Larissa Kojoué
@agojie237.bsky.social
Anticolonialist. Feminist. Researcher. Queer PanAfricanist. Human Rights Defenders
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@hrw.org also delivered an oral statement during the session with the commissioner: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@hrw.org recently published a Q&A on reparations for historical and ongoing colonial atrocities: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
@hrw.org recently published a Q&A on reparations for historical and ongoing colonial atrocities: 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
October 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@hrw.org also delivered an oral statement during the session with the commissioner: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@hrw.org recently published a Q&A on reparations for historical and ongoing colonial atrocities: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
@hrw.org recently published a Q&A on reparations for historical and ongoing colonial atrocities: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
Reposted by Larissa Kojoué
"Here in Cap-Haïtien, we survive thanks to donations. We sleep on the floor with only a few sheets. Some days, we eat once; other days, we eat nothing at all...
All I want is a roof over our heads and a job so I can support my daughter."
Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
All I want is a roof over our heads and a job so I can support my daughter."
Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
Haiti: Displacement Hits Record as Security Efforts Fall Short
One year since deployment of the first personnel of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to Haiti, violence and human rights abuses continue to rise.
www.hrw.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Here in Cap-Haïtien, we survive thanks to donations. We sleep on the floor with only a few sheets. Some days, we eat once; other days, we eat nothing at all...
All I want is a roof over our heads and a job so I can support my daughter."
Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
All I want is a roof over our heads and a job so I can support my daughter."
Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
Reposted by Larissa Kojoué
This is the first time HRW has concluded that Russia is intentionally targeting civilians in Ukraine using drones—constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.
June 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is the first time HRW has concluded that Russia is intentionally targeting civilians in Ukraine using drones—constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Reposted by Larissa Kojoué
Children have a right to be heard. A future Crimes Against Humanity Convention should also make it clear that children can be victims and witnesses, and must have access to court proceedings and reparations in ways that are tailored to their age.
May 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Children have a right to be heard. A future Crimes Against Humanity Convention should also make it clear that children can be victims and witnesses, and must have access to court proceedings and reparations in ways that are tailored to their age.
Reposted by Larissa Kojoué
The new crimes against humanity treaty should:
1. Say that a child is everyone under age 18
2. Add 2 crimes: forced marriage + the recruitment and use of children
3. Specify "age" as a ground for persecution
cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-...
1. Say that a child is everyone under age 18
2. Add 2 crimes: forced marriage + the recruitment and use of children
3. Specify "age" as a ground for persecution
cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-...
May 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The new crimes against humanity treaty should:
1. Say that a child is everyone under age 18
2. Add 2 crimes: forced marriage + the recruitment and use of children
3. Specify "age" as a ground for persecution
cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-...
1. Say that a child is everyone under age 18
2. Add 2 crimes: forced marriage + the recruitment and use of children
3. Specify "age" as a ground for persecution
cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-...
Reposted by Larissa Kojoué
Kids are victims of every act understood as a crime against humanity: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation/forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence (rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization), enforced disappearance, apartheid.
May 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Kids are victims of every act understood as a crime against humanity: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation/forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence (rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization), enforced disappearance, apartheid.