EU-China Summit; Anti-Gay Hysteria in Indonesia: Daily Brief

Trade and climate action are on the EU - China summit agenda, but what about human rights? EU leaders should publicly and privately press China’s government to end its crackdown on human rights and immediately release detained activists. The summit arrives just ahead of the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre but "while President Xi Jinping preaches openness on the world stage, his government buries the truth about the Tiananmen Massacre through silence, denial and persecution of those who mark the occasion.” As Trump withdraws the US from Paris climate agreement representatives of American cities, states and companies stepping up and apreparing to submit a plan to the United Nations pledging to meet the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions targets under the accord. Burmese authorities have forced back a Turkish asylum seeker via Thailand, putting him at risk of serious human rights violations. Indonesia’s national police force should immediately investigate recent raids by local law enforcement against LGBT people. Democratic Republic of Congo: the EU and the United States imposed targeted sanctions against the personal military chief of staff of President Joseph Kabila after reports of abuses. In less than a week the UK will go to the polls. But human rights have so far barely featured in the election campaign, so what do the party manifestos say about it? The Philippines' Congress rejected a proposed change to the juvenile justice law that would have allowed 9-year-old children to be prosecuted and imprisoned. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has taken on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity listing the so-called “corrective rape” and forced anal testing as acts of sexual and gender-based violence that may amount to torture and ill-treatment.