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What happens when your island disappears?

Academy Award–nominated actor and human rights advocate @MarkRuffalo has joined forces with Human Rights Watch, NowHere Media, and Agog to narrate "Solwata," a new immersive documentary spotlighting the human consequences of climate change in the Pacific nation of Solomon Islands.

Drawing on Human Rights Watch research and the lived experiences of coastal communities confronting rising seas, displacement, and planned relocation, the 25-minute immersive experience invites audiences to walk alongside the communities of Solomon Islands as they grapple with the effects of devastating tides and rising sea levels.

"Solwata," or "saltwater," in Solomon Islands Pidgin, was created by NowHere Media and co-produced by Agog and Human Rights Watch. The film will premiere at Venice Immersive, the immersive section of the Venice International Film Festival (September 2–12).

Learn more: https://t.co/dAhr3TXdKa

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When Waheed Abu Naeem's students approached him to tell him there were settlers and Israeli military approaching their school, he confronted them. The situation escalated and a settler began shooting at the school's courtyard, killing one of the students.

In a new episode of Rights & Wrongs, host Ngofeen Mputubwele examines the rise of settler violence in Palestine's West Bank.

🔊: https://t.co/BfE7U0PluE

[Niku Jafarnia @NikuJafarnia]

New @hrw #Yemen report: Amidst the Houthis' siege on #Taiz, the Houthis' demolition of a portion of Hayjat al-Abd further endangers civilians already struggling with severe shortages of food, water, medicine, and fuel, and may amount to a war crime.

https://t.co/C7s5jB8EGM

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The Lula administration should use his new term to tackle chronic human rights problems, including addressing the record high numbers of killings by the police and other public security problems.

Learn more: https://t.co/QnvjEJAoEd

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been reelected as Brazil’s president, defeating Liberal Party candidate Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff election.

During his current term, President Lula has supported democratic institutions and made important progress on protecting forest and local communities who depend on it for their survival, but had a mixed record in other areas

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“It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the RSF's October 2025 takeover.

One year on, global actors should ensure it never happens again, take bold steps to protect civilians, and hold those responsible to account. https://t.co/j2yFFi9dLx

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A South Korean government proposal would allow medication abortion in 2027, but overly restrictive regulations will continue to impair the right to safe and affordable abortion services.

Access to safe abortion is essential to protecting the autonomy, health, and rights of women and girls. https://t.co/MupwiaSitL

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

Today, our thoughts with the survivors of the cataclysmic RSF El Fasher takeover. Many hoped those responsible would be held to account. States shld act against RSF leaders, the UAE company apparently hiring Colombians fighting with RSF & ensure justice https://t.co/8KrMi5sQkh

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Sudan: One Year on from the Cataclysm of El Fasher. “It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October 2025 takeover.
https://t.co/qMKyK9ynS5

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What happens when your home becomes a war zone?

In our Rights & Wrongs podcast, host Ngofeen Mputubwele speaks to @lamamfakih, HRW’s Global Program Director, about the loss of her home in Beirut, Lebanon, amid the US/Israeli war with Iran.

🔉: https://t.co/iClRcr6XA3

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“It’s also thanks to your government that Israeli atrocities continue with complete impunity.”

Watch HRW’s @ClaFrancavilla speak in the Czech Parliament about accountability, complicity, and the human cost of inaction.

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Egypt's outrageous crackdown on independent media is escalating, with the referral of Lina Attalah, editor in chief of @MadaMasr, to trial:
https://t.co/zgTyWIp65E

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Vietnam is suppressing independent trade unions and the right to organize. By enabling artificially low labor costs, Vietnamese companies are allowed unfair trade advantages.

As To Lam, President of Vietnam and Communist Party General Secretary, visits the European Union, trading partners need to make one thing clear: broken pledges will carry consequences.

Read more: https://t.co/78JPMUvlGC

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The European Parliament has awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the International Criminal Court and its officials.

This prize should be a rallying cry for ICC members to stand up for the court and for the EU Commission to urgently activate the EU’s "blocking statute" to protect the court and those supporting its work from effects of US sanctions.

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Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-controlled Africa Corps have committed new atrocities against civilians in central Mali during renewed fighting.

Concerned governments and international institutions should press the Malian authorities to conduct credible investigations into military abuses. https://t.co/E6xlnzDedm

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Unless governments respond, atrocities will continue to be committed with impunity. Israel’s key allies should suspend military assistance and arms sales to Israel and impose targeted sanctions on officials credibly responsible for ongoing serious abuses.

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In March, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz boasted that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the acceleration of Lebanese house demolitions and that hundreds of thousands of Shiite residents would be prevented from returning to their homes in southern Lebanon.
https://t.co/5LxIR8DZDB

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Now, Katz talks about implementing in Lebanon a model of destruction used in Gaza that involved acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. https://t.co/LBaWgXZgaO

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

Look at what is happening in Lebanon.

Today, more than 60 villages in southern Lebanon, beginning with those adjacent to the border, and beyond that, throughout the entire security zone up to the Yellow Line, an area of 700 square kilometers, are destroyed.

All the villages have been wiped out. Twenty-three thousand houses, all destroyed, demolished.

I am not even talking about what is underground, about the tunnels. Everything has been destroyed.

There are no residents there. Two hundred thousand residents are outside.

This is the Gaza model. And this is the model we are implementing.

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Today, October 22nd, is Ahmed Mansoor’s birthday. Since 2017, Ahmed has spent his birthday behind bars, where he’s been arbitrarily imprisoned in an isolation cell in the United Arab Emirates.

All charges on which he was convicted were based solely on his human rights advocacy.

Emirati authorities should #FreeAhmed. #BirthdayWishes4Ahmed

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Burkina Faso’s unelected parliament has unanimously adopted a new penal code that restores the death penalty for some crimes.

Reinstating capital punishment sends a chilling message to critics of the military junta and risks becoming another tool to suppress dissent.
https://t.co/kxrjDjqJXe

[Niku Jafarnia @NikuJafarnia]

#Houthis continue to target airpots, today attacking #Aden airpot despite continued flights. The attacks not only endanger civilians present at the airport, but also can have severe impacts for those relying on the airport to access medical care.

https://t.co/st7Xht6am5