Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 9 March 2015

Despite progress on women's rights, violence against women remains alarmingly high 20 years after the landmark Beijing conference. One of too many examples: World Health Organization finds that "38 percent of women who are murdered are killed by their partners." Algerian authorities arrested a labor rights activist on March 1, 2015, based on ironic comments he made on Facebook In Russia, attacks against the LGBT community are surging, but the government's response is to attack the NGOs that are assisting LGBT people. New attempts by Ethiopia to hack into computers and accounts of Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) employees based in the United States. Citizen Lab’s analysis suggests the attacks were carried out with spyware called Remote Control System (RCS) sold by the Italian firm Hacking Team In Iran, reports that juvenile offender Saman Nasim may still be alive and at risk of execution more than 2 weeks after his scheduled hanging. This guessing game is the sort of torture that Iran regularly inflicts, not only on those languishing on death row, but on their family and friends. 10 years on, Bosnia's warcrimes chamber has prosecuted 453 persons for committing some of the world's worst crimes. From this morning: US President Barack Obama led commemorations at the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" attack on peaceful civil rights protesters in Selma, Alabama.