Phil Robertson

@Reaproy

Deputy Asia Director, Human Rights Watch; views mostly on SE Asia & Korea; love Boston sports, rock & roll music, Thai & Lao speaker. Re-tweets not endorsement!

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  1. 8 hours ago

    Treated very shoddily by today at , airport in , they really are not up to the standard. Profoundly disappointed and angry, filing a complaint tonight. Think twice before you fly this airline.

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  2. 14 hours ago

    Beyond outrageous that has ordered security officials to fire tear gas at women & children at - border. This is a totally unacceptable rights abuse against legit asylum seekers.

    4 retweets 5 likes
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    Nov 24

    We welcome Minister Sisulu’s expression of deep concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in , we hope this yields a shift in its vote on this issue at the plenary of the General Assembly in December.”

    3 replies 19 retweets 23 likes
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    Nov 25

    Why does Bahrain even bother with the pretense of an "election" when all opposition leaders are either barred from running or imprisoned for years?

    17 replies 85 retweets 130 likes
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    Nov 26

    Finland suspended arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany also decided to stop selling weapons to Riyadh. But not France -risking complicity in grave violations in Yemen

    6 replies 37 retweets 52 likes
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    Nov 25

    Lots of uncomfortable parallels with the sale of the Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia.

    The Website That Shows How a Free Press Can Die
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  7. Nov 25

    Aung San Suu Kyi unmasked in the . Good question "how much of her motivation in the whole struggle was truly for democracy and how much of it was more based around her own sense of destiny to do this as the daughter of Aung San"

    2 replies 27 retweets 26 likes
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  8. Retweeted
    Nov 25

    This is not a new issue: See 2015 report on abuse of Thai workers in Israel

    Devastating expose by on dirty & dangerous working conditions faced by agricultural workers toiling in . needs to take action to end abuses, DOE must demand real progress & investigate workers' deaths
    8 retweets 7 likes
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  9. Nov 25

    Yawn...here come the 4th generation leaders. Doubtful they will be any better on human rights than the 3rd generation, but there's always hoping.

    2 retweets 1 like
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  10. Nov 25

    The joke is on these ignorant protesters. Calling as "runaway refugees" indicates they are from ! A is a person who flees their homeland, fearing persecution which is an absolutely accurate description in this case.

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  11. Nov 25

    Heart-warming example of what a school in can do in educating migrant children, resulting in win-win outcomes for the children and the community. More schools should do this.

    1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
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  12. Nov 24

    What Big Brother political control really looks like - courtesy of , a pioneer in the worst human rights abuses in the world. Shame on Xi Jinping & the Chinese Communist Party for bringing it to this...

    1 reply 12 retweets 14 likes
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  13. Nov 24

    All the gory details of cover-up coming to light. Good!

    Auditor-General confirms Najib ordered audit report on 1MDB altered | Malay Mail
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  14. Nov 24

    Devastating expose by on dirty & dangerous working conditions faced by agricultural workers toiling in . needs to take action to end abuses, DOE must demand real progress & investigate workers' deaths

    11 retweets 8 likes
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  15. Nov 24

    Lesson to member states: this is the way that you're supposed to choose your representative, who is supposed to be independent! Kudos to for taking this step.

    1 reply 12 retweets 18 likes
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    Nov 23

    Great to see Myanmar journalists rallying around their colleagues and Kyaw Soe Oo. "A sentence of seven years to each of the reporters is forbidding the media and denies the public’s right to access information.” by

    2 replies 54 retweets 66 likes
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    Nov 22

    Will keep the ⁦⁩ & avert impending crisis? Throwing it out is disastrous for workers, suppliers, & brands. My take for

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    Nov 23

    A company has taken important steps towards transparency, publishing a new Code of Conduct that outlines human rights requirements it expects suppliers to comply with.

    2 replies 23 retweets 46 likes
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    Nov 23

    Wrapped up a productive day of meetings with , a champion of the community in . We urged the offices of and to step up their response in line with the scale and scope of repression in . Canada can and should do better

    , , and 4 others
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    Nov 23

    The editorial board says “’s generals and their civilian enablers” should be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court and sanctioned for atrocities against :

    10 replies 85 retweets 99 likes
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