Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 10 April 2015

The UN says the situation in Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in a besieged suburb of Damascus, Syria, is "beginning to represent a death camp". UN chief Ban Ki-moon says residents, including 3,500 children, are being "turned into human shields" and there are worrying reports of a massive assault on the camp and all within it. It's no secret that Pakistan's troubled Balochistan region is in the grip of a "terrifying epidemic of disappearances". But what does the Pakistan military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency have to fear from a human rights event on the region? Plenty, it would seem. As the crisis in Yemen continues, both casualties and humanitarian needs are soaring. We don’t know whether Israel’s detention of the Palestinian lawmaker Khalida Jarrar has anything to do with her passionate advocacy for prisoners’ rights. But one thing is clear: her case is rife with due process violations. With unrest growing around the world, Europe's refugee crisis continues to worsen. But here's how not to solve it. India has frozen the national bank accounts of Greenpeace, accusing it of violating the country's tax laws. Greenpeace India says the move is a "clear attempt to silence criticism and dissent". One of Bahrain's most prominent rights activists is still behind bars for a tweet that the government found troublesome. He should be freed immediately. What's the best way to help the poor in the US state of Missouri back on their feet? Certainly not by kicking them when they're down. There are fresh signs that Turkey's rights rollback is continuing apace, this time with two journalists being threatened with prison.