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Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan @endrepression-az.org · 1d

The International Association of Judges is to meet in Baku: rights groups urge it to confront Azerbaijan’s captured judiciary ⚖️🇦🇿

Courts must not serve repression.

🔗 free-anar.site/human-rights...

@ibanews.bsky.social

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 4d

#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 · 4d

📍 Portland, Oregon 🐸✊🏼✊🏾

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

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

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

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...

Türk denounces intensification of US reprisals against International Criminal Court personnel

GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday said the imposition by the United States of America of further sanctions on judges and deputy prosecutors of the International Cr...

www.ohchr.org

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 22

We just reposted it. Typo 😝

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 22

This 🤣⬇️

The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 18

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything theonion.com/conserv...

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢🚨📢🚨📢🚨

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 22

The IPC report describes the famine as “entirely man-made.”

This is a Holodomor. 💔 How are we allowing this?

🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Famine confirmed in Gaza City for first time, UN-backed report says

Over half a million people across Gaza are facing "catastrophic" conditions characterised by "starvation, destitution and death", the IPC says.

www.bbc.com

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 21

Read More ⬇️

🔗 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

www.theguardian.com

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Israeli government spent months denying the scale of civilian deaths in Gaza. 💔🇵🇸

But their own army data shows they knew all along. The Guardian just exposed it.

It’s time for the world to wake up. 📢🕊️

Screenshot of a headline from The Guardian reading: “Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war.” Below the headline are heartbreaking images: a medic carrying the body of a child wrapped in white, a man grieving while holding a child's body, and two women crying beside another child’s face. The overall tone is somber, showing the human cost of the conflict.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 21

Let's post this one more time. ⚖️🇵🇸🇺🇦

Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Jul 29

Annexing territory by force is illegal under international law. 🚫🌍

The UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions are clear: no country can take land during war or occupation. ⚖️📢

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 20

This 🤣⬇️

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 20

M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month in one of the worst atrocities by the armed group since its resurgence in late 2021, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. 🇨🇩💔

And someone calls this peace! 🤐

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · Aug 20

The pot calling the kettle black… 🤦🏻‍♀️

🔗 www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug...

Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights

US state department says Labour government ‘repeatedly intervened to chill speech’ online after Southport attack

www.theguardian.com

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