Trump's Deportation Plan; Villages Destroyed in Iraq & Burma: HRW Daily Brief
Trump's Deportation Plan; Villages Destroyed in Iraq & Burma
Plus: Russia’s establishment basks in Trump’s victory; Congo risks large-scale violence; Germany should pressure Turkey to stem abuses; Lego, Daily Mail & #StopFundingHate campaign; Saudi's Raif Badawi must be freed immediately.
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Gwen Ifill, the respected, longtime news anchor who had served as a co-host of PBS’s NewsHour and as moderator of “Washington Week,” has died after a battle with cancer, PBS confirmed today. Ms. Ifill possessed a strong journalistic voice and earned a reputation for courage and fairness, qualities that will be sorely missed in in these trying times.
On his final visit to Europe, United States President Obama should urge leaders to defend the rights of migrants and asylum seekers. Mismanagement and lack of coordination among EU governments contributed to a political and humanitarian crisis in 2015, and it's time for resettlement policies that protect people rather than keep them in danger.
A thousand days ago, the Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López turned himself in to Venezuelan authorities. Isolated from the outside world and totally controlled by guards, he remains President Maduro's hostage...
From earlier today: Donald Trump, winner of the presidential elections in the United States last week, has said that he will "immediately" deport as many as three million undocumented migrants after he takes over the presidency from Barack Obama in January.
High-definition satellite imagery released by Human Rights Watch shows widespread fire-related destruction in ethnic Rohingya villages in Burma's Rakhine State. The government has admitted firing on villages occupied by the Rohingya Muslim minority with helicopter gunships.