Widad Franco

UN Advocate @hrw - Tweets in English and Spanish RTs are not endorsements (She/Ella) 🇪🇨🇺🇸

[Widad Franco @widadfranco]

🚨NEW on @hrw: My article how #UN members should select a champion of #HumanRights as the next UN Secretary-General as the UN faces a crisis amid a global retreat on rights and democracy.
https://t.co/NzeAs7Co4c

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

✊ Gig workers deserve rights, not loopholes.

This week and next, governments, workers, and employers are negotiating the first global treaty on decent work in the platform economy.

They should adopt strong standards to protect all platform workers’ rights.

#ILC2026 #WorkersRights

[Nathalye Cotrino @NathalyeCo]

🇭🇹 Yesterday’s launch of two specialized judicial units—one focused on mass crimes and the other on corruption—is a significant step toward ending impunity in Haiti.

These units should promptly advance credible investigations and help deliver justice for victims.

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

1.3M people fled #Sudan's conflict for #Egypt, but they're treated so poorly there that they see fleeing to Europe as their only option

Meanwhile Europe is whitewashing Egypt's abuses, and is doing nothing to address the #UAE's role in Sudan atrocities

👉🏽https://t.co/XMCGt2os0D

[Philippe Bolopion @Bolopion]

The conflict in Sudan has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. By providing support, including the hiring of Colombian fighters, the UAE could be contributing to RSF's capacity to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[Juanita Goebertus @JuanitaGoe]

La administración Trump🇺🇸 ha deportado a más de 4.300 cubanos🇨🇺 a México🇲🇽, muchos de ellos personas mayores con graves problemas de salud que llevaban hasta décadas viviendo en Estados Unidos. Muchos han quedado abandonados a su suerte.

🚨Nuevo informe👇🏽
https://t.co/TLP2L58fkR

[Joey Shea @joey_shea]

I spoke with @MiddleEastEye about our new @HRW report documenting how Colombian private military contractors, apparently hired by a UAE-based company, transited through UAE military bases before being deployed to Sudan to support the abusive RSF 👇

[Juanita Goebertus @JuanitaGoe]

Ecuador🇪🇨 | The enforced disappearances documented by @AJFaultLines are a stark reminder of growing human rights abuses in the country.

Yet, a deafening silence from authorities. No information, no accountability. They must act now to find the disappeared and end impunity.

[Juanita Goebertus @JuanitaGoe]

Nuevo informe de @hrw revela que contratistas militares privados colombianos transitaron por bases militares de Emiratos Árabes Unidos y recibieron entrenamiento militar antes de ser desplegados en Sudán para apoyar a las abusivas Fuerzas de Apoyo Rápido👇
https://t.co/V3JuTIsFa8

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

NEW: Colombian private military contractors, apparently hired by a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based company, transited through UAE military bases before being deployed to Sudan to support the abusive Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

This is further evidence indicating that the UAE is assisting or otherwise substantially contributing to the Rapid Support Forces’ capacity to commit war crimes.

Read HRW’s full investigation. ⤵️
https://t.co/1QDRRLWMNa

[Joey Shea @joey_shea]

🚩NEW: @HRW report finds Colombian private military contractors transited through UAE military bases ad received military training before being deployed to Sudan to support the abusive RSF 👇

https://t.co/4DoZiFKim0

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Yet another enforced disappearance and secret trial in Xinjiang — Uyghur academic Rahile Dawut has now been sentenced to life in prison.

The world should not let the Chinese government get away with these efforts to silence Uyghur voices.

[Widad Franco @widadfranco]

Here's @MyrtoTilianaki laying out @hrw's position:

🌎https://t.co/ZwfOEUrHrT

[Widad Franco @widadfranco]

🚨This afternoon the 🇺🇳UN General Assembly adopted a resolution urging UN member countries to transform the @ICJ_org's findings on State responsibilities on climate change into action, led by @VanuatuUN

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@hrw's @loucharbon's reaction and mini 🧵
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[Widad Franco @widadfranco]

Despite efforts by the US and other oil-producing states to stifle attempts to combat climate change, key provisions supporting the World Court’s findings survived, including a request for a report by the Secretary-General."

[Martina Rapido Ragozzino @MartinaRapidoR]

Forced disappearances and torture: Ecuador’s war on drugs is brutal – and backed by US troops reports @Harrietmbarber for @guardian.

https://t.co/4EwoIYzQiK

[Widad Franco @widadfranco]

🚨The #BoardOfPeace will be briefing the UN Security Council on 5/21.

Whatever the BoP tells the SC, life for Palestinians in Gaza remains miserable. Israeli authorities are undermining humanitarian lifelines & killing & wounding Palestinians.

@hrw👉 https://t.co/R7gbEhreBD

[Widad Franco @widadfranco]

🚨NEW from @hrw👇

In #Myanmar Rohingya muslims continue to suffer. And yet the #UN Security Council has not followed up on resolution 2669.

The #UNSC should institute a global arms embargo on Myanmar & targeted sanctions on the junta’s leadership and military-owned companies.

[Elaine Pearson @PearsonElaine]

New @hrw report documents how the Arakan Army committed war crimes killing hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State & burning down their village, the survivors are still denied justice & cannot return to their homes. Read more here 👇 https://t.co/lLctx3BLPM

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

Interested in working with @HRW's Africa division? We are hiring a Nairobi-based associate to provide administrative support to the division https://t.co/96nOmDpwr5

[louis charbonneau @loucharbon]

🚨 New from @hrw: #Trump's administration's drastic cuts of US foreign aid have made it harder to document human rights violations, protect communities at risk, hold human rights abusers to account. - @YagerSarahH

Details here in new HRW paper here 👇 https://t.co/i4i5Y9UiDM