Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 16 March 2015

Tomorrow’s St.Patrick’s Day parade in New York City will, for the first time, include LGBT groups marching under their own rainbow banner. The largely Catholic parade has long excluded LGBT groups from participating, despite past boycotts from mayor Bill de Blasio and commercial sponsors.

There is new evidence of the use of cluster bombs in Libya, where two rival governments – an internationally recognized one in the east and an alliance of militias in the west – are engaged in a brutal struggle for control of the country. Women who have come to work in the United Kingdom as domestic workers sometimes face an awful choice: Stay and work for an abusive employer, or leave their employers and go underground as an undocumented migrant. The UK parliament has a chance to change that scenario this week. Lebanon is failing miserably in providing equal treatment to women when it comes to asking for or settling a divorce.
When the Human Rights Council meets this month, one of its priorities should be the creation of a UN special rapporteur on privacy, who should seriously investigate of the erosion of the right to privacy in many countries.
In four years of war in Syria, at least 81 journalists have been killed. #HowManyMore journalists will die covering the fighting?