Trump's Asylum Proposal Violates US Law: Daily Brief
Trump's asylum proposal violates US law; LGBT harassment in Indonesia; torture against activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo; three million Venezuelans have fled the country; Mauritania should release unlawfully detained blogger; Indian women use #MeToo to publicly denounce their harassers; Rwandan opposition leader disappeared for one month; and where does the UN Security Council stand on Yemen?
The asylum regulation proposed yesterday, November 8, by the Trump Administration violates the law and constitutes the latest attempt to shut American doors to people fleeing persecution and violence.
State-sanctioned violence against LGBT people in Indonesia is rising. The latest attack was on November 2, when police in Indonesia’s Lampung province were caught on video arresting and humiliating three transgender women.
Political and rights activists are routinely tortured in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A new report documents that the military, police, and intelligence services have made extensive use of punishments such as gang rape, choking and electric shock to crush dissent.
The number of Venezuelans who have fled the country has now reached three million. Venezuela’s deepening crisis has triggered the largest migration flow of its kind in recent Latin American history.
In Mauritania, blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir remains in custody despite his sentence being quashed one year ago. A group of 32 NGOs urge Mauritania to promptly and safely release him.
Women in India have furiously taken to social media using the #MeToo hashtag to publicize accounts of workplace sexual harassment, most of which have been bottled up for decades.
On the night of October 7, Rwandan opposition leader Boniface Twagirimana ‘disappeared’ from his prison cell in Mpanga in southern Rwanda. One month later, his family and friends still have no information on his whereabouts.
And where does the UN Security Council stand on Yemen?