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The U.S. plans to cut thousands of State Dept. jobs and roll back human rights and refugee work — all in the name of “American and Western values.” 💔⚖️ What kind of values are these? 🤷🏻‍♀️ #HumanRights 🔗 www.devex.com/news/devex-n...

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Sometimes AI gets it too right. 🍊🐔 #Taco

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The world needs more men like Reza. ✊🏼♀️🇮🇷 #WomenRights #Iran 🔗 time.com/7288811/iran...

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Many European leaders love to criticize Trump — but they’re quick to copy his playbook. 🇪🇺🤮 #DoBetter 🔗 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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South Africa’s president jokes about Trump dust-up. 😂 We need more of this ❤️🇿🇦

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🤦🏻‍♀️⬇️ 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

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The proposal passes with 95 in favor and four against – Israel, Hungary, Czech Republic and Germany – and 27 abstentions. 🗳️✊🏼 🔗 www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Step 1: Rig the elections. Step 2: Jail 3 opposition candidates for 10 years. Step 3: Wait for the next election and do it all over again. That’s autocracy in Algeria. 🇩🇿💔 #Algeria #Democracy 🔗 www.arabnews.pk/node/2602217

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Interesting video about the challenges faced by South African farmers, who are not only white btw. 🇿🇦🫱🏾‍🫲🏼⚖️ #SouthAfrica

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We love this! 💙 Congrats to Jafar Panahi for the palme d'or! 🎥🇮🇷⚖️ #Iran #HumanRights

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Human Rights Index 2024 From the brightest to the bleakest. 🌍 Most Rights-Respecting 🏆 Estonia 🇪🇪 Sweden 🇸🇪 Denmark 🇩🇰 Ireland 🇮🇪 New Zealand 🇳🇿 Most Repressive 🚨 Myanmar 🇲🇲 Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Eritrea 🇪🇷 Afghanistan 🇦🇫 North Korea 🇰🇵 where does your country stand? ⬇️ ourworldindata.org/grapher/huma...

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Quick pause to tag @alain-berset.coe.int ➡️ Institutions that defend rights must never bow to political pressure. It's a must! ⚖️✊🏼 🔗 www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

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Dancing through the fight. It’s Saturday. ❤️💛💚 #HumanRights

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“If human rights defenders can’t count on the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, why should victims bother bringing their cases?” 🤷🏻‍♀️ Rights advocates warn: without real reform, the Council risks becoming just a symbol—disconnected from the people. 📢🇪🇺 🔗 www.turkishminute.com/2025/05/23/e...

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Wise words from Mandela. Not all noise is change.

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Studying abroad doesn’t just educate — it transforms. 🎓🌍 When students cross borders, so does understanding. Block that, and you block our ability to live together, to understand each other, to build a better world. 💔 #KnowledgeKnowsNoBorders

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When you ask an Afrikaner academic about claims of white persecution in South Africa. ➡️ “White South Africans have benefited from democracy more than anybody else.” 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼🇿🇦💚

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The number of people in prison keeps on rising. It shouldn’t be a blind spot for human rights. ⚖️📢 @penalreformint.bsky.social #JusticeForAll

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This cartoon on our previous post was flagged as adult content. 🤦🏻‍♀️ A statue of Justice—blinded, disarmed, broken—got censored. The irony writes itself. 👏🏼 #BlueSky

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This cartoon is from 2017 — still spot on today. ⚖️ ✏️ Dariusz Dabrowski #Justice #RuleOfLaw

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This violate so many laws that we can't even list them here. 💔⚖️ Learning basic geography could also help. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🔗 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"America first, UK first... — we're seeing a rise in nationalist policies." Wise words from young African activists. ✊🏾🌍 🔗 www.dw.com/en/the-77-pe...

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Holodomor (from Ukrainian holod "hunger" + moryty "to kill") A man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine (1932–33) that killed millions. Recognized by many as crime against humanity. #HumanRights

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Over 10,000 Ukrainian POWs. 127 detention sites. Daily torture, forced patriotism, and crushing of bodies and minds. Civilians and soldiers alike. 🇺🇦✊🏼 #IStandWithUkraine 🔗 khpg.org/en/1608814674

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Mistakes don’t fire warning shots. People do. 💔🕊️ Source: Bloomberg

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Should we be surprised. 🤔 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/05/19/n...

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"What once seemed like an exception in Berlusconi — a mix of hubris syndrome, extreme narcissism, and psychopathology — has now become a regular feature in global politics… deepening the crisis." 💯⚖️ Read more ⬇️ 🔗 www.sakharovcenter-vdu.eu/events/upcom...

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“A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not give itself the aim of expelling populations,” 📢🕊️ Yair Golan 🔗 www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Different languages. Same fight. Same rights. ⚖️💯 #HumanRights

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We will never stop fighting for the release of prisoners of conscience detained for standing up for human rights or for the repeal of repressive laws that prevent people in Russia from speaking up against injustice. ❤️🕯️ 🔗 www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

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The most accurate video we’ve seen today. 🛴

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European “green” funds hold $33 billion in fossil fuel giants like Shell & Exxon. 💔🛢️ Some even use names like Sustainable Global Stars. Greenwashing isn’t just real — it’s massive. 🤮 #ClimateJustice 🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Today, 3 key elections are taking place across Europe. 🗳️🏛️ 🇵🇹 Portugal holds a snap parliamentary election following a government collapse. 🇵🇱 Poland conducts the first round of its presidential election. 🇷🇴 Romania votes in the second round of its presidential election. #Democracy

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Every community deserves protection — and when one is pushed back, we all lose ground. Must watch! ⚖️✊🏼✊🏾 #HumanRights

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85% of the world lives in the Global South. 🌍 But we receive less than 25% of development financing. 💸 Less than 2% of aid directly reaches local NGOs. 💔 Yet we suffer 90% of climate deaths. 🌡️ — Ezekiel Nyanfor, Liberian activist at the Global South NGO Platform (2025) 🇱🇷✊🏾

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