The UK again attempts to bend truth on #Rwanda . This time around it was Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP on BBC Radio 4 Today. New dispatch for Human Rights Watch: hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…

In 2023 #Ghana expelled 100s of ethnic Fulani (Peul) asylum seekers from #BurkinaFaso , says The New Humanitarian James Courtright. While Ghana has welcomed thousands of Burkinabé refugees, Fulani rights groups allege discriminatory treatment
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The European Parliament vote today in favor of the Migration and Asylum Pact represents in a new low for the EU. How can anyone take seriously EU pledges on human rights when it celebrates denying people asylum, endorsing pushbacks, locking people up, and shirking its responsibilities?

Several calls for an independent inquiry — from the European Parliament and Spanish parliament, as well as Amnesty International — after our investigation revealed how EU funds were used to quash protesters in Senegal.

🧵 #EU institutions have almost finalised negotiations on the #MigrationPact

These measures will mean that #externalisation - a process that has caused #HumanRights abuses and involved the EU “bankrolling dictators” - will become hardwired into EU law

What this entails ⬇️

1/🚨 #Ethiopia n soldiers’ summary executions of dozens of civilians in Merawi, #Amhara in Jan & again in Feb show the consequences of the impunity in which Ethiopian forces operate. Time for #Ethiopia ’s partners to act. New investigation from Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

Two weeks before the Paris conference on #Sudan Human Rights Watch joins six other organisations in calling on #France to stop deporting Sudanese Elvire Fondacci

La #France devrait assurer la protection des soudanais et cesser toutes expulsions vers le #Soudan , compte tenu du conflit armé d’une exceptionnelle violence dans ce pays. Tribune de La Cimade avec HRW en français, Amnesty International France, MSF International et autres dans Le Monde lemonde.fr/idees/article/…

30 years after the 1994 genocide in #Rwanda , Human Rights Watch is digitizing and making available some of its archives from the time. The documents painfully illustrate world leaders' refusal to acknowledge the slaughter and act to end it. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

New Human Rights Watch report out today details #Iran authorities' persecution of #Bahai , which is a crime against humanity. Iran's gov't decades-long repression of Baha'is includes arbitrary arrest, property confiscation, & denial of jobs & education. hrw.org/news/2024/04/0…

On #Israel #Gaza #PalestineRefugees :
New op-ed by Human Rights Watch’s Refugee & Migrant Rights Division director in The Hill 👇

Turkiye is increasingly deporting Syrians to the remote, isolated Turkish-occupied border town of Tel Abyad, which suffers from lawlessness, insecurity and dire humanitarian conditions and to which most deportees have no meaningful ties whatsoever. hrw.org/news/2024/03/2…

Days after the EU stroke €7.4 billion deal with Egypt, dozens of NGOs are urging the Egyptian authorities to end arbitrary detentions and forced deportations of Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers.

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#Canada - some good news 🎉

The EU should ensure that any funding to #Egypt does not contribute to abuses, including in the name of migration control. Analysis to that end (& human rights benchmarks) should come BEFORE deals are announced. But here we are again, European Commission fails to heed warnings. Human Rights Watch:

At the behest of the US, MX is pushing asylum seekers south to prevent them from reaching the border further exposing them to kidnapping by cartels. MX continues to do the dirty work of the US while the US continues the externalization of its border.
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I realize odds of these funds getting blocked are minimal but to quote Ursula von der Leyen herself, the EU 'tabled' a proposal. Nothing final. Either the European Parliament or Members States through European Council have to approve

There's time to insist on responsible conditions 🧵

.FRANCE 24 on EU #Egypt deal: “Human Rights Watch said it had documented ‘arbitrary arrests & mistreatment of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees by Egyptian authorities.’ @HRW criticised what it labelled ‘the EU's cash-for-migration-control approach’”. france24.com/en/live-news/2…

'…a small portion of the €2.4bn… will be earmarked for support in securing the borders w Sudan & Libya…
Human Rights Watch said the expected deal would 'reward Egypt’s autocratic leader … for preventing migrants’ departures towards Europe'.' theguardian.com/world/2024/mar… x.com/POLITICOEurope…

Exactly.