Heather Barr

Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Cape Town via Islamabad, London, Kabul, Bujumbura, NYC, Alaska.

[Heather Barr @heatherbarr1]

On April 23, it was 1,677 days. It will be more when you read this.

That’s the number of days girls in Afghanistan have been banned, by Taliban, from study beyond 6th grade. There is an opportunity right now for every country to do something about this.
https://t.co/hVNVrhBdoK

[Ziauddin Yousafzai @ZiauddinY]

Day: 1775 🏫
Day: 1315 🎓
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Until every Afghan girl can return to school, our work is not done. We must keep raising our voices until every classroom door is open again.

#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#ACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Kristyan Benedict @Kristyan_B_]

Led By Donkeys has received £27,000 in compensation after a banner it displayed in Parliament Square saying “Yes It’s A Genocide” was seized by Greater London Authority officials and destroyed.
https://t.co/eMqXBVve00

[PassBlue @pass_blue]

DRC envoy tells media @UN the Security Council's 1st straw poll will be held on Thursday, July 30, most likely in the morning, in the SC's consultation room. The latest candidate to throw his hat in the ring, Olara Ottunu, of Uganda, will be included in the poll, even though he has not gone through the GA public hearing. This could set a path for others to jump over that process.

[David Grossman @davidgross_man]

"In my view, Mamdani’s and Netanyahu’s extreme views are just flip sides of the same coin"

yeah who can forget when Zohran killed at least tens of thousands of people, likely over 100,000, gave out free weapons to his most violent supporters, and oversaw an apartheid state

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

Yesterday, Saudi Arabia executed another 5 Ethiopian migrants for non-lethal drug offenses, without due process. Saudi's partners shld press the authorities to halt these executions & commute the sentences of the dozens more awaiting a similar fate @hrw https://t.co/GtQjNIU1nA

[Willie Nelson @WillieNelson]

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

[KabulNow @KabulNow]

The German government has deported 31 Afghan nationals, including one person without a criminal record, on a direct flight to Kabul, German media reported, as Berlin continues removals to Afghanistan despite widespread criticism.

Read more: https://t.co/trG9GS7JSH

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

My kids have measles, I can’t afford gas, I can’t breathe the air, and I have explosive diarrhea. But at least now I can use Grok to see my coworkers naked

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

The last human survivor of climate change will drown screaming about transgender bathrooms.

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

“Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.”

[explore.org @exploreorg]

Yearly bear cam maintenance staff reporting for duty.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

The ICC is a canary in the coal mine, whose failing health embodies the Trumpian virus infecting the global rule of law and a wholesale attack on international law - all of it. To save the Court, then, is to save international law itself. https://t.co/h0dra0gWrs #ICC

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Drinking from a soggy paper straw while data centres exist is the most 2026 experience.

[Editorial & Political Cartoons @EandPCartoons]

Matt Wuerker @wuerker #ClimateChange

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Notably, the United States says that human rights are "unrelated to international peace and security."

This implies that human rights fall outside the responsibility of the UN Security Council.

[Shaharzad Akbar شهرزاد اکبر @ShaharzadAkbar]

Our latest report about the impact of Pakistan's attack on civilian population in Afghanistan is a difficult read. We spoke to survivors in rural Afghanistan who had lost their entire families and livelihoods. One of their key demands: Carry our voice to the world. @rawadari_org

[Heather Barr @heatherbarr1]

“A 15yo cannot vote, buy beer, sign a lease, serve on a jury or get a tattoo in CA. But w/a parent’s signature & judge’s approval, they can be married…More than 8,000 California children—mostly girls—married the prior year, according to 2021 census data.” https://t.co/vy6dCFrwPv

[Mohamed ElBaradei @ElBaradei]

To the @IntlCrimCourt Bureau and Assembly of States parties :

Are you going to respond to this blatant onslaught by the #US and #Israel on the very existence of the Court?
The overwhelming majority of people around the world believe in accountability for the most heinous crimes against humanity and expect you to have the courage to push back against this travesty !