Abysmal conditions for asylum seekers in Greece; Mugabe stripped from "Goodwill Ambassador" title; #EndChildMarriage in Florida; Campaign to bring Gambia's Jammeh to trial; China's unchecked surveillance; Time for the world to stop ignoring Yemen; and will Macron address crimes against humanity in Egypt?

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Thousands of people, including very young children, single or pregnant women, and people with physical disabilities, are trapped on islands in Greece, in abysmal conditions as winter sets in. HRW and 18 other organizations have asked Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to end this “containment policy."
The World Health Organization has rescinded the highly controversial appointment of Zimbabwe's 93-year-old leader Robert Mugabe as 'goodwill ambassador'.
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Victims of the regime of Yahya Jammeh, the ex-dictator of Gambia, are starting an international campaign to bring him to justice. He now lives in exile in Equatorial Guinea, and HRW's "dictator hunter" Reed Brody explained to the BBC why Jammeh is facing accusations of ordering killings and torture to suppress dissent.
“The Chinese government has been collecting the voice patterns of tens of thousands of people with little transparency about the program or laws regulating who can be targeted or how that information is going to be used,” says Sophie Richardson, HRW's China director. “Authorities can easily misuse that data in a country with a long history of unchecked surveillance and retaliation against critics.”
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has approved a US$500 million loan for a crucial piece of a network of pipelines owned largely by the government of Azerbaijan that will transport Azerbaijani gas to Europe. The bank made this decision even though an international oil and gas transparency initiative, endorsed by the bank, recently suspended Azerbaijan because the government would not end its crackdown on civil society groups...
"Yemen's next chapter could be one of hope, and we could begin rebuilding our broken country and saving millions of lives from being lost", writes Radhya Almutawakel, a prominent Yemeni activist.
The French government should ensure that human rights are central to its relationship with Egypt, says HRW before a meeting in Paris tomorrow between President Emmanuel Macron and Egypt's leader Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi. France should stop ignoring serious abuses, including Egyptian security services’ widespread and systematic use of torture, which likely constitutes a crime against humanity.
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