In this week’s most shared tweets: The weekend began with the Women’s March last Saturday, an inspiring display of people power standing up for women’s rights. A torrent of executive orders from the Trump Administration followed, much of it captured in HRW’s new First 100 Days blog, including visa bans, refugee vetting, harmful immigration proposals, a life-threatening ‘global gag rule’, and even a statement from President Trump that torture “works”.
Also this week, horrific milestone in the Philippines’ drug war; refugee kids sleeping in sub-freezing temperatures in Europe; and men in Malaysia are trying to avoid rape charges by marrying their victims.