Mourning one of the original researchers at what was then called Middle East Watch (now Human Rights Watch): hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

Not a headline from The Onion! #SaudiArabia is set to be elected chair of the top UN women's rights forum United Nations CSW. 😵‍💫

It's supposed to happen this week, unanimously & without a vote. Human Rights Watch urges UN member states to call a vote & reject the Saudi bid.

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Pendant que le hirak algérien observe son 5e anniversaire, le parcours d'un technicien devenu défenseur respecté des droits humains -- tristement depuis l'étranger car cette activité est maintenant trop dangéreux dans l' #Algerie du Président Tebboune. hrw.org/fr/news/2024/0…

Great to see families of hostages turning to the Int'l Criminal Court for accountability. The ICC plays an essential role in upholding the rules-based int'l order & holding all perpetrators of serious crimes to account. Impartial & independent justice badly needed in Israel/Palestine.

My Human Rights Watch colleague Sarah H Yager in Foreign Policy : 'Publicly acknowledging any Israeli violation of international or U.S. law would mean having to ... make difficult decisions about how to change or condition future military aid to Israel.' foreignaffairs.com/how-end-americ…

#Tunisie Face aux restrictions croissantes à la liberté d’association et de rassemblement, la sociéte civile tunisienne est ajh rassemblée pour exprimer son attachement à la loi des associations de 2011 #decret88

🧵 Twice last year, state-sponsored attackers attempted to remotely compromise my personal Jordanian phone using Israeli-owned spyware Pegasus. Twice too was Adam Coogle, my Human Rights Watch colleague in Jordan, targeted. It was a jarring experience every time.

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Ziane est aussi ancien ministre des droits de l’Homme. Quel symbole.

(Ps : à moins que le procureur lui signale qu’il va être relâché - histoire de célébrer l’élection du Maroc. Chiche, le Makhzen ?)

El Heni est jugé ajh pour avoir critiqué la ministre du Commerce sur les ondes de radio le 28/12. Il est inculpé sur la base de l’art 86 du Code des télécommunications passible de 1 à 2 ans de prison, un texte utilisé de longue date pr restreindre la liberté d'expression HRW en français

🧵It has been a year since Ali Laarayedh, former prime minister and vice-president of #Tunisia ’s largest opposition party, Ennahda, was arbitrarily detained on terrorism-related charges, with no credible evidence Human Rights Watch

For more details on his case:
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Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war—pursuant to a policy set out by senior officials. The results are stark: 9/10 households in north Gaza have spent full day & night w/o food. This is a war crime. Security Council should act to protect civilians

Far too many civilians have been killed in Gaza, as pointed out among others also by the French, German and UK Foreign Ministers.

Certainly, we are witnessing an appalling lack of distinction in Israel's military operation in Gaza.

Critics are now going to prison under the repressive speech law #Tunisia President Saied decreed in 2022, just one of many tools he has used to silence dissent and drive opponents into exile since his 2021 power grab. hrw.org/news/2023/12/1…

Sat. images show our farm in north #Gaza before & after. This lush place served as our refuge & safe haven, where we stayed during Covid. It's also the site where Israeli warplanes killed my father in 2009, & now, the IDF wiped out the groves. A diary from my time there is below:

Israel’s 2-month+ denial of food/water to Gaza’s population, its destruction of objects indispensable to survival—bakeries, grain mills, water facilities—& razing of agricultural land reflect policy to use of starvation as a weapon of war, an abhorrent war crime. New Human Rights Watch report.

Mustapha #Bendjama est détenu depuis +10 mois sous des chefs d’accusation douteux simplement car il est journaliste indépendant, critique du régime en #Algérie et qu’il a soutenu le #Hirak avec ferveur

De #Gaza à #Annaba , le #journalisme n’est pas un crime

#FreeMustaphaBendjama

soulagement mitigé que la condamnation de Chaima Issa en #Tunisie cette fois est avec sursis mais cette militante n'aurait jamais dû être jugée, d'autant moins devant un tribunal militaire.

At a Tibet-Hong Kong-China human rights rally today in Berlin for International Human Rights day.

My message from Gaza today:

4,352 people killed, 8,000 more missing & apocalyptic damage in #Derna after severe flooding in September ravaged eastern Libya

An independent inquiry is needed to establish causes of massive loss of life & to pave the way for accountability
New from Human Rights Watch
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