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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 02/12/2024
Tens of thousands of refugee and asylum-seeking children in Egypt are out of school, in many cases due to significant bureaucratic registration barriers and a lack of free, publicly available education. New from HRW: www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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Laura Flanders @gritlaura.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
By way of reminder: US policy explicitly prohibits arms transfers to states “more likely than not” to use them in violations of international law. At least for now, murdering journalists is a violation. Thank you @humanrightswatch.bsky.social
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Lebanon: US Arms Used in Israeli Strike on Journalists
An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watc...
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kenya's human rights record worsens says watchdog nation.africa/kenya/news/k...
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Kenya's human rights record worsens: watchdog
Report shows there has been a sharp increase in extrajudicial killings, abductions and arbitrary detentions.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
3/ Turkish police consider mere phone calls made from payphones allegedly associated with the movement as grounds for detention, even without recorded conversations.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
9/ HRF calls for the immediate release of those unlawfully detained and urges the Erdogan regime to respect the Turkish people’s rights to religious freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and access to justice.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
8/ HRF condemns the practice of arbitrary detentions based on suspected affiliation with a religious group.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
6/ Currently, at least 13,000 people remain in Turkish prisons, either in pre-trial detention or serving sentences for terrorism-related charges linked to Hizmet.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
5/ Turkish officials banned the Hizmet movement as a terrorist organization, blaming it for an alleged coup attempt in 2016. Since then, more than 700,000 individuals have been prosecuted for supposed links to the movement.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
2/ Turkish prosecutors say the detainees promote the religious movement through social media, payphones, and the use of ByLock, a secure messaging app banned in Turkey.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 21/11/2024
1/ Turkish police on Tuesday conducted a large-scale raid across 66 provinces, detaining 459 individuals for alleged links to the Hizmet religious movement.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 19/11/2024
Today marks 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russia’s war has killed over 11,700 Ukrainian civilians and injured close to 27,000. At least 6.7 million people have fled Ukraine and millions more have been internally displaced.
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A Thousand Days of War in Ukraine
November 19 marks 1,000 days since Russia’'s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This grim milestone highlights the immense suffering the war has brought to Ukrainian civilians in particu...
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Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Incredible story. While reading it, I felt a sense of guilt and anger, as a Han Chinese, for our willful ignorance and inability to understand. I hope one day there will be a collective "sorry" from all Chinese to all Uyghurs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/m...
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A Uyghur’s Escape From China Was Just the Beginning
He fled brutal repression — only to discover, as so many Uyghur refugees have, that China’s power stretches far beyond its borders.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 15/11/2024
Every year, over 200,000 women and girls die from pregnancy-related complications in Africa. Most of these deaths are preventable with access to high-quality maternal health services. Read our Q&A on "Obstetric Violence" in Africa:
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Addressing ‘Obstetric Violence’ in Africa
Every year, over 200,000 women and girls die from pregnancy-related complications in Africa. Most of these deaths are preventable with access to high-quality maternal health services. However, such se...
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