#Bulgaria has delayed its exit from coal, trailing behind most EU countries in its transition, and risking breach of new #EU air quality standards. Fresh @hrw.org report shows this contributes to serious health harms, esp for children. It may cost Bulgaria EU funds too. www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
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For more on the global state of human rights in a Trumpian world, read @hrw World Report 2026 just out. www.hrw.org/world-report...
Bulgaria’s delayed decommissioning of coal-fired power plants contributes to dangerous air pollution, risks breaching new air quality standards, and is slowing down the country’s transition away from ...
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A right-wing parliamentary body has started hearings on NGO activities under the guise of transparency for EU funds. Amidst widespread assault on civil society groups, EU lawmakers should support their essential work, not fuel smear campaigns and conspiracy theories www.hrw.org/news/2025/12...
As president Trump’s “peace plan” attempts to sideline accountability for Russia’s crimes in #Ukraine, read my colleague’s @hrw.org powerful and personal account of why justice matters. kyivindependent.com/the-light-uk...
“EU ‘caving into the floodgates of anti-migrant rhetoric’ warns Human Rights Watch”, @philippedam.bsky.social and I speak to @euobserver.com about migration fixation warping EU foreign policy and eroding asylum rights at home euobserver.com/201254/eu-ca...
EU-AU summit must see release of European humanitarian hostage
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Amazing news from #Tunisia: lawyer & commentator Sonia Dahmani released from arbitrary detention; at same time as Euro-Parliament adopted critical resolution on her case
Public diplomacy works. A lesson for @eudiplomacy.bsky.social: Silence is never an option
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On October 21, will EU member states finally vote under Art. 7 to hold Hungary accountable for Orbán's destruction of democracy & rule of law?
The time to act is now!
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World Report 2026, Human Rights Watch’s 36th annual review of human rights practices and trends around the globe, reviews developments in more than 100 countries.
Nongovernmental groups have sounded the alarm as the European Parliament’s new “Scrutiny Working Group” on funding for nongovernmental groups held its first meeting on November 26. The inquiry is pain...
About the author: Kseniya Kvitka is an assistant researcher with Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division. She is based in Kyiv.
As I sat down to write this, my apartment, like many othe...
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As leaders gather for the European Union-African Union Summit in Angola, we urge them to press for the immediate release of humanitarian Joseph Figueira Martin.
European Union member states meeting on October 21, 2025 to discuss Hungary’s erosion of the rule of law should vote on whether Hungary is at risk of a serious breach of EU treaty values, Human Rights...
