Deputy Director for #ChildRights at @hrw.org. Passionate about: children’s right to free education, from pre-primary through secondary; and keeping students safe, even during war. Photography for fun. Xoloitzcuintli fan.
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Bede Sheppard
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#French President Macron addressed the need for #reparations for France's role in the transatlantic trade of enslaved people.
A first step but comprehensive reparatory frameworks need to follow to address past and present harm rooted in enslavement legacies.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/05...
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In Liberia, only 17 percent of children complete grade 9, and 1 in 3 children never attend school at all.
In a new report, HRW documents that mandatory fees place a heavy financial burden on families and violate children’s right to education.
Read more from HRW: https://bit.ly/4nNJ0MX
Come work with us: HRW is hiring a coordinator in the Middle East and North Africa Division based in Beirut job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
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Authorities and security forces in Ethiopia’s contested Western Tigray Zone are arbitrarily detaining ethnic Tigrayans and imposing a discriminatory system that severely restricts their movements, employment, and access to services.
My piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the arrest & charging of Ben Roberts-Smith for 5 #warCrimes of murder. An incredibly significant legal development in #Australia, but also in the general global fight against impunity for international crimes. #intLaw #IHL opiniojuris.org/2026/04/15/a...
🇭🇹Members of the Kenya-led mission in Haiti were allegedly responsible for sexual violence according to the UN. As
the Gang Suppression Force deploys, urgent safeguards, independent investigations, and accountability are essential to prevent further abuse.
Read more: www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
Toxic lead from a Zambian mine has poisoned generations of children. This week @hrw.org & IHRDA will spotlight the case & call for justice:
PANEL: Spotlight on Kabwe
🗓 16 April 09h00 – 10h40
📍 ACERWC CSO Forum, Lesotho
With experts, activists & Kabwe residents
Join online tinyurl.com/458yy5kd
The number of out-of-school children has risen for 7 years in a row, reaching 273 million. A proposed free education treaty could push countries to act.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
Dozens of child rights experts agree: how the future #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty can provide justice for children: cahtreatynow.org/justice-for-...
Children are mentioned only twice in the treaty's current draft. Countries can fix that. Children deserve justice.
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A new United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report delivers a sobering message: the number of children out of school has risen for the seventh consecutive year, re...
[Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School; and visiting scholar with the University of Minnesota Law …
Le prés. Emmanuel Macron a reconnu la nécessité de réparations liées au rôle de la France dans l'esclavage.
Des réparations complètes devraient inclure des mesures pour lutter contre les inégalités systémiques et le racisme enraciné dans l’héritage de l’esclavage.
Le 21 mai dernier, le président français Emmanuel Macron a évoqué la nécessité d’aborder la question de réparations liées au rôle de la France dans la traite transatlantique des esclaves.
A United Nations report has found that members of a UN-authorized force operating in Haiti, the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, were responsible for four cases of sexual violen...
