Hungary Criminalizes Basic Human Decency: Daily Brief
Hungary criminalizes basic human decency; Trump’s indefinite detention for children; Saudi crown prince's first year in power; US criminal justice system fuels poverty; Human Rights Council to speak out on Venezuela; How to make a North Korea deal work?; American Medical Association approves new LGBT policies; Turkey's elections.
Hungary’s Parliament passed a law that not only makes it almost impossible to seek asylum in Hungary, but also makes it a crime to help migrants and refugees. If signed into law, human rights workers and community volunteers could be jailed for up to a year just for providing services, advice, or support to asylum seekers.
Trump’s new executive order exchanges one harmful approach for another: instead of forcibly separating families, it would detain families together indefinitely. And indefinite detention for children means indefinite trauma...
Mohammed Bin Salman is celebrating his first year as Saudi crown prince. A year marked by a intensified crackdown on women’s rights activists and the ongoing Saudi-led coalition’s offenses in Yemen, where the humanitarian crisis grows.
The US criminal justice system is fuelling the poverty cycle. The United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty, Philip Alston, says in a new report that it's "a system for keeping the poor in poverty while generating revenue".
After President Nicolas Maduro's reelection last May, Venezuelans are still suffering a humanitarian spiral with severe food shortages and a ruthless government crackdown. It's now time for the Human Rights Council to speak out before this tragic downward spiral becomes irreversible.
How to make a North Korea Deal work? The US government should make clear to him that a deal on weapons proliferation is only part of the package, and that if he wants to rejoin the world he needs to bring his people - and their basic human rights - along with him.
The American Medical Association has adopted new LGBT policies that will position the organization as an advocate for better protections for transgender people in detention, and LGBT-inclusive family leave policies.
Turkey will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. Whatever the outcome, a new presidential system of governance - which will greatly increase the president’s powers while reducing the role of the parliament - will fully enter into force following the elections.