New ICNL report 📄🙌

Civic Space and Anti-Corruption: Toward a Virtuous Cycle looks at how anti-corruption measures are affecting civic space worldwide — and how accountability and civic freedoms can reinforce each other.

👉 Don't miss it, read the report here: www.icnl.org/post/report/...

Today, the Kenya Human Rights Commission launches a new chapter with its strategic plan for 2025–2035. It places people’s sovereign power at the centre of Kenya’s democratic future. This is a roadmap of resistance, renewal & re-imagination. Follow the launch live: www.youtube.com/live/9e-Yw54...

⏰New Resource

While there are varied and legitimate reasons for wearing masks in public, 23 states and Washington, DC restrict them, from near-complete bans to penalty enhancements.

😷 Explore ICNL’s Anti-Mask Laws Tracker for the latest updates across the U.S.
🔗 www.icnl.org/our-work/us-...

📙 Check out our #Asia Program page! www.icnl.org/our-work/asi...

ICNL works alongside local partners throughout Asia to...

🔸 Advance enabling legal reforms
🔸 Raise awareness about international norms & current legal environments for #CivilSociety
🔸 Monitor the exercise of #FundamentalFreedoms

Georgian gov't drove the country toward a human rights crisis in 2024. It adopted new repressive laws, unleashed brutal police violence against mostly peaceful protesters, and pivoted away from the EU accession process. Read the full annual @hrw.org report here: www.hrw.org/world-report...

In widespread & apparently punitive acts, police & other security forces in #Georgia have used brutal violence against largely peaceful protesters. The scale of police violence is shocking & suggests that the authorities have sanctioned or condoned it, says @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

🚨 New from @hrw.org: UN liquidity crisis & funding uncertainty threaten UN human rights investigations & other lifesaving UN work.

US & #China owe nearly $1 bln in unpaid dues — and future #Trump admin officials are threatening a broader funding chokehold for the UN.

hrw.org/news/2024/12...

🧵 @hrw.org has been seeking accountability for Indigenous rights violations at a major carbon offsetting project accredited by Verra, the standard setter that issues two of every three credits in the voluntary carbon market.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/02...

Thousands of pro-EU demonstrators in Georgia are protesting the ruling party’s suspension of EU accession talks until 2028.

Police have brutally beaten numerous peaceful demonstrators, violating their right to peaceful assembly.

Human Rights Watch is on Bluesky!

Follow our team here ⤵️

🚩NEW @hrw.org report: Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are facing widespread abuses, some of which amount to forced labor including at giga-projects funded by the Public Investment Fund

Saudi authorities are systematically failing to protect workers from grave abuses.
hrw.org/node/389873

On December 5, a court in Athens will hear a defamation case against journalists who exposed state surveillance in Greece. This case, brought by an ex-official linked to the scandal, is a clear attempt to silence critical reporting. #MediaFreedom

www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

Landmark win for the reparations movement!

A Belgian court ruling found the Belgian govt guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule & ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation.

Hard fought justice for survivors!

www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

The #ICC prosecutor's request for an arrest warrant against #Myanmar Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing is a key step toward justice for the #Rohingya ➡️ ICC member countries should fully back the court and speak up to support and defend its independent mandate.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...

New UK data show 5.2 million kids live in poverty.

It's great that there's now a Child Poverty Taskforce, but you don't need a Taskforce to state the obvious:

End the #twochildlimit

www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...

Time for a Taskforce to do its work is a luxury kids in poverty can't afford

@hrw.org