Israel & human rights; Deadly Yemen raid; "I Was a Muslim in Trump's White House"; United States & dead children in Yemen raid; Britain needs to find its backbone over Burma; Kangaroo court conviction in Cambodia and good news from the worldwide fight against child marriage.

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Israel has denied Human Rights Watch’s application for a work permit for its Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir on the grounds that it is not a real human rights group. “This decision and the spurious rationale should worry anyone concerned about Israel’s commitment to basic democratic values,” says HRW's Iain Levine.
"I was a Muslim in Trump's White House". Rumana Ahmed lasted 8 day before resigning from her job on the National Security Council under United States president Donald Trump, because she "could no longer stay and work for an administration that saw me and people like me not as fellow citizens, but as a threat".
The ruling party in Hungary is a prime example of the danger of a type of populism that results in a government attacking basic European values, like a free civil society. A public hearing in European Parliament on Monday, on the situation of fundamental rights in Hungary, couldn’t be more timely...
The United States government should credibly investigate the raid last month on Al-Qaeda in Yemen, in which at least 14 civilians died, including nine children. “The US needs to go a step further and provide a full accounting of possible laws-of-war violations and deliver appropriate compensation to civilians” says Nadim Houry, HRW's terrorism and counterterrorism director.
During a visit to Burma last month, the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson expressed concern about the Rohingya crisis. But his comments were scarcely commensurate with the scale of repression: those suffering at the hands of the Burmese military are counting on a UK government that needs to find its backbone, and fast.
In Cambodia, prominent land rights activist Tep Vanny has been jailed for 2,5 years in a "politically-motivated kangaroo court trial that proved no real evidence is required for a conviction," according to HRW's Phil Robertson.
Good news from Malawi, where the parliament took a historic step towards ending child marriage.
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