My op-ed 'Systems failure in the voluntary carbon market' is live. I lay out how oversight mechanisms that should have prevented human rights violations failed Indigenous people at every turn in a major carbon offsetting project. We demand accountability. qcintel.com/carbon/article…

Saudi Crown Prince MBS will visit Japan from May 20 to 23 and Human Rights Watch is urging Japan’s PM Kishida to publicly demand that Saudi Arabia respect human rights, including an end to arbitrary travel bans on women’s rights defenders such as Loujain al-Hathloul.

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New Human Rights Watch : the world can’t just watch another massacre unfolding in Darfur. Urgent action is needed.

The UN&AU should urgently discuss deployment of a new mission to protect civilians and press warring parties to allow safe flight for civilians trapped hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

So this week our Human Rights Watch researcher Clementine de Montjoye was blocked from entering #Rwanda , the place where UK government wants to send asylum seekers, claiming this is a 'safe' country. How do they know, when Rwanda is blocking independent scrutiny? bbc.com/news/explainer…

On Monday I was told I am 'not welcome in #Rwanda ' and denied entry to the country. This is about more than forcing Human Rights Watch out of the country, it's a brazen attempt to muzzle reporting on Rwanda’s rights record.

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#Israel 's deadly attack on World Central Kitchen's aid convoy in #Gaza - despite Israeli authorities being informed in advance - was not an isolated case. Human Rights Watch's latest report shows that Israel has carried out strikes on at least 8 aid convoys it had coordinates for. hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

If you are following Afghanistan, in this article, natasha arnpriester • ⚖️, Duru Yavan, and I have discussed how the International Court of Justice could be an avenue for women of Afghanistan to seek justice.
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Last night, I was honored to congratulate the recipients of the Human Rights Press Awards, which were hosted in Taiwan for the first time. As the democratic world faces increasing threats, #Taiwan will continue to stand up for media freedom & human rights.

Big night for the Human Rights Press Awards in Asia, at the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC) in #Taipei . Congratulations to all the winners, and kudos to FCCThai Human Rights Watch Cronkite School partners of the HRPA for all their hard work on these amazing awards.

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Job Alert! Human Rights Watch looking for China researcher. No end of work #Tibet #HK #Uyghur #Surveillance etc etc. boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswat…

Ketika pers mahasiswa di Indonesia hadapi meningkatnya intimidasi, sensor, dan bredel, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan sepakat minta Dewan Pers lakukan mediasi untuk semua perselisihan jurnalistik yang melibatkan wartawan dan media mahasiswa 🇮🇩 hrw.org/id/news/2024/0…

NEW Human Rights Watch report documents how Israeli forces wrongfully fatally shot or deliberately executed Palestinians in the West Bank who posed no apparent security threat. Such killings are now taking place at a level without recent precedent, according to the UN. hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

Eerie silence ⁦Columbia University⁩ reminds me that the last time I was in a barricaded campus was martial law in the #Philippines .

NEW: Human Rights Watch report on aid workers killed in an Israeli strike, using US arms. Footage of weapons remnants include parts produced by ⁦The Boeing Company⁩ hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

ASEAN working group convenes today in Jakarta for a critical task: work on the region's only environmental rights declaration. Human Rights Watch and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) call on drafters to advance Indigenous rights, recognize their role as nature's most effective caretakers.
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Hannah Dreier The New York Times Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Sarah Conway City Bureau Invisible Institute Reuters The Washington Post Katie Engelhart NYT Magazine Vladimir Kara-Murza Justin Chang Los Angeles Times David E. Hoffman The Associated Press Yohance Lacour ProPublica Josh Kaplan Justin Elliott Brett Murphy Alex Mierjeski Kirsten Berg Journalists and media workers covering the war in Gaza have received a 2024 #Pulitzer Prize Special Citation.

Israeli forces used a US weapon to conduct a strike that killed seven civilian relief workers in Lebanon. Israel’s assurances to the US that it is abiding by the laws of war ring hollow - it's time to acknowledge reality and cut off weapons sales hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

Congrats Nathan Thrall! So well-deserved. “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” is a masterpiece—one of the most powerful accounts I've ever read of the reality of Palestinian life under Israel's apartheid. Buy your copy if you haven’t already nathanthrall.com

Our Human Rights Watch report exposed Indigenous rights violations at the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project in Cambodia, one of the largest in the world - now BBC Panorama documentary calls into question the project's climate benefits 👇
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Thrilling to see Vladimir Kara-Murza get a Pulitzer for his piercing commentaries about tyranny in today's Russia. He's paying with his freedom for his candor. In 2023 a Russian court sentenced him to 25 years on absurd treason+ other charges.
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