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Sylvain Aubry

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Demanding climate and economic justice & quality public services Deputy Director Economic Justice & Rights @Human Rights Watch Teaching @sciencespo Formerly @GIESCR @RTE Fr/Eng

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
Hungary's new government is taking its first steps to address low pension levels and rising poverty among older people. I argue here that these announcements are positive, but that deeper pension reform should follow. Thanks @mercehu.bsky.social for the HU version. www.hrw.org/news/2026/07...
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Hungary: New Government’s First Step on Pensioner Poverty
Prime Minister Péter Magyar is moving swiftly with policy measures and legislative reform that will hopefully have positive impacts on people’s lives and rights. On May 25, he announced in an intervie...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
Just published for @hrw.org in @mercehu.bsky.social, an op-ed on the important first steps that the new Tisza government has taken on improving pensions and old age poverty, and the hard work that lies ahead for a fundamental overhaul of pensions. merce.hu/2026/07/01/n...
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„Nincs reményem a jövőre nézve. Így fogok élni életem végéig” – alapjaiban kell megváltoztatni a nyugdíjrendszert « Mérce
Mélyrehatóbb nyugdíjreformra van szükség.
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Zama Neff @zamahrw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
With record-level abuses against children in war, many countries are working together to hold abusers to account. Still a long way to go for an effective crimes against humanity treaty, but growing support to include justice for crimes against children www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 04/06/2026
1/4 Good news from Hungary. Prosecutorial authorities have dropped charges against people linked to organizing Pride 2025 events in Budapest and Pécs, who were facing prosecution including on evidently spurious "child protection" grounds. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🩵🤍🤎 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
Job opportunity: campaigner on "everyday rights" at @amnestyuk.bsky.social -- or economic, social, and cultural rights. Part-time (21 h/w), fixed-term (until May 2027) Deadline June 15. See amnestyuk.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...
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Amnesty International UK Careers | Campaigner (FTC)
More details can be found by downloading the job description from our careers portal.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
Super interesting initiative in Germany @fian-international.bsky.social -- people and farmers with experience of poverty working together: www.fian.de/aktuelles/pr... (learned about it from @why-not.eurosky.social, who you should follow if you're interested in Germany poverty/social security things)
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Pressemitteilung - Neue Allianz: armutserfahrene Menschen und Bäuer*innen arbeiten zusammen - FIAN Deutschland e.V.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 20/05/2026
We @hrw.org support this initiative led by friends at @justfairuk.bsky.social and the UK ESCR Network to draw attention to unfulfilled economic, social, and cultural rights promises in the UK. The UK government ratified the ICESCR 50 years ago. It is still not incorporated in domestic law.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026
A strong statement by @commissionerhr.coe.int Michael O'Flaherty and UN Special Rapporteur @deschuttero.bsky.social on social rights and the fight against poverty (in advance of the Council of Europe High-Level Conference on Social Rights in Chișinău this week) www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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Social Rights: An Essential Component of the Fight Against Poverty - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Chișinău, Republic of Moldova 18 March 2026
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Nathalie Tehio @nathalietehio.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Merci à la section #LDH de #montceaulesmines pour son invitation le 21 février. Un temps d'échanges et de reflexion sur les droits humains comme outils de lutte contre les inégalités sociales. Merci à @sylvainaubry.bsky.social pour son intervention très riche et stimulante.
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Mihra Rittmann @mihrarittmann.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“It is as if we have become hired workers for someone, not landowners” - a cotton farmer from the Khorezm region. A new @hrw.org - @uzbekforum.bsky.social report examines the coercive state production system of cotton & wheat in #Uzbekistan. More here: hrw.org/news/2026/02...
Farmers stand next to their tractor, piled high with raw cotton, outside the Fergana Region cotton collection point (ginnery) in September 2023.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 12/02/2026
More worrying developments on the rule of law in Hungary. “Shutting down court cases by decree is not how a democracy functions. This is the government telling the courts what they can address simply because it does not like the legal challenge or those bringing it.” www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
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Hungary: Blocking Lawsuits Undermines Rule of Law
Hungary’s government dealt a severe blow to the rule of law by issuing a decree that terminates ongoing court cases challenging a tax on municipalities, Human Rights Watch said today. The move sets a ...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026
As the evidence points to the increasing need for a strong welfare state, the German government looks set to weaken social security protection and the safety net by reverting to a harsh, punitive, and less generous approach.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 03/02/2026
What do taxes have to do with human rights? New York is hosting negotiations for a UN Convention on International Tax Cooperation this week. HRW's @sarahsaadoun.bsky.social explains more ⤵️
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Juliane Kippenberg @jkippenberg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Children living near Ethiopia's largest gold mine have been exposed to toxic pollution. Next week, the UN Child Rights Committee, at its Ethiopia session, should push for the mine's suspension and an independent assessment. www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
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Children Affected by Ethiopia Mine Pollution Need Justice
People living near Lega Dembi gold mine in Ethiopia’s Oromia region have for years complained about serious health impacts, including children born with long-term health conditions, miscarriages, and ...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 13/01/2026
New @hrw.org research out tomorrow on inadequate pensions and older people experiencing poverty in Hungary 🇭🇺 - interview testimony from older people 👵🏻👴🏻 - difficulties affording food 🍞🥩🍓☕, gas/electricity 🔌💡, medical supplies 💊🤕 - lots of graphs and charts 📊〽️ Media queries to @kooyjan.bsky.social
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 07/01/2026
One for most devoted human rights law nerds: www.hertie-school.org/en/news/deta...
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Vote for the Best United Nations Treaty Body Decision of 2025!
Our researchers invite you to take part in selecting the best UNTB decision of 2025, following the second run of the poll in 2024.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program. That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
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Juliane Kippenberg @jkippenberg.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Starting today, States are meeting in Kenya to negotiate enviro policies ahead of #UNEA7, incl. a key proposal by the Colombian government on environmental protection in mining. This could open up the path to a new global mining, and bring real change. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
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An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally
When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers of dead fish and the water had a strange smell. The cause was a major minin...
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
🌿 On my way to a personal trip to discover the deep Amazon jungle this week, I met Cloves — and little did I expect that his story would be a living testimony how social policies can transform lives...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 30/11/2025
Can’t wait until someone asks about the European Social Charter (1961) and the Revised European Social Charter (1996) are, and how those relate. I’ll grab the popcorn🍿
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 26/11/2025
Good riddance to rubbish policy. The end to the UK's "two child limit" social security policy has been announced, and it will soon be gone. We @hrw.org welcome the news, as one of many, many, many voices calling for an end to this arbitrary, cruel social security policy.
HRW quote card that says, “The UK government’s decision to end the cruel "two-child limit” social security policy is welcome and long-overdue. It forced growing numbers of children and families into poverty and undermined their rights.”
Kartik Raj, Europe Senior Researcher
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There are solutions, now, to fund social AND climate priorities. In the last 2 weeks, I saw first-hand in Nairobi how governments negotiating the UN tax convention could collaborate to raise trillions of dollars. And yet in Belém at #COP30 they pretend not having enough money.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 24/11/2025
There's enough money in the world to accelerate the phase out of fossil fuels. This is why governments should support the UN Tax Treaty. At #COP30, @sylvainaubry.bsky.social discusses the need for governments to finalize a UN Tax Treaty by 2027.
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Groundbreaking #COP30: amidst a pretty disappointing conference, a cheering and clapping room adopted a Just Transition resolution that contains the strongest human rights language at COP, and create a mechanism to follow on just transition. Social justice now has a home at COP.
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Caroline Brouillette @carobrouillette.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Movement from 🇨🇦 in #COP30 High-Level Ministerial Round Table on Just Transition!!! 💥 Canada is "open to options that strengthen the contribution of the UNFCCC to the broader just transition discussion, without duplicating existing work and works towards the Paris agreement temperature goal."
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Why is making the transition away from fossil fuel just one of the key items at #COP30? How can human rights help move to a carbon-free economy as quickly as possible? My colleague Jim Wormington and I from the Economic Justice team at HRW discuss it in less than a minute here x.com/hrw/status/...
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The 2nd round of UN Tax Convention talks starts today in Nairobi, Kenya, potentially unlocking trillions of dollars. Holding these negotiations in Africa itself is a key step towards decolonizing international law. With nearly 100 CSO representatives , the world is watching!
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This week world leaders made commitments to fulfil rights at #WSS2. But this won’t happen without money. We’re now looking at Nairobi where the UN Tax Convention #UNTC negotiations are resuming on Monday - it could be the key to deliver on those commitments. www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
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World Leaders Commit to Supporting Social Development and Rights
At the second United Nations Social Summit in Qatar this week, dozens of governments adopted the Doha Political Declaration, renewing their commitments to tackle poverty, create decent work, combat di...
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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🚨Human Rights Watch just published a new 101-page Sri Lanka report 'Tax Giveaways, Struggling Schools'. A panel of experts will discuss the findings from 16:00 local time in Colombo (12:30 CET), with an introduction by @fborello.bsky.social. Live-stream⤵️ www.facebook.com/neelantiruch...
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Hanan Salah @hanansalah.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Morocco's youth have clear-cut demands for better healthcare, education & end to corruption. If the government can fund state-of-the art stadiums, it can afford to fund its healthcare. Calls for reform should not be met with repression, lethal force @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
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Morocco: Protests Met with Repression, Violence
Moroccan authorities have cracked down on youth-led protests demanding sweeping reforms to public services, resulting in deaths and mass arrests.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025
The German government's plan for social security "reform" is bad news for #humanrights. I tried to set out why for @hrw.org here, a couple of weeks back, as we awaited details of these plans: www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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“The German government’s plans to punish some social security recipients with severe cuts to support demonstrates contempt for their human rights. This harsh approach will increase poverty, erode social cohesion, and push many into destitution." 
Kartik Raj, Senior Europe Researcher
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 09/10/2025
I am reading reports that the German coalition has agreed the main parts of its welfare "reform" package. Details still emerging. This shift toward a more punitive logic and harsher sanctions will come at the cost of human rights. I explain more in this recent piece. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...
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Rights Should Guide Welfare ‘Reform’ Debate in Germany
The partners in Germany’s governing Christian Democrat-Social Democrat coalition have been sparring over the contents of a planned replacement of the Citizen’s Income social security benefit, with a “...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 02/10/2025
Learn more about the UK Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network here. It may be relevant to your work and something for you or your organization to join.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 02/10/2025
One to watch for the ESCR nerds out there. The first complaint from Germany to the UN CESCR, since the country relatively recently (Apr 2023) accepted the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR. Focused on withdrawal of benefits from some asylum-seekers. ⬇️
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Lou Charbonneau @loucharb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🚨🧵 @hrw.org on Trump's #UNGA80 speech: -- He made too many false claims about world affairs to seriously address them. What is serious is Trump’s obvious lack of respect for international organizations that promote human rights, like the UN, which the US played a central role in creating. 1/x
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Bill Frelick @billfrelick.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My thoughts: the US Congress shld question why women shld have to shoehorn their claims into a narrow understanding of membership of a particular social group & thereby have less consistent or predictable protection than racial, religious, nationality & political groups. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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US Should Fix the Gender Gap in Refugee Protection
In a recent decision denying asylum to a Salvadoran woman being stalked by gang members, the Board of Immigration Appeals — the highest administrative body for interpreting U.S. immigration law — foun...
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 12/08/2025
Submission from @hrw.org to UN CESCR on Germany, covering: - ESC rights protections - international cooperation on taxation - Supply Chains Due Diligence Act - the social security system - low-wage work - the gender pay and pension gaps - the right to cultural artefacts www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...
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Human Rights Watch Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Germany: List of Issues 78th Session
We write in advance of the 78th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding its preparation and adoption of a list of issues in advance of the full review of Ger...
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Center for Economic and Social Rights @cesr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The global rules of finance must serve human rights—not undermine them. 🎥 Watch highlights from our joint side event at #FfD4 youtube.com/watch?v=SoLb... With @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social, @liznelson13.bsky.social, @sylvainaubry.bsky.social & more Thank you @taxjustice.net for the video!
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Rights-Based Development Finance: A post-Seville agenda
YouTube video by Tax Justice Network
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Heather Barr @heatherbarr.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw.org is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides. www.justsecurity.org/116780/gende...
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Gender Apartheid Should Be an International Crime
All States should ensure the inclusion of gender apartheid in international law, including in the draft crimes against humanity treaty.
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 10/07/2025
Here's @pollardtom.bsky.social from @neweconomics.bsky.social busting myths and undoing mischievous "reporting" about social security, disability, illness, and minimum wage... making crucial points that many people on minimum wage also receive Universal Credit, and many who work can & do receive PIP
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 09/07/2025
As the #UCBill (without PIP) returns to UK Parliament for its third (and final?) reading, my post for @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/07... The watered-down version of the Bill will still negatively affect many with disabilities and long term health conditions. The government should scrap it.
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Revised UK Social Security Bill Still Harms Rights
The UK government’s draft law to cut spending on disability-related social security triggered major opposition from within the ruling party, forcing the government to roll back some of the legislation...
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350 France @350france.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📣 TRIBUNE- Alors que les dirigeants mondiaux sont réunis à Séville sous une chaleur écrasante, + de 3️⃣0️⃣ organisations de la société civile dont @350.org appellent à changer le système économique mondial. Finis les petits pas. La 🇫🇷 doit se tenir du côté des peuples luttant pour leur futur. #FFD4 👇
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Human Rights Watch en français @hrw-fr.hrw.org · 04/07/2025
L'avenir de la finance est en train de se décider et cet avenir doit donner la priorité aux droits humains. Human Rights Watch participe à la Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement à Séville, en Espagne. @mattcconnell.bsky.social‬ nous explique les enjeux ⤵
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu" 🍽️. Why is #FFD4 important for human rights - and how can human rights contribute to reshaping global economic rules to make it fairer? Our very own @mcconnell_m makes it very clear just 1️⃣ minute below.
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Global tax loopholes enable multinationals to funnel profits into tax havens, draining trillions from government funds and undermining human rights. But guess what? The Trump administration just greased the wheels. See @hrw's reaction: www.hrw.org/news/2025/0... 🌍💸🔍
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How Trump Weaponized the US Budget Bill Overseas
The Trump administration has weaponized its bill to benefit the wealthiest US corporations by undermining global efforts to tax businesses fairly.
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Tax reform gaining steam at #FF4, powerful internventions of @SurRuiz, @aminatatoureklk, @mariomarcelc... and @JosephEStiglitz hits the nail on the head: "No Nobel Prize needed to see why taxing the rich is crucial for maintaining our global social contract in civil societies."
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Public services at #FFD4! A mix of expert and government officials dive into the big question: financing—but for what? The answer is clear: to uphold human rights and close the inequality gap, funds must flow into quality public services like healthcare and education. 💼🏥📚
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Nathalye Cotrino @nathalyeco.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🇭🇹 In recent months, criminal groups have expanded beyond Haiti’s capital to cities like Petite Rivière in Artibonite. In late April, a 64-year-old street vendor and mother of seven fled her home after an attack. Now, she and her children live in poverty. This is her story:
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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.eurosky.social · 01/07/2025
1/15 🧵 Today, the UK government will ask MPs to railroad through social security legislation that makes cuts to disability-related benefits to the next stage. @hrw.org joins 80+ other orgs asking MPs to reject the UCPIP Bill. It is bad news for human rights. www.ucpipbill.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Joint civil society statement on the UC & PIP Bill
Monday 30th June 2025
We are coming together as organisations committed to fighting poverty,
providing advice, and supporting and championing the rights of disabled
people, their families, and carers. We stand firmly with disabled people and
their organisations in calling for the UK government to withdraw the UC & PIP
Bill and to undertake genuine dialogue with disabled people to shape
reforms centred on the rights and dignity that all disabled people need and
deserve.
At a time when the share of GDP spent on working-age social security has
remained stable for the last ten years, cutting the incomes of disabled people
is a political choice. There is time for the government to pursue alternatives.
If this Bill is voted through, then by 2030 it will have cut PIP for more than
400,000 disabled people and Universal Credit for more than 700,000 people
who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. These numbers will
only increase in the years to follow.This Bill has also been brought before parliament:
• Without consultation with disabled people
• Without any assessment of its impact on health and employment
outcomes
• Before the planned review of the PIP assessment has properly begun
its work
• Without knowing how the outcome of the PIP review may affect these
reforms
The changes announced last week and the compressed timetable for scrutiny
mean that MPs will only have a single day to debate or amend the new
provisions. There is too much at stake for disabled people for this Bill to be
rushed through without the opportunity for meaningful challenge or
scrutiny. We urge all MPs to vote against this Bill at Second Reading.Signatories
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Action for Children
Amnesty International
British Association of Social
Workers
Camphill Village Trust
Centre for Mental Health
Child Poverty Action Group
Children & Young People's Mental
Health Coalition
Children First
Citizens Advice
Community Money Advice
Crisis
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
Debt Justice
Diabetes UK
Disability Benefits Consortium
Disability Law Service
Disabled People Against Cuts
End Child Poverty Coalition
Endometriosis UK
Engender
Fuel Poverty Action
Home Start
Human Rights Watch
Huntington's Disease Association
Imagine Act and Succeed
In Kind Direct
Independent Age
Independent Food Aid Network
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Kidney Care
Learning Disability Allies
Leonard Cheshire
ME Foggy Dog
Mental Health Foundation
Mental Health UK
Mind
Money and Mental Health Policy
Institute
MS Society
National Autistic Society
National Children's Bureau
National Rheumatoid Arthritis
Society
National Survivor User Network
Neuroendocrine Cancer UK
New Economics Foundation
Oxfam
Parkinson's UK
Quaker Social Action
Rethink Mental Illness
Royal National Institute of Blind
People
Royal National Institute of Deaf
People
SeeAbility
Scope
Sense
Shelter
Sisters of Frida
St Mungo's
Stripy Lightbulb CIC
The Children's Society
The Food Foundation
The Poverty Alliance
The Salvation Army
Trussell
Turn2Us
Turning Point
Versus Arthritis
Voluntary Organisations Disability
Group
We Care Campaign
Whizz Kidz
Women's Budget Group
Young Lives vs Cancer
Z2K
4 in 10
Black Country Foodbank
Citizens Advice Scotland
Close the Gap
Food Plymouth
Hartlepool Foodbank
Includem
North East Child Poverty
Commission
One Parent Families Scotland
Parenting Across Scotland
Scottish Women's Budget Group
Shelter Scotland
Stay Safe East
The Scottish Pantry Network
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Sylvain Aubry @sylvainaubry.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
With the "Big Beautiful Bill," the US government is on a mission to dismantle the remnants of justice, solidarity, and rights of the majority, both at home and abroad. This isn't just policy—it's an ideological attack. Stand up for your rights. #FFD4 www.hrw.org/news/2025/0...
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