Indian authorities have increased their control over digital platforms & amassed extensive personal data.

With ~ 1B set to cast votes in the elections, tech companies can act to mitigate the risk of misuse that cld further tilt the playing field to benefit the ruling party.

As if decades of suffocating oppression of the #Rohingya weren't enough, yet another chilling finding that speaks to the #Myanmar military's brutality:

'Officials have also threatened to beat Rohingya to death if they refuse to join or to punish their families if they fled.'

In his “war against gangs,” President Bukele has quickly transformed El Salvador into a police state.

Agustín, 16, fled gang violence and now, police abuse.
No one should have to choose between living in fear of gangs or of security forces.

Juanita Goebertus
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Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime. New Human Rights Watch research:

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Hiba Zayadin's thread outlines the key findings.

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has an opportunity to promote Senegal's leadership on human rights at home and in the region.

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'Le génocide au #Rwanda a laissé une marque indélébile sur notre conscience collective, et 30 ans plus tard, des leçons peuvent encore être tirées des actions – ou en l’occurrence de l’inaction – des dirigeants mondiaux face aux atrocités' - Tirana Hassan
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An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza killed seven aid workers with the international food charity World Central Kitchen.

Those providing desperately needed food and humanitarian aid should be protected from such attacks.

Freedom of religion is a human right.

Human Rights Watch has found that Baha'is, a religious minority in Iran, are persecuted by Iranian authorities, which is a crime against humanity. bit.ly/4cQmfSO

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30 years after the 1994 genocide in #Rwanda , Human Rights Watch is digitizing and making available some of its archives from the time. The documents painfully illustrate world leaders' refusal to acknowledge the slaughter and act to end it. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

“The genocide in Rwanda remains a stain on our collective conscience and, 30 years later, lessons can still be drawn from the actions – or lack thereof – of world leaders in the face of ongoing atrocities..” hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

#SaudiArabia 's jailing of football fans for peacefully chanting at a match underlines the absurdity - and danger - of FIFA’s rigging of the 2034 World Cup bidding process to allow Saudi Arabia to become the “sole bidder” to host the 2034 men’s World Cup.

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“The alarm has now been sounded by the Court [...] The provisional measures [...] are not something that a State party to the Convention is free to respect or to ignore according to its own pleasure. They must be implemented.”

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Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. We’re reporting from the border with Chad - the war is causing famine and driving people to flee. We were here with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP announcing new British aid - but only a ceasefire can really help. With Soren Munk Zahra Warsame

In January, #Houthis sentenced 32 men to prison, death by stoning/crucifixion, and/or to flogging on dubious charges of 'sodomy.' This is one of many cases of Houthis charging people with immoral acts as a cover for their brutality + lack of due process.

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Abusers thrive in darkness. Mali’s Russia-backed transitional military government wants zero scrutiny of its horrific human rights situation - which is why the #UNHRC should renew the UN rights expert on Mali.

New Human Rights Watch report: hrw.org/news/2024/03/2…

There is very real possibility that those responsible for the violence & human rights abuses in #Haiti could take control of the country unless the int'l community supports an alternative path forward.

Human Rights Watch's 6 urgent measures to address the crisis:

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.Human Rights Watch joined 150+ organizations to press the Lula administration to demonstrate Brazil's regional & global commitment to protecting the amazon and environmental defenders by rallying legislators to ratify the #EscazúAgreement .

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The #EscazúAgreement would help Brazil protect the environment and its defenders, but approval by Congress is still pending.

Human Rights Watch and more than 150 other organizations call on the Lula administration to seek swift ratification of the treaty.

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'It was like an apocalypse, not an earthquake.'

On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes struck southeastern Türkiye, killing over 53,000 people.

Over a year later, municipal officials still haven't been held accountable: bit.ly/3xbUsMl

I just heard an @npr reporter in the hourly news update flatly declare that yesterday’s UN Security Council resolution on #Gaza is “nonbinding”. Reporters should push back on this misleading US spin.