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Associate Director, Children's Rights Division HRW. Child rights & mining, corporate accountability, environment. Based in Berlin.
Joined August 2013
Abuse + exploitation in global value chains affect millions of people. But there is hope: today, the EU voted for a groundbreaking law that obliges companies to respect human rights & environment in their global value chains.
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Es würde helfen, wenn Deutschland @AuswaertigesAmt @BMWK Waffenlieferungen an Israel stoppen würde!
Die Bilder verkohlter Leichen, darunter Kinder, bei dem Luftschlag in #Rafah, sind unerträglich. Die genauen Umstände müssen aufgeklärt werden und die von der israelischen Armee angekündigte Untersuchung nun rasch kommen. Die Zivilbevölkerung muss endlich besser geschützt werden.
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Tanzania: #WorldBank board meeting today should require the Tz government to lift its discriminatory & destructive policy of expelling pregnant schoolgirls before giving $500m loan.
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Human Rights Rankings for 15 Top Jewelers and Watchmakers
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Inspiring to see tens of thousands of young protesters at the Berlin climate strike today, and to hear @GretaThunberg say: "When enough people demand change, then change will come".
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Next week, German parliament will vote on the #supplychain law. Before, it should improve it and require systematic due diligence along the WHOLE chain, to ensure respect of human rights! @MatthiasHeider @cdubt .@MIT_bund @StefanRouenhoff #Laemmel #Linnemann
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10 years after the adoption of United Nations Guiding Principles on Businesses and Human Rights, we need laws that require companies to respect human rights and hold them accountable if they fail to do so. @hrw gives you 10 reasons why: 👉thread!
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Good news: Nigerian State acts against expulsion of pregnant girls. This could be a model! In Tanzania for example, it is government policy to expel girls.
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This is "Peter", in a small gold mine in Ghana. His job is to dig, pan, and process gold with mercury. He says: "I wish I could have stayed in school". More needs to be done to help kids get out of child labor, into education. #WorldDayAgainstChildLabor
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Great to see that Netherlands joins, France, UK & Australia in adopting #duediligence laws: Dutch Senate recently adopted a law requiring companies to check for and address child labour in their supply chains. #corporateaccountability
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Valentine Day: I love jewelery but not the neglect jewelers have for rights. My piece @CNNI
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Youth climate activists are putting the heat on governments at #COP26, inside & outside the conference. For them, recent government commitments are "betrayal", and what is needed is "visionary leadership".
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Good news for girl’s rights: Tanzania lifts its discriminatory ban on schooling for pregnant girls & teenage mothers. The ban has harmed countless girls and has been opposed by @hrw and many others. Finally back to school #ArudiShule!
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GOOD NEWS! This morning, German parliament adopted the new #supplychain law. While it has some serious gaps, it is a good first step for #corporateaccountability.
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27 African countries now have laws or policies to ensure girls can continue school when they have a baby. Others including #Tanzania #SierraLeone should follow suit.
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Good news: Consumers in the Netherlands may soon be able to buy products that are child labor-free
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7,000+ people killed in Philippines 'drug war'. How many more before there is concerted international action?
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We need transparency in the garment supply chain to protect human rights, and lives.
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Today is a big day for youth activism. Already, students marched in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, India, and many other places. Altogether, #climatestrike protests in 123 countries!.
Latest update say:.2052 places in 123 countries on all continents, including Antarctica. So, the question is:.What will you do on March 15 2019? #schoolstrike4climate #FridaysForFurture #climatestrike #WhateverItTakes .(picture from Sydney today)
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Last year, a group of young people took Germany to court over the #climatecrisis. Yesterday, the German Constitutional Court ruled that the country's climate law violates rights. My colleague @katha_nina on a historic judgment:
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Good news: From this month, large companies in Germany are obliged by law to conduct human rights due diligence in their global #supplychains. The challenge ahead: The government needs to ensure robust criteria and sufficient staffing for checking company compliance.
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Billions are spent each holiday season on jewelry. What are major jewelry & watch brands doing to source responsibly? Here is our ranking. For details, see our report: #BehindTheBling
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Good news: Governments obliged to protect children from mercury in gold mining. Minamata Convention takes effect today! #MakeMercuryHistory
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Recycling is considered ecofriendly. But in Turkey, children as young as 9 work in plastic recycling facilities, breathing in toxic fumes everyday. The plastic waste largely comes from wealthy EU countries. New @hrw report & video out today. #childlabor
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The right to education doesn't end when you are a refugee child.
Over half of the world’s school-aged refugees – some 4 million children – lack access to education, finds new @Refugees report #TurnTheTide: Refugee Education in Crisis
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My heart pains to hear more news of Philippines human rights defenders murdered.
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Children injured, poisoned, killed in mines. Jewelers and watch companies should use #Baselworld 2018 to explain where their gold is from!
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Caleb, 15, from Zambian mining town speaks at UN mtg: My body is full of lead and it can't be washed away. It is not too late to act #DGD16
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David, 16, may soon have to leave his home in the Marshall Islands due to rising sea levels. He is among 15 kids who have submitted a climate complaint against Germany. They deserve to be heard, even as Germany argues non-admissibility.
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Staggering: 1.7 million children die each year due to a polluted environment, says WHO
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U.S.: No Mr. President, Torture Does Not “Work”
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Zambia’s Peaceful Transition Brings Hopes for Victims of Human Rights Violations - my colleague @dewamavhinga .
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Consumers will spend billions this holiday season on jewelry for loved ones. But diamonds and gold may be mined under abusive conditions. Can your jeweler tell you what is #BehindTheBling? New @hrw report. company ranking & video out today.
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Here is the result of our new jewelry company ranking (and report), released today. Only 2 of 15 companies came out as strong.
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Pesticide poisoning in Brazil, child labor in Ghana’s gold mines, land loss in Guinea: These and other abuses in supply chains hit children hard. @peteraltmaier, Germany needs a robust supply chains law!
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Powerful film about life in Africa’s most toxic city, Kabwe - where a former mine continues to poison the community. Kabwe mine needs to be cleaned up now! @iampilato @caritaszambia via @viceworldnews.
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Remarkable: European Court for Human Rights sticks to its decision to fast-track #Youth4Climate case brought by 4 kids & 2 young adults from Portugal due to urgency of issues, despite 33 governments pushing back: #ClimateCrisis @GLAN_LAW
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The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. Young people from Uganda, fearful of what their future looks like, have joined @Fridays4FutureU and speak up at #COP27: .
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Activists in Senegal campaign against sexual violence in schools. See our new report and video @hrw @Martinez_Elin
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A rare, positive event: France just adopted a law on supply chain safeguards companies need to put in place
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European Court recognizes urgency of #ClimateCrisis and rejects States' request to reconsider its decision to fast-track the case #Youth4Climate
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In their own words, children share the reality of their lives, their hopes, and their dreams. #WorldChildrensDay #CRC30
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Ending #Childlabor must become a global priority, inspired by @k_satyarthi winning #Nobel. http://t.co/0tJSYEoq01
http://t.co/tsJPVaw1z6.
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Jewellery brands urged to do more to fight gold, diamond mining abuses
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At HRW, we have documented appalling abuses in global supply chains - child labor, attacks on union activists, environmental harm, & more. The German Labor Minister just announced he is preparing a supply chain law. We welcome this! #Lieferkettengesetz
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Ever heard of International Day of Education? It is today, for the first time ever! . My colleague @Martinez_Elin on the need to address the huge education deficit the world faces.
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Increase of Anti-Asian Racism Attacks in the US - the President has fanned the flames, and a much stronger political response is needed.
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British doctor describes what she has seen during her recent work at a Gaza hospital, particularly child injuries. Horrendous.
“Children with… open fractures, partial amputations, open chest wounds, horrendous lacerations… and burns. And that was every day.” Dr Deborah Harrington recently spent 2 weeks in a Gaza hospital. “I feel ashamed and shocked that we’re doing this to fellow humans,” she told me.
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Small children and the elderly are greatly suffering from the intense smoke caused by Amazon fires, and hospitalization rates have gone up. New @hrw report and video:
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Good news: UN child rights body decides to provide authoritative guidance to govts on protecting children from environmental harm @UNTreatyBodies
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On #WorldDayAgainstChildLabor, it is time to remember the 22,000 children who are killed at work every year.
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Some jewelry companies wonder how responsible their sourcing is. Here are 20 questions jewelry companies (and others) that can be a starting point to answer this. #valentinesday2021 .
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The peaceful transition in Zambia is good news for the country, and for democracy generally. Big expectations are now on President-elect Hichilema to address a faltering economy and serious abuses, including harmful mining impacts.
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EU supply chains law took 3+ years = a carefully balanced compromise btw 27 EU member states + parliament. But German coalition party @fdp forces 🇩🇪 to abstain at EU vote. It turns out Germany is no proponent of human rights, nor a reliable EU partner.
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Who gets care in a pandemic? Assuring human rights is part of preparedness
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Good news: The time of voluntary industry standards is over. Bad news: The EU's new laws & bills on human rights & environment in supply chains are over-reliant on self-certification of industry . My take:
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Today is #EarthDay! Time to honor youth environmental activists around the world, and to take action to protect children's right to a healthy environment.
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Large companies in Switzerland could soon be legally obliged to protect human rights & environment in their global supply chains. Our research on the #gold sector underlines the urgency -- a great opportunity that MPs should not let pass! #corporatejustice
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At @hrw COP28 event, climate actvivist @Luisamneubauer of @FridayForFuture Germany criticises backsliding of rights for climate activists in Germany.
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Today is World Day Against #childlabour! Watch our video on global supply chains&child labor
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Today is the UN Human Rights Council's meeting on child rights & environment #ADRC. States should listen to @GretaThunberg & millions of other youth activists calling for urgent action.
The extreme heatwave continues. But equally worrying is the fact that our societies fail to grasp the full meaning of this. The longer the climate crisis is being ignored or downplayed - the longer people will remain unaware. And the political inaction is allowed to continue.
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Pollution from #Ethiopia Midroc industrial gold mine linked to long-standing horrific health consequences: investigation out by @newhumanitarian.
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Ahead of #EarthDay2024, take a look at an extraordinary court ruling. It holds Peru accountable for violating the right to a healthy environment & orders a cleanup & other steps. Relevant for #sacrificezones #leadpoisoning around the world! @LeadFreeKabwe.
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Today is the day: EU States vote on a supply chains law that would oblige companies to address human rights & environmental harm in supply chains. ‼️ EU govts should support this important law + not be deterred by Germany's shameful abstention.
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Berlin #climatestrike - young & old on the street, mobilized by a powerful youth movement. #FridayForFuture #ClimateRights4All
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Good news: Jordan education ministry takes steps to ensure Syrian refugee children can enroll in school
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South Africa: Make Education for Children with Disabilities Free!
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Tomorrow, the German govt cabinet will discuss and likely adopt the proposed #supplychain law. Unfortunately, it falls short of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights. Parliamentarians should turn this into a robust law!
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Tomorrow, youth protesters will organize climate strikes on all continents for climate action. Political leaders should listen attentively!
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We welcome Zambia's vision of transforming #Kabwe, among the world's top toxic towns, into a “Green City”. But Kabwe cannot be green without cleanup of the toxic #lead mine waste! .#ChildRights #LeadFreeKabwe.View by @EnvironmentAfr1 @hrw: .
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Every day, children in Kabwe, #Zambia are poisoned with lead from a former mine. A scandal. Now, UN experts @SRtoxics @SR_Disability have urged the govt to to clean up the contamination. Their call comes at a critical moment, ahead of the election.
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In 2020, you should be watching for a growing trend towards bills that propose to curb abuses and hold companies accountable. My colleague @komala_chandra and I on #CorpAccountability: #Rights2020
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Today, the new global mercury treaty goes into effect: Hope for people suffering mercury poisoning around the world!
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Child laborers. In America. In 2014. Why is the #US not prohibiting child labor in tobacco? http://t.co/ayecqUE2kU
http://t.co/lwmSXwTRq5.
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Zambia: We welcome the govt's decision to set up a committee to tackle the massive lead contamination in Kabwe. ➡️Our joint NGO statement w/ @caritaszambia @EnvironmentAfr1 @tdh_de @PAAGZ1 @iampilato @ZGFZambia @ZANEC_Official @ti_zambia & others.
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Zambia must treat children suffering from lead poisoning, clean up former mine area - UN experts via @africanews
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Swiss referendum in 2 days: an important chance for corporate accountability
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Sunday is Mother's Day! Thinking of buying a nice necklace for your mum? Ask your jeweler to source responsibly!
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Take action now! Call on global jewelry brands to come clean in our digital campaign #BehindTheBling. @hrw
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Are you planning to buy jewelry for a loved one this holiday? Ask the jewelry company where their gold& diamonds are from, and under which conditions they were mined!.Our new video and report with company ranking here:
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In Kabwe, Zambia, 1/2 of children living near the former lead mine urgently need medical treatment. One of them, a boy age 10, told me: "The President should bring us medicine". My oped on measures needed to #SaveKabwe: @iampilato @LauraMiti @caritaszambia
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Deep-dive by @TheTimes into trail of gold mined by children from Ghana to the UAE and Switzerland. Important new findings that companies and governments should respond to! #corporateaccountability #BehindTheBling.
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#WhoMadeMyClothes? @UrbanOutfitters @Forever21 @Walmart @Primark & @armani know, but aren’t telling. #GoTransparent
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Here are some human rights questions you should ask your jeweler when shopping for a jewelry Christmas gift:
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At today's UN mtg on #childrights & environment, we launch our joint Call to Action with 23 orgs & experts.
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Given the human rights record of the mining sector, the new rush on minerals for the energy transition is worrisome. The German development minister recognises the risks, but will the govt ensure rights are respected in “critical” mineral supply chains?
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73 civil society groups - including @hrw - call for emergency support to vulnerable artisanal mining communities & robust due diligence in mineral supply chains.
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We have come to a point where children's environmental health is under great threat - and children can't even go to school due to air pollution:.
Children in Bangkok are having their education disrupted as toxic smog forces nearly 450 schools to close.
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Ten years ago. I still miss Alison a lot. She was a great human rights activist, thinker, mentor, and more.
Remembering Alison Des Forges, 10 Years Later
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Retweet if you agree that all kids should be safe and free to learn, play and thrive. Tell @PrimeMinisterGR to #FreeTheKids from immigration detention in #Greece and put them in housing where they are less at risk of contracting #COVID19
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“I’m just waiting for the moment I’m murdered.” ~ Maria. Powerful video on Amazon forest fires and who is behind it. People in Brazil are risking their lives to protect the Amazon from the #RainforestMafias.
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In #Turkana, a shrinking water supply in a harsh environment is threatening Indigenous peoples at the forefront of #climatechange: #ClimateRights4All
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