Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 28 April 2015

Thousands have perished in the devastating earthquake in Nepal on April 25. As the world rightly reaches out to help the millions who are suffering, it is important that any help offered is based on a proper, needs-based assessment, and reaches the most vulnerable. Nigeria's military says it has rescued nearly 300 women and girls from an area were armed Islamist group Boko Haram is active. The 200 schoolgirls abducted from Chibok a year earlier were said not to be among them. Human Rights Watch is calling for Mexico's new attorney general to do more to ensure that human rights atrocities are effectively investigated and punished. Torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings have all been documented in Mexico, and almost no perpetrators have been brought to justice. New research shows that people with disabilities in the Central African Republic were often left behind and struggled to flee to safety when their communities came under the brutal attacks by armed groups beginning in 2013. From earlier today: A state of emergency has been delcared in the US city of Baltimore amid violent protests around the death of a black man in police custody. Violence erupted just hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, 25, who died after sustaining spinal injuries while in police custody. One of the untold stories of the recent conflict in the Central African Republic is how people with disabilities face isolation, abandonment and neglect, Human Rights Watch said today. People with disabilities urgently need more humanitarian support.