Syria's children a "lost generation"; Burma crisis; soap opera justice in Brazil; chocolate's dark secret; how US Justice Department undermines LGBT rights; some suggestions for US sanctions; privacy ruling on Turkish arrests; scant justice for Sri Lanka; & China backs international investigation into Yemen conflict.

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Orlando lived 33 years in the United States on and off as an undocumented immigrant. He has a US citizen son, a DREAMer son, and he is proud of his contributions to the US. But none of that stopped Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from deporting him.
Meanwhile, the admission of refugees to the US is plummeting under the Trump administration, and it's bad news for Muslim refugees.
There's some good news from Indonesia as one of its top officials has publicly rejected LGBT discrimination. It's time his colleagues did the same.
From earlier today: Millions of dollars of aid money to educate Syrian refugee children either didn't reach them, arrived late, or has gone missing, HRW said today. The missing cash - as well as poor transparency about where it ended up - has contributed to the fact that more than half a million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey didn't go to school last year.
The crisis in Burma shows no signs of easing, with more than 370,000 Rohingya now confirmed to have fled their homes for neighbouring Bangladesh in recent days after coming under attack from Burmese security forces. The priorities now are for the Burmese authorities to allow aid into the country for the scores of Rohingya feared internally displaced, and for targeted sanctions to be re-imposed on military commanders in order to pressure them to stop the violence.
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