Plus: Southeast Asian nations shouldn’t whitewash atrocities against Rohingya; one step closer to justice for MH17 victims; UN human rights commissioner makes first visit to Venezuela; Cambodian authorities should drop Radio Free Asia case; and World Refugee Day.

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Great news from the United Kingdom, where a Court of Appeal has ruled that the United Kingdom government’s refusal to consider Saudi Arabia’s laws-of-war violations in Yemen before licensing arms sales was unlawful. The UK government has agreed to immediately suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia until it makes a new lawful decision on arms licenses or obtains a new court order.

Southeast Asian leaders are meeting at their annual summit today. They should use the opportunity to drastically rethink their response to the plight of Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya.

MH17 victims are one step closer to justice. International investigators have announced that the Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands would prosecute four people for bringing down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is visiting Venezuela for the first time. She should take the opportunity to visit a prison and the JM de los Rios Children’s Hospital in Caracas, which doctors describe as a waiting room for sick and dying children. 

Cambodian authorities should drop the politically motivated espionage charges against two former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists and quash the decision to put them under judicial supervision.

And on World Refugee Day, more than 70M people are now forcibly displaced from their homes globally because of conflict, humanitarian or environmental disasters. 

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