Justice Needed for Deadly Ethiopia Violence: Daily Brief
Plus: clothing brands abandon workers in Asia; EU should address Hungary’s power grab; Kenya police beat people when implementing curfew; new Kazakhstan law will limit peaceful assembly; World Bank approves Tanzania education loan; Sierra Leone protects girls’ education.
Where’s justice for the victims and families of the October 2019 violence in Ethiopia?
Scores of clothing brands and retailers have canceled orders without assuming financial responsibility even when workers in Asia had finished making their products.
The European Union should politically isolate Hungary for passing a law that abandons all democratic checks and balances.
Police in Kenya beat people and used excessive force while enforcing a curfew imposed by the government as a response to COVID-19 outbreak.
Kazakhstan’s government has rushed to pass a law that will limit peaceful assembly.
Following months of pressure from human rights advocates, the World Bank has taken a positive step and approved an educational loan for Tanzania that guarantees some educational protection for pregnant girls.
And finally, good news from Sierra Leone where a government directive now allows pregnant girls, or girls who have had children to continue with school.