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Director, Europe & Central Asia division, Human Rights Watch @HRW. Also writer www.hughwilliamson.org. Board member: Oxfam Deutschland. Former @FT journalist. Supports Arsenal, Alba Berlin basketball
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EU: Georgia’s Rights Crisis Needs Urgent Response says @hrw & 8 other groups www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
EU: Georgia’s Rights Crisis Needs Urgent Response
The European Union and its member states should use all available diplomatic and legal tools to press the Georgian government to end its persecution of independent civil society and the media, nine in...
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September 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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jkippenberg.bsky.social
Unakzeptabel: Bundesregierung will dt. Lieferkettengesetz massiv abschwächen + gibt Zivilgesellschaft 24 Std, die Änderungen zu kommentieren!

Das neue Gesetz würde DE weiter vom international anerkannten UN-Standard für Wirtschaft & Menschenrechte entfernen.

lieferkettengesetz.de/2025/09/01/s...
September 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Ukraine’s Suffering Reflected in One Family’s Story @hrw www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
Ukraine’s Suffering Reflected in One Family’s Story
While United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were en route to their Alaska meeting, 26-year-old Nataliia Makarenko buried her mother, Tetiana Litvin, 60, in Kherson,...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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lisamaier.bsky.social
🚨 Israelische Streitkräfte haben Hunderte hungernde Palästinenser*innen getötet, während sie in #Gaza nach Essen gesucht haben.
Das sind keine Einzelfälle, sondern Kriegsverbrechen.

Unsere neueste Recherche @hrw.org hat die Beweise:
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Map of the Gaza strip that shows 4 different aid distribution sites.
August 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Türkiye: Turkmen Risking Deportation Reported Missing @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Türkiye: Turkmen Risking Deportation Reported Missing
Two Turkmen dissident bloggers have been missing since July 24, 2025, when they were reportedly released from a Turkish deportation center, Human Rights Watch said today. Turkish authorities should en...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Pääpuhujalta kovaa kritiikkiä Suomelle Helsingin kokouksessa
Suomi sai kritiikkiä Ottawan sopimuksesta irtautumisesta.
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July 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Event on Russia’s occupation of Crimea at @osce conference on 50 years of Helsinki Accords
July 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Upholding the Spirit of Helsinki. @hrw interim exec director Federico Borello spoke today at @osce conference on 50 years of Helsinki Accords
July 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Important @osce conference today in Helsinki, marking 50 years since signing of Helsinki Accords. Finnish foreign min Elina Valtonen opens the conference
July 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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CPJ calls for Kyrgyzstan probe into 2020 death of CPJ award winner Askarov cpj.org?p=500493
CPJ calls for Kyrgyzstan probe into 2020 death of CPJ award winner Askarov - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kyrgyz authorities to conduct a thorough, independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding journalist Azimjon Askarov’...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
Excellent overview of the region that’s likely the next target of Putin’s murderous imperialism - and of nations that offer some inspiration and hope for confronting it. Well written and widely sourced, it’s sympathetic to the cause but presents the nuances and doubts fairly. #books
July 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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BBC, AFP and other news outlets warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
Reuters and AP among those urging Israeli authorities to allow reporters in and out of war-ravaged strip
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July 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Anti-Corruption Activist Under Pressure in Ukraine @HRW www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Anti-Corruption Activist Under Pressure in Ukraine
On July 11, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) conducted searches targeting Vitaliy Shabunin, a prominent anti-corruption activist who has played a key role in exposing allegations of gover...
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July 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Ukraine: New Law Undercuts Independence of Anti-Corruption Bodies @hrwdeutschland.bsky.social @HRW www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Ukraine: New Law Undercuts Independence of Anti-Corruption Bodies
A new law adopted by Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on July 22, 2025 effectively strips Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies of independence and is detrimental to the rule of law, Human Rig...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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jkippenberg.bsky.social
Deutschland muss endlich handeln:

- Waffenembargo gegen Israel
- gezielte Sanktionen gegen israelische Beamte
- Aussetzung des EU-Assoziierungsabkommens mit Israel

Israel setzt Hunger als Kriegswaffe ein und begeht Akte des Völkermords.

www.hrw.org/de/news/2025...
Die verzweifelten Hilferufe hungernder Palästinenser*innen dürfen nicht ignoriert werden
Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie sehen Ihre Kinder untröstlich weinen, weil sie vor Hunger Bauchkrämpfe haben und Sie nichts tun können. Das sind die verzweifelten Hilferufe, die aus Gaza kommen.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Maksym Chernyak came to the US from Ukraine seeking safety. He died in ICE custody. This is his story. www.hrw.org/report/2025/... 🧵
July 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Kazakhstan: Journalists Denied Accreditation @hrw www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Kazakhstan: Journalists Denied Accreditation
The decision by Kazakhstan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry to withhold accreditation from 16 journalists for the Kazakh service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is a blatant attack on independent media, ...
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July 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Tajikistan: Update on the case of Tajik Activist Dilmurod Ergashev, deported from Germany. In Feb 2025 he was sentenced to 8 years jail for calling for extremism. www.ozodi.org/a/33469351.h... @HRW urges Tajikistan to present specific evidence & Germany to raise his case www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
Tajikistan: Tajik Activist Deported from Germany Jailed
Dilmurod Ergashev, a Tajik opposition activist deported from Germany on November 6, 2024 after being refused asylum, is reported to have been provisionally detained for two months by a city court in D...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Revised UK Social Security Bill Still Harms Rights @hrw www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Revised UK Social Security Bill Still Harms Rights
The UK government’s draft law to cut spending on disability-related social security triggered major opposition from within the ruling party, forcing the government to roll back some of the legislation...
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July 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Azerbaijan Convicts Critics in Relentless Crackdown @hrw www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Azerbaijan Convicts Critics in Relentless Crackdown
On June 20, the Court of Grave Crimes in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku handed down severe prison sentences to a team of independent journalists from Abzas Media, an outlet known for its hard-hitting inves...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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CPJ: Kyrgyz president must veto ‘dangerous’ media law cpj.org?p=494578
CPJ: Kyrgyz president must veto ‘dangerous’ media law - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, July 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov to veto a new mass media law that would require all publications to register with the state and hea...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Karakalpakstan Victims Await Justice Three Years On @HRW www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Karakalpakstan Victims Await Justice Three Years On
There has been almost no accountability for the deaths and grave injuries that occurred three years ago when security forces in Uzbekistan used unjustified force, including lethal force, to disperse m...
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July 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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My latest piece for @HRW: Unlawfully Detained in a Turkish Prison, Osman Kavala Still Stands up for Rights www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
Unlawfully Detained in a Turkish Prison, Osman Kavala Still Stands up for Rights
Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri high security jail for almost eight years.
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July 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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kartikraj.bsky.social
2/15 I'll spell out below some of what's so wrong with the UCPIP Bill, with links to other groups with expertise.

This may help as a starter.

Budget savings should not come at the cost of the lives and rights of people with disabilities. Human dignity must come first.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities
While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r...
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July 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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...
Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill Monday 30th June 2025 We are coming together as organisations committed to fighting poverty, providing advice, and supporting and championing the rights of disabled people, their families, and carers. We stand firmly with disabled people and their organisations in calling for the UK government to withdraw the UC & PIP Bill and to undertake genuine dialogue with disabled people to shape reforms centred on the rights and dignity that all disabled people need and deserve. At a time when the share of GDP spent on working-age social security has remained stable for the last ten years, cutting the incomes of disabled people is a political choice. There is time for the government to pursue alternatives. If this Bill is voted through, then by 2030 it will have cut PIP for more than 400,000 disabled people and Universal Credit for more than 700,000 people who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. These numbers will only increase in the years to follow. This Bill has also been brought before parliament: • Without consultation with disabled people • Without any assessment of its impact on health and employment outcomes • Before the planned review of the PIP assessment has properly begun its work • Without knowing how the outcome of the PIP review may affect these reforms The changes announced last week and the compressed timetable for scrutiny mean that MPs will only have a single day to debate or amend the new provisions. There is too much at stake for disabled people for this Bill to be rushed through without the opportunity for meaningful challenge or scrutiny. We urge all MPs to vote against this Bill at Second Reading. Signatories Acts 435 Action for Children Amnesty International British Association of Social Workers Camphill Village Trust Centre for Mental Health Child Poverty Action Group Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition Children First Citizens Advice Community Money Advice Crisis Cystic Fibrosis Trust Debt Justice Diabetes UK Disability Benefits Consortium Disability Law Service Disabled People Against Cuts End Child Poverty Coalition Endometriosis UK Engender Fuel Poverty Action Home Start Human Rights Watch Huntington's Disease Association Imagine Act and Succeed In Kind Direct Independent Age Independent Food Aid Network Joseph Rowntree Foundation Kidney Care Learning Disability Allies Leonard Cheshire ME Foggy Dog Mental Health Foundation Mental Health UK Mind Money and Mental Health Policy Institute MS Society National Autistic Society National Children's Bureau National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society National Survivor User Network Neuroendocrine Cancer UK New Economics Foundation Oxfam Parkinson's UK Quaker Social Action Rethink Mental Illness Royal National Institute of Blind People Royal National Institute of Deaf People SeeAbility Scope Sense Shelter Sisters of Frida St Mungo's Stripy Lightbulb CIC The Children's Society The Food Foundation The Poverty Alliance The Salvation Army Trussell Turn2Us Turning Point Versus Arthritis Voluntary Organisations Disability Group We Care Campaign Whizz Kidz Women's Budget Group Young Lives vs Cancer Z2K 4 in 10 Black Country Foodbank Citizens Advice Scotland Close the Gap Food Plymouth Hartlepool Foodbank Includem North East Child Poverty Commission One Parent Families Scotland Parenting Across Scotland Scottish Women's Budget Group Shelter Scotland Stay Safe East The Scottish Pantry Network
July 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM