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🚨BREAKING news on January 11: HRW's World Report 2024, with updates from 90+ countries.
Press conference United Nations HQ in New York, with Tirana Hassan Carine Kaneza Nantulya Rachel Denber Lama Fakih & louis charbonneau
Reporters can DM me for embargoed info, interview requests etc.
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Good to see US company Thermo Fisher Scientific, halts sales of DNA testing kits to Tibet wsj.com/world/china/th… following years of reporting and campaigning by human rights groups. THREAD.
📌 The trial of Ousman Sonko, ex #Gambian Min of Interior, opens on 8 January 2024. He is accused of #crimesagainsthumanity , allegedly committed under the regime of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh. TRIAL International filed the complaint against Sonko in 2017. 👇trialinternational.org/latest-post/la…
IMPACT: #ThermoFisher has now halted sales of #DNAcollection kits to Tibet after criticism from Human Rights Watch @sfthq & sister orgs. Forced DNA sampling of an entire population for security maintenance is a serious #humanrightsviolation . hrw.org/news/2022/09/0…
Israel held 1000s of Gaza laborers w/o charge in incommunicado detention for weeks after Oct 7, where some were stripped naked & photographed, put in diapers, attacked by dogs, dragged face down in gravel & cuffed for days. Many remain w/o legal status in West Bank. New from Human Rights Watch
🎉On 12/22, 152 countries approved the 1st #UNGA resolution on killer robots
“To safeguard humanity, all governments should support the urgent negotiation of a new international treaty to prohibit & restrict autonomous weapons systems”Mary Wareham Human Rights Watch
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“We document war crimes and other abuses. We make sure the world knows what’s happening, and we push for change.”
- Tirana Hassan, Executive Director at Human Rights Watch, in interview on HRW’s work ⤵️
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Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right. Policies that restrict asylum (like Title 42) have increased irregular crossings and exposed vulnerable people to danger. Biden should make it clear basic human rights are non-negotiable .
My comments in The Inter-American Dialogue’s LATAM Advisor:
New from Human Rights Watch: #Israel held 1,000s of #Gaza workers in incommunicado detention after Oct 7: '[We were]...blindfolded & cuffed [w/ zip ties on our hands & feet] for 10 days...We kept asking why we are detained. We never got an answer, only...death threats.”
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Kem Sokha should be acquitted. These #Cambodia government charges against him are politically motivated & ludicrous, & should have never been brought in the first case. Human Rights Watch #KemSokha Samdech Thipadei HUN MANET Hun Sen