AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18

Scathing report on #Bangladesh by @amnesty “Enforced disappearances were routinely carried out by security forces” https://t.co/MkGyUVwF6n

— Toby Cadman (@tobycadman) 23. Februar 2018

New restrictive measures announced by the EU in response to human rights violations in Burma ‚too little too late‘ https://t.co/vH4X8W1hwY

— Burma Campaign UK (@burmacampaignuk) 26. Februar 2018

.@ActionAidCambod releases video explaining why the #UN Food & Agriculture Organization’s Voluntary Guildelines on Responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries & forests are key in #Cambodia: https://t.co/Tf5CoOD2CI. @VGGTCambodia #AAC #bizhumanrights #FAO @FAOnews #VGGT pic.twitter.com/QKlvrIPCD0

— CCHR Cambodia (@cchrcambodia) 23. Februar 2018

Will Christine @lagarde do something to reverse the harm done to the children of Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan by the IMF? https://t.co/TFctKFYTSL @IMFnews @BrettonWoodspr @MiriamBrett @fp2p @RoopaHinton @UNICEFSocPolicy

— Stephen Kidd (@JustKIDDing_DP) 26. Februar 2018

#Romania’s justice minister wants to fire the country’s #anticorruption chief – a bid many Romanians do not agree with. Thousands took to the streets last Sunday to protest. > https://t.co/mgcavJNrFF pic.twitter.com/ly2qyoCU47

— Transparency Int’l (@anticorruption) 26. Februar 2018

@brettonwoodspr @TheRulesOrg Pls share 

Why @CSIS_USLD is so wrong about #DoingBusiness & @WorldBank Fetish for Ranking https://t.co/FA8OZudcsx

— Anuradha Mittal (@Mittaloak) 23. Februar 2018

Local authorities in #Moldova promised to pay Roma health mediators, but many are not. We just helped one group of mediators take their fight to court. #sastipe

— ERRC (@ERRCtweets) 26. Februar 2018

Take a look at a joint statement released today by @ISHRglobal at the start of #HRC37 calling on states to hold China to account on rights abuses. 2018 has seen hundreds of thousands in ‚re-education‘ camps, unprecedented surveillance & control of the #Uyghur population. https://t.co/K4WBjyMlTP

— WorldUyghurCongress (@UyghurCongress) 26. Februar 2018

Speaking out is becoming more dangerous, finds @amnesty’s 2017 report, out today. We cannot agree more: #CPI2017 finds that every week at least one journalist is killed in a country that is highly corrupt. https://t.co/HAjUy5plHu

— Transparency Int’l (@anticorruption) 23. Februar 2018

#Myanmar: New @HRW satellite imagery shows #Rohingya villages being bulldozed in #Rakhine State -threatening to erase important evidence of security forces‘ atrocity crimes and the memory of the Rohingya Muslims who lived there. https://t.co/U9YGO9NGsk pic.twitter.com/ybx45PLJ4E

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 23. Februar 2018

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18
„Repression conducted under ‚anti-separatism‘ or ‚counterterrorism‘ campaigns remained particularly severe in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and Tibetan-populated areas.“ https://t.co/uYPSiiISa2

— UHRP (@uyghurproject) 23. Februar 2018

#EU efforts to free bookseller #GuiMinhai, a Swedish citizen detained in #China, to be doubled – not abandoned – after ‘interview,’ MPs say.

Thank you! https://t.co/FTXg6urtZP

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 23. Februar 2018

#EU parliamentarians write to #China’s President, demanding the immediate release of Swedish bookseller #GuiMinhai calling his case“part of a disturbing pattern of repression, the main victims of which are Chinese human rights defenders, activists&lawyers„https://t.co/EkYEyePu30 pic.twitter.com/OgXZh4GyHd

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 23. Februar 2018

Our colleague @ASalasTI on #CPI2017 #AsiaPacific: “How can anti-corruption work take root if activists and journalists are under threat, if political interests capture agencies, or if arrests are selective? https://t.co/v3DSB5N2wy https://t.co/XTEUxTfKxX

— Transparency Int’l (@anticorruption) 23. Februar 2018

Enough forced confessions, #China – free bookseller #GuiMinhai now! https://t.co/tFkKmcOU9f via @hongkongfp

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 22. Februar 2018

Heartbreaking

This is #Myanmar 2018!

Journalism is NOT a crime. https://t.co/sb7RY1XDzY

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 22. Februar 2018

For some impressions of yesterday’s #MotherLanguageDay celebration at @UN_Vienna, check out our #Flicker album: https://t.co/2GI8qm15jW pic.twitter.com/3z1LtTp9Vz

— UN Vienna (@UN_Vienna) 22. Februar 2018

News Lens: Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan lose out in their struggle with the IMF over the targeting of child benefits https://t.co/PH4VVQikF6

— Bretton Woods Proj. (@brettonwoodspr) 23. Februar 2018

Wonderful news emerging today from #Uzbekistan. #IsroljonHoldarov, an imprisoned human rights activist who was tortured and kidnapped from #Kyrgyzstan after the #Andijanmassacre has FINALLY been freed after nearly 12 years in jail. Here he is w/ activists from #Ezgulik. pic.twitter.com/UHiyQDBM9u

— Steve Swerdlow (@steveswerdlow) 22. Februar 2018

Breaking! Police seek pre-trial detention of 3 pro-democracy activists, who face sedition charges for peacefully calling for an election to end to military rule. If found guilty, they face up to 7 years in jail. #Thailand #dictatorship pic.twitter.com/6CjTP5o28O

— Sunai (@sunaibkk) 22. Februar 2018

India supports seeking @CIJ_ICJ ruling on use of force without UNSC approval – https://t.co/motMcsSHUu

— Opinio Juris (@opiniojuris) 21. Februar 2018

Indian bank probed for connections to over 100 shell companies, resulting in nearly $1.8 billion fraud. https://t.co/yvD6e92XF0

— FACT Coalition (@FACTCoalition) 23. Februar 2018

Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Hit on Organic Food https://t.co/jMqUkh3OYE

— BhopalMedicalAppeal (@BhopalMedAppeal) 21. Februar 2018

Demand for action against Bangladeshis named in #ParadisePapers is growing. https://t.co/Y4I6RQ9xgy

— ICIJ (@ICIJorg) 23. Februar 2018