The Women Living Under Honduras' Cruel Abortion Ban: Daily Brief
Human cost of Honduras' total abortion ban; protest crackdown in Sudan; Qatar's poor treatment of migrant workers; Chile's clean air victory; food poverty in UK; wartime plight of people with disabilities; no hope of return for Rohingya refugees; Kazakhstan's new president; Australia's police raid on journalists widely condemned; and good news on LGBT rights from Hong Kong!
Abortion in Honduras is illegal in all circumstances. Period. And as this devastating new feature piece reveals, this turns women's lives upside down in all sorts of unexpected and unwelcome ways.
Sudan's military has been condemned for its violent attack on protesters which left scores of people dead. And there are disturbing reports that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - previously known as the much-feared 'Janjaweed' militia who terrorised Darfur - were involved in the violence.
Qatar's poor treatment of migrant workers is in the spotlight again, this time with a new media expose on working conditions for people helping to prepare for the 2022 World Cup.
A landmark decision by Chile’s Supreme Court this week gives hope that other courts around the world may also use domestic law to uphold people's right to a healthy environment.
Just weeks after an HRW report exposed shocking levels of hunger among families in the UK, other groups are also reporting similar findings.
While the experiences of people with disabilities in wartime have begun to be more widely acknowledged, the situation in South Sudan shows there is much more to be done.
The Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution in Myanmar for decades. And now it looks like many of them are stuck in Bangladesh for the foreseeable future.
On 9 June, for the first time since independence in 1991, Kazakhstan will elect a present who is not Nursultan Nazarbayev. But don't be fooled into thinking this means genuine change.
The head of Australia's top human rights body has called the police raid on the public broadcaster ABC News “deeply disturbing”, and says Australia's new laws make whistleblowing in the public interest "more difficult and dangerous".
And finally, good news from Hong Kong, where a gay civil servant has won his battle to grant him and his husband spousal benefits and joint tax assessment.