Support Love, Not Hate: Daily Brief
HRW joins call to support love, not hate after synagogue shooting in US; human rights at stake in US midterm elections; UN spotlight on human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia & China; rescuers at sea face baseless accusations in Greece; justice in Syria one essential step closer; and good #BehindTheBling news.
Just before the midterm elections in the United States and in in the aftermath of the deadly attack on a synagoge in Pittsburgh, Human Rights Watch has joined forces with other human rights organizations and published full-page adds in The New York Times and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette supporting love, and against hate.
Human rights are at stake in the midterm elections in the United States on Tuesday.
The awful human rights record of Saudi Arabia is under the spotlight today at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
On Tuesday, countries will discuss the human rights record of another notorious rights abuser: China.
Criminal accusations brought by Greek prosecutors against activists for their efforts to rescue migrants and asylum seekers at sea appear entirely unfounded, HRW says today.
A rare positive development on Syria, as the authorities in France have issued arrest warrants against three senior Assad regime officials.
And there's good news from our #BehindTheBling campaign. People in the United States will now be able to buy jewelry made with “conflict-free” gold from Zales and Kay Jewelers, two of the nation’s largest jewelry retailers.