US Sanctions on Iran Are Threatening Health: Daily Brief

US sanctions on Iran are threatening health; asylum seekers in Tanzania coerced into going home; Hong Kong bans activist from electoral race; new Greek bill threatens migrants' rights; the European Parliament should use recent rights award to pressure China; the internet brings new forms of violence against women; and risks for asylum seekers with disabilities in the Mexican border.

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The Trump administration’s broad sanctions on Iran have drastically constrained the ability of the country to finance humanitarian imports, including medicines. This is causing serious hardships for ordinary Iranians and threatening their right to health.

Tanzanian authorities unlawfully coerced more than 200 unregistered asylum seekers into returning to Burundi on October 15 by threatening to withhold their legal status in Tanzania.

Greece’s parliament should scrap provisions in a new bill that threatens to limit asylum seekers’ access to protection. In an effort to block the arrival of migrants and refugees to Greece, the bill would reduce safeguards for asylum seekers from countries like Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.

HRW's research in Ciudad Juárez – a city across the border from El Paso, Texas – found that the Mexican government does not have a proper system in place there to screen and identify asylum seekers with disabilities and chronic health conditions.

Hong Kong has banned activist Joshua Wong from running in the upcoming November district election.

The European Parliament should use its 2019 Sakharov Prize, awarded to the unjustly detained Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, to increase pressure on China to release him

And technology is bringing us new forms of violence against women

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