China Abuses in Spotlight: Daily Brief

The Trump administration is expected to announce plans to end temporary protection for 200,000 El Salvadorans who call the United States home. According to the order, they will have until 2019 to seek permanent residency in the US or risk deportation. Last year, the administration ended similar protections for immigrants from Haiti and Honduras. But for thousands of families blindsided with this news, many with US-born children, returning to violence and extreme poverty poses a serious threat. Carrie Gracie, the BBC's China editor has resigned citing pay inequality. Gender-based wage gaps are real, and present real obstacles to women achieving equal status not only in the workplace but elsewhere in society. Iceland recently enacted legislation aimed at ending the wage gap. It's time other countries followed its lead. Sixty-four people are dead after an overcrowded boat launched from Libya sank in the Mediterranean over the weekend. Although the Italian coastguard was able to rescue 86 people at the scene, the tragic incident is only the latest example of the perilous and often fatal journey migrants and asylum seekers continue to take to seek protection in Europe. From earlier today: France's President Emmanuel Macron should honor his pledge and call publicly for human rights improvements in meetings with China's President Xi Jinping and other leaders, HRW said today in a letter to Macron. The French leader is visiting China from Monday until Wednesday. Ghanaians who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) suffer widespread discrimination and abuse both in public and in family settings, according to a new report and video that HRW released today.