Will Israel Deport HRW Director? Daily Brief

Israel's government may deport HRW's Israel & Palestine director on Monday for defending rights; Facebook and Google’s surveillance poses an "unprecedented danger to human rights"; IMF should act on corruption and rights abuses in Equatorial Guinea; voting for human rights matters; Japan’s legal system treats trans people like second-class citizens; reporters still unjustly jailed in Burundi; and good news from the UK, on repatriation of children from Syria.

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Big question for the next days: will the Israeli government really deport Omar Shakir, HRW's director for Israel and Palestine? “Despite the Israeli government’s effort to silence the messenger rather than change its illegal conduct, Human Rights Watch will continue to document human rights abuses by all parties in Israel and Palestine,” says Ken Roth, HRW's executive director.

Facebook and Google’s "omnipresent surveillance of billions of people poses a systemic threat to human rights", says Amnesty International in a new report. 

The International Monetary Fund has a problem called Equatorial Guinea.

In every election, human rights matter. From local schoolboard elections to presidential ones, voters have the chance to choose candidates who will fight for all people’s human rights, not work to undermine them. In the 2020 United States elections, nationwide, fundamental human rights are at stake.

The government of Japan should stand for equal treatment of trans people. But does it?

The Burundi authorities should immediately and unconditionally release four journalists and their driver who were arrested one month ago while they were on a reporting trip to Bubanza Province for Iwacu newspaper.

And some good news from the United Kingdom, as a number of British orphans whose parents died in Syria are being returned to their country.  "Nearly all of these children did not choose to live or be born under ISIS and they should not be blamed for that crimes or errors of their parents," says HRW's Letta Tayler in this CNN article.