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Nov 25 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
One of the slightly frustrating things about working in communications for human rights causes is seeing a repressive government spend kajillions on international public relations (PR) firms to try to clean up its image.

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All the human rights organizations in the world put together couldn’t ever hope to have the kind of money that even one abusive government can throw at global communications.
👉 What gives me solace, however, is knowing that it hardly ever works...

👉👉 Read more - "Money Can't Buy You Love": hrw.org/the-day-in-hum…

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Nov 24
“Plastics,” says Mr McGuire to a bewildered Benjamin in the iconic scene from 1967's The Graduate, “There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it.”

We’ve had 55 years to think about it…

Now, we're living in the future: a plastics crisis with human rights impacts.
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It is a human rights issue...

The production, use, and disposal of plastics have significant impacts we should all be concerned about as rights-minded individuals – and as rights-respecting governments.
⚠️ First, plastics contain toxic chemical additives, and these can pose significant threats to human health.

⚠️ Second, because most are made from fossil fuels, plastics are helping to drive the climate crisis, which in turn threatens human rights.
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Nov 23
Hungary's authoritarian ruler, Viktor Orbán, boasts delusional, irredentist fantasies of "greater Hungary" & the new incident with the scarf is only the latest example...
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
He has also posted maps of his dreamed-for "greater Hungary" on social media...
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Nov 22
There’s a particular line of nonsense out there, pushed hard by an abusive regime flooding PR firms with cash to help spread a lie.

This calls for a 🧵 to debunk it, starting with some history…
Let’s start with 2004…

In that year, Human Rights Watch launched a “China Olympics Watch” website to monitor issues of censorship, unlawful evictions, and labor rights abuses occurring in the run-up to the 2008 summer Olympics in China.
hrw.org/news/2004/08/2…
We the talked about rights abuses in China, both outside and within the context of Beijing hosting the 2008 Olympics.

We targeted sponsors, too, for example…
hrw.org/news/2008/08/1…
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Nov 18
As the Muskberg continues to gouge the hull of the #Twitanic: theguardian.com/technology/202…

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How can you buy something for 44 billion clams and then wreck it so quickly?

That has to be some kind of unique skill, no?
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Nov 16
👉 You’re a good person.

👉 You want to do the right thing.

👉 This applies to your shopping habits, too.

❓ But how can you know the things you buy are not linked to human rights abuses and environmental harm?

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Many global brands and retailers understand that consumers like you (and me!) want to avoid unethically made products, and they want to show you that they are taking your concerns seriously.
As they source products from factories around the world, they have come to rely on voluntary codes of conduct and certification schemes.

You and I, the consumers, see a little certification label on a product, and that’s supposed to make us feel good about buying it.
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Nov 10
The world needs a treaty on #KillerRobots - autonomous weapons systems that could, by themselves, target & attack human beings.

Unfortunately, current talks have been going nowhere.

Going nowhere since 2014, in fact.

Meanwhile, arms developers have been working away…
Since 2014, discussions within the Convention on Conventional Weapons have proved useless, mainly because it relies on a consensus approach to decision-making, which means a single country can reject any proposal, even if everyone else agrees.
To achieve a new treaty to #StopKillerRobots, governments need to take a new tack.

They should initiate negotiations of a new treaty, either outside the UN, like the landmine or cluster munitions treaties, or in the UN General Assembly, like the nuclear weapons ban treaty.
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