Jim Murphy
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San Francisco, CA, United States
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Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Yet another devastating school shooting in the US; the #FreeHerFace campaign in Afghanistan; thousands of leaked photos from China's surveillance system in Xinjiang; and police in the US have killed 2000 people since the murder of George Floyd. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Israeli police assaulted Palestinians during journalist Shireen Abu Aqla’s funeral procession; President Putin is sending Ukrainians from Mariupol, Ukraine, to remote corners of Russia; and the most serious women’s rights crisis in the world today. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: The bombing of a drama theater Mariupol, that satellite imagery shows had the word "Children" written on either side of it; Saudi Arabia's execution spree; marking → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Women are still protesting in Afghanistan; the Myanmar junta deploys thousands of troops; Ethiopia's government blocks critical aid; and when → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Nearly 100 civilians killed in Myanmar in September; millions of people at risk as the Ethiopian government expels UN officials; Reuters reports Taliban retaliation against women who protested for human rights; and governments should investigate claims that #Facebook is putting profits ahead of children’s health. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: The weeks since August 15, when Kabul fell to the Taliban, have been a steady stream of bad news for women and girls in Afghanistan; shocking move out of Ethiopia → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending this week: Women in Afghanistan protest for their rights even after beatings meted out by the Taliban; villagers describe a gruesome massacre by the Myanmar army; China is dismantling Hong Kong's unions; and racial injustice at the US border as agents on horseback abuse Haitian migrants. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: The ICC greenlights an investigation into the thousands of “drug war” killings in the Philippines; a massive rollback on women's rights in Afghanistan; LGBT kids bullied in South Korean schools; and more than 2 million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: In Hong Kong, Thailand, and Myanmar, people flash the three-finger salute to show their resistance to tyranny; the new Texas abortion law deputizes the states' citizens as bounty hunters; and it's critical that all deportations to Afghanistan cease and desist immediately. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: 400,000 civil servants in Myanmar are still on strike, seven months after the military coup; the Taliban were committing atrocities in the weeks before their takeo → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: European countries need to cease all deportations of Afghan asylum-seekers back to Afghanistan; history is tragically repeating itself in Myanmar; → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Since the February 1, 2021 coup, Myanmar’s junta has arrested 98 journalists; HRW finds that Israeli strikes in May killed scores of civilians in Gaza with no evident military targets in the area and amount to apparent war crimes; how the world is failing to prevent abuse in Ethiopia's Tigray region; and an inspiring photo goes viral. → Read More
Top Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: On July 15, twelve people with disabilities living in a group home → Read More
Top Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: The Myanmar junta's attacks on doctors and the medical system is coming back to haunt the people of the country; massive protests in Cuba, probabl → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: In blocking wider vaccine production globally, the EU takes a neocolonialist approach to the pandemic; the African Union's deafening silence on Ti → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets: Hungary's parliament shamefully claps as new anti-LGBT bill passes; Myanmar sentences three striking school teachers to three years in prison; millions are at risk of famine in Ethiopia's Tigray region; and celebrating #Pride month, this month and every month. → Read More
Top Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: Two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa say Israel is committing the crime of apartheid today; since the coup in Myanmar, women are reporti → Read More
Top Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: In rural India, where health care is neglected, bodies are being left along riverbanks; Chevron and Total SA to suspend payments from a gas pipeline project in Myanmar; massive demonstrations confronted by high levels of police brutality across Colombia; and a beautiful mural by Michael Rosadow depicts devastating details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. → Read More
Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: In Myanmar, the military junta continues its repression yet countries, like Russia, sell it military equipment; 10 hard truths about the conflict in Israel/Palestine; killed by police in Colombia; and the Tulsa Race Massacre, 100 years later. → Read More
Top Rights Tweets of the Week
Trending rights tweets this week: An Israeli airstrike destroyed a prominent high-rise building in Gaza City that housed media outlets including Al Jazeera and the Associated Press; police engage i → Read More