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The conflict in Libya is keeping nearly 300,000 children out of school. Because of damage and continued fighting, over 500 schools in the country have been forced to closed. Education is under attack in many countries as governments and armed groups use schools as bases and targets. And children escaping conflict are finding barriers to education elsewhere. The international community must protect schools in conflict and remove roadblocks to education so an entire generation does not get left behind.
Philippines President Roderigo Duterte gave his first State of the Nation address this week, in which he expressed support for human rights. But rather than condemn the country's recent surge in extrajudicial killings of drug dealers and users by police and vigilantes, he congratulated them and told police to double their efforts in the country's "relentless" anti-drug campaign that has led the Philippine Daily Inquirer to publish a twice-weekly "Kill List".
As social and economic tensions rise in Gaza, the Hamas-led government seeks to put citizens at ease. But executing those convicted of crimes in a flawed judicial system won't make people safer.
From earlier today: Awful news from Afghanistan, where 80 people were killed and 231 wounded in a suicide attack that has been claimed by the extremist group Islamic State. Officials say that the attack on a peaceful demonstration of thousands of Hazaras, an ethnic minority group, was carried out by three suicide bombers.
The Syrian government and allied forces should urgently allow aid into besieged eastern Aleppo and allow civilians wishing to leave to do so safely. Syrian government forces are "repeating the terrible siege tactics in densely populated eastern Aleppo that devastated civilian populations in other towns in Syria,” says Nadim Houry, HRW's deputy Middle East and North Africa director.
The police in Turkey are torturing people suspected of being involved in last week's failed coup, according to Amnesty International, which says it has gathered credible evidence of these abuses.
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