"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren't."

Amen. #TaxTheRich

“There is no time to delay, @microsoft.com should take decisive action to ensure they are not profiting from grave human rights abuses of Palestinians."

- Deborah Brown, technology and rights deputy director @hrw.org

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Mooi initiatief van @degoedezaak.bsky.social!

Ik steun een deelnemer aan deze Sponsorloop van Hoop met een mooi bedrag, dat gaat naar een goed doel, bv @vluchtelingwerk.bsky.social.

Doen jullie ook mee?

We zijn met veel meer!

Need some background on #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado's home country, Venezuela?

Then start with this @hrw.org report⤵️

...human rights violations and a devastating humanitarian crisis. Foreign governments should support Venezuelans as they continue to struggle for a rights-respecting democracy.”

- Juanita Goebertus Estrada, director of HRW's Americas Division

HRW's comment:

“The Nobel peace prize awarded to Maria Corina Machado should help reinvigorate international efforts to promote a peaceful transition to democracy in Venezuela. People in Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of a brutal government responsible for systematic human...

Live-stream / recording #NobelPeacePrize for Maria Corina Machado (Venezuela):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrRB...
#NobelPrize

BREAKING NEWS!

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

"Governments should... seek justice for the atrocities committed with impunity over the past two years, including the Hamas-led war crimes and crimes against humanity on October 7 and thereafter and Israeli authorities’ war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide in Gaza."

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, host of #COP30.

New report @hrw, going out on October 15.

Journalists can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests, access to multimedia.

#ClimateEmergency

On October 9, the Bangladesh authorities filed charges against 28 people for enforced disappearances, secret detention, and torture.

It was a long time coming. #JusticeMatters!

New from @hrw.org ⤵️

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Als je erkent dat de woorden v Wilders c.s. leiden tot politiek geweld, waarom verlang je dat slachtoffers met hun beulen aan tafel gaan? Hoe beschermt dat de slachtoffers v racisme? En hoe versterk je de rechtsstaat door juist de bedreigers ervan als gelijkwaardige gesprekspartner te behandelen?

"Trump has been an enabler of war. By his actions, he has supported Netanyahu’s offensive war for the complete ethnic cleansing and destruction of Gaza."

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social

WAARSCHUWING: 'Experts en de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV) waarschuwen. Zij zien 'remigratie' als een eufemisme voor grootschalige deportaties van mensen met een migratieachtergrond.  www.ftm.nl/artikelen/vi...

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, host of #COP30.

New report @hrw, going out on October 15.

Journalists can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests, access to multimedia.

#ClimateEmergency

HRW publiceert op 15 oktober een nieuw rapport over illegale veehouderij en de verwoesting en schending van mensenrechten in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Pará, waar #COP30 plaats vindt.

Journalisten kunnen me DM-en voor contact met onderzoekers, toegang tot multimedia etc.

„We hadden hier een rustig bestaan, we leefden van de natuur. Van de visvangst en de jacht. Maar nu COP30 in Belém wordt georganiseerd loopt onze gemeenschap gevaar.”

Must-read @ninaj13.bsky.social / @nrc.nl in aanloop naar #COP30 ⤵️

I am reading reports that the German coalition has agreed the main parts of its welfare "reform" package. Details still emerging.

This shift toward a more punitive logic and harsher sanctions will come at the cost of human rights.

I explain more in this recent piece.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Medien berichten, dass sich die große Koalition auf die wichtigsten Punkte ihres Sozialstaats-Reformpakets geeinigt hat.

Diese Hinwendung zu einer Logik von Strafe und härteren Sanktionen wird auf Kosten der #Menschenrechte gehen.

Mehr dazu erkläre ich hier.

www.hrw.org/de/news/2025...

We’re honored that our With Humanity campaign calling on the EU to uphold the rights and dignity of people on the move is a finalist at the Shorty Awards!

Please help amplify this call by voting here: https://shortyawards.com/10th-impact/with-humanity-campaign

“The Bangladeshi government should stop abusing the anti-terrorism law, which is just becoming political repression by another name. The interim government should instead focus on creating conditions for safe and participatory elections.”

New from @hrw.org ⤵️

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

“Het jaarsalaris van een directielid van Tata Steel bedraagt gemiddeld een miljoen euro. Dat is ruim het dubbele van vier jaar geleden. Ondertussen stagneerden de salarissen van werknemers en is vanwege de miljoenenverliezen op vrijwel alles bezuinigd, van koffie tot schoonmaak.”