Richard Weir
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Senior Crisis, Conflict, and Arms Researcher @hrw.
Joined August 2011
RT @belkiswille: 🚨 New Report Release by @hrw 🚨 Amid Israel’s assault on Gaza, women have faced unimaginable conditions during pregnancy, c…
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RT @ida_sawyer: #DRC: As the M23 approaches #Goma, civilians are increasingly at risk, both from the M23 & Rwandan army, as well as the Con…
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RT @MunitionsPortal: The GBU-39 – a visual guide to Israel’s “weapon of choice” in Gaza. This is the first in a series of articles using i…
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RT @ida_sawyer: 🚨 Job Alert: We're hiring a new researcher to join our Crisis, Conflict & Arms Division @HRW, who will help us document war…
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RT @ZayadinH: 1/ In the aftermath of the Assad government’s fall, @hrw, @sednayamissing, and @Amnesty visited detention sites and mass grav…
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RT @belkiswille: 1/ The Rapid Support Forces & allied militias have carried out sexual violence across #Sudan including in South Kordofan,…
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RT @marywareham: United States is transferring internationally-prohibited antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine. New @hrw Q & A looks at how B…
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RT @ICRC: In the past 13 years, we have registered 35,000 cases of people who have gone missing in Syria. Behind every case is a family’s p…
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RT @hrw: Human Rights Watch has joined the Open Source Munitions Portal (OSMP)! Alongside others, we will be contributing photos of muniti…
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RT @adamcoogle: New from @hrw: recs for Syria's emerging leadership. This is a critical moment to reject the horror show of the past, rebui…
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RT @MunitionsPortal: The OSMP is thrilled to welcome Human Rights Watch as the latest research organisation contributing to our munitions a…
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RT @NathalyeCo: đź‡đź‡ąHaiti’s situation is catastrophic. The @UN Security Council should urgently address Haiti’s request to transform the @MSS…
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RT @ZayadinH: Amid renewed hostilities in Syria, it is civilians who are bearing the brunt of the violence, yet again finding themselves di…
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Long-overdue but a welcome development for the victims of horrifying atrocities.
Statement of #ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC: Application for an arrest warrant in the situation in #Bangladesh/#Myanmar ⤵️
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RT @democracynow: A new report from Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of committing an apparent war crime by its killing of three journalis…
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NEW @hrw found that the Oct 25 attack on journalists was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians & an apparent war crime. A US-produced JDAM on a 500lb bomb was used in the attack. The US govt shld immediately suspend arms transfers to Israel.
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RT @marywareham: More than 1,000 people were killed or wounded by #landmines in #Myanmar last year as fighting between junta military & arm…
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RT @marywareham: Despite the well-documented risk to civilians, the Biden administration has taken a reprehensible decision to send antiper…
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RT @hrw: The Biden administration plans to send internationally banned antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine. @marywareham details this "sho…
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@marywareham @hrw .@hrw has previously documented the use of anti-personnel mines by Russian and Ukrainian forces. Any use by Ukraine is an violation of the Mine Ban Treaty. But the treaty itself and is underpinned by the fact that these weapons are indiscriminate.
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