Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

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May 20, 2016 12:07PM EDT | Commentary

Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Jim Murphy

Former Deputy Director, Digital

Refugees may be more welcome than the speeches of fear-mongering politicians suggest, yet they continue to be scapegoated for all manner of societal ills; Obama sets age limit for e-cigarettes but children as young as 12 still allowed to work in dangerous tobacco fields; one of the #BringBackOurGirls rescued in Nigeria; victims punished after rape in the US military; and Venezuela's crumbling health system.

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