Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 8 April 2015

Human Rights Watch sued the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for illegally collecting records of telephone calls to foreign countries. News reports have stated that the DEA tracked billions of calls for more than two decades. A Senate subcommittee in the US state of Florida voted on April 8, 2015 to approve a bill that would allow judges rather than prosecutors to determine when a child should be charged as an adult, a smart and humane step that might reduce the number of juveniles serving long prison sentences for non-violent crimes. World Bank President Jim Kim missed a golden opportunity yesterday and did not mention human rights once, a worrying trend under his leadership. Human rights problems surround several World Bank projects. Two new shooting incidents in India where suspects died under fire from the police shows once again the need for urgent reform. From earlier today: A white police officer in the US state of South Carolina has been charged with murder after a video emerged of him apparently shooting a black man running away from him. Despite a growing number of people killed at the hands of police in the US, it doesn't keep basic data on how many people are killed by police officers in the US every year. Accountability for police violence should not rely on someone being around to capture the incident on video.