Widad Franco (@widadfranco) 's Twitter Profile
Widad Franco

@widadfranco

UN Advocacy Officer @hrw - Tweets in English and Spanish RTs are not endorsements (She/Ella) 🇪🇨🇺🇸

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Widad Franco (@widadfranco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨NEW Human Rights Watch report on the harm posed to human rights by autonomous weapons is out. 🤖 Right on time for the first #UNGA meeting on autonomous weapons in New York May 12-13. 👇

Juanita Goebertus (@juanitagoe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Nuevo informe🚨 En Venezuela🇻🇪 el régimen ha asesinado, detenido, desaparecido y torturado a quienes buscan un cambio democrático. La crisis de DDHH con más consecuencias para el hemisferio exige una respuesta internacional sostenida. hrw.org/es/news/2025/0…

Widad Franco (@widadfranco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨NEW Human Rights Watch report: Venezuelan authorities & pro-gov armed groups committed widespread abuses since the 7/24 elections. It documents human rights violations against protesters, bystanders, oppo leaders & critics. 🗣️Calls for international support for accountability efforts.

🚨NEW <a href="/hrw/">Human Rights Watch</a> report: Venezuelan authorities &amp; pro-gov armed groups committed widespread abuses since the 7/24 elections. 

It documents human rights violations against protesters, bystanders, oppo leaders &amp; critics.

🗣️Calls for international support for accountability efforts.
Heather Barr (@heatherbarr1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Street vendors face routine harassment, intimidation, and violence, often at the hands of local authorities, including the police. They often live in poverty, dependent on an unsteady income to support their families.” context.news/socioeconomic-…

Widad Franco (@widadfranco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

US President #Trump has been using a law from 1798 to power his mass deportation agenda. NEW @HRW report argues that the law is incompatible with human rights standards, US treaty commitments and should be repealed.

louis charbonneau (@loucharbon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 New from Human Rights Watch: UN Needs to Protect its Vital, Yet Underfunded, Human Rights Work #Russia & #China have lobbied to defund UN human rights work. There's a risk the US under #Trump, which is gutting US support for human rights, will become their enabler. hrw.org/news/2025/05/0…

🚨 New from <a href="/hrw/">Human Rights Watch</a>: UN Needs to Protect its Vital, Yet Underfunded, Human Rights Work

#Russia &amp; #China have lobbied to defund UN human rights work. There's a risk the US under #Trump, which is gutting US support for human rights, will become their enabler. hrw.org/news/2025/05/0…
Claudio Francavilla (@clafrancavilla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#BREAKING: At long last, the EU has agreed to officially launch a review of the 🇪🇺-🇮🇱 Association Agreement - the first concrete measure taken by the bloc to address #Israel's atrocity crimes in #Gaza, and the impunity on which they’ve thrived. 1/5 🧵 euronews.com/my-europe/2025…

louis charbonneau (@loucharbon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🗒️ columlynch reports on UN's cost-cutting crusade. I told him: “#China & #Russia have tried to slash funding for human rights. Until now, the US has provided the most powerful counterbalance to that, but now there's a risk that the US won’t do that." devex.com/news/have-i-go…

🗒️ <a href="/columlynch/">columlynch</a> reports on UN's cost-cutting crusade. 

I told him: “#China &amp; #Russia have tried to slash funding for human rights. Until now, the US has provided the most powerful counterbalance to that, but now there's a risk that the US won’t do that." devex.com/news/have-i-go…
Belkis Wille (@belkiswille) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New Human Rights Watch report: Hunted From Above documents Russia’s use of armed quadcopter drones to deliberately target civilians in Kherson, Ukraine. These attacks are not random—they are precise, intentional, and #WarCrimes. 🧵hrw.org/news/2025/06/0…

Lena Simet (@lenasimet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 Today at #ILC2025, 33 organizations—including Human Rights Watch ITUC Privacy International—released a joint declaration urging International Labour Organization member states & employers to support binding standards on decent work in the platform economy. hrw.org/news/2025/06/0…

📢 Today at #ILC2025, 33 organizations—including <a href="/hrw/">Human Rights Watch</a> <a href="/ituc/">ITUC</a> <a href="/privacyint/">Privacy International</a>—released a joint declaration urging <a href="/ilo/">International Labour Organization</a> member states &amp; employers to support binding standards on decent work in the platform economy. 
hrw.org/news/2025/06/0…
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin (@jbgallopin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New Human Rights Watch research: Airstrikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces using unguided bombs killed and injured scores of civilians, including children, in residential areas of Nyala, South Darfur, in February. Five strikes in 40 minutes on Feb 3 alone. hrw.org/news/2025/06/0…

louis charbonneau (@loucharbon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

US again vetoes UN Security Council resolution on #Gaza that calls for ceasefire, releasing hostages & unfettered humanitarian aid. All others voted in favor. US isn't just providing cover for #Israel's atrocities & war crimes, incl. starvation as a weapon of war, it's complicit.

US again vetoes UN Security Council resolution on #Gaza that calls for ceasefire, releasing hostages &amp; unfettered humanitarian aid. All others voted in favor. US isn't just providing cover for #Israel's atrocities &amp; war crimes, incl. starvation as a weapon of war, it's complicit.
Juanita Goebertus (@juanitagoe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ecuador🇪🇨l Lamentamos la aprobacion de la Ley de Solidaridad Nacional en la Asamblea Nacional con disposiciones que ponen en riesgo a los ecuatorianos. El Ejecutivo debería revisar las disposiciones que podrían ser inconstitucionales y contrarias al derecho internacional. 🧵👇🏽

Fereshta Abbasi (@fereshtaabbasi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We urge the UN Human Rights Council to heed UNSR's recommendation for the establishment of an additional comprehensive independent accountability mechanism demonstrating that the international community will not turn away from human rights violations in Afghanistan.

Clementine de Montjoye (@demontcl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As horrific crimes continue unabated in eastern #Congo, robust investigations and accountability are needed now more than ever. The UN funding crisis should not delay the establishment of a desperately needed Commission of Inquiry. New dispatch for Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2025/06/1…

Nathalye Cotrino (@nathalyeco) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇭🇹Violence and human rights abuses are forcing thousands to flee their homes in #Haiti. A young woman who fled Port-au-Prince earlier this year shared her story with Human Rights Watch after seeking refuge in Cap-Haïtien. This is her testimony. 🧵

🇭🇹Violence and human rights abuses are forcing thousands to flee their homes in #Haiti. A young woman who fled Port-au-Prince earlier this year shared her story with <a href="/hrw/">Human Rights Watch</a> after seeking refuge in Cap-Haïtien. This is her testimony. 🧵
Sylvain Aubry (@saubryhr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

History in the making! 🚀 Just before #FFD4Sevilla, where 10,000 minds will unite to forge economic policies, we at Human Rights Watch unveil a database of UN statements on taxation. Check out the findings, and look for what it says about your country. 🌍 hrw.org/news/2025/06/2…