Human Rights Watch

Today, there are more displaced people in the world than at any other time in history. New episode of HRW's Rights & Wrongs podcast ⤵️ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3UmP1BQ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bghhgA

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HRW's Fereshta Abbasi speaks at the UN Human Rights Council to highlight the Taliban's continued attacks on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and to call for accountability.

Over 31,300 people have died or been reported missing in the Mediterranean Sea over the last decade. The European Union should be prioritizing search and rescue, but has unfortunately largely abdicated its responsibility and instead seemingly adopted a policy of deterrence by drowning. How can it instead work towards ensuring safety and protection?

HRW’s UK Director Yasmine Ahmed recently visited Laila Soueif in a London hospital. Laila has been on hunger strike for 151 days in protest of her son Alaa Abdel Fattah's imprisonment in Egypt. A prominent writer and activist, Alaa has been detained unlawfully for over a decade. As Laila faces an imminent risk of death, the UK and Egypt should urgently do everything they can to resolve the situation now and ensure Alaa is released. https://lnkd.in/eAP2w2tU

Why do people move? In a new episode of HRW's Rights & Wrongs, host Ngofeen Mputubwele speaks to Hanaa R., a former policewoman who, fearing for her life, fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took over. 🔊⤵️ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3UmP1BQ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4bghhgA

📢 Under the pretense of ‘simplifying’ rules for giant corporations, the Commission’s Omnibus proposal guts its own achievements on corporate accountability, a major abdication of principled leadership in advancing a sustainable and human rights-based economy. ⚡ The proposed change would uproot key accountability tools that gave the law some teeth-including the ability of victims of corporate abuses in supply chains to sue them in European courts. The Commission is siding with powerful corporations rather than victims of corporate abuse around the world.

In May 2023, the Move Forward Party won Thailand’s general elections, but was blocked from forming a government. Now, 44 of these parliamentarians could be banned from politics for life. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3QyqsQS

Israeli tanks have entered the occupied West Bank for the first time in two decades as Israel intensifies its operation there. States should act to prevent atrocities and allow Palestinians to return to their homes.