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 🧵
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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…

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

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)

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/

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

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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.”

Happy #RefugeeRightsDay, Canada!!! 🍁🇨🇦❤️ 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…

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.”

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.

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

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. 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…

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.

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

Starting now in London, a deep dive into the human rights challenges in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with @hancock_steph moderating & @sarahleah1 starting off the presentations… (we’re also tweeting in Arabic at @hrw_ar ) #Rights2019

LIVE: facebook.com/HumanRightsWat… We are here in London though we wish we were in the Middle East. When we talk about the clamping down on independent civil society in most of the region, that’s not just domestic civil society, but international civil society as well. ~ @sarahleah1

Starting now: The launch of our 29th annual World Report, looking at human
rights practices in more than 100 countries and giving an overall summary of the state of human rights globally. Livestream here: facebook.com/HumanRightsWat…
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World Report launch: Human Rights Watch executive director @KenRoth making his initial presentation on “The Pushback Against the Populist Challenge”... #Rights2018 A year ago, as Donald Trump entered the White House, the global surge of authoritarian populists seemed unstoppable. - @KenRoth #Rights2018

.@UKUN_NewYork & @SwedenUN are trying to get UNSC to break its silence on Myanmar. @rich_weir has a message for them from Bangladesh. "Tell them Rakhine State is still on fire

Beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, and rape – Welcome to political detention in Sisi’s Egypt hrw.org/news/2017/09/0… The Torture Assembly Line: 9 illustrations represent a typical arrest & use of torture, which takes different forms hrw.org/report/2017/09…

Beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, and rape – Welcome to political detention in Sisi’s Egypt hrw.org/news/2017/09/0… The Torture Assembly Line: 9 illustrations represent a typical arrest & use of torture, which takes different forms hrw.org/report/2017/09…