#Darfur #Sudan: UN Human Rights chief raise alarm at situation in & around besieged Al-Fasher.
@kajakallas.bsky.social @hadjalahbib.bsky.social: EU should mobilize urgent action to protect civilians from ethnically-driven attacks, hold those responsible to account.
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Four UN human rights experts urged Egypt to end the unlawful and arbitrary detention of activist and blogger, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, and release him without further delay. His mother is on hunger strike and was hospitalized this week. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Laila Soueif, #FreeAlaa Abdel Fattah's mother, is in hospital on day 151 of her hunger strike.
Time is running out.
Alaa, a #British citizen, should be released from prison in #Egypt urgently.
My @hrw.org colleague Yasmine Ahmed visited Laila in hospital:
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The consequences of the Trump administration’s broad-based cuts to United States foreign assistance continue to grow, and the magnitude of the damage is breathtaking. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...
Women are not merely casualties of conflict; they are essential to its resolution - www.atlantik-bruecke.org/en/beyond-vi... Grateful to @tiranahassan.bsky.social for her leadership at Munich Security Conference, which can always do better to center women in its global discourse. #MSC2025 @hrw.org
Lorsque les gouvernements font preuve d'un 'deux poids deux mesures' vis-à-vis des droits humains, ils sapent les institutions des droits humains et leur légitimité.
@tiranahassan.bsky.social, directrice exécutive de HRW, s'exprime lors du lancement du rapport mondial 2025 de HRW.
@hrw.org's @tiranahassan.bsky.social says the past year has marked the “absolute failure” of western democracies as champions of human rights around the world - especially in #Gaza #Sudan & elsewhere.
Read @julianborger.bsky.social of @theguardian.com on HRW's World Report 2025 here.
Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli authorities of deliberately committing the crime of extermination as well as ‘acts of genocide’ in Gaza. www.ft.com/content/b637...
Hear from survivors of war crimes & potential crimes against humanity committed as part of attacks in South Kordofan during which RSF killed, raped, injured dozens of civilians, and looting & destroying homes that displaced 10s of thousands www.hrw.org/news/2024/12... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj8P...
The Israeli govt has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the bare minimum water needed to survive. This policy of deprivation, resulting in thousands of deaths,
is nothing short of the crime against humanity of extermination, and an act of genocide. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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