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Hillary Margolis
@hillarymargo
Women's Rights Researcher, Human Rights Watch. Migrant many times over.
May 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Big and happy news out of #Poland yesterday: Patients' Rights Ombudsman decision states clearly that threats to mental health are grounds for legal #abortion.
This is a huge win for the health & rights of people in #Poland and for @federapl.
en.federa.org.pl/rpp-abortion-m… Image 2/ In #Poland, where legal abortion is virtually banned & near impossible to access, this puts pressure on drs & hospitals to recognize mental health risks of continuing pregnancy, lays groundwork for ppl to fight for right to legal #abortion. Background: hrw.org/news/2021/10/1… Image
May 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 7 min read
THREAD: Instead of working to protect women & girls during the #COVID19 pandemic, #Hungary has just rushed through a vote to withdraw from a groundbreaking European treaty to combat violence against women. #IstanbulConvention. hungarytoday.hu/govt-rejects-r… #Hungary's Christian Democratic Party introduced the bill only last night, on the grounds that the #IstanbulConvention's protections of #migrants and #refugees contradict national policy, and that it promotes so-called "gender ideology." voiceofeurope.com/2020/05/hungar…
Oct 20, 2019 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: 1/5 I met a group of ~10 women from #Somalia, most who travelled to #Greece alone. They’ve been sleeping outside on the ground for up to a week in #Moria camp on #Lesvos island. Single women should be given space in an enclosed section, but they are told it is full. @hrw 2/5 They have been given only thin mats to sleep on, and sleeping bags - single women don’t get tents since they are supposed to be inside the section for women alone. But #Moria is so overcrowded that people needing special protection aren’t getting it. So they sleep on this: