Torturing Kids to Confess: Daily Brief

Children accused of affiliation with ISIS are being detained, and often tortured and prosecuted by the Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government authorities. This has been done to hundreds of children regardless of their actual level of involvement with ISIS. This sweeping approach is not justice and will create lifelong negative consequences for many of these children.

Sudan President Omar al Bashir has issued decrees outlawing protests, setting up emergency courts, and appointed loyal military men in key roles. This attempt to quash on-going pressure from the public is just another form of repression.

Will European Conservatives finally wake up to the threat to fundamental rightsposed by Hungary’s Fidesz ruling party?

In the saber-rattling between India and Pakistan, Kashmiris are forgotten, squeezed between armed protestors, armed groups, policy makers and campaigners. The international community should do right by Kashmiri victims and insist on reform to address decades of repression in Kashmir.

In the US state of Georgia, state lawmakers now have an opportunity to protect vulnerable groups, but may once again prioritize laws that could allow people to discriminate.

And finally, Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is hailed as a positive force regionally as he mediates to ease Kenya-Somalia diplomatic tensions, but can he restore relations within Ethiopia?