ISIS Booby Traps Mass Grave; South Sudan Famine; Syria School Strike: HRW Daily Brief

Today's attack near London's Houses of Parliament is a despicable act of violence that cannot be justified. The attack left at least four people dead, including the attacker. The London Metropolitan Police Force are treating it as a deliberate attack. Human Rights Watch expresses its sincere condolences to the relatives of the victims and wishes for a speedy recovery for the wounded. Good news: Armenia has become the 60th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration. Children around the world should not have to risk their safety to get an education. More countries should endorse the Declaration and commit to ending military use of schools and attacks on education. Brazil's prisons are some of the most violent and inhumane in Latin America. You’d expect Brazilian authorities to make regaining control of their prisons a top priority after the series of massacres that left more than 100 inmates dead just two months ago. But it doesn't appear likely. From earlier today: The Islamic State booby trapped a mass grave near Mosul in Iraq which contains the bodies of hundreds of victims, HRW said today. In a crime of "monumental scale", the killings are just another example of ISIS’s cruel and depraved conduct. It's feared the grave could be the largest ISIS mass grave discovered in either Iraq or Syria. Meanwhile a mass grave has also been discovered in Venezuela. The grave containing 15 bodies – several of them beheaded – inside the General Penitentiary of Venezuela in Guárico is a gruesome reminder that the government still hasn’t properly investigated years of serious crimes committed in its prisons. There's no doubt that parts of South Sudan are suffering from famine, but in reality more people die from bullets than starvation. Aid to South Sudan is critical, but credible attempts to end the fighting are vital too. Libyan National Army (LNA) forces may have committed war crimes, including killing and beating civilians, and summarily executing and desecrating bodies of opposition fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi last week, HRW says. Army forces allegedly intercepted civilians trying to flee a besieged neighborhood, some accompanied by opposition fighters, and the whereabouts of some civilians are unknown.