Fighting to End Ethnic Profiling by Police in France: Daily Brief

NGOs launch class action suit against ethnic profiling by French police; dangerous levels of lead at new migrant camp in Greece; how to hold a former child soldier accountable; calls for ICC investigation in Sri Lanka; the US and the ICC; seeking justice for police brutality against protesters in Russia; UAE abuses against jailed rights activist Ahmed Mansoor; and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Police in France engage in longstanding and widespread ethnic profiling that constitutes systemic discrimination, a group of six French and international human rights organizations said today, as they initiated the first class action against the French state over the practice. 

Soil samples from the Mavrovouni (Kara Tepe) migrant camp in Greece show lead contamination, posing health risks for the thousands of people living there. After months of foot-dragging, the Greek government has to act.

After a four-year trial, in February the International Criminal Court (ICC) will deliver its judgment in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a senior commander of the brutal rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). He is charged with 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, sexual slavery, and torture.

Speaking of the ICC, the UN human rights chief has called for an ICC investigation into Sri Lanka's long-running civil war that ended in 2009 and sanctions on military officials accused of war crimes.

Also speaking of the ICC, the Biden Administration needs to change the US approach to it...

Following widespread police brutality against protesters across Russia on Saturday, the victims are rightly demanding justice...

New details regarding United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities’ persecution of the high-profile human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor reveal grave violations of his rights and demonstrate the State Security Agency’s unchecked powers to commit abuses.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, held on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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