Trump Gitmo Tweet 'Ill-informed'; Europe's 'Map of Shame'; Iraq Child Soldiers: HRW Daily Brief

In a targeted attack on women's health in the United States, House Speaker Paul Ryan said today that Republicans will move to strip all federal funding for Planned Parenthood as part of the process they are using this year to dismantle 'Obamacare.' President-elect Trump's campaign actions and rhetoric, including statements that women should be punished for abortions and his own calls that Planned Parenthood "should absoulutely be defunded" (2:10 mark in video below), signaled new challenges were ahead for women's rights in the US. For many people, Planned Parenthood is their only source of health care. Following its defeat in Gambia's December's presidential election, the government of President Yahya Jammeh, has arbitrarily arrested opposition sympathizers and closed three independent radio stations in the past week. As the deadline approaches for Jammeh to officially concede his loss, tensions continue to rise over whether or not he will. News that the United Kingdom may take in no more unaccompanied children from the former “Jungle” camp in Calais is bound to feel like a betrayal to the many teens who have been anxiously awaiting word on their transfer requests. Before the camp's destruction by French police, an estimated 1,300 teens were living on their own in the camp. From earlier today: US president-elect Donald Trump’s tweet this week that everyone held at Guantanamo Bay is “extremely dangerous” is ill-informed, Human Rights Watch has said. What’s worse, his proposed course of action – stopping all releases – shows he doesn't understand the danger that keeping Guantanamo open poses to US National Security. Staying with the US, as President Obama prepares to stand down, he leaves a shaky legacy on human rights, says HRW's executive director Ken Roth.