Clive Baldwin

THREAD: What does it mean to seek food in Gaza today? For many Palestinians, it means risking death. These are the stories behind the hundreds killed. #Gaza #HumanRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has made it clear that the climate crisis is a human rights crisis.

In a new landmark decision, the Court says authorities have a duty to take urgent action to curb global warming and protect forests.

Governments need to act now.
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Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill Monday 30th June 2025 We are coming together as organisations committed to fighting poverty, providing advice, and supporting and championing the rights of disabled people, their families, and carers. We stand firmly with disabled people and their organisations in calling for the UK government to withdraw the UC & PIP Bill and to undertake genuine dialogue with disabled people to shape reforms centred on the rights and dignity that all disabled people need and deserve. At a time when the share of GDP spent on working-age social security has remained stable for the last ten years, cutting the incomes of disabled people is a political choice. There is time for the government to pursue alternatives. If this Bill is voted through, then by 2030 it will have cut PIP for more than 400,000 disabled people and Universal Credit for more than 700,000 people who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. These numbers will only increase in the years to follow.

This Bill has also been brought before parliament: • Without consultation with disabled people • Without any assessment of its impact on health and employment outcomes • Before the planned review of the PIP assessment has properly begun its work • Without knowing how the outcome of the PIP review may affect these reforms The changes announced last week and the compressed timetable for scrutiny mean that MPs will only have a single day to debate or amend the new provisions. There is too much at stake for disabled people for this Bill to be rushed through without the opportunity for meaningful challenge or scrutiny. We urge all MPs to vote against this Bill at Second Reading.

Signatories Acts 435 Action for Children Amnesty International British Association of Social Workers Camphill Village Trust Centre for Mental Health Child Poverty Action Group Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition Children First Citizens Advice Community Money Advice Crisis Cystic Fibrosis Trust Debt Justice Diabetes UK Disability Benefits Consortium Disability Law Service Disabled People Against Cuts End Child Poverty Coalition Endometriosis UK Engender Fuel Poverty Action Home Start Human Rights Watch Huntington's Disease Association Imagine Act and Succeed In Kind Direct Independent Age Independent Food Aid Network Joseph Rowntree Foundation Kidney Care Learning Disability Allies Leonard Cheshire ME Foggy Dog Mental Health Foundation Mental Health UK Mind Money and Mental Health Policy Institute MS Society National Autistic Society National Children's Bureau National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society National Survivor User Network Neuroendocrine Cancer UK New Economics Foundation Oxfam Parkinson's UK Quaker Social Action Rethink Mental Illness Royal National Institute of Blind People Royal National Institute of Deaf People SeeAbility Scope Sense Shelter Sisters of Frida St Mungo's Stripy Lightbulb CIC The Children's Society The Food Foundation The Poverty Alliance The Salvation Army Trussell Turn2Us Turning Point Versus Arthritis Voluntary Organisations Disability Group We Care Campaign Whizz Kidz Women's Budget Group Young Lives vs Cancer Z2K 4 in 10 Black Country Foodbank Citizens Advice Scotland Close the Gap Food Plymouth Hartlepool Foodbank Includem North East Child Poverty Commission One Parent Families Scotland Parenting Across Scotland Scottish Women's Budget Group Shelter Scotland Stay Safe East The Scottish Pantry Network

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Today, the UK government will ask MPs to railroad through social security legislation that makes cuts to disability-related benefits to the next stage.

@hrw.org joins 80+ other orgs asking MPs to reject the UCPIP Bill. It is bad news for human rights.

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UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r...

UK Parliamentarians should reject the government’s plan to cut disability benefits, and be clear that budget savings should not come at the cost of the rights—especially the right to social security—of people with disabilities.

Human dignity must come first.

@hrw.org

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1/6 The UK government can spin its "welfare reform" legislative package as much as it likes. But these aren't welfare "reforms". inasmuch as they are "cuts" to social security support for people with disabilities. There is no shying away from that truth, or the bottom line motivating it.

Without stopping arms to Israel, UK Gaza ‘concern’ is empty talk If the UK has any spine on Gaza, it must at least use its political leverage and impose a total arms embargo on Israel, writes Yasmine Ahmed.

🚨 My latest for @hrw.org in the @thenewarab.bsky.social

If the UK is serious about exerting pressure on 🇮🇱, there is a glaringly obvious ‘concrete action’ it can take:

A COMPLETE & COMPREHENSIVE ARMS EMBARGO ON ISRAEL NOW

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Libya: Barriers to Justice Libya’s fragmented justice sector is suppressing fundamental freedoms and obstructing accountability for abuses.

Libya's fragmented & polarised justice sector suppresses fundamental freedoms, obstructs accountability.

Authorities should urgently overhaul judiciary, reform repressive legislation, end military trials of civilians, arrest ICC suspects.

New @hrw.org report:
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Righting the wrongs inflicted on the Chagossians will mean acknowledging the crimes, their right of return, and reparations including restoring the islands so they can live there. Above all the Chagossian people should be meaningfully consulted throughout.

Finally, the UK will pay Mauritius £40 million as one-off payment for a 'trust fund' for Chagossians. This does not look like compensation for the harm done to them. Have Chagossians been consulted? Where does this figure come from? And who will ensure it reaches all Chagossians?

The treaty would seem to formalise Chagossians' forced exile from Diego Garcia, the largest island. This would entrench a crime of forced displacement.

Art 6 is headed 'resettlement of Chagossians' . As a result some Chagossians may return to live in their homeland after 50 years. But there is no acknowledgement of all Chagossians' RIGHT of return. Who will pay to rebuild the islands? The UK owes this as reparations.

The preamble speaks of “wrongs of the past” and commits to the welfare of all Chagossians. But it does not acknowledge that these wrongs are crimes. And crimes of the present - the Chagossians are still displaced. It expresses mere “regret”, not responsibility.

Justice demands more than regret.

The UK-Mauritius Chagos deal is public. Will it end the colonial crime of the UK/US forced displacement of the Chagossian people, and provide them with the reparations they are owed ?Here's a look at some issues.

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Beyond disheartening to see the modest progress made in the UK on protecting the rights of trans people rolled back and undermined, including by so-called progressive politicians. As always the voices of those who are actually impacted - trans humans beings - are ignored.

Want to join the GLOBAL REPARATIONS HUB?

The Global Reparations Hub is an online community space looking to unite #reparations movements worldwide. @hrw.org supports the creation of this grassroots-led space.

Register for this event on April 15 at 1:30-2:30pm EST: 👉 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hungary: Arrest, Don’t Welcome ICC Fugitive Netanyahu Hungary should deny entry to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or arrest him if he enters the country. Netanyahu’s office announced that he is planning to travel to Hungary on April 2, 2025 fo...

🚨Israeli Prime Minister - and #ICC fugitive - #Netanyahu is set to travel to #Hungary on April 2:

➡️Hungary should deny him entry or arrest him
➡️ICC states parties should call on Hungary to abide by its obligation to cooperate with the ICC

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Australia: Disproportionate Removal of Aboriginal Children Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care.

NEW: Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care.

Ending Racism Means Addressing Its Historic Legacies Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the 60th anniversary of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is historic.

It’s a reminder for governments that they have an obligation under international human rights law to end systemic racism & address ongoing impacts of linked historic legacies.

#Reparations

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A single father who self describes as having “mental health issues” and being “diagnosed with autism”, involved in the @changingrealities.bsky.social project, writes in the Guardian about the disability benefit cuts. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the *moral case* for this?

#WestBank: @unhumanrights.bsky.social report echoes #ICJ finding that #Israel is responsible for #apartheid: ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Facts are clear, as is the law. #EU inaction untenable at best, complicit at worst: www.hrw.org/news/2024/10...

@kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

“There’s Just No More Land” The 66-page report, “‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands,” documents why Walande community members made the dif...

Thrilled to join BlueSky and share a new @hrw.org report just launched today

‘There’s Just No More Land’: Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands

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On BBC Radio 4's The Law Show, I, with Sarah Nouwen & Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, hosted by @joellegrogan.bsky.social discuss war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide - how to gather evidence, prove claims and ensure fair trials.

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Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled benefit claimants die waiting for payments Exclusive: One man has been waiting for almost three years to receive the benefit and finally won a battle to be reassessed – but he’s still waiting

THIS is the scandal of the UK social security system with regard to disability benefits, not the tired tropes being trotted out by politicians spinning workshopped soundbites about Labour, clues, and names. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Quote card that says: "Social Security is a human right. The UN Committee has told the UK government to reverse the two-child limit, end the benefit cap, and reduce long waits for Universal Credit payments. Every day of inaction pushes more people into poverty." Kartik Raj, Senior Europe Researcher, Human Rights Watch

Social security is a human right.

The UK government should follow the CESCR's calls to:

- reverse the two-child limit
- end the benefit cap
- cut waits for Universal Credit
- assess cumulative impact of austerity-based welfare policy

Every day of inaction pushes more people into poverty

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Election winner Merz invites Netanyahu to Germany, says Israeli's office Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz told Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that he would invite him to Germany in defiance of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday.

European governments are lining up to defy the International Criminal Court and ignore arrest warrants. International justice doesn't work if you pick and choose who it applies to. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Thanks to Trump, it is now in Europe’s self-interest to compensate Africa for slavery | Liliane Umubyeyi As the US rips up its rules-based order and threatens sovereign nations, this is the time to make allies. Reparations might help, says Liliane Umubyeyi of the African Futures Lab

Great op-ed that European leaders should read. Why, amidst these turbulent times, are #reparations & accountability for enduring impacts of #colonialism & #enslavement more urgent than ever? Liliane Umubyeyi at African Futures Lab hit the nail on the head.
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US, EU, UK: Lift Syria Sanctions Hindering Recovery Sweeping sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, and other countries are hindering the restoration of essential services in Syria.

US/EU/UK sanctions imposed on the former Syrian government, remain & lack clear, measurable conditions for removal. They are exacerbating the suffering of millions of Syrians struggling to access critical rights, including to electricity & an adequate standard of living

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‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

"Apart from anything else, Chagossians are best placed to hold the UK and US feet to the fire, particularly when it comes to proper reparations for the wrongs committed by both countries and the costs of the planned resettlement programme"

@aljazeera.com

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African leaders to push for slavery reparations despite resistance African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled out making amends for historical wrongs.

African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are launching a new push for slavery and colonial reparations www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Child poverty is the visible tip of an iceberg of rights failures in the UK. The UK government is falling short on a wide range of social and economic rights.

My letter with @justfairuk.bsky.social’s director Jess McQuail in today’s @theguardian.com

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