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RT @SamerMuscati: This image haunts me. Children in #Gaza are starving by design. @hrw’s @EminaCerimovic urgently calls on world leaders….
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In July, major news organizations published the image of 18-month-old Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a Palestinian child so emaciated that his bones protruded through his back, while his mom...
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8 Years On: Accountability Needed for Myanmar Atrocities Against Rohingya
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August 25 marks eight years since the Myanmar military launched widespread atrocities against the Rohingya population in Rakhine State. No one has been held accountable for the 2017 atrocities, while...
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The US State Department approved another potential multi-million-dollar weapons sale to Nigeria on August 14. Yet the announcement is conspicuously silent on the Nigerian military’s record of serious human rights abuses.
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RT @YalkunUluyol: Xi called for Tibetan Buddhism “to adapt to socialist society” during a rare trip to Lhasa. Meaning: kidnapping the rea….
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A power struggle is taking shape over choosing a successor to the 90-year-old Buddhist leader. In a trip to Tibet’s capital, China’s leader emphasized maintaining Beijing’s control.
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RT @MinkysHighjinks: The 2026 #FIFAWorldCup in the US, Canada+Mexico is just 9 months away!. Human Rights Watch has proposed a panel for th….
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NEW: The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians in July 2025, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least 14 villages and small farming communities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more:
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Indigenous people in Indonesian Papua need their land to eat, survive, and preserve their culture. The Awyu continue to campaign for their community’s rights to preserve the forest. Read the full piece:
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Around 2017, the company organized a community meeting and only invited men. Despite not being invited, women heard about the meeting. Rikarda Maa—a 36-year-old teacher, mother of three, and Maa clan member—attended the only “socialization” meeting held in Ampera village.
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Despite being half the community’s population and having equal land rights to men under national law, women’s voices were repeatedly ignored, including by members of the Awyu community.
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Traditionally, Indigenous men and women make decisions about community land. Both use the land. Both inherit from their parents. But when it came time to make a decision about the Awyu’s land, women were sidelined.
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Malaysia-based company PT Indo Asiana Lestari was required by Indonesian law to seek the consent of the Indigenous inhabitants before the government would grant the permits needed to clear the forest. But the ill-defined “consultation to seek consent” means different things to
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Indonesia is the top producer of palm oil in the world, and Indonesian Papua is its final frontier for agriculture-driven deforestation. In a new feature, HRW documents how the government and companies took Indigenous lands without women's consent in Indonesia's South Papua 🧵⤵️
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RT @me_vignoli: The Trump administration is doubling down on its attack on the #ICC and the rule of law. ICC member countries should speak….
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RT @Rachel_Denber: Last year Nataliia buried her father, Petro, after he died from injuries from a deliberate Russian drone attack on the….
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While United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were en route to their Alaska meeting, 26-year-old Nataliia Makarenko buried her mother, Tetiana Litvin, 60, in...
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On August 20, 2023, Ecuadorians voted to halt all current and future oil drilling in the Ishpingo, Tambococha, and Tiputini (ITT) block of Yasuni National Park. Yet two years on, oil operations continue and only a handful of wells have been closed. Learn more:
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RT @meeganguly: #SriLanka's Anura Kumara Dissanayake govt yet to stop security forces from harassing families of victims of disappearances,….
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Sri Lanka: Police Target Families of ‘Disappeared’
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Sri Lankan security forces still harass families of victims of forced disappearances and misuse the country’s draconian counterterrorism law a year since President Anura Kumara Dissanayake took...
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Brazil's @Incra_oficial should reject a proposal to downsize a sustainable settlement in a deforested area of the Amazon. Downsizing Terra Nossa would reward people illegally occupying land with impunity and could leave residents vulnerable.
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