Murders by white supremacists in the United States; Macron's human rights test vs Russia's Putin; EU-China summit & human rights; Algeria locks up peaceful activists; UN & lead-poisoning in Kosovo; 11-year-old forced to marry her rapist in Florida; #TortureTapes in Iraq; and two-year anniversary of #SafeSchoolsDeclaration.

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White supremacists have murdered three people in the past week in the United States. Many are noting President Donald Trump's silence on the issue.
Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France, is meeting Russia's leader Vladimir Putin today: an important first test of Macron's commitment to reflecting human rights in his foreign policy.
Leaders of the European Union should publicly and privately press China’s government to end its crackdown on human rights and immediately release all detained activists during a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. Human Rights Watch has sent a joint letter with a dozen other nongovernmental organizations to EU leaders.
The authorities in Algeria should drop all charges against a leading activist and his 40 co-defendants that are based on their peaceful activism for the rights of the Amazigh, or Berber, minority.
The UN is still dodging its responsibility for the victims of lead-poisoning in Kosovo, more than a decade since the scandal started in its camps there...
Sherry Johnson, a mom at age 11, was pushed to marry her rapist. In Florida. Time to end child marriage.
"The videos and photographs that have emerged of Iraqi soldiers from the Interior Ministry’s elite Emergency Response Division brutally taunting, torturing, and executing alleged supporters of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) and their family members had an eerie, distressing familiarity." HRW's Sarah Leah Whitson in The Toronto Star.
And today marks the second anniversary of the Safe Schools Declaration. So far, 65 countries have signed it. Check here if your country is among them.
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