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Mashup Score: 3Killer Robots: Negotiate Treaty in New Forum - 1 year(s) ago
Governments should move the stalled discussions of a treaty on autonomous weapons systems, known as “killer robots,” to a new international forum. Such weapons systems would operate without meaningful human control, delegating life-and-death decisions to machines.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 204Civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region at Heightened Risk - 2 year(s) ago
For several weeks, towns in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have endured regular bombardments from an escalating joint offensive by Ethiopia and Eritrea forces against Tigrayan forces. Yesterday, the government forces captured Shire, a major town in Tigray.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
RT @hrw: Civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region at Heightened Risk https://t.co/QlW1NFISLj
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Mashup Score: 124Confronting Ethiopia's Abusive Siege - 2 year(s) ago
Free passage of this shipment, destined for Ethiopia, followed concerted pressure by African governments on Russia as well as UN-led negotiations. But diplomatic muscle, including by African countries, is needed over the Ethiopian government’s almost two-year-long chokehold on humanitarian assistance to the beleaguered Tigray region. Otherwise, some of the Ethiopians most at risk of hunger are…
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Abusive Siege on more than 6 million people of #Tigray in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian and Eritrean Governments https://t.co/WheobCJdKF
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Mashup Score: 2Flood-Affected Women in Pakistan Need Urgent Help - 2 year(s) ago
Catastrophic floods have destroyed huge areas of Pakistan. Among the millions of severely affected people are at least 650,000 pregnant women and girls, 73,000 of whom are expected to deliver in the next month.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Flood-Affected Women in Pakistan Need Urgent Help https://t.co/8p6aTePp5k
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Mashup Score: 0Morocco/Spain: Horrific Migrant Deaths at Melilla Border - 2 year(s) ago
The deaths of at least 23 African men at the Melilla-Morocco border on June 24, 2022 requires an independent, impartial investigation capable of determining what occurred and who bears responsibility for such loss of life, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Why is the media not covering this massacre? https://t.co/ElFuReCtQc
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Mashup Score: 0Pakistan: Repeal Amendment to Draconian Cyber Law - 2 year(s) ago
The Pakistan government’s amendment to its cybercrimes act is the latest in a concerted campaign to restrict freedom of expression and stifle dissent, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
On February 18, 2022, Imran Khan’s govt passed an ordinance amending the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA) to make online “defamation” of authorities, including the military & judiciary, a criminal offense with harsh penalties. https://t.co/GtrehGU9l7
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Mashup Score: 37“We Will Erase You from This Land” - 2 year(s) ago
The 221-page report, “‘We Will Erase You From This Land’: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone,” documents how newly-appointed officials in Western Tigray and security forces from the neighbouring Amhara region, with the acquiescence and possible participation of Ethiopian federal forces, systematically expelled several hundred thousand Tigrayan civilians…
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
“We Will Erase You from This Land”: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone | HRW “ https://t.co/maDadgVLAz
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Mashup Score: 7Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas - 2 year(s) ago
Human Rights Watch has documented several cases of Russian military forces committing laws-of-war violations against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: HIV/AIDS, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Ukraine: Apparent War Crimes in Russia-Controlled Areas https://t.co/sKdhu3QB7y
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Mashup Score: 453Ethiopia: Airstrike on Camp for Displaced Likely War Crime - 2 year(s) ago
An Ethiopian government airstrike hit a school compound hosting thousands of displaced Tigrayans in northwestern Tigray, on January 7, 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. An apparent armed drone dropped three bombs on the compound in the town of Dedebit, killing at least 57 civilians and wounding more than 42 others
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
An Ethiopian government airstrike -- apparently an armed drone dropping three bombs -- hit a school compound hosting thousands of displaced Tigrayans in northwestern Tigray on January 7, killing at least 57 civilians and wounding more than 42 others. https://t.co/LXFRlnIAZX
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Mashup Score: 1“We Need Access” - 2 year(s) ago
Summary Cervical cancer is not a disease that anyone should die from. It just doesn’t make any sense. We know too much about it for it to be something that people die from.
Source: Human Rights WatchCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
What good is prevention when there is no access? #endcervicalcancer https://t.co/kv3hjdVBYO
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Discussions on #AutonomousWeapons have stalled at the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons. A new report by @hrw and @HumanRightsHLS argues that governments should find a new international forum to make progress on treaty negotiations. https://t.co/lZLjNAAUYd