A history of #slavery & dispossession: The UK and the US were found responsible for crimes against humanity on Chagos Islands but so far there are no plans of #reparations or #justice for Indigenous people.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
A history of #slavery & dispossession: The UK and the US were found responsible for crimes against humanity on Chagos Islands but so far there are no plans of #reparations or #justice for Indigenous people.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Trump has been speaking about the Chagos islands. The US & UK are responsible for crimes against humanity against the Chagossian people. The two governments forced them from their homeland years ago & still prevent them from returning home. My piece on Al Jazeera.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Did you know that a historic case is being pursued in a Belgian court seeking individual criminal responsibility for colonial crimes in the court of a former colonial power?
The court's decision on whether to pursue a criminal trial is expected on March 17.
Learn more: www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
Guardian cover 10 Dec with lead story "PM urges Europe to curb human rights laws to halt rise of populism".
I guess this is one way for a former human rights lawyer to be elected, become head of government, and then wish everyone a happy international human rights day.
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Após um mês da operação policial mais letal da história do Rio de Janeiro, as comunidades continuam controladas por facções.
O Rio e o Brasil precisam de uma estratégia de segurança que ataque o cerne do crime organizado e suas ligações com policiais e políticos.
www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...
HRW quote card that says, “The UK government’s decision to end the cruel "two-child limit” social security policy is welcome and long-overdue. It forced growing numbers of children and families into poverty and undermined their rights.” Kartik Raj, Europe Senior Researcher
Good riddance to rubbish policy.
The end to the UK's "two child limit" social security policy has been announced, and it will soon be gone.
We @hrw.org welcome the news, as one of many, many, many voices calling for an end to this arbitrary, cruel social security policy.
🚨New @hrw.org report finds #Israel committed war crimes, crimes against humanity + ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 #Palestinian refugees from 3 refugee camps, prevented return + systematically destroyed parts of the camps.👇
hrw.org/node/392462
A polícia do Rio de Janeiro não adotou medidas investigatórias cruciais para determinar as circunstâncias das 121 mortes durante a operação desta semana. Não houve preservação do local, nem perícia ou cadeia de custódia rigorosa das provas.
Novo relatório da @hrw.org:
www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...
La policía no siguió pasos clave para investigar las 121 muertes ocurridas durante un operativo en Río de Janeiro esta semana. No preservó ni analizó el lugar de los tiroteos, ni mantuvo la cadena de custodia de pruebas.
Nuevo informe de @hrw:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
We @hrw.org are glad to be able to support this initiative led by @bigissue.com calling on the UK government to set child poverty reduction targets. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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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...
This week Brazil hosts the 4th National Conference on the Rights of LGBTQIA+ people to chart new directions for public policy on equality & inclusion. The conference also underscores 🇧🇷‘s reemergence as a key voice in global equality debates.
@hrw.org analysis 📃: www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
O Brasil celebra a 4ª Conferência Nacional dos Direitos das Pessoas LGBTQIA+ para traçar novos rumos para as políticas públicas de inclusão.
A conferência também ressalta o ressurgimento do 🇧🇷 como uma voz importante nos debates globais sobre igualdade. www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...
Next week - #advisoryopinion by the International Court of Justice #ICJ on obligations of #Israel in relation to the #UN and other #IOs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories #OPT. (This is distinct from the contentious case by South Africa relating to the #Genocide Convention)
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Illegal cattle ranching has devastated Indigenous & small farmers’ lands in Brazil’s Amazon region that will host #COP30.
New @hrw.org report finds that world’s largest meat company, JBS, may have exported beef to the EU from these illegal sources.
Read our investigation 🌎👉 https://bit.ly/4ojyU5y
Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
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Dois projetos de lei do Rio enfraqueceriam seriamente a perícia, que é essencial para levar os responsáveis por crimes à justiça.
O governador Cláudio Castro deveria vetar essas propostas e promover a qualidade e a independência dos órgãos periciais.
www.hrw.org/pt/news/2025...
The UN rights chief presented his office's report on #reparations for legacies of #colonialism and #enslavement in Geneva yesterday.
@hrw.org welcomes his call for a transformative, context-specific & rights-based approach to reparations led by affected communities.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
“A unified approach to #reparations could be the game changer that empowers communities in Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora" - African and Caribbean states will meet in Addis Ababa this Sunday for the second Africa-CARICOM Summit.
Read more here:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
@hrw.org published a Q&A on #reparations for historical & ongoing colonial atrocities ahead of a AU-CARICOM summit.
A unified African-Caribbean rights-based position on reparations shaped w civil society & communities would be a gamechanger for the reparations movement.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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...
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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.
apnews.com/article/lati...
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.
www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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
www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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.
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🚨 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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www.newarab.com/opinion/with...
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:
www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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.
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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?
22.05.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The treaty would seem to formalise Chagossians' forced exile from Diego Garcia, the largest island. This would entrench a crime of forced displacement.
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