Syria peace talks in tatters; how to fight terror in Tunisia; rolling back refugee rights in Austria; Turkey tourist twist; Indonesia's mass graves; workers' rights; Qatar jails unwed mum with baby; justice in South Sudan; Rohingya in desperate straits; Angola jail anniversary; & Safer Schools...

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A newly adopted law in China gives police unprecedented power to restrict the work of foreign groups in the country. The law will also limit domestic groups’ ability to obtain foreign funding and work with foreign organizations.
Sex without consent is a serious crime. Or so we thought. In the state of Oklahoma, consent to oral sex is apparently not required if your potential partner is passed out.
Today, at Moscow’s House of Cinematography, aggressive individuals among pro-Kremlin protestors attacked the award ceremony of an annual student competition. The competition aims to “motivate young people to carry out independent research into the history." It's just another example of how public dissent from the "official line" isn't tolerated.
From earlier today...
Syria peace talks are hanging by a thread, with an uptick in violence threatening to derail the peace process altogether. The warning from the UN comes as several staff and patients were killed in an airstrike on a hospital in Aleppo yesterday. Those killed included children, a dentist, and one of the last paediatricians still working in the area.
In Tunisia, fighting terrorism and respecting human rights are two sides of the same coin, a coalition of 46 human rights groups has said.
A new law just approved by Austria's parliament to make it harder for refugees to apply for asylum is "drastic and unjustified", Human Rights Watch has warned.
Meanwhile, Turkey is too dangerous for some Western tourists to visit, but is apparently a safe country for refugees to be sent back to.
Indonesia's president has instructed his security minister to start documenting the location of mass graves of victims of the country's notorious "anti-communist" massacres in the mid 1960s. The move is a brave political act and the first step in possible accountability for the crimes.
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