Millions in Syria Await Blocked Relief: Daily Brief

Plus: Dozens disappeared by Turkey’s authorities; Australia should intervene in Southeast Asia repression; Tripoli protestor killed in anti-lockdown demonstration; two Egyptian women abducted; unlawful UAE strike kills 8; Covid-19’s harsh impact on women.

Get the Daily Brief by email.

Restrictions on aid deliveries from Damascus and Iraq are preventing medical supplies and personnel needed to prevent, contain, and treat Covid-19 from reaching two million people in northeast Syria.

Gökhan Türkmen, is one of at least two dozen people over the past three years reportedly abducted and forcibly disappeared by Turkish government agents for many months.

The Australian government cannot ignore how some Southeast Asian countries are using the Covid-19 pandemic to repress rights.

Early this week, hundreds of protestors defied Covid-19 restriction rules and protested in Tripoli. Police responded by firing live bullets, injuring many and killing one protestor

Two Egyptian women, Marwa Arafa and Kholoud Said were taken from their homes and forcibly disappeared as their families stood by helpless.

Dozens have been injured and 8 killed by an unlawful strike by the United Arab Emirates in Libya.

And finally, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says that the Covid-19 crisis is a crisis for women; who are locked down with their abusers, more at risk of FGM, and face more challenges accessing contraceptives.