Kenya Police Execute Youth: Daily Brief
Plus: France teargasses climate change protestors; support for Ethiopia’s torture victims; Germany should back rights in supply chains; Gambia's Jammeh denies rape allegations; and Sea Watch captain set free.
Police in Kenya have killed over 21 young men from low-income neighborhoods in Nairobi.
Police have teargassed demonstrators calling for France to reduce carbon emissions.
Torture was widespread for many years in Ethiopia. Although Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has acknowledged the problem, there’s an urgent need to help victims to move forward.
The German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy is trying to weaken measures that would track how well companies identify human rights abuses in their supply chains.
Gambian women who accused former President Yahya Jammeh of rape want justice; he continues to deny the allegations.
And finally, court in Italy has set free the captain of Sea Watch; an NGO ship that rescued stranded migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and docked in Italy.