Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 27 May 2016
The world's largest refugee prison; dodgy migration deal between EU & Sudan; Bashir & the ICC; Obama in Vietnam; Sri Lanka's missing; child labor video goes viral; flawed assembly law in Burma; death in detention in China; #HissèneHabré.
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The world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab in Kenya, provides shelter to 360,000 mostly Somali refugees. The Kenyan government is planning to close it, but returning all these people to the dangers of Somalia is not an option.
A string of media reports has condemned the dodgy migration deal of the European Union with the government of Sudan. The country has a horrible reputation when it comes to human rights.
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide by the International Criminal Court. So why isn’t Bashir paying any price?
Barack Obama visited Vietnam this week. The United States President "jettisoned what remained of U.S. leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam – and basically gotten nothing for it,” says Phil Robertson, HRW’s deputy Asia director.
The government of Sri Lanka has ratified the Convention against Enforced Disappearance but in the same week created an Office of Missing Persons without promised consultations with families of the “disappeared,” Human Rights Watch said today.
This week HRW published a report on child labour in the tobacco industry in Indonesia, including a video that has gone viral in the past days.
Burma’s parliament should amend a proposed law on public protest to better protect rights to peaceful assembly and free expression, in line with international standards.
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