Alison Leal Parker

YouTube video by SEIU California With These Hands / Intro

Whether they perform surgery, pick fruit or tobacco, teach children, play music, or pack meat, immigrants' hands deserve dignity: not human rights violations.
#ConEstasManos #WithTheseHands

HRW shares this video in solidarity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXq...

US President Donald Trump toured the newly opened immigration detention complex nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” this week.

By opening the complex, the US government is expanding a system already rife with inhumane conditions, neglect, and dehumanizing treatment.

🚨 New @hrw report: Russian attacks in Ukraine are killing more civilians in 2025 than last year.
Playgrounds. Apartments. Hotels. City centers.
No military targets. No warnings. Possible war crimes.
📄 Read the full report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...
Ukraine #WarCrimes #HumanRights

Right now, the US House is considering a bill that would make health care less available, less affordable, and of poorer quality for millions

If you live in the US, use the info below to get in touch with your Congressmembers and tell them to reject these cuts!

#HandsOffMedicaid

US: Major Companies Violate Gig Workers’ Rights Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights.

New @hrw.org report: a deep dive on the gig economy in the US, by @lenasimet.bsky.social, @amostoh.bsky.social + me. It looks at 7 major platform companies, the extractive business model, and a growing workforce reliant on precarious work that denies them hard-won rights. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya The United States should not forcibly transfer migrants to Libya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented, including torture, ill treatment, sexual assault, and unlawful killings.

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Alien Enemies Act Doesn’t Belong on the Books in 2025 The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act’s recent invocation b...

Alien Enemies Act Doesn’t Belong on the Books in 2025
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Guatemala: Indigenous Leaders Face Terrorism Charges Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office has detained two Indigenous leaders on spurious terrorism charges tied to their participation in peaceful protests.

🚨 Indigenous leaders in #Guatemala are facing terrorism charges for participating in peaceful protests. It is a blatant attack on their rights, and it follows the footsteps of other abusive attorneys general in a.o. Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Read @hrw www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

President Trump’s Efforts to Defy Accountability During the first three months of his administration, President Donald Trump has destroyed, captured, or marginalized institutions intended to check abuses of executive power.

NEW from #HRW: Without accountability mechanisms, "those with power may become tyrants and no one under their rule is free or safe." www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Authored by: @treywalk.bsky.social + John Raphling

Alien Enemies Act Doesn’t Belong on the Books in 2025 The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act's recent invocation b...

The Alien Enemies Act doesn’t belong on the books in 2025, my colleague Akshaya Kumar in @JURISTnews argues the law offers a convenient excuse to circumvent due process, which President Trump is leveraging to supercharge his mass deportation machine.

www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

Civil Rights Watchdog under Assault by Trump Administration One of the most effective and enduring institutions won by the Civil Rights Movement – the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice – is under assault.

Civil Rights Watchdog under Assault by Trump Administration
www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act The 59-page report, “United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act, A Human Rights Argument,” describes how the Trump administration has utilized the act as a vehicle for its attempted end run around ba...

NEW from HRW: United States: Repeal the Alien Enemies Act www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

NEW from #HRW: Interactive feature cataloguing 100 human rights harms in Trump administration's first 100 days. www.hrw.org/feature/2025...

Happy Birthday to Us, a thread: For too long, border residents and border crossers alike have been plagued by deadly and abusive over-policing and militarization. 1/

The Frontera Federation Board, including Chris Rickerd, Karen Gonzalez, and Hooky Guajardo. /END

Human Rights Watch declaration on prison conditions in El Salvador for the J.G.G. v. Trump case I, Juanita Goebertus, declare the following under 28 U.S.C. § 1746, and state that under penalty of perjury the following is true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief:

My colleague, Juanita Goebertus' excellent (and sobering) declaration on prisons in El Salvador filed in case challenging USG deportations there (J.G.G. v. Trump): www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

Today the US Congress introduced the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Congress should pass this important bill and strengthen the right to vote in the US. More from HRW's Trey Walk ⤵️

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: 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...

📣 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...

NEW today from me & @hrw.org:

Vehicle pursuits by TX troopers and local law enforcement have killed at least 106 people and injured 301 in counties participating in Texas’ Operation Lone Star.

Reckless and high speed pursuits often occur in sensitive areas, in neighborhoods, & near schools.

Join the virtual event hosted by @UnlockTheBoxNow and @HumanRightsWatch: 'Solitary Confinement: A Human Rights Crisis in the United States' on February 20, 2025, at 8pm EST / 5pm PST!

👉 Register for access here (tickets are free): bit.ly/40DHG5q!

Out-of-date 1872 US mining law and its permitting process must be reformed to respect Indigenous peoples’ human rights. 4/4

With the 18,000 acre project under construction and fenced off, Indigenous peoples cannot freely access the land. 3/4

The land at Thacker Pass has sacred status for Indigenous peoples. It’s also reportedly the largest measured lithium reserve in the world. 2/4

📢 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

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...

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...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the citizenship executive order from taking effect.

“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades,” the judge said. “I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is.”

www.nytimes.com/live/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.

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...

President Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr. (VOC photo and Library of Congress photo

Today @hrw-fr.bsky.social published a statement recognizing the overlap of Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the presidential inauguration. Our statement reminds President Trump that human rights are sacred, and like his predecessors, he is responsible for applying those rights to all.