Yemen peace talks; Iran jails journalists; Kazakhstan trial; Tajikistan tightens the screws; hospitals are #NotATarget; Indonesia gang rape; Pakistan puts down farmer protests; Kenyan court to rule on anal exams; refugees returned; & last Tiananmen Square prisoner to be freed...

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Indonesia's reaction to the brutal rape and murder of a teenage girl has sparked calls for more to be done to combat the scourge of violence against women and girls. Amidst deafening media silence, the 14 accused blamed alcohol and peer pressure while showing few signs of remorse.
The Justice Department warned the State of North Carolina that its controversial anti-LGBT law, HB2, is an act of "discrimination against transgender state employees." North Carolina risks losing millions of dollars in federal school funding if it enforces the law.
With soaring human costs in the construction of World Cup 2022 venues in Qatar, FIFA’s new leader Gianni Infantino missed a golden opportunity to actually do something to protect the one million migrant workers whose lives are on the line.
The partial ceasefire in Syria now includes the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, following an agreement reached at United States and Russia-brokered talks, but details remain murky at best.
The agreement comes days after a horrific attack destroyed a hospital in Aleppo. The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to remind warring parties that health care providers should always be protected in conflict.
Staying with attacks on health facilities, the Pentagon's report on the October 3, 2015, air attack on a Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, fell woefully short.
From earlier today: Peace talks underway to address the conflict in Yemen should urge parties to investigate abuses, pursue justice and compensate victims, Human Rights Watch has said. The conflict between the Houthis, other armed groups and a Saudi-led coalition of nine Arab countries has seen numerous violations of the laws of war by all sides, and caused hundreds of civilian casualties.
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