Public Outrage at Abortion Ban in Poland: Daily Brief
New attack on women's rights in Poland; time to stop ethnic profiling in France; new report on torture by security forces in Belarus; EU border agency pulls out of Hungary over rights abuses; Biden administration pauses arms sales to Saudi Arabia & emirates; crackdown in Brazil against critics of Covid-19 response; repression escalates in DR Congo; and China's Covid-19 success story is also a human rights tragedy.
Awful news from Poland, where the government is now enforcing a near-total ban on abortion, but public outrage is taking to the streets in protests across the country.
The government in France should change the law to make sure police can only stop and search someone when they have a reasonable, individualized suspicion. There should be a written record of all stops, and specific guidelines for stops involving children.
Amnesty International just published a report on torture and other abuses by the security forces in Belarus.
Hungary's dictatorship has now undermined rule of law in the country so badly that even the European Union's border agency, Frontex, won't work there.
There's very welcome news from the new administration in the United States, as it has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Being critical of the government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic is a very risky idea in Brazil.
President Felix Tshisekedi’s administration in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increasingly cracked down on the media and activist groups during its two years in office.
As the Covid-19 pandemic is killing millions of people worldwide, the crisis seems under control in China, the country where it started. Read this op-ed by our China researcher Yaqiu Wang on the price of that "success".