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Exposing #HumanRights abuses around the world — join us to help end them! Staff: https://t.co/2JflyBeYHI HRW Social Media: https://t.co/AIpbUxDqR4
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Sep 4 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: HRW geospatial analysis shows a large increase of graves in Kanombe Military Cemetery in Kigali, Rwanda since the M23 armed group and Rwanda Defence Force offensive on Goma and Bukavu in eastern DR Congo in Jan 2025. 1/11🧵⤵️ HRW counted the new individual graves using high-resolution satellite imagery at 14 different times, from Jan 2017 to July 2025, and calculated the average increase per week between each date. 2/11 Image
Apr 9 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
After the Trump admin admitted it mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego García to a Salvadoran prison, a judge ordered it to return him back to the US by April 7.

Just hours before that deadline, the Supreme Court paused the order to deliberate, leaving Abrego García at risk.🧵⤵️ Abrego García’s lawyer lamented the Supreme Court’s decision to pause his return and filed a response, arguing that Abrego García is “the only one harmed by the current state of affairs.”
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…
Apr 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today is the International Day for Mine Action, a moment to highlight the work of the thousands of deminers around the world who clear and destroy landmines and explosive remnants of war. 🧵⤵️

#MineAction Image But due to devastating developments driven largely by two countries that have not banned antipersonnel landmines – the United States and Russia – this Mine Action Day does not feel like much of a celebration. For over three decades, the US has been the world's largest contributor to humanitarian demining, mine risk education, and rehabilitation programs for landmine survivors. But the Trump administration’s deep cuts to foreign aid are now disrupting mine clearance operations.
Mar 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: India’s northeastern state of Manipur is facing risks of renewed ethnic violence despite the resignation of its divisive chief minister and the imposition of president’s rule on February 13, 2025. hrw.org/news/2025/03/2… At least five people have died and scores injured, including security force members, in recent clashes.

The central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi should act to end the violence, which has killed more than 260 people and displaced over 60,000 since May 2023.
Mar 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty, especially single-parent families and older women. hrw.org/news/2025/03/2…Germany: Social Security Failing to Protect Rights New Government Should Act to Address Poverty, Gender Inequality In a new report, HRW documents increasing poverty and the failure of the German social security system to ensure the right to an adequate standard of living for many people. Major gaps remain in Germany between the amount of social security support received and the poverty risk threshold, leaving many people in the world’s third richest country mired in poverty. Inadequate support particularly affects single mothers raising young children and older women living alone on low incomes. For example, a single-parent household with two children receives just €1,198 in monthly social security benefits, 26 percent below the poverty threshold.
Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Central Asian labor migrants in Russia have experienced increased xenophobic harassment and violence, since the deadly attack attributed to Central Asians on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22, 2024. hrw.org/news/2025/03/1…Russia: Xenophobic Crackdown on Central Asian Migrants Harassment, Violence, New Restrictions Since Crocus Concert Hall Attack In a new report, HRW documents that Central Asian migrants, mostly from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan working in Russia face ethnic profiling, arbitrary arrests, and harassment by police and private actors, including far-right nationalist groups. Russia’s economy is heavily dependent on migrant labor. As of 2024, there were nearly 3.3 million migrants from Central Asia working in Russia. These labor migrants have experienced increased xenophobic harassment and violence since the deadly attack attributed to Central Asians on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall in March 2024. Additionally, they have been increasingly targeted for military recruitment, with authorities often using arbitrary detention and threats of deportation to force them to enlist.
Dec 19, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Since October 2023, the Israeli government has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the minimum water needed for survival, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths.

A calculated policy.

An act of genocide. 🧵⤵️
hrw.org/news/2024/12/1…Image In a new report, Human Rights Watch found that Israeli authorities have deliberately deprived Palestinians in Gaza of water, causing widespread disease outbreaks and likely thousands of deaths.

This is extermination, a crime against humanity, and an act of genocide. Image
Jul 17, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
NEW @HRW report on Oct. 7 assault:

➡️ examines almost every civilian attack site

➡️ documents war crimes and crimes against humanity by Palestinian armed groups

➡️ based on interviews with 94 survivors & analysis of over 280 photos, videos Image The 236-page report, “‘I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind’: Palestinian Armed Groups’ October 7 Assault on Israel,” details how Hamas-led armed groups committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity against civilians.

hrw.org/news/2024/07/1…
Feb 8, 2024 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Today, HRW, @truth_hounds & @situ_research release new findings on Russia's devastation of Mariupol.

The Russian military's assault beginning Feb. 2022 left thousands of civilians dead and injured, including many in apparently unlawful attacks. 1/8 🧵
hrw.org/news/2024/02/0…
The report, “‘Our City Was Gone’: Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol, Ukraine,” along with a digital multimedia feature and a 20-minute video, analyze the civilian suffering and damage to thousands of buildings across Mariupol. . 2/8 hrw.org/feature/russia…
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Dec 4, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: Satellite imagery reviewed by HRW shows that orchards, greenhouses and farmland in northern Gaza have been razed since the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion, compounding concerns of dire food insecurity and loss of livelihood. 1/14 🧵⤵️ Israel's military has said in recent weeks it has conducted military operations in the Beit Hanoun area, including in an undisclosed agricultural area, to clear tunnels and other military targets. 2/14
Nov 9, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Israeli ground forces are encircling and moving deeper into Gaza City, within 2 km of Gaza’s largest medical facility, al-Shifa Hospital, where staff are overwhelmed by the number of patients amid a month-long blockade & heavy bombardment.

THREAD 🧵⤵️ (1/16) With ongoing strikes and fighting nearby, we are gravely concerned about the well-being of thousands of civilians there, many children among them, seeking medical care and shelter, including people on life support, those who lost limbs in air strikes, and burn victims. (2/16)
Aug 31, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
After nearly 30 years, today is @KenRoth’s last day as Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director.

Ken has led HRW since 1993, taking HRW from a small group of regional “watch committees” to a major international human rights organization with global influence. 1/ Ken began his human rights career as a volunteer, working on nights and weekends while serving as an attorney and a federal prosecutor. He joined Human Rights Watch in 1987 as deputy director. 2/
Apr 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
BREAKING @hrw & @amnesty report on abuses amounting to crimes against humanity & war crimes in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone

Since November 2020, officials & Amhara security forces have engaged in a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing to force Tigrayans from their homes🧵 Officials & #Amhara security forces in Western #Tigray have systematically expelled several hundred thousand Tigrayan civilians from their homes, using:

Threats

Unlawful killings

Sexual violence

Mass detention

Denial of humanitarian aid + more

hrw.org/news/2022/04/0…
Apr 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1/Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine. 🧵 hrw.org/news/2022/04/0… 2/“The cases we documented amount to unspeakable, deliberate cruelty and violence against Ukrainian civilians,” says @HughAWilliamson. “Rape, murder, and other violent acts against people in the Russian forces’ custody should be investigated as war crimes.”
Apr 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Happy #RefugeeRightsDay, Canada!!! 🍁🇨🇦❤️ Image Today, on Canada's #RefugeeRightsDay, we broaden our #WelcomeToCanada campaign calling on provincial authorities to terminate their contracts with @CanBorder & stop CBSA from locking up immigration detainees in provincial jails. #NovaScotia is up next! hrw.org/news/2022/04/0…
Mar 23, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
This morning, a nation of girls thought they were heading to school. Upon arrival, they were told to go home.

The Taliban have reneged on promises to let girls in Afghanistan learn. Read what these girls and others have to say about the Taliban’s broken promises 🧵⬇️ “I feel really hopeless for my future. I don’t see a bright future for myself,” a schoolgirl in Kabul told @BBCYaldaHakim. “All we want is to go to school.”
Jan 13, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In a groundbreaking verdict, a German court has convicted a former Syrian intelligence officer for crimes against humanity in Syria.

Follow our coverage: hrw.org/news/2022/01/1… One of the major challenges of this trial was witness protection. Several witnesses living in Germany and other European countries canceled their appearance in court out of fear for their lives and safety, or that of their families.
Jan 13, 2022 • 23 tweets • 11 min read
Welcome to the launch event for @HRW’s 32nd annual World Report, covering the human rights situation in some 100 countries around the world.

We’re live-tweeting the presentation of our executive director @KenRoth here… #Rights2022

Live-stream: First, I would like to highlight this year’s overarching theme, as reflected in the report’s introduction.

Conventional wisdom these days is that autocracy is ascendent, democracy on the decline.

But the reality is more complex…

- @KenRoth #Rights2022
Jan 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We're officially one month out from the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics, but many sponsors and others remain silent on China's appalling rights record.

Former Australian footballer @Craig_Foster joins @Yaqiu this week on Instagram Live to discuss the Olympics' grim celebration. Graphic shows headshots of ... Join us tomorrow January 5 at 8pm Eastern/January 6 at 12pm Australian Eastern Time.

As always, follow @HumanRightsWatch on Instagram to tune in: instagram.com/humanrightswat…
Feb 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Back in 2016, we embarked on research about the bullying of LGBT students in Japanese schools because, while the government of Japan was a leader on LGBT issues at the United Nations and internationally, they had made very little progress here at home. Dozens of Japanese students that HRW researchers @knightktm & @MichaelBochenek interviewed told us that, in their class, it was common knowledge that they were being bullied and their teachers would never help them. Here are some Manga illustrations of their stories.
Apr 11, 2019 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Imagine a president being in power for 30 years… Three decades of his authoritarian rule and serious human rights abuses… and then, one day, he’s gone. THREAD on Sudan 1/13
hrw.org/news/2019/04/1… Months of peaceful #SudanProtests finally achieved what some thought was impossible: President Omar Al-Bashir is finally out of power. But the demonstrators are right not to be satisfied with just that alone. 2/13