Top Human Rights Tweets of the Week

Trending rights tweets this week: The World Cup 2018 kicks off but behind the glitz dozens of political prisoners remain behind bars and repression is at its worst since the Soviet era; Israeli forces have killed more than 100 protesters in Gaza with live ammunition, the result of a policy apparently greenlighted by top officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; children are being ripped from the arms of their parents at the US border due to Trump administration policy changes; and the Democratic Republic of Congo lost a human rights hero.

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~	Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened

~	With Pause, US Joins Other States Stopping Arms Transfers to Israel

~	UN expert raises alarm over unfair treatment of pro-Palestinian student protesters in US

~	Germany: British-Palestinian Doctor Denied Schengen Entry

~	Love is the driving force behind the cries, the marches and the search for our disappeared loved ones

~	A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later

~	Lassa fever case in Paris: what you need to know

~	Mexico’s criminal gangs stir up political violence ahead of election season

~	AI system can predict the structures of life’s molecules with stunning accuracy – helping to solve one of biology’s biggest problems

~	I’ve spent decades overseeing relief operations around the world, and here’s what’s going wrong in Gaza