Left Out Of Learning In Lebanon: Daily Brief

Lebanon’s public schooling system discriminates against children with disabilities which in turn "robs them of their education", HRW said in a new report today. As border guards try to seal the last remaining gaps in Turkey's border, hundreds of thousands of Syrians are trapped in fields to face the bombs on the Syrian side. Turkish security forces have also intercepted thousands of asylum seekers at the Turkey-Syria border and summarily deported them back to war-ravaged Syria. The jewelry industry is having its #MeToo moment, with new reports about sexism and harassment. A Palestinian child activist, Ahed Tamimi, has been sentenced to eight months in prison and a fine of $1,400 after a video showed her slapping and kicking two Israeli soldiers. There's outrage in Tonga, where the government has banned schoolgirls from playing rugby or boxing because the sports are deemed undignified and not in keeping with the island’s traditional culture. The wife of a prominent Bahraini human rights activist Sayed Alwadaei has been handed a two-month prison term in absentia on dubious, politically-motivated charges. Japan looks set to join the global movement to end child marriage - a long overdue but welcome step. There is still no word of the Burundian journalist Jean Bigirimana, who has been missing for 20 months now following unconfirmed reports that he was last seen being arrested by security services.