Plus: New US Election blog; the senseless murder of a Jordanian writer; Aleppo battered by worst bombardment in five years; abuse of asylum seekers in Hungary; still no justice for Guinea's Bloody Monday victims; & the release of an Iranian-Canadian professor from jail in Iran.

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Leaked footage from a security camera reveals the stark and brutal reality in President Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines. In the video, an unidentified man is led into an alley by other men on motorbikes, before one of them raises a gun to his head. More than 2,000 people have been killed in President Duterte's "war on drugs" since he took office in June.
Protecting schools in times of conflict is an age-old goal, yet in countries around the world today millions of children face grave risks trying to attend school. In ancient Rome, Emperor Constantine instructed his soldiers not to occupy schools. Today, the Safe Schools Declaration sets out to ensure children can attain an education even in times of conflict. More countries should sign it, and Canada should take the lead.
Human Rights Watch recently spoke to a group of women who had escaped life under ISIS in Afghanistan. While the Taliban’s abuses were extreme, the Islamic State brought a whole new level of suffering to these villagers.
From earlier today: Malawi’s government has failed to protect the rights and livelihoods of people living in nascent mining communities, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Over the past ten years Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, has promoted private investment in mining as a way to grow its largely agriculture-based economy. But weak enforcement of existing laws and policies combined with lack of transparency and community involvement in decision making have left local communities unprotected and in the dark about their rights, and the risks mining activities might pose to their daily lives.
As the United States presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off last night in their first debate, a new Human Rights Watch US Elections blog takes a closer look at the implications the candidates’ positions will have on human rights - from torture to paid family leave, immigration to policing - in the US and abroad.
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