South Africa is Failing Children with Disabilities: Daily Brief

South Africa has not delivered on its promises to guarantee inclusive education for children with disabilities and to ensure that they have adequate skills for employment. President Ramaphosa should press for inclusive education as its guiding principle. 

Lebanon summarily deported at least 16 Syrians, some registered refugees, on April 26. They were not given a meaningful chance to seek asylum or challenge their removal, and were forced to sign “voluntary repatriation” forms.

Good news from Brazil, where the highest court has voted to extend anti-discrimination protections to LGBT people. This is especially relevant given the increase in attacks against the LGBT community since President Jair Bolsonaro took office last year.

Today is also an important day for LGBT people in Kenya. The High Court will make a decision on whether laws criminalizing homosexual acts between consenting adults - which were first imposed by British colonizers in 1897 - are constitutional or not.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation should condemn China’s repression in Xinjiang and support a statement at the next HRC establishing an international fact-finding mission to investigate these abuses. It's time to #CloseXinjiangCamps.

The US justice department has indicted Julian Assange, Wikileaks co-founder, accusing him of violating the US Espionage Act. There is a real danger that this case could become a model for governments that seek to punish media for exposing evidence of abuses...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier likes to travel to countries he believes are on a path to reform. When he visits Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s most populous country, on May 27-29, he should push his Uzbek counterpart to bolster respect for human rights.