ICYMI: Human Rights Watch has launched Rights & Wrongs, a new podcast exploring human rights hotspots around the world.

Our first episode is out now, listen below ⤵️
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Despite children dying from starvation and famine in Gaza, the Israeli authorities are still blocking aid critical for the survival of Gaza’s population in defiance of the World Court.
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Muhsin was buried alive by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, Sudan.

Thousands of civilians were killed or injured during waves of ethnic cleansing there in 2023.

Learn more: bit.ly/4acxzpL

Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people.

Jamal Abdullah Khamis, a human rights lawyer from El Geneina, describes some of what he witnessed ⤵️

The Chinese government forcibly returned about 60 North Korean refugees on April 26, putting them at grave risk of enforced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, wrongful imprisonment, forced labor, and execution.
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Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, a prominent British-Palestinian surgeon and academic, has in recent weeks been denied entry to Germany and France.

Germany’s government needs to explain publicly if it has imposed a Schengen-wide entry ban. trib.al/OqZUYBS

Today is Mother’s Day in Mexico.

For the mothers of more than 100,000 missing people, who are often forced to search for their loved ones without help from authorities, it is a day of protest.

Mexico should work to prevent and investigate disappearances.

“I didn’t think I would survive this.”

In April 2023, fighting broke out in Sudan as the RSF and allied militias fought Sudan’s army. By June, Jamal Abdallah Khamis, a 29-year-old ethnic Massalit man, had fled for his life.
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Good news in Indonesia, Georgia's “foreign influence” bill, crimes in Sudan -- catch up on this week’s human rights headlines ⤵️

Journalists should be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanctions.

Authorities in Nigeria should immediately release Daniel Ojukwu if he has not been charged with a criminal offense.
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New Human Rights Watch report found that Rapid Support and their allied militias carried a campaign of ethnic cleansing targeting ethnic Massalit, as well other non-Arab groups in El Geneina.

We address some key Qs relating to our research and findings here hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

Muhsin was buried alive by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, Sudan.

Thousands of civilians were killed or injured during waves of ethnic cleansing there in 2023.

Learn more: bit.ly/4acxzpL

The authorities should immediately & unconditionally release #DanielOjukwu if he has not been charged with a criminal offense. Journalists should be able to do their jobs without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanctions. #FreeDanielOjwuku hrw.org/news/2024/05/0…

New: Human Rights Watch calls on Germany to explain how its reported imposition of Schengen-wide entry ban on Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta—blocking the surgeon from speaking in Berlin, Paris & The Hague about atrocities he witnessed in Gaza—comports w/ the law & free expression. hrw.org/news/2024/05/1…

The atrocities we documented in El Geneina were not carried out in a vacuum.

There is a history, encouraged by impunity.

See our Human Rights Watch research on previous attacks in El Geneina against Massalit btw 2021-2023
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Prominent British-Palestinian surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, was invited to speak in Berlin, Paris & The Hague.

He was asked to share his experiences treating patients in #Gaza .

But Germany denied him entry & imposed a Schengen-wide ban on him.
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Attacks by the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in El Geneina, capital of Sudan’s West Darfur state, from April to November 2023, killed at least thousands of people.

Jamal Abdullah Khamis, a human rights lawyer from El Geneina, describes some of what he witnessed ⤵️

Loitering laws are:
- relics of medieval times
- purposefully vague (standing is bad?)
- used against migrants, sex workers, laborers, ppl the ruling class doesn't want in public

Loitering laws are not:
- the slightest bit effective at ending trafficking

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1/3 Today Human Rights Watch joins the call by 85 groups to the UK government to facilitate a visit to the country by the UN special rapporteur on the #righttofood independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

In just 10 days, Southern Brazil has received almost three months’ worth of rain.

Brazil’s government has an obligation to protect people from foreseeable harm from natural hazards.