The Daily Brief

Jul 25, 2023 The Daily Brief

Italy’s Government Erasing History

When Hate Politics Changes Your Family Records; Russia Tries to Legalize War Crimes; Ethiopia: Release Opposition Leaders; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: Climate Crisis.

Protest by the Rainbow Families at the Court of Padua, Padua, Italy, June 23, 2023.
Jul 24, 2023 The Daily Brief

Mali Massacres and Moscow

More Evidence of Russia’s Wagner in Africa; Where Have India’s Leaders Been?; Hungary on the Anti-Trans Hate Wagon; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Summer Book Recommendations; Quote of the Day: Cambodia.

Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, right, welcomes Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Bamako, Mali, February 7, 2023.
Jul 21, 2023 The Daily Brief

Everyday Inhumanity in Texas

Horrors on the Border; Lead Poisoning of Children in Zambia; A (Partial) Win for Women Athletes; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Weekly Quiz!; Listen: A Second Chance at Life; Summer Book Recommendations; Quote of the Day: St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Guardsmen stand by a river lined with razorwire
Jul 20, 2023 The Daily Brief

Good News: Putin’s World Is Shrinking

Fugitive from Justice Restricted in Travel; Football’s World Cup and the Fight for Equal Pay; Getting Aid to Northwest Syria; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Summer Book Recommendations; Quote of the Day: Climate Action.

The International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands, November 7, 2019. 
Jul 19, 2023 The Daily Brief

Tunisian Terror and “Team Europe”

Tunisia’s Abuses of Black Migrants and Asylum Seekers; Russia Killing Ukrainian Civilians as They Sleep; Further Repression on LGBT Rights in Russia; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: Ukraine; Quote of the Day: Myanmar.

A group of Black migrants and asylum seekers of multiple African nationalities, including a woman and her baby, stranded in the desert for days after expulsion from Tunisia, stand in the buffer zone at the Tunisia-Libya border facing an Al Jazeera news crew and Libyan soldiers, July 11, 2023.
Jul 18, 2023 The Daily Brief

When You’re an Adult but Don’t Control Your Life

Male Guardianship Rules in the Middle East; Russia Renews Blockade of Food to the World; Protect Peaceful Protests in Kenya; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: Our Very Humanity.

Women hold signs in Arabic during a protest
Jul 17, 2023 The Daily Brief

Nicaraguans Plead for International Help

Americas and European Leaders Need to Act; A Global Day of Justice; Myanmar Activist and Family Abducted in Malaysia; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: The EU and Tunisia.

A mural showing images of Nicaraguans killed during the 2018 social security reform protests under the words “memory and justice for Nicaragua”  adorns a wall at the Nicaragua Nunca Más human rights organization in San Jose, Costa Rica, February 20, 2023.
Jul 14, 2023 The Daily Brief

Europe’s “Let Them Die” Policy, One Month after Mass Drowning

European Leaders’ Appalling Failure; Mali’s Emergency Deepens; Egypt’s New Entry Rules Leave Sudanese in Peril; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Listen: Germany's Refusal to Reckon with its Colonial Crimes; Weekly Quiz!; Quote of the Day: Asylum in Ireland.

This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, shows scores of people covering practically every free stretch of deck on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece.(Hellenic Coast Guard via AP)
Jul 13, 2023 The Daily Brief

Refugees Terrorized in Bangladesh

Rohingya Have Nowhere to Turn; Ethiopia Investigation “Quietly Liquidated”; Turkey’s Gezi Show Must Not Go On; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: The Struggle against Power.

Security force officers stand guard after the killing of Rohingya community leader Mohib Ullah in the Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, October 2021.
Jul 12, 2023 The Daily Brief

How Do You Tell a Story Like Belarus?

Reporting Everyday Brutality; Hate Rising in Cameroon; Hong Kong’s Expansive Repression Hits Japan; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief en Español; Quote of the Day: Biometric Data and Humanitarian Aid.

Belarusian lawyer Yulia Yurhilevich (L) and journalist Pavel Mazheika, June 26, 2018.