Repair Systemic Racism in US, Now: Daily Brief
Reparations for slavery and systemic racism in the US are long overdue; Biden's next steps on human rights; reporters jailed in Belarus; Myanmar coup news updates; schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria; #FreeBritney; student protesters in Turkey at risk of prosecution; and a Saudi hero is back!
The time for the United States to account for its legacy of slavery is long overdue. Human Rights Watch expert Dreisen Heath testified on Wednesday in a ground-breaking hearing in US Congress to discuss a path to reparative justice in America. See here what you can do to make reparations a reality.
What should be United States President Joe Biden's next steps on human rights? HRW's Executive Director Ken Roth has some ideas.
There's news from Belarus, where the regime has escalated its attacks against press freedom.
What's next for Myanmar, after the military coup?
Gunmen in Nigeria’s northwestern Niger State attacked a government school on Tuesday, reportedly abducting hundreds of students and teachers and killing one student.
The hashtag #FreeBritney has been trending since the release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears, and fans, influencers, and activists are campaigning to have the singer’s father removed as her legal guardian.
The authorities in Turkey have placed hundreds of student protesters under possible criminal investigation, after they were arrested during weeks of protests against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s appointment of an academic closely aligned with the government as rector of one of Turkey’s top universities.
And a true Saudi hero is back!