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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 3h

Feeling froggy 💚🐸💚

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 3h

🤣💪🏼

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 8h

Now this is what a Nobel Prize looks like. 🕊️🥇🇻🇪

A woman, María Corina Machado, stands among a crowd wearing a white shirt with Venezuelan flag colors on the sleeves. She looks upward with one hand over her chest, as people around her watch in the background.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 9h

Next: tariff on Norwegian salmon. Calling it. 🐟🤦🏻‍♀️

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 9h

The Nobel verdict! 💯🤣

A political cartoon shows a man resembling Donald Trump being spat on by the image of Alfred Nobel from a Nobel Prize medal. The man squints and grimaces as the liquid hits his face. The medal is bright gold, and Trump is dressed in a blue suit with a red tie. The artist’s signature, “Nico Cornill,” and social media handles appear at the bottom right.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 1d

We firmly condemn the violent interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the arbitrary detention of 462 peaceful activists. ⚖️🚨

Access to aid is a human right! ⛑️

🔗 www.omct.org/en/resources...

Israel/Palestine: The Observatory condemns the arbitrary detention…

Geneva-Paris, 8 October 2025. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership between the World Organisation Against Torture…

www.omct.org

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 6d

#Resist

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands in front of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 2, 2025

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 6d

📍 Portland, Oregon 🐸✊🏼✊🏾

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Sep 10

How brave of them to silence a wall. 👎🏼🇬🇧

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Sep 10

We’re on pause, planning what’s next for our page.

But honestly, the UK court scrubbing a Banksy that criticises their anti-protest laws? You can’t make this shit up. 🙃

🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Banksy 'judge' mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice wall

The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.

www.bbc.com

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 31

In June 2025, 250 Swiss collaborators of the Foreign Ministry urged the government to press Israel to respect humanitarian law in Gaza. 🇨🇭⚖️

Instead of listening, the Swiss government called them in through HR. 🤐

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 28

UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at reports of "enforced disappearances" of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), urging Israel to end the "heinous crime".

www.barrons.com/news/un-expe...

UN Experts Decry 'Enforced Disappearances' At Gaza Aid Sites

UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday at reports of "enforced disappearances" of starving Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, urging Israel to en...

www.barrons.com

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 26

📍D.C ✊🏼🥪

Street scene in Washington, D.C. A man carrying a large white bag of clothes walks past a wall plastered with posters. Among them are three large reproductions of Banksy’s famous artwork of a masked protester mid-throw, but instead of a Molotov cocktail, he holds a sandwich.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 26

Journalists, doctors, aid workers, civilians, children. It's starting to be a long and shameful list.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 26

Israel calls it a “tragic mishap.”

But Nasser Hospital was struck twice, killing journalists and others.

Calling this “regret” is hypocrisy. Striking the same site twice is not an accident it’s a war crime.

Screenshot of a post from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X. He writes: “Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff, and all civilians. The military authorities are conducting a thorough investigation. Our war is with Hamas terrorists. Our just goals are defeating Hamas and bringing our hostages home.”

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 25

🔴Break the blockade
🔴Impose an Arms Embargo
🔴Impose Sanctions.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 25

Civil defense rescue teams were hit by an Israeli airstrike during a live broadcast on Al-Ghad TV. 🚨📢

It was the second strike on Nasser Hospital, killing journalist and Reuters photographer Hossam Al-Masry, along with others.

This is not war. This is dehumanization. 😤

#HumanRights

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 24

“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”

Haile Selassie’s warning at the League of Nations in 1936.

The rise of fascism is never just someone else’s problem. 🇪🇹✊🏽

#HumanRights

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's Saturday let's party 🤣🌍

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 23

“The relentless intensification of US reprisals against international institutions and their personnel must stop,” 👎🏼🇺🇸

🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...