"Every Time They Spray, People Go Home Sick": Daily Brief

Harm to child tobacco workers in Zimbabwe; draconian US asylum policies; Syria's smugglers thriving; concern over Israel inquiry into Gaza deaths; unravelling authoritarianism in Uzbekistan; keeping kampungs in Indonesia; China censorship in London's West End; no justice in Chechnya's anti-gay purge; bombing in Afghanistan; & #MLK50.

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Children and adults who work on Zimbabwe's tobacco farms are facing serious risks to their health as well as labor abuses, HRW said in a new report today.
US Congress should reject draconian asylum policies proposed by the White House following President Trump's three-day Twitter rant on migrants in Mexico.
Smugglers are using increasingly dangerous tactics for Syrian refugees who are desperately trying to reach refuge in Turkey.
The Israeli army has finally said it will hold an internal investigation into what HRW says was the unlawful killings of at least 14 protestors in Gaza last week.
As authoritarianism spreads, Uzbekistan is "going the other way" and attempting - very slowly - to ease back on its police state.
Residents of informal neighbourhoods in Indonesia's capital Jakarta are seeking the help of lawyers, architects and journalists to save their homes from the bulldozers.
A West End theatre in London has pulled a play about Tibet after the British Council privately advised that it would coincide with “significant political meetings” in China and could jeopardise the theatre’s ability to work there.
One year after Chechen authorities violently carried out an anti-gay purge in an attempt to “cleanse” Chechnya of gay men, no criminal cases have been opened into the mass detentions and torture by law enforcement.

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