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Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
In 🇰🇪Nairobi, prosecutors, legal practitioners, and international experts from across Africa came together for the first Regional Conference on Accountability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, hosted by the 🇺🇳 @UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
More than a conference, this gathering reflected a shared commitment to strengthening justice systems, enhancing regional cooperation, and ensuring survivor-centered accountability for conflict-related sexual violence.
Every person in this photo 📷 represents an important step toward a future where survivors are heard, perpetrators are held accountable, and impunity has no place.
Justice requires action. Accountability requires partnership. The work continues.
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
By attacking the Int’l Criminal Court, the Trump administration obstructs survivors of serious violations from healing and restitution, as we @P4HR document in our amicus brief supporting the lawsuit challenging these sanctions. phr.org/news/trump-administr…
The Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC as an institution create additional harms for those seeking justice for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide, and threaten fundamental freedoms. We’ve joined with others to defend the ICC. thehill.com/opinion/criminal…
Attacks on energy infrastructure are attacks on civilian health and safety.
Escalating attacks on energy infrastructure in conflicts across the world threaten lives, disrupt essential services, and risk lasting environmental and health harms.
These attacks must stop. Their impacts must not go undocumented.
All combatants must uphold international humanitarian law and protect civilians.
PHR, @WeaponsMonitor, and @kobotoolbox have published a guide to documenting the devastating civilian impacts of attacks on energy infrastructure – critical evidence for future accountability.
Explore the guide: phr.org/our-work/resources/m……
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
(2/2) HRW and @P4HR reporting in June analyzed the rising mortality rate and found disturbing indications of delayed or inadequate medical care in several cases.
Learn more: hrw.org/report/2026/06/25/dy…
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
Since 1996, rape has been used to destroy communities in eastern Congo. Last year, OCHA reported 220,000+ cases of sexual and gender-based violence in DRC.
Watch Dr. Mukwege’s call to action: ow.ly/RcpO50ZXeFR
#EndTheEndlessWar
🎥 : Mathieu Roy @Edizonart
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
One year since a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was announced, PHRI is releasing a new paper exposing Israel’s continued actions and policies preventing any meaningful recovery of Gaza’s healthcare system.
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We continue to monitor shortages of medical supplies, diagnostics, and treatment, along with limited medical evacuations for critical patients in need of lifesaving treatment. PHRI has followed more than a dozen cases of children who died while awaiting medical evacuation, as Israel blocks the medical corridor between Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
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The situation on the ground speaks for itself: on October 2, Nasser Medical Complex ran out of syringes.
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Yet raw aid volume and truck counts are misleading metrics. What matters is whether Palestinians in Gaza have access to the conditions necessary to sustain a healthy and dignified life. One year into the ceasefire, the continued destruction and denial of these conditions, in the absence of accountability, means Israel’s genocide in Gaza persists.
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We demand that Israeli authorities reopen the medical corridor, lift restrictions on medicines, medical equipment and humanitarian personnel, and allow the meaningful reconstruction of Gaza’s healthcare system.
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🔗Link to the full report in the comments.
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Photo: Yousef Zaanoun, Activestills
🇪🇹The @UN must urgently act to address the situation in #Ethiopia.
PHR joins 35 other civil society organizations calling for a UN @UN_HRC special session & an independent expert panel to assess abuses and help prevent further atrocities.
🔗phr.org/our-work/resources/h…
⚖️Survivors need comprehensive care, reparations, & justice.
🚨Impunity fuels further abuses.
The UN must act now to prevent further atrocities:
📢Protect health workers.
📢Support survivors.
📢Hold perpetrators accountable.
🔗Read our recent Q&A on what PHR & @O_JAH_ have documented in #Ethiopia – and what must happen to stop attacks on health care: phr.org/news/qa-attacks-on-h…
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
So wonderful for the Nobel Peace Prize to go to Navi Pillay, who was worked to uphold justice for many of the most vulnerable people around the world. I hope this award helps amplify her voice and supports her efforts.
2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion. A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.
This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide.
In historic international court cases, she has shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence. Navi Pillay has also contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law. Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time.
Learn more about the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize: bit.ly/4xjOJ03
#NobelPeacePrize #NobelPrize
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
In awarding this year’s #NobelPeacePrize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.
History has shown that a world operating without the rule of law is unjust, unwise and inhumane. The judges – those who guard the thin red line between order and chaos – are therefore highly deserving of our praise. But today, as these same judges are sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked, we need people of courage, vision and determination – qualities that 2026 peace laureate Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench.
#NobelPrize
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPeacePrize to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
#NobelPrize
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
Today, the Trump administration announces it is an enemy of international law and a supporter of the worst perpetrators of atrocities around the world. No American is facing a threat from the Int'l Criminal Court. It is now up to the true allies of global justice to stand up to this bullying.
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
The Netherlands, as the physical home of the Int'l Criminal Court, must now lead efforts to protect it from the rogue US administration trying to undermine justice around the globe.
#ICC President visits King Willem-Alexander ⤵️ icc-cpi.pulse.ly/xdbk5dovnx
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
🇪🇹 BREAKING / ETHIOPIA: As large-scale conflict has resumed, 35+ NGOs call on states to convene a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to urgently address the conflict’s human rights impact & help prevent atrocity crimes 🚨
Read their letter & asks: defenddefenders.org/ethiopia… #Ethiopia
Physicians for Human Rights retweeted
Federal agents allegedly misused a powerful grade of pepper spray known as MK-9 dozens of times during Operation Metro Surge, including at close-range, according to a study by the Physicians for Human Rights Center. fox9.com/news/feds-spent-mil…
