Lone Eritrean Children at Risk in Ethiopia: Daily Brief
Ethiopia has long welcomed tens of thousands of Eritreans fleeing persecution each year, but the government’s recent changes to asylum procedures for Eritreans undermines their access to asylum and denies unaccompanied children necessary protection.
Myanmar authorities should allow access to the UN to investigate the attack on a WHO vehicle carrying swabs from patients to be tested for coronavirus.
A new working group to help find the thousands of missing people in hands of ISIS in northeast Syria is an essential first step toward accountability for what happened to them, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Thai authorities should promptly and impartially investigate the torture of two suspects by a military anti-drug unit and hold all those responsible to account.
As the "Sunshine State" faces record-breaking high temperatures, authorities in Florida urgently need to reverse course and protect farmworkers from these heat waves, guaranteeing their right to decent and safe work.
And in other cities in the United States, communities living under severe air pollution, such as the Bronx in New York City, are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill or dying from Covid-19.
Russian authorities should immediately investigate Chechnya’s governor's threat against the outlet Novaya Gazeta, and ensure the safety of Elena Milashina, the newspaper’s correspondent reporting on abuses in Chechnya.
And to understand how the coronavirus crisis is affecting people with disabilities, we've produced this new easy-to-read version of our report.