Where Are the Children?: Daily Brief

Tens of thousands protest against family separations in United States; Anti-LGBT crackdown fuels health crisis in Indonesia; Human rights review Palestine & Israel; Istanbul Pride; Khadija Ismayilova: hope for human rights in Azerbaijan; Children 'collateral damage' in Philippines 'war on drugs'; Support HRW.

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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets over the weekend in the United States to protest against anti-migrant policies of the administration of President Donald Trump. The UN high commissioner for human rights has denounced the US practice of forcibly separating children from their migrant and asylum seeker parents.

The family separation issue in the United States is symptomatic of a much broader global problem.

Authorities in Indonesia are fueling an HIV epidemic through complicity in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The government’s failure to halt arbitrary and unlawful raids by police and militant Islamists on private LGBT gatherings has effectively derailed public health outreach efforts to vulnerable populations, says HRW in a report released today.

War crimes and other human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine are in the spotlight at the UN Human Rights Council these days.

Authorities in Turkey tried to ban the Istanbul Pride march again this weekend, but this did not stop people from taking to the streets to show support for the LGBTI community and to protest against discrimation.

Azerbaijan’s Khadija Ismayilova "exemplifies courage, and reminds why human rights and rule of law are worth fighting for", according to this article. HRW honored Ismayilova with the 2015 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism.

As the 'war on drugs' also known as war on the poor in the Philippines turns 2, it is time to put a spotlight again on the youngest victims.

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