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Every act of telling the truth is a stride towards the collective healing of a society, oppressed and oppressors. أحلامُنا أحلى مِنْ أحلامِهم Researcher and writer: MENA region, human rights, secularism, discursive power. Currently at @hrw.org

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أهوال وجرائم لا يمكن للمخيّلة البشرية استيعابها يسميها المتهم بجرائم الحرب حمديتي مجرد "كارثة" أصابت أهل الفاشر ويطلق تصريحات زائفة عن "محاسبة" بينما أشرف هو وعصابته بشكل مباشر على الكثير من الجرائم المروعة على مدار شهور وسنوات عديدة. القلب يدمى لما يحدث في السودان بينما يتفرج العالم بلا تحرك

31.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🧵1️⃣ ضمن حصارها لمدينة الفاشر طيلة 18 شهرا، حفرت "قوات الدعم السريع" السودانية خندقا وبنت ساترا رمليا حول المدينة.

منذ استيلاء الدعم السريع على الفاشر، وثقت هيومن رايتس ووتش فيديوهات بالقرب من الساتر الرملي إلى الشمال الغربي وحددت مواقعها الجغرافية – وهي فيديوهات يمكن استخدامها لإثبات الجرائم.

30.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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Cutting aid has a human cost.

The US Department of Agriculture announced last Friday that it will stop distributing payments for essential food assistance through SNAP starting November 1 if the federal government is still shut down.

29.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 80    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 2
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Türkiye: Draft Law Threatens LGBT People with Prison A government proposal would pave the way to bring criminal charges against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Türkiye, one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades, Hu...

Türkiye: Draft Law Threatens LGBT People with Prison www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... one of the most alarming rollbacks of rights in decades

30.10.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yale report finds evidence of RSF mass killings in Sudan’s el-Fasher Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.

Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab says satellite images seem to show mass killings in Sudan's western city of el-Fasher.

28.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 61    🔁 62    💬 3    📌 2
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Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately Saudi authorities should immediately release 10 Nubian Egyptians who have been unjustly detained for over five years.

Saudi Arabia: Release 10 Nubian Egyptian Men Immediately
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... Imprisoned for Promoting Nubian Cultural Heritage
#Egypt #KSA

28.10.2025 10:55 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.

The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

23.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 610    🔁 343    💬 15    📌 27
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توثيق استهداف المحتجين على معاملة المهاجرين في شيكاغو، الولايات المتحدة.

على الكونغرس الأمريكي التدقيق في استخدام القوة من قبل عناصر الأمن الفدراليين وتعزيز المحاسبة في عمليات إنفاذ قوانين الهجرة.

25.10.2025 04:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza returnee places family tent over unexploded Israeli bomb Remotely operated explosive robots were deployed by Israel across Gaza, causing many deaths, widespread destruction.

Remotely operated explosive robots were deployed by Israel across Gaza, causing many deaths, widespread destruction.

25.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 133    🔁 95    💬 8    📌 11

Who said the White colonial mindset of German authorities is effectively over? Read below 👇

24.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

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...

23.10.2025 13:37 — 👍 5    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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EU embraces authoritarian Egypt for help on Gaza, migration – DW – 10/23/2025 As the EU held its first-ever bilateral summit with Egypt, activists said the bloc was rewarding an authoritarian government. But experts told DW the EU needs Egypt if it wants to help in Gaza and cur...

Let’s be clear: the #EUEgypt summit was an orchestrated whitewashing event to sanitize Sisi’s image as a brutally repressive ruler.

With its moral compass buried under Gaza’s rubble, the EU no longer subtly but openly, proudly bankrolls authoritarianism: dw.com/en/eu-embrac...

23.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Without US unlawful > $20billion weapons transfers, diplomatic support and political abuse of its UNSC Veto power & other leveres, Israel wouldn't be able to defy almost every single international law instrument. But that day of reckoning is sure to come.

22.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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After ICJ ruling, can UN relief agency UNRWA resume full Gaza operations? ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.

ICJ states Israel must allow aid into Gaza, ensuring food, water, medicine, and shelter for the Palestinian population.

22.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 175    🔁 82    💬 9    📌 7

As Sisi is in Brussels in first-ever summit with top EU leaders, it's fundamental to remind all sides of the failure to center the human rights of the peoples involved while favoring narrow-minded political interests.
full @hrw.org g statement with 10 other NGOs
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

22.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Accountability and Rights – Reviewing the Implementation of the 2019 ACHPR Recommendations YouTube video by Committee For Justice

A recording of side event @ 85th session of the #ACHPR in Banjul, highlighting the various aspects of the human rights crisis in Egypt & the ongoing disregard for the African Charter & other international obligations.
I was honored to be part of such bravel panel
www.youtube.com/live/85e0jUr...

22.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Recent racism-infused statements by Merz are a shameful disgrace. The danger of these statements are far reaching as they significantly contribute to anti-human rights movement that’s increasingly undermine laws & norms & intoxicate the very societies of they claim to be defending. Disgusting!

21.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Attending the 85th session of the ACHPR in Banjul on behalf of @hrw.org with many brave Egyptian and Tunisian HRDs (both countries reviewed in coming days) to push back against damaging efforts by abusive governments and highlight the near-absolute annihilation of civic space and liberties in #Egypt

21.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The EU promised Egypt €7.4 billion in exchange for human rights improvements. Sadly, we see no change so far.

Don't roll out the red carpet for Al-Sisi, but demand change during Wednesday's summit: No human rights improvements, no EU money.

That's our message to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 👇

20.10.2025 13:48 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over. We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

important, powerful read:
We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

16.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests.

“Morocco’s youth are voicing their dissent over the state of health care and education in the country. The government should heed protesters’ calls and replace repressive tactics with public engagement and wide-ranging reforms.” @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

15.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Egypt authorities condemned over detention of journalist Ismail Iskandarani Egyptian authorities have detained prominent independent journalist and researcher Ismail Iskandarani over Facebook posts critical of government policies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. HRW....

"This is a bellwether moment for the Egyptian government and the only way out of its protracted crisis is to stop unlawfully detaining critics and journalists and release all those arbitrarily detained." @hrw.org

www.jurist.org/news/2025/10...

13.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the world we live, businesses have human rights obligations and responsibilities, and violating them can be just as far reaching as government abuses. This is one example, where simple executive decisions can literally save dozens, hundreds, and perhaps even thousands of lives. 👇

10.10.2025 22:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies, Human Rights Watch...

New calls on Microsoft to suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses & international crimes by the Israeli military & other government bodies
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

@hrw.org @accessnow.org @amnesty.org @7amleh.bsky.social @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org

10.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 65    🔁 39    💬 0    📌 2
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Saudi Arabia: Comedians Silent on Detained Activists Comedians performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival did not use their public platform to urge Saudi authorities to free unjustly detained Saudi dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists

🚩On @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, Aziz Ansari said he would donate part of his Riyadh Comedy Fest fee to @hrw.org

While HRW cannot accept the donation, it's not too late for him to call for the release of detained Saudi activists Manahel al Otaibi & Waleed Abu al Khair
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

09.10.2025 21:18 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

09.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 5241    🔁 1505    💬 66    📌 60
UN: Abusive Governments Set to Win Rights Council Seats Egypt and Vietnam are on track to secure seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council despite being woefully unfit for membership, Human Rights Watch said.

UN: Abusive Governments Set to Win Council Seats
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
It's inconceivable how Egypt's gov't, accused of crimes against humanity & presiding over the worst human rights crisis in the nation's modern history, be given a seat on the HRC because of shame, uncompetitive elections.

10.10.2025 07:22 — 👍 11    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Gaza: Ceasefire No Substitute for Action on Aid, Justice The Israeli government and Hamas agreed on October 9, 2025 to the first stage of the US government’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” which includes a ceasefire, the release of Israeli a...

Gaza: Ceasefire No Substitute for Action on Aid, Justice
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

10.10.2025 07:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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غزة: وقف إطلاق النار لا يُغني عن إجراءات الإغاثة والعدالة اتفقت الحكومة الإسرائيلية و"حماس" في 9 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2025 على المرحلة الأولى من "الخطة الشاملة لإنهاء النزاع في غزة" التي وضعتها الحكومة الأمريكية، والتي تشمل وقف إطلاق النار، وإطلاق سراح الرهائن...


يوفر وقف إطلاق النار أملا للمدنيين الفلسطينيين في غزة بعد عامين من القتل والتجويع والتهجير، وكذلك للرهائن الإسرائيليين والمعتقلين الفلسطينيين وعائلاتهم، ولكن ستستمر الانتهاكات ما لم تتخذ الحكومات إجراءات لدعم الإغاثة والمحاسبة.
بيان "هيومن رايتس ووتش" كاملا: https://bit.ly/3L3XI2X

10.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This is the first known death sentence in a court case of free speech in Tunisia. What these precedents create is consequential and far reaching: They instill an environment in which state violence is normalized & where ppl can be severely punished for simply writing a few words online.

09.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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