Iraq Protests Intensify: Daily Brief

Iraq's crackdown on protestors intensifies; TikTok reinstates teenager's account after Uighur row; girls in England & Wales vulnerable to child marriage; Afghanistan's women deminers; more arrests in Jordan; protecting the planet's protectors; and Tanzania's warning to journalists... 

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At least 13 people have reportedly been killed in Iraq in a fresh wave of protests in the southern city of Nasiriya.

The social video app TikTok has reinstated a US teenager's account after blocking her from posting new content - a move some suspect was linked to a video she posted about China's abuses against the Uighurs.

Girls in England and Wales are unprotected from child marriage because 16 and 17-year-olds are currently allowed to marry with parental consent, a legal exception that leaves children vulnerable. 

More and more women and being trained as deminers in Afghanistan

There have been more activist arrests in Jordan, with at least seven people detained since September. 

As a climate change summit begins in Madrid, here's a timely reminder of the need to protect people who defend the environment

And finally, Tanzania’s government has warned local journalists not to quote "foreign organisations" in their reporting, just hours after US and British diplomats criticised the process around local elections the country recently held. 

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