Human Rights Watch Twitter Spaces

April 17, 2023 Global | Environment and Human Rights

In this Twitter Space, HRW and partners discuss how we can: revive forests by empowering local communities, ensure women have equal participation in natural resource management, and ground conservation in Indigenous rights. With Luciana Téllez, Richard Pearshouse, Bimbika Sijapati Basnett, and Quinn Manson Buchwald, ahead of Earth Day 2023.
 

Indigenous people arrive in Quito after marching for 10 days to protest new mining and water law initiatives, as well as a constitutional reform project that would have allowed for indefinite re-election of the president.
March 22, 2023 Syria | Crisis and Conflict

42,000 foreigners, most of them children, remain stranded in life-threatening conditions in Syria. Letta Tayler, Raheema Khan, and Anthony Gale discuss the plight of detained ISIS suspects and relatives in this Twitter Space.

A boy stares through a fence
March 21, 2023 Russia, Ukraine | International Criminal Court, International Justice

The International Criminal Court judges issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In this Twitter Space, we discuss the warrants, war crimes in Ukraine, and why justice matters, everywhere.

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech
March 15, 2023 Iraq, Middle East/North Africa, United States

Twenty years later, HRW takes a deep dive into the long-lasting legacy of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and the ongoing challenges facing the country. Led by Birgit Schwarz in conversation with Haider Elias and Sarah Sanbar.

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