Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 21 December 2015
Kunduz attack on hospital; nightmare in Russia; #YemenCrisis; Protesters killed in Ethiopia; Cluster munitions use by Syria & Russia; #BurundiCrisis; Rwanda referendum; climate change; #CIAtorture; Syria video; jailed for a Facebook post; & Sisi & Mickey Mouse...
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The US investigation into an October 3 airstrike on a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, should be treated as a criminal investigation. The attack killed at least 42 people and wounded dozens of others, and involved possible war crimes.
Staying with Kunduz, residents who fled during the fight for control of the city are now faced with a tough question: should they go back?
Russian environmental activist Evgeny Vitishko has spent 21 months in prison for painting “This is our forest” on a fence surrounding a construction site near the the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. He could be free this week, undoing the cruel injustice of his sentence.
When Slovenia's parliament rejected marriage equality over the weekend, it wasn't just hurting the LGBT community; the rights of children are also at risk.
The UK says it wants to end modern slavery, but stalling measures are keeping domestic workers at risk of abuse at the hands of their employers.
From earlier today: The Saudi Arabia-led coalition that is fighting in Yemen has carried out at least six apparently unlawful airstrikes in residential areas of the capital, Sanaa, according to new research from Human Rights Watch. Some 60 civilians died during the attacks, which ocurred in September and October of this year.