crime scenes and the chain of custody of evidence.
Authorities should ensure a thorough, independent investigation.
New @hrw.org : www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Authorities should ensure a thorough, independent investigation.
New @hrw.org : www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Brazil: Serious Investigative Failures in Deadly Rio Raid
Rio de Janeiro police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including four police officers, during a raid in low-income,...
www.hrw.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Police have failed to take crucial steps to investigate 121 killings during a raid in Rio de Janeiro, #Brazil. They didn´t preserve crime scenes and the chain of custody of evidence.
Authorities should ensure a thorough, independent investigation.
New @hrw.org : www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Authorities should ensure a thorough, independent investigation.
New @hrw.org : www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@phfrisch.bsky.social zum Treffen zwischen #Merz und #Erdoğan: Allianzen in Verteidigung, regionaler Entwicklungspolitik und Wirtschaft dürfen die brutale Repression in der Türkei nicht überschatten.
Demokratische Rückschritte müssen offen angesprochen werden, bevor es zu spät ist.
Demokratische Rückschritte müssen offen angesprochen werden, bevor es zu spät ist.
Merz darf Erdogans Menschenrechtsverstöße nicht ignorieren
Nach dem Treffen des britischen Premiers Keir Starmer mit Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan zur Unterzeichnung eines Vertrags über den Kauf von Kampfflugzeugen durch die Türkei wird sich am 30.
www.hrw.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
@phfrisch.bsky.social zum Treffen zwischen #Merz und #Erdoğan: Allianzen in Verteidigung, regionaler Entwicklungspolitik und Wirtschaft dürfen die brutale Repression in der Türkei nicht überschatten.
Demokratische Rückschritte müssen offen angesprochen werden, bevor es zu spät ist.
Demokratische Rückschritte müssen offen angesprochen werden, bevor es zu spät ist.
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Today is 1st #EU-#Tunisia Association Council since @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 's migration deal in July 2023.
Since, #Tunisia fell more deeply into repression. #EU should make clear failure to release pol detainees & end crackdown will lead to political consequences.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Since, #Tunisia fell more deeply into repression. #EU should make clear failure to release pol detainees & end crackdown will lead to political consequences.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
The EU Has Simply Abandoned Human Rights in Tunisia
In the early morning of April 19, a Tunis Court issued sentences in a mass trial of 40 lawyers, opposition figures, and critics of the president. Thirty-seven defendants were sentenced to heavy prison...
www.hrw.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Today is 1st #EU-#Tunisia Association Council since @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 's migration deal in July 2023.
Since, #Tunisia fell more deeply into repression. #EU should make clear failure to release pol detainees & end crackdown will lead to political consequences.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Since, #Tunisia fell more deeply into repression. #EU should make clear failure to release pol detainees & end crackdown will lead to political consequences.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
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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...
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
New German Guidelines on Colonial Returns Fail Rights Test
Last week, German federal, state, and local authorities adopted Common Guidelines on the handling of cultural assets and human remains from colonial contexts. Despite the welcome efforts to regulate t...
www.hrw.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
Returns aren't goodwill gestures.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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Russia, using drones, attacked a UN Convoy in Ukraine. The very next day, they posted video evidence of the attack for the world to see, and not for the first time. Latest for @hrw.org:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Russian Forces Deliberately Attack UN Aid Convoy
On October 14, news broke that Russian forces, using drones, had attacked a United Nations interagency convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Bilozerka in the region of Kherson, southern Ukraine.
www.hrw.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Russia, using drones, attacked a UN Convoy in Ukraine. The very next day, they posted video evidence of the attack for the world to see, and not for the first time. Latest for @hrw.org:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
By embedding #LGBTIQ+ equality in #EU external action, the new strategy positions the EU as a global defender of LGBTIQ+ rights.
Next step: turn ambitions into action through political will, adequate funding, enforcement mechanisms, and implementation at home & abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Next step: turn ambitions into action through political will, adequate funding, enforcement mechanisms, and implementation at home & abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
EU Launches New LGBTIQ+ Strategy
This month, the European Commission released its LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030, a renewed and ambitious step in the European Union’s commitment to equality, inclusion, and human rights.
www.hrw.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
By embedding #LGBTIQ+ equality in #EU external action, the new strategy positions the EU as a global defender of LGBTIQ+ rights.
Next step: turn ambitions into action through political will, adequate funding, enforcement mechanisms, and implementation at home & abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Next step: turn ambitions into action through political will, adequate funding, enforcement mechanisms, and implementation at home & abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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🧵 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
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
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#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
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
#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
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
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“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
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
“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
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
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5 questions you might have about #COP30 and why it’s a pivotal moment for climate action & human rights.
Governments should phase out fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and protect forests & communities. hrw.org/news/2025/10/09/qa-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop30
Governments should phase out fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and protect forests & communities. hrw.org/news/2025/10/09/qa-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop30
Q&A: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30)
The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference, COP30, will bring together states that are party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as well as thousands of experts, journalists...
hrw.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
5 questions you might have about #COP30 and why it’s a pivotal moment for climate action & human rights.
Governments should phase out fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and protect forests & communities. hrw.org/news/2025/10/09/qa-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop30
Governments should phase out fossil fuels, ensure a just transition, and protect forests & communities. hrw.org/news/2025/10/09/qa-united-nations-climate-change-conference-cop30
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A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts. He received a presidential pardon this week following widespread outrage, but this is an unprecedented sentence for nonviolent expression in Tunisia. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Tunisia: Death Sentence for Facebook Posts
A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts.
www.hrw.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A Tunisian court sentenced a man to death last week for peaceful Facebook posts. He received a presidential pardon this week following widespread outrage, but this is an unprecedented sentence for nonviolent expression in Tunisia. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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Today, @hrw.org released the 1st major report on tax, documenting how policies that favor the rich drove Sri Lanka into economic crisis & starved its public education system. UN tax treaty negotiations are historic chance to address a root cause. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Sri Lanka: Ruinous Tax Policies Stoke Inequality
Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and have contributed to the chronic underfunding of education and other public services.
www.hrw.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Today, @hrw.org released the 1st major report on tax, documenting how policies that favor the rich drove Sri Lanka into economic crisis & starved its public education system. UN tax treaty negotiations are historic chance to address a root cause. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, has been convicted of plotting a coup.
The historic ruling is the first time a former president was tried for an attempted coup in Brazil, showing nobody should be above the law.
The historic ruling is the first time a former president was tried for an attempted coup in Brazil, showing nobody should be above the law.
September 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, has been convicted of plotting a coup.
The historic ruling is the first time a former president was tried for an attempted coup in Brazil, showing nobody should be above the law.
The historic ruling is the first time a former president was tried for an attempted coup in Brazil, showing nobody should be above the law.
#Peru | @mreyesmilk.bsky.social on the recently signed amnesty bill: "In a country that continues to witness attacks to democracy & rule of law and where impunity remains ubiquitous, this latest measure is a cruel blow to victims’ long-standing quest for justice."
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#Peru | @mreyesmilk.bsky.social on the recently signed amnesty bill: "In a country that continues to witness attacks to democracy & rule of law and where impunity remains ubiquitous, this latest measure is a cruel blow to victims’ long-standing quest for justice."
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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#Israel forces occupying southern #Syria have destroyed homes, forcibly displaced civilians, in absence of immediate threat.
These are war crimes.
@kajakallas.bsky.social: #EU should press for accountability & seek sanctions on officials responsible of violations.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
These are war crimes.
@kajakallas.bsky.social: #EU should press for accountability & seek sanctions on officials responsible of violations.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
Syria: Israel Forcibly Displaces Villagers in Occupied South
Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Syria since December 2024 have carried out a range of abuses against residents, including forced displacement—a war crime.
www.hrw.org
September 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
#Israel forces occupying southern #Syria have destroyed homes, forcibly displaced civilians, in absence of immediate threat.
These are war crimes.
@kajakallas.bsky.social: #EU should press for accountability & seek sanctions on officials responsible of violations.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
These are war crimes.
@kajakallas.bsky.social: #EU should press for accountability & seek sanctions on officials responsible of violations.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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"Israel has committed genocide in #Gaza" - concludes UN Commission of Inquiry.
All states have legal obligations to end the genocide & punish those responsible.
"The absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #HRC60
All states have legal obligations to end the genocide & punish those responsible.
"The absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #HRC60
September 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"Israel has committed genocide in #Gaza" - concludes UN Commission of Inquiry.
All states have legal obligations to end the genocide & punish those responsible.
"The absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #HRC60
All states have legal obligations to end the genocide & punish those responsible.
"The absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity"
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... #HRC60
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At long last: @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to propose sanctions on Israeli ministers, suspension of #EU - #Israel trade deal
It took 2 years of unspeakable crimes, 60K+ killed, famine, growing consensus on #genocide
It will go on, unless #Merz & #Meloni stop blocking EU action
#SOTEU
It took 2 years of unspeakable crimes, 60K+ killed, famine, growing consensus on #genocide
It will go on, unless #Merz & #Meloni stop blocking EU action
#SOTEU
What is happening in Gaza has shaken the conscience of the world.
Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. This must stop.
EU aid to Gaza far outweighs that of any other partner.
But of course, Europe needs to do more.
Here are measures for a way forward ↓
Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. This must stop.
EU aid to Gaza far outweighs that of any other partner.
But of course, Europe needs to do more.
Here are measures for a way forward ↓
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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“Migrants report brutal treatment by EU funded security forces” in #Mauritania: NPR @npr.org on new report by @hrw.org
Listen to NPR here 👇
www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...
HRW’s report: shorturl.at/stqpv
@rsherlock.bsky.social
Listen to NPR here 👇
www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...
HRW’s report: shorturl.at/stqpv
@rsherlock.bsky.social
Migrants report brutal treatment by EU funded security forces
Migrants trying to leave from the west African country of Mauritania say they are suffering brutal, inhumane and degrading treatment at the hands of security forces funded by the European Union.
www.npr.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Migrants report brutal treatment by EU funded security forces” in #Mauritania: NPR @npr.org on new report by @hrw.org
Listen to NPR here 👇
www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...
HRW’s report: shorturl.at/stqpv
@rsherlock.bsky.social
Listen to NPR here 👇
www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n...
HRW’s report: shorturl.at/stqpv
@rsherlock.bsky.social
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@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...
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...
Q&A: Reparations for Historical and Ongoing Colonial Atrocities
In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement, systemic racial inequali...
www.hrw.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
@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...
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...
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Very honored that @hrw-brussels.bsky.social met today with EU's new Special Representative for Human Rights @kajsaollongren.bsky.social.
Rich discussion on the many challenges ahead for the human rights movement - in the world and within Europe. No doubt we have a strong advocate for a stronger EU!
Rich discussion on the many challenges ahead for the human rights movement - in the world and within Europe. No doubt we have a strong advocate for a stronger EU!
September 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Very honored that @hrw-brussels.bsky.social met today with EU's new Special Representative for Human Rights @kajsaollongren.bsky.social.
Rich discussion on the many challenges ahead for the human rights movement - in the world and within Europe. No doubt we have a strong advocate for a stronger EU!
Rich discussion on the many challenges ahead for the human rights movement - in the world and within Europe. No doubt we have a strong advocate for a stronger EU!
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Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against migrants and asylum seekers.
In a new report, HRW documents the abuses 🧵⬇️
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
In a new report, HRW documents the abuses 🧵⬇️
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
August 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Mauritanian security forces committed serious human rights violations between 2020 and early 2025 against migrants and asylum seekers.
In a new report, HRW documents the abuses 🧵⬇️
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
In a new report, HRW documents the abuses 🧵⬇️
www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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EU and Spain risk rights abuse complicity in Mauritania, says Human Rights Watch
EU and Spain risk rights abuse complicity in Mauritania, says Human Rights Watch
The EU and Spain incentivised repression in Mauritania primarily against black African people attempting to get to Europe irregularly, says Human Rights Watch.
euobserver.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
EU and Spain risk rights abuse complicity in Mauritania, says Human Rights Watch
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🚨 New @hrw.org report documents years of serious abuses by security forces in #Mauritania against West & Central African migrants, while those same authorities received equipment/support 💰 from the EU & #Spain to bolster border control & prevent irregular migration
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www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🚨 New @hrw.org report documents years of serious abuses by security forces in #Mauritania against West & Central African migrants, while those same authorities received equipment/support 💰 from the EU & #Spain to bolster border control & prevent irregular migration
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www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
The #EuropeanUnion has been an exception, increasingly raising concerns about #ElSalvador's deteriorating situation - but more steps are necessary to stop the dismantling of institutional checks & concentration of power.
Comment by @juanitagoebertus.bsky.social
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El Salvador's Democracy Is Dying | Opinion
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang campaign has yielded tangible results—homicide rates have dropped dramatically—but it has come at a steep cost.
www.newsweek.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The #EuropeanUnion has been an exception, increasingly raising concerns about #ElSalvador's deteriorating situation - but more steps are necessary to stop the dismantling of institutional checks & concentration of power.
Comment by @juanitagoebertus.bsky.social
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