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César Muñoz @cesarmunoz.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Brasil: Projeto de lei do Rio de Janeiro incentivará letalidade policial

O governador do estado do Rio de Janeiro deveria vetar as disposições de um novo projeto de lei que daria à Polícia Civil um incentivo econômico para matar suspeitos e enfraqueceria a perícia criminal...

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Almaz Teffera @almazteffera.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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REPAIR @reparationsres.bsky.social · Sep 5

“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...

African, Caribbean Summit Should Address Reparations

Governments attending the Africa-CARICOM Summit should closely work with civil society and affected communities to develop a human rights-based approach to reparations, Human Rights Watch said today. ...

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Almaz Teffera @almazteffera.bsky.social · Sep 4

@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...

Q&A: Reparations for Historical and Ongoing Colonial Atrocities

In this Q&A, Human Rights Watch examines the application of the right to reparation to redress past and present harms stemming from colonial atrocities, including enslavement, systemic racial inequali...

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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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César Muñoz @cesarmunoz.bsky.social · Jul 4

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...

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Jul 1

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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...

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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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Jun 23

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...

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...

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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yasmineahmed.bsky.social @yasmineahmed.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨 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

⬇️

www.newarab.com/opinion/with...

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.

www.newarab.com

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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · Jun 2

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...

Libya: Barriers to Justice

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

www.hrw.org

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Clive Baldwin @cliveabaldwin.bsky.social · May 22

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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Clive Baldwin @cliveabaldwin.bsky.social · May 22

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?

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Clive Baldwin @cliveabaldwin.bsky.social · May 22

The 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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Clive Baldwin @cliveabaldwin.bsky.social · May 22

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.

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Clive Baldwin @cliveabaldwin.bsky.social · May 22

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.

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Clive Baldwin @cliveabaldwin.bsky.social · May 22

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.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682f25...

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Ben Ward @bpward.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

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Almaz Teffera @almazteffera.bsky.social · Apr 11

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...

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Maria Elena Vignoli @me-vignoli.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨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

From @hrw.org 👇
www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

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...

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Mar 26

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

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.

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Almaz Teffera @almazteffera.bsky.social · Mar 21

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

www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...

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.

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · Mar 18

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?

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Claudio Francavilla @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · Mar 18

#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

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Erica Rose Bower @ericarosebower.bsky.social · Mar 17

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

www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

“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...

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