Shaping the #FutureWeBuild: Daily Brief

What world do we want as we emerge from the pandemic?; Ai Weiwei receives award from HRW; violence against protesters and reporters in the US; desperate plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya; Cuba's repression targets doctors; nail in coffin of press freedom in Hungary; and unaccompanied migrant children are sleeping outside in Paris.

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Thousands of people around the world joined Human Rights Watch's #FutureWeBuild event on Thursday, showing support in a challenging moment. Years from now, we will look back at this moment and see it as the time that change became possible, hope and hard work bore fruit, and humanity was stronger for it.

Outrage is mounting across the United States over the abusive tactics of federal agents, led by the Department of Homeland Security, against protesters in Portland.

Myanmar’s unwillingness to provide accountability for rampant rights abuses seems to know no bounds.

The Cuban government imposes draconian rules on doctors deployed in medical missions globally that violate their fundamental rights,

The firing of Szabolcs Dull, the editor-in-chief of Hungary’s biggest independent news website, Index, on July 22, 2020 has political interference written all over it.

And no child should have to sleep on the streets in Paris

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