A new multimedia feature, released jointly by Human Rights Watch, Time magazine and Platon/The People’s Portfolio, should influence the debate over the recent surge in child migrants across the US border with Mexico. “Torn Apart” features photographs and video interviews with immigrants, whose often heart-wrenching stories – of families separated, of constant fear and anxiety, of lives lost on the border – underscore the urgent need for the US government to adopt comprehensive immigration reform.
Unguided Grad rockets launched apparently by Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias have killed at least 16 civilians and wounded many more in insurgent-controlled areas of Donetsk and its suburbs between July 12 and 21.
Additionally, authorities exhumed a mass grave in Sloviansk, in eastern Ukraine, where they discovered eight decomposed bodies and were still searching for more. From April until July 2, the city had been under the control of anti-government insurgents. It is now back under Ukrainian government control.
An International Criminal Court (ICC) decision approving Libya’s bid to prosecute former intelligence chief Abdullah Sanussi comes down amid a near breakdown of Libya’s judicial system. Yet Libya has done little to provide Sanussi with basic due process rights. Sanussi is currently on trial in Libya for, among other charges, serious crimes related to his alleged role in trying to suppress the country’s 2011 uprising.
At the same time, fighting around Libya’s Tripoli airport has heated up, as militias vie for control.
