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Today we published an opinion piece in Newsweek about the new wave of oppression against environmental defenders and climate protesters and the tools that are already available for the human rights movement to work with for defending the civic space:

newsweek.com/environment-de…

EU leaders are considering declaring certain parts of Syria as safe for refugees to return to.

Ahead of Ursula von der Leyen's visit to Lebanon this week, it must be made crystal clear: Syria is categorically unsafe.

In a month, South Africans will head to the polls for elections.

Politicians have used anti-immigration messaging during campaign rallies and election debates. This risks fueling xenophobic violence in the country.

Readers’ Recommendations in today's Daily Brief:

🔹Iraq
🔹Israel/Palestine
🔹Georgia
🔹Ukraine
🔹Germany
🔹Armenia/Azerbaijan
🔹Mexico
🔹US
🔹Haiti
🔹Sudan
🔹Guinea
🔹East Africa
🔹Myanmar

Send your suggestions to Andrew Stroehlein: trib.al/ln9LeUB

Peaceful protest is a human right. Universities should safeguard people’s rights to assembly and free expression.

Listen to Andrew Stroehlein's Daily Brief:

Quick Takes in the Daily Brief:

- a farcical mass trial in the UAE
- Lebanon allows in the International Criminal Court
- forcibly disappeared by South Sudan’s abusive security agency
- Burkina Faso authorities block HRW reporting of abuses

Read more: trib.al/fOTbSCs

“Peaceful protest is a human right. Freedom of speech is a human right. Freedom of expression is a human right. There’s no excuse for the higher-ups at US universities not to know these rights and respect them.”

🔊 Listen to Andrew Stroehlein’s Daily Brief: trib.al/cdwj2cE

🚩NEW: @HRW's new report documents how #UAE authorities are holding an unfair mass trial with serious due process concerns, including torture.

Defendants described abusive detention conditions: prolonged solitary confinement, assaults & forced nudity.

hrw.org/news/2024/04/2…

Even if you disagree with the student protesters’ cause, you have to agree they have a right to peacefully #protest - because we all have that right.

And no one should be punished for exercising their rights.

Read Andrew Stroehlein’s Daily Brief: trib.al/OozGoCO

Homosexuality is now punishable by up to 15 years in prison in Iraq. Instead of passing laws that would protect and help Iraqis, parliament is doing the exact opposite. Horrific and unacceptable.

Last week, the EU Parliament approved a law requiring large companies to prevent and remedy human rights and environmental abuses in their global supply chains. This is a step forward for corporate accountability.
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A controversial algorithm-based video surveillance will be used for security in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Learn about this and other human rights issues ahead of the games ⤵️

Defying the facts, the UK parliament passed a law declaring Rwanda 'safe' so it can send asylum seekers there.

This law violates asylum seekers' human rights. bit.ly/3WfpCN2

Lebanese authorities have arbitrarily detained, tortured, and forcibly returned Syrians to Syria in recent months, including opposition activists and army defectors.
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Tens of thousands of African girls drop out of school every year, many because they are pregnant or have a young child.

The African Union should adopt guidelines to protect the rights of pregnant and parenting girls.
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⚠️ Peaceful protest is a human right.

⚠️ Freedom of speech is a human right.

⚠️ Freedom of expression is a human right.

⚠️ Universities should respect these rights.

Holding hostages is a war crime. Civilians should never be treated as bargaining chips. Hamas and Islamic Jihad should immediately, and safely, release all civilian hostages. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…