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Today on Human Rights Day, let’s remember that we all have a role to play. Thank you players Postcode Lottery for supporting our work defending human rights! #PostcodeLotteryPeople #PostcodeLottery #PeoplesPostcodeLottery

Government crackdown on protests amid Georgia’s 🇬🇪 political & constitutional crisis risks plunging the country into deeper human rights crisis. EU should call for independent investigation & impose targeted sanctions for responsible officials, says Human Rights Watch. hrw.org/news/2024/12/1…

#Russia: Tech companies find themselves vulnerable to blocking and other forms of pressure by Russian authorities. However, this does not give the companies carte blanche to enable the Kremlin’s outrageous violations of human rights online. Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/12/1…

🚨 Every December the UN General Assembly’s 5th Committee (budget) negotiations on the following year’s budget go down to the wire. This year’s no different. As usual, governments hostile to human rights launch a desperate bid to defund UN human rights work. A thread 🧵 1/x

2024 was a year of reckoning, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and humanitarian law. With more rigor and urgency than ever, governments should respect and defend human rights. bit.ly/4gUvG5f #Rights2025

16 years ago, left-wing lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were gunned down by neo-Nazis in downtown Moscow. Markelov's writings are a vital record of Russia's violent transition from the 90s to the 2000s - see in English below opendemocracy.net/en/odr/remembe…

Russian authorities should quash this unjust and preposterous verdict, immediately free Kobzev, Liptser, and Sergunin, and let Russian lawyers to work safely and without fear. Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2025/01/2…

Today, sham elections are taking place in Belarus amid raging repression, in a country where people cannot exercise their rights to freedom of thought, expression, information, or association and assembly. They cannot be seen as free nor fair. Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2025/01/2…

#US #ICC sanctions are a gift to perpetrators of mass atrocities around the globe. The ICC is doing its job: ensuring no one is above the law. These sanctions should be met by the int'l community’s determination to do all it can to support the court. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

📣📣 Join Human Rights Watch for an expert discussion of a new report detailing rising xenophobia against Central Asian migrants in Russia. We'll be live via X on Tuesday, March 18 with Tanya Lokshina, Syinat Sultanalieva, Alexander Verkhovsky, and Yan Matusevich.

Trump's scheduled to speak with Putin today. Any discussions about ending the war in Ukraine should address releasing detained Ukrainian civilians & opening pathways to securing justice for war crimes. War crimes & CAH by 🇷🇺 forces are well-documented hrw.org/news/2025/03/1…

The Trump administration’s budget cuts stopped a Yale lab’s work to find abducted Ukrainian children. Not only that. The lab’s team members lost access to the irreplaceable data they had collected. hrw.org/news/2025/03/2…

On March 21 Valery Bailo’s died in a Russian prison. His only “”crime” was being a Jehovah’s Witness in Russia, for which 🇷🇺 sentenced him to 2.5 years in 2024. He should never been prosecuted. 🇷🇺 should free all JWs behind bars for their faith.

Scoop: The Trump administration reversed its decision to terminate a U.S. initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including the mass abuction of Ukrainian children to Russia. It's a rare about-face following pressure from U.S. lawmakers and Christian evangelicals

Golos, the Russian fair elections group, was one of the 1st groups targeted by Russia's "foreign agent" law 12 years ago. Grigory Mekonyants, its co-chair, now facing 6 years in prison. It's a act of colossal injustice. Grigory, you are a model of courage and integrity.

Grigory Melkonyants’s prison sentence sends another chilling signal to all Russian rights defenders who continue their work at great personal risk. The government should free him immediately and put an end to politically motivated repression.@HRW hrw.org/news/2025/05/1…

We will continue to protect human rights in Russia and the world, and we will keep you informed. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

The US summarily expelled 200 asylum seekers, including 81 children, from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and other countries to Costa Rica in February. They detail the abuses they've faced in both countries in a new Human Rights Watch report out today. hrw.org/news/2025/05/2…

Asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and other countries, who were summarily expelled from the US to Costa Rica this year, told Human Rights Watch about the abuses they suffered.

New Human Rights Watch report: Since mid-2024, Russian forces have increasingly used armed quadcopter drones to kill and injure hundreds of civilians in Kherson. Victims were walking, biking, driving, or even receiving medical care when attacked.