Elizabeth M. Calvin
@elizabeth-calvin.bsky.social
Human Rights Watch
Abortion Restrictions on Young People Cause Trauma url:https://progressive.org/op-eds/abortion-restrictions-on-young-people-cause-trauma-wurth-baylie-20251111/
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Abortion Restrictions on Young People Cause Trauma url:https://progressive.org/op-eds/abortion-restrictions-on-young-people-cause-trauma-wurth-baylie-20251111/
This Juneteenth, we amplify the call for #ReparationsNow.
Today marks #Juneteenth, a day honoring the end of slavery in the United States. But the symbolism of this day doesn't address the enduring legacy of enslavement.
This Juneteenth, we amplify the call for #ReparationsNow.
This Juneteenth, we amplify the call for #ReparationsNow.
June 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This Juneteenth, we amplify the call for #ReparationsNow.
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A devastating decision from a Florida court would eliminate access to abortion for young people unable to get written, notarized parental consent.
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US: Florida Set to Trample Young People’s Rights
A devastating decision from Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeals would eliminate access to abortion care for young people unable to get written, notarized parental consent, Human Rights Watch and...
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May 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A devastating decision from a Florida court would eliminate access to abortion for young people unable to get written, notarized parental consent.
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NEW from #HRW: Interactive feature cataloguing 100 human rights harms in Trump administration's first 100 days. www.hrw.org/feature/2025...
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
NEW from #HRW: Interactive feature cataloguing 100 human rights harms in Trump administration's first 100 days. www.hrw.org/feature/2025...
Update! The CA Sen. Public Safety Comm. passed SB 672, the Youth Rehabilitation & Opportunity Act! Thank you, @SenSusanRubio, for working to create a path for rehabilitation for young people age 18 thru 25 sentenced to die in prison. #PassSB672 #YouthOpportunity #SecondChances
April 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Update! The CA Sen. Public Safety Comm. passed SB 672, the Youth Rehabilitation & Opportunity Act! Thank you, @SenSusanRubio, for working to create a path for rehabilitation for young people age 18 thru 25 sentenced to die in prison. #PassSB672 #YouthOpportunity #SecondChances
Encourage Maryland’s leaders to prioritize children and communities and pass SB 422. Learn why this important bill is needed in a piece by me and Emily Virgin at @HRFK_ORG.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Encourage Maryland’s leaders to prioritize children and communities and pass SB 422. Learn why this important bill is needed in a piece by me and Emily Virgin at @HRFK_ORG.
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Learn how Maryland can protect both young people and community safety by passing Senate Bill 422. Read this piece for more about why this bill is needed: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
March 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Learn how Maryland can protect both young people and community safety by passing Senate Bill 422. Read this piece for more about why this bill is needed: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
President Trump’s pick for the Labor Department, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will soon oversee the government’s response to labor rights across the US. One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
New US Labor Secretary, Congress Should Act on Child Labor
President Trump’s pick to lead the United States Department of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will soon oversee the federal government’s response to labor rights issues across the US. One of her key prio...
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March 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
President Trump’s pick for the Labor Department, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, will soon oversee the government’s response to labor rights across the US. One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
This week, the Trump administration announced it will require undocumented immigrants in the #US to register with the govt. This move will likely create further stigmatization and criminalization and facilitate mass arrests. Read our latest here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
US Registration Directive Further Criminalizes Undocumented Immigrants
This week, the Trump administration announced that it will ramp up enforcement of a relatively obscure legal provision that requires undocumented immigrants in the United States to register with the g...
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February 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This week, the Trump administration announced it will require undocumented immigrants in the #US to register with the govt. This move will likely create further stigmatization and criminalization and facilitate mass arrests. Read our latest here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
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This week, the Trump administration announced it will require undocumented immigrants in the #US to register with the govt. This move will likely create further stigmatization and criminalization and facilitate mass arrests. Read our latest here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
February 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This week, the Trump administration announced it will require undocumented immigrants in the #US to register with the govt. This move will likely create further stigmatization and criminalization and facilitate mass arrests. Read our latest here: www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
🚩#NewJersey’s waiver law is broken. Prosecutors have near-total control over whether children are tried as adults—with no meaningful checks and balances.
New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
#NJJustice #ProtectKids
New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
#NJJustice #ProtectKids
February 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🚩#NewJersey’s waiver law is broken. Prosecutors have near-total control over whether children are tried as adults—with no meaningful checks and balances.
New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
#NJJustice #ProtectKids
New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
#NJJustice #ProtectKids
New Jersey lets prosecutors unilaterally decide if kids should be tried as adults—with no real judicial oversight.
This hurts children, fuels racial disparities, and can lead to extreme sentences.
🔹 New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
This hurts children, fuels racial disparities, and can lead to extreme sentences.
🔹 New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
February 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
New Jersey lets prosecutors unilaterally decide if kids should be tried as adults—with no real judicial oversight.
This hurts children, fuels racial disparities, and can lead to extreme sentences.
🔹 New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
This hurts children, fuels racial disparities, and can lead to extreme sentences.
🔹 New @HRW report exposes the harm. Read it now: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...
@hrw.org exposes inequities in how #NewJersey kids get tried as adults. Prosecutors have too much power & geographic & racial disparities are rampant.
Former NJ Sup Ct Justice Albin applauds the findings: “It is a basic concept of justice that similarly situated people should be treated the same.”
Former NJ Sup Ct Justice Albin applauds the findings: “It is a basic concept of justice that similarly situated people should be treated the same.”
Human rights group protests inequities in children getting tried as adults • New Jersey Monitor
Whether children get prosecuted as adults varies vastly from county to county in New Jersey. Human Rights Watch is calling for change.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
@hrw.org exposes inequities in how #NewJersey kids get tried as adults. Prosecutors have too much power & geographic & racial disparities are rampant.
Former NJ Sup Ct Justice Albin applauds the findings: “It is a basic concept of justice that similarly situated people should be treated the same.”
Former NJ Sup Ct Justice Albin applauds the findings: “It is a basic concept of justice that similarly situated people should be treated the same.”
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📣 NEW from @HRW: Car chases by TX troopers and local sheriffs/police killed at least 106 people (incl. bystanders and children) + injured 301 in Texas’ dangerous Operation Lone Star. Trump policies to increase this type of enforcement will entrench the chaos and harm. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
US: Texas Vehicle Pursuits Kill At Least 106, Injure 301
Vehicle pursuits by Texas state troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 people in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star (OLS) since the progra...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📣 NEW from @HRW: Car chases by TX troopers and local sheriffs/police killed at least 106 people (incl. bystanders and children) + injured 301 in Texas’ dangerous Operation Lone Star. Trump policies to increase this type of enforcement will entrench the chaos and harm. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
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🏚️ In one year, 80 children have died in the UK living in temporary accommodation.
It’s time to treat housing as a human right.
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It’s time to treat housing as a human right.
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Child Mortality in Temporary Accommodation 2025 - Households in Temporary Accomodation APPG
New data uncovers that 80 children have died in temporary accommodation in one year. The APPG for Households in Temporary Accommodation can announce that out of the 3,605 child deaths in England, 80 h...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🏚️ In one year, 80 children have died in the UK living in temporary accommodation.
It’s time to treat housing as a human right.
householdsintemporaryaccommodation.co.uk/reports/chil...
It’s time to treat housing as a human right.
householdsintemporaryaccommodation.co.uk/reports/chil...
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My comment to @VOANews on #Guantanamo: "It's essentially a black hole, a place where people will not have lawyers, separated from their families, completely isolated."
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Rights groups decry Trump’s plan to detain migrants in Guantanamo
Activists have long called for the closing of the US facility, which has detained migrants under prisonlike conditions during previous administrations
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February 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My comment to @VOANews on #Guantanamo: "It's essentially a black hole, a place where people will not have lawyers, separated from their families, completely isolated."
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President Donald Trump has effectively closed regular migration pathways, particularly for people fleeing conflict and abuse.
What happens next? Lawlessness and chaos, my colleague @billfrelick.bsky.social writes.
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What happens next? Lawlessness and chaos, my colleague @billfrelick.bsky.social writes.
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January 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
President Donald Trump has effectively closed regular migration pathways, particularly for people fleeing conflict and abuse.
What happens next? Lawlessness and chaos, my colleague @billfrelick.bsky.social writes.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
What happens next? Lawlessness and chaos, my colleague @billfrelick.bsky.social writes.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
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NEW: The Mississippi state and US federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women in the Mississippi Delta.
New report from the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice and Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
New report from the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice and Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
January 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
NEW: The Mississippi state and US federal governments are failing to take steps to prevent cervical cancer deaths for Black women in the Mississippi Delta.
New report from the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice and Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
New report from the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice and Human Rights Watch: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
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📢 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
February 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
📢 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
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Google announced significant changes to its artificial intelligence policy this week.
This pivot from refusing to build AI for weapons to stating an intent to create AI that supports national security ventures is stark, and it sparks serious human rights concerns.
Read more: bit.ly/4gwYBeL
This pivot from refusing to build AI for weapons to stating an intent to create AI that supports national security ventures is stark, and it sparks serious human rights concerns.
Read more: bit.ly/4gwYBeL
February 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Google announced significant changes to its artificial intelligence policy this week.
This pivot from refusing to build AI for weapons to stating an intent to create AI that supports national security ventures is stark, and it sparks serious human rights concerns.
Read more: bit.ly/4gwYBeL
This pivot from refusing to build AI for weapons to stating an intent to create AI that supports national security ventures is stark, and it sparks serious human rights concerns.
Read more: bit.ly/4gwYBeL
Reposted by Elizabeth M. Calvin
Out-of-date 1872 US mining law and its permitting process must be reformed to respect Indigenous peoples’ human rights. 4/4
February 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Out-of-date 1872 US mining law and its permitting process must be reformed to respect Indigenous peoples’ human rights. 4/4
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NEW from #HRW on Trump immigration EOs: "All people, regardless of immigration status or criminal history, have the right to fair treatment before the law and a chance to argue for their liberty and rights when they are detained or face deportation." www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
Trump’s Executive Orders Promise Systemic Detentions, Deportations
In a nondescript parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, a fifth-grade boy waited in a car while his mom, Natalie Burke, went inside a US government office to sign some paperwork.
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January 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
NEW from #HRW on Trump immigration EOs: "All people, regardless of immigration status or criminal history, have the right to fair treatment before the law and a chance to argue for their liberty and rights when they are detained or face deportation." www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...
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Tomorrow is the #internationaldayofeducation, reminding us of the power of education to transform children's lives. This year, governments have the chance to expand free education for millions of children. My piece in @ipsnews.net on why this is so important: www.ipsnews.net/2025/01/new-...
A New Chance to Expand Children’s Access to Education
Given the proven benefits of free education, it’s baffling that approximately 70 percent of the world’s children live in countries that still do not guarantee free pre-primary and free secondary educa...
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January 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tomorrow is the #internationaldayofeducation, reminding us of the power of education to transform children's lives. This year, governments have the chance to expand free education for millions of children. My piece in @ipsnews.net on why this is so important: www.ipsnews.net/2025/01/new-...