Minky Worden

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Minky Worden

@MinkysHighjinks

Optimist, fighter for #HumanRights worldwide / Director of Global Initiatives

/ Mom of 3 boys /

Adjunct prof / #AthletesAgainstAbuse

New Yorkhrw.org/bios/minky-wor…

Joined January 2009

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FIFA promised a

in 2026 “where everyone feels safe, included, and free to exercise their rights.” ICE+Rights-abusive arrests and deportations have no place in the world’s game. My op-ed on why the World Cup Needs an “ICE Truce”: progressive.org/op-eds/the-wor

Dignity2026 - Dignity at World Cup 2026 and 9 others

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“For the first time

is offering legal analysis that the Chinese government has committed—and continues to commit—crimes against humanity against its Turkic Muslim people” —@SophieHRW at press conference releasing this new

report on #Xinjiang: hrw.org/news/2021/04/1

Sophie Richardson and 9 others

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#Iran’s sudden hanging today of #NavidAfkari is a shocking violation of international #HumanRights. Iran has ambitions to host many sports events, including 2027 AFC tournament+beach volleyball. Let’s never forget Iran’s cruel choice to execute an athlete hrw.org/news/2020/09/1

Centre for Sport & Human Rights and 9 others

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Joshua Wong’s letter from #HongKong jail in

echoes MLK Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail: MLK wrote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

writes: “A victory for Beijing is a victory for authoritarianism everywhere” time.com/5606016/hong-k

National Center for Civil and Human Rights and 9 others

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Thanks

for using your airtime to remember Heather Heyer+call for a "human rights" response to hate:

The media could not be played.

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Tragic—and preventable: 22-year old South Korean triathlete Choi Sook-hyun took her own life after filing many complaints about beatings, verbal abuse+harassment abuse by her coach+doctor. We must #KickAbuseOutOfSport:

@WorldPlayersUtd

amp.scmp.com/news/asia/east

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Why is women’s tennis

flagship event going to repressive #SaudiArabia, where peaceful critics are jailed and the “male guardianship” system denies women+girls basic human rights? My column in

: forbes.com/sites/minkywor

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“I always hoped #China was changing and would become a democracy. I was wrong”— @appledaily_hk news founder Jimmy Lai in August 2019

profile. He has been arrested for "colluding with foreign powers" under the #NationalSecurityLaw in #HongKong. nytimes.com/2019/08/23/wor.

Maya Wang 王松蓮 and 9 others

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“If Xinjiang really is such a ‘wonderful land’, then why doesn’t the Chinese government let journalists and UN human rights monitors go there?” —

’s

responds to propaganda by #China’s government directed at Australian parliamentarians: smh.com.au/world/asia/fra

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32 years ago, peaceful protesters in #TiananmenSquare and across China hoped their country could embrace democracy+human rights, and fight against corruption. Beijing has blocked memorials in #China+#HongKong, but worldwide, please light a candle: hrw.org/news/2021/06/0 

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"Unless and until Peng Shuai herself appears and is clearly speaking freely, any other communications should be treated with skepticism--especially when they are coming from Chinese state media" --

's @SophieHRW #WhereIsPengShuai #AthletesAgainstAbuse forbes.com/sites/carliepo

Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 and 9 others

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Martin Lee oped in

@WashingtonPost

says arrests in #HongKong of democracy leaders is part of larger plan. “We hope a vaccine is soon developed for coronavirus. But once HK’s #HumanRights are gone, the fatal virus of authoritarian rule will be here to stay”:washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/

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Important, heartbreaking story by

on Tatmadaw military atrocities, including pointless killings of children in #Burma: ‘She Just Fell Down. And She Died.’ #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar nytimes.com/2021/04/04/wor

Phil Robertson and 8 others

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If you ever worry China’s general population isn’t clued in about the CCP and the annual National People’s Congress kabuki, the national eye roll says it all ....

Quote

Paul Mozur 孟建國

@paulmozur

Mar 13, 2018

A paean to an eye roll. How a simple expression of human disgust briefly punctured the carefully coiffed artifice of Chinese politics: nytimes.com/2018/03/13/wor

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Kudos to the IOC

for defending women boxing athletes against horrific online abuse. When athletes compete, they do not sacrifice their basic #HumanRights to privacy, dignity, inclusion+participation in sport:

: sportandrightsalliance.org/boxing-online-

Caster Semenya and 8 others

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Please RT if you think FIFA should tell #Iran that women watching sports is not a crime! Half Iran’s population is still banned from stadiums+35 women arrested during

leader Infantino visit;

and I explain in

qz.com/1224224/fifa-i #Watch4Women #IWD2018

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Boys see inspiration in girls' education; proud my 11 year old Jack liked #Malala's book so much, he read it twice!

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40 million women in #Iran can’t even watch soccer in stadiums because.

won’t enforce its own rules requiring non-discrimination against women. At

US v UK messages of support for Iranian women who try to

hrw.org/news/2018/11/3

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"We are here for peace, justice, dignity, and human rights for all!" In snowy Park City at #WomensMarch

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“Peng Shuai, and all women, deserve to be heard, not censored"--

stance contrasts with IOC backing its

partner. Beijing has horrific history of “disappearing” critics+extracting forced confessions My

article #WhereIsPengShuai hrw.org/news/2021/11/1 #SRA

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#China’s New Year’s resolution is repression. In #HongKong, shocking arrests of moderate leading legislators, lawyers, journalists+pollster show tightening chokehold by Beijing using tool of National Security Law. #StandWithHongKong nytimes.com/2021/01/05/wor

Maya Wang 王松蓮 and 9 others

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“We need more women in power— part of me wonders if I’d worked with more female psychologist, coaches, and nutritionists, where I’d be today” Courageous

video on need for women-centered reforms in sport by Mary Cain, once fastest girl in US: nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opi

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Today

#Iran FM

did not explain why there was no transparent investigation into Wrestler #NavidAfkari’s complaints of torture+forced confession, or why he was denied a fair trial+rushed to execution. The world is waiting for #Justice4Navid hrw.org/news/2020/09/1

Center for Human Rights in Iran and 9 others