Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 4 March 2016
Flawed deal EU & Turkey on refugees; Congress in China a toothless tiger?; women forced to stay in Western Sahara; lawyers prosecuted in Thailand; remembering Berta Cáceres; #WatchOurSchools campaign.
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On Monday, leaders of EU member states and Turkey will meet in Brussels to discuss an action plan on migration and refugees that is flawed and potentially dangerous for people trying to cross the Aegean Sea. HRW issued a Q&A, including details on why Turkey shouldn't be considered a safe country of asylum.
Meanwhile residents in Cizre, southeastern Turkey, returned this week to find their homes in ruins, a result of heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters.
In China the National People’s Congress (NPC) begins Saturday. Will it reject or revise laws that undermine domestic and international human rights protections, as it should?
On Saturday, Ban Ki-moon will make his first visit as UN Secretary-General to camps for Sahrawi refugees in Western Sahara. Will he urge the Polisario Front to intervene in favor of three women whose families are reportedly preventing them from leaving?
The regime in Thailand is bringing trumped-up criminal charges against human rights lawyers to harass and retaliate against them.
Horrible news from Honduras, where indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta Cáceres has been murdered.
On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch will begin the #WatchOurSchools campaign, to raise awareness against the military use of schools inNetherlands. Check this HRW-video, featuring Malala Yousafzai: