Pregnant Girls Have a Right to Education: Daily Brief
Plus: South Korea deports two people to North Korea; US should not collect DNA from immigrants; Uganda police crackdown on gay-friendly bar; EU should renew sanctions against DRC warlords; Europeans want prohibition of killer robots; Egypt’s rights record is reviewed.
Good news from Nigeria's Ekiti state, which has adopted a policy to keep pregnant school girls in school!
South Korea has deported two people to North Korea where they are likely to face torture.
The United States department of justice proposal to collect DNA from immigrants violates their privacy.
Police in Uganda cracked down on a gay-friendly bar, arrested over 100 people and brought trumped up charges against them.
The European Union should renew sanctions against warlords responsible to violence and serious rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Most people who responded to a poll in 10 European countries want their governments to prohibit lethal autonomous weapons, also known as killer robots.
Today, the UN Human Rights Council reviews Egypt’s rights record, which is marred by mass arrests of those protesting the regime.