From the global Women’s March in January of 2017 that covered every continent on earth, to the burgeoning #MeToo movement, to the recognition of the Silence Breakers, women’s rights featured prominently in the human rights tweets of the last year. The fight for women’s rights is needed: The Trump administration reinstated the Global Gag Rule with massively extended restrictions; HRW documented rape being used as a weapon of war in the Central African Republic; and Burmese soldiers committed widespread rape and gang rape against women and girls as part of an ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims.
Drawing from tweets by HRW and our 200-plus tweeps on staff, and shares by a global audience of supporters numbering more than three million on Twitter, here is a chronological snapshot of 2017 in human rights tweets.
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