The agreement between Azerbaijan + the UNFCCC for hosting the #COP29 conference is replete with significant shortcomings+ ambiguities on the protections for participants’ rights: Human Rights Watch BTW UN Climate Change it really shouldn’t be on us to share this doc publicly hrw.org/news/2024/10/1…

I just met with the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. +50K survivors worldwide benefit every year from this vital support. It’s essential that we secure more funds to continue this life-changing, life-restoring work.

Humanity needs this treaty #InternationalLaw

The Taliban’s vice and virtue police have shut down women’s art and handicraft workshops in Herat city, local sources in Herat province reported. rukhshana.com/en/taliban-shu…

👇🏻👇🏻Job alert: we ⁦Human Rights Watch⁩ are recruiting a Fossil Fuels Senior Researcher with at least 7 yrs experience working at the intersection of human rights + the fossil fuel industry. Deadline Nov 3. Further details: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswat… 📷 © 2018 Christophe Viseux/Bloomberg

International Day of the Girl Child marks 1,120 days since Afg girls were banned from education. The Taliban's vice & virtue law seeks to silence women's voices, but no ban can stop them. The Taliban impose their gender apartheid with guns, Afg women fight back with their voices.

Motahareh Gounehie, a Tehran University dentistry student suspended during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, was reinstated but now arrested to serve a 1-year sentence for "propaganda against the regime" after criticizing Khamenei, security officials, and protesting rapper

Arrested for the crime of doing a bride’s makeup… #EndGenderApartheid

Don’t ask. Tell. #ProtectUNPeacekeepers #Lebanon

Oct. 14, Karima Bennoune will discuss "Ending Gender Apartheid: Lessons from Afghanistan" as speaker for the 2024 Soffa Lecture. We sat down with Bennoune to discuss memorable moments from her career, urgent issues in international law today and more: bit.ly/3U4evoi.

#ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC concludes remarks at the #Nuremberg Forum 2024. Law is for people, not power. Law is for children, not interests. Watch ⬇️

I wish a US official could speak with this kind of moral clarity.

I salute #CharlotteBunch today on her 80th birthday Her leadership on women's #HumanRights, vision of global feminist networks, work to ensure diverse #women heard at Vienna & Beijing conferences - FOUNDATIONAL The fight for women's #HumanRights today owes so much to her 👇

My brain is echoing people screaming I close my eyes and see an orange sky

Weeping Willow, 1919 #artbots #monet

There is no safe place for children in Gaza. This shameful violence against children must end now.

"Several states, including South Africa, Liberia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Haiti, Iraq, Myanmar, Colombia, and Armenia, reflected thoughtfully on their own current and historical struggles to underline why such a treaty is needed." hrw.org/news/2024/10/1…

Part of our work on a crimes against humanity #CAH treaty, a snapshot of where #Asian states stand, based on the past week at the #UNGA 6th committee. Reach out to state representatives, to advocate for #CAHnow Kudos Aakash Chandran for this and all the work on #CAH! 👏🏾

Meet the heroic Palestinian doctor, Ahmad Talab Al-Najjar, from Jabalia camp in northern Gaza. He received a call from a woman asking for help after her home was bombed by the Israeli army, leaving her and her family trapped under the rubble. He risked his life and went with