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[Joey Shea @joey_shea]

🚩As evidence of UAE military support to abusive RSF mounts, the NBA is prominently donning Emirates logos during the NBA finals

Instead of using basketball to whitewash UAE abuses, the NBA should speak out about UAE’s rights record, esp its role in Sudan https://t.co/yU3lMHEgJm

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

The European Commission has invited a Taliban delegation for a meeting on migration talks in the upcoming weeks.

This invitation sends the wrong message at the wrong time, says @FereshtaAbbasi. Learn more ⤵️

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

As evidence of the UAE’s military support to Sudan’s abusive Rapid Support Forces mounts, the NBA will prominently don Emirates logos during the 2026 NBA finals.

The NBA should use this high-profile opportunity to speak out about the country’s human rights record.

Learn more: https://t.co/lXpnoo2J7d

[Minky Worden @MinkysHighjinks]

As the 2026 tournament kicks off, *The World Is Worried About The #WorldCup*

@FIFAcom should heed fan groups from @3LionsPride to the @FootieMob to the Galactic Ambassadors, who say the World Cup should be a global celebration of soccer—not a cause for fear about abusive US immigration arrests, anti-LGBT policies, and ugly exclusion on the basis of nationality;

My article in @Forbes: https://t.co/4liqJYmSFF

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

Our groceries are bankrolling occupation and apartheid.

A new Global Echo report exposes *massive* EU imports of agricultural goods from Israel's illegal settlements: https://t.co/juljUC8q4a

A full, EU-wide ban is needed, @vonderleyen @MarosSefcovic: https://t.co/yOsG1Y8QAP

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Azerbaijani authorities are prosecuting critics in exile, often based on social media posts and online commentary.

These trials of government critics abroad lack all credibility and due process, and are simply intended to silence them. https://t.co/GyAvkrdfQi

[Elaine Pearson @PearsonElaine]

Quote from me responding to news in Indonesia and light sentences handed down to 4 soldiers accused of an acid attack on human rights defender - this is a mockery of justice. 👇https://t.co/6lJmpkzIyG

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Watch the full feature: https://t.co/IKF1VIqz8O

Read our report: https://t.co/pItAANdzkd

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

NEW: Rwandan military forces and the M23 armed group carried out a campaign of forced recruitment and abusive detention of captured combatants and civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

In a new report, HRW documents large-scale roundups and arrests as well as grave abuses.

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

In #Egypt, occasional pardons are exceptions to the grim norm:

Journalists, activists, women dancing on TikTok continue to be arrested or re-arrested on a near-daily basis, as authorities target all forms of political dissent and "social nonconformity": https://t.co/AceOfcwlY0

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Read more about questions on what white phosphorus is and how it's used (from 2023): https://t.co/1py96nOh1k

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

The New York Times is investigating the Israeli military's recent use of white phosphorus in Lebanon against Hezbollah.

Human Rights Watch has previously documented the Israeli military’s widespread use of white phosphorus. 🧵⤵️ https://t.co/ERIEiWNo3U

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

White phosphorus that contacts people can burn down to the bone. Fragments of white phosphorus can exacerbate wounds even after treatment and can enter the bloodstream and cause multiple organ failures.

Even relatively minor burns are often fatal.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

The US government is conditioning lifesaving health assistance on broad access to surveillance data and extractive rights to pathogen samples and data for pharmaceutical development.

The agreements raise serious concerns about access to people’s private health care data. https://t.co/R1jrQ3peaD

[Bassam Khawaja @Bassam_Khawaja]

While widespread and abusive detention has become one of the Egypt's most pressing human rights and political issues, the authorities’ apparent response has been more detentions: https://t.co/DFtNRC8oez

[Fereshta Abbasi @FereshtaAbbasi]

We have received disturbing reports from Herat, Afghanistan: the Taliban must immediately refrain from any use of excessive force against protesters, release those arbitrarily detained for peaceful protest and allow peaceful protests without resorting to violence or intimidation.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib echoes what Human Rights Watch has already said — white phosphorus leaves people with cruel injuries that can be fatal or result in lifelong suffering.

Israel should immediately end its use of white phosphorus over populated areas, and states providing Israel with weapons should immediately suspend military assistance and arms sales to Israel.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Our government is supplying Israel with white phosphorus bombs that melt human flesh to the bone. These bombs are targeting civilians, schools, hospitals, and places of worship. The U.S. must end its complicity in these war crimes, and pass the Lebanon War Powers Resolution.