The Chinese government has intensified ideological control, surveillance, restrictions on religious activities, and foreign ties of Catholic in China. The 2018 agreement with the Holy See has helped Beijing to escalate pressure on underground communities.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
Young adults who have lived in Sweden for years can be deported.
A restrictive migration policy forces those who entered as children & hold temporary permits to leave from age 18.
Restrictions shouldn’t weaken the protection of children's family life.
“Aging out” shouldn’t mean being forced out. Sweden is deporting young people who grew up here while their families stay. The government should halt these deportations and change course. Short dispatch by me and @suzebpark.bsky.social @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
#Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ puts rights abusers & war crimes suspects in charge of the global order -- my new opinion piece on @aljazeera.com
By sidelining the UN & human rights, the US president is proposing a club of impunity @hrw.org
👉 www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Kazakh activists face 10 year sentence, prosecuted in Kazakhstan, at Chinese government’s request, for their peaceful protest against crimes against humanity in Xinjiang. Kazakh government should drop charges. Beijing should halt targeting critics abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
#EU leaders should publicly press for rights-respecting transition during first-ever visit to #Syria:
🤝recovery free from abuses
🪖genuine security sector reform
⚖️justice for past & ongoing violation
Our take👇
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01... @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
8 months of intense corporate lobbying, untransparent processes and foreign interference lead to the adoption of a gutted #CSDDD.
✊But a due diligence obligation remains and even if weaker, #Victims will still demand #Justice for #HumanRights abuses.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Amazing work by @somoamsterdam.bsky.social, as usual, to expose how #US companies infringe on #EU law making to protect themselves rather than the people or the environment
#HumanRights abuses in China cannot be dealt in silos.
@EmmanuelMacron needs to put them at the core of #France & #EU relation with #China
Failing that, there is no #Security or #FairTrade in sight
www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
Last week's EU parliament vote is a disaster for people + planet: Conservative MEPs sided w/ far-right parties to create a majority toeing deregulation demands of corporate lobbies.
EU institutions should stand up for human rights in the EU's landmark supply chain law!
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
EuroParliament’s strong text on #TransnationalRepression is milestone in EU’s needed response to attacks by repressive states against nationals beyond borders.
@ec.europa.eu @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should protect & prevent, hold states responsible to account
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
NEW: Turkish authorities are increasingly restricting the legal residency of Uyghurs seeking safety from the Chinese government.
Until recently, Uyghurs who escaped repression at home felt safe in Türkiye, but as China-Türkiye relations warm, many are growing fearful.
(7/7) with the beginning of the #Trialogue,
@hrw.org calls on all policy-makers to preserve the #RBA as defined in the final EP position and to ensure that the #CSDDD remains an efficient tool to protect & remediate #victims
(6/7) One small relief: the final EP position managed to reintegrate a #RiskBasedApproach (#RBA)in the definition of what #DueDiligence is meant to be to ensure an appropriate identification of risks & occurrences of #HumanRightsAbuses & #EnvironmentHarms
(5/7) besides, #penalties will be decided at Member States level - creating a risk of forum shopping and #ResponsibleDisengagement will only be optional, even in cases of severe abuses, if it leads to a substantial prejudice for the company
(4/7) and a non-sensical deletion of the principle that allowed the CSDDD to be implemented when cases where brought in front of an EU court (#OMP - Art. 29.7 CSDDD).
Instead, judges will now first have to decide which of the >300 laws across the world apply...
(3/7) Worse even, the CSDDD #harmonized civil liability regime - meant to simplify access to justice (#A2J) for #victims, #judges & #companies has been scrapped: what is left is a puzzle of 27 national liability regimes (one per country)
(2/7) The final EP position is a slap in the face: only companies over 5000 employees & €1.5 billion net turnover would be under scope of the CSDDD - reducing the number of companies by over 70%
Today, MEPs passed a text even weaker that the last #JURI report. @eppgroup.bsky.social sided with the far-right to further dilute the #CSDDD. It deleted climate transition plans and rejected renewed proposals for an EU-wide civil liability regime. #Omnibus1 (1/7)
“When anti-EU parties and corporate lobbies write the rules, accountability dies and Europe’s credibility crumbles.
Today’s vote shows how corporate capture and far-right politics now walk hand in hand, and it's the victims, workers and the planet who pay the price.”
Bangladesh Federation of Worker Solidarity activists hold a rally in Dhaka on May 7, 2023 to mark ten years since the Rana Plaza building collapse that killed more than 1,130 people. © 2023 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP
🚨"The EU should not yield to businesses that want to weaken requirements to safeguard working conditions through business supply chains and protect workers’ human rights."
- 141(!) organizations including @hrw.org in joint letter before crucial November 13 EP vote ⤵️
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
My colleagues' @demontcl.bsky.social & @benjeannerod.bsky.social 's op-ed with for @hrw.org:
Paris conference should bridge the gap between rhetoric & reality in Great Lakes & deliver justice for Congolese who’ve suffered decades of conflict.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10... @eudiplomacy.bsky.social
Louisiana is not only a picturesque touristic destination, it is also a global epicentre for the #fossilfuel and #petrochemical industry !
@hrw.org partner Joy Banner calls on MEPs "not to give up on CSDDD"
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
“If the EU and its member states fail to act decisively, authoritarian states will continue to intimidate communities within European borders, eroding democratic resilience on European soil. Beijing’s persistence in pursuing its overseas targets makes it ever more pressing to act now.”
New changes to EU law will undermine corporate accountability. 72% of companies could be excluded from addressing human rights and environmental harm through their supply chains.
📢Lawmakers should spare no effort in the next phase of negotiation to strengthen the law.
https://bit.ly/4qcrzGR
By embedding #LGBTIQ+ equality in #EU external action, the new strategy positions the EU as a global defender of LGBTIQ+ rights.
Next step: turn ambitions into action through political will, adequate funding, enforcement mechanisms, and implementation at home & abroad.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
Euro-Parliament adopted flagship report to address & prevent transnational repression - bold step for defenders worldwide.
There should be no impunity when repressive states target critics beyond their borders.
Thanks @chloe-ridel.fr for important work!
www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/202...
When visiting China, Swedish Foreign Minister Malmer Stenergard should focus on 1) human rights and growing Chinese repression including in Xinjiang and 2) Chinese transnational repression, to secure the release of bookseller Gui Minhai.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
