Lawmakers Call on EU to Stop Blocking Wider Vaccine Production: Daily Brief
Parliamentarians across Europe are calling on the EU to stop blocking wider vaccine manufacture globally; gay men face abuse and prison in Uzbekistan; Houthis attacking displaced people’s camps in Yemen; tens of thousands of foreigners held unlawfully in northeast Syria; UN officials condemn attacks on civilians, and particularly rape, in Ethiopia's Tigray region; and understanding the push for reparations in the US.
Hundreds of members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and members of national parliaments (MPs) across the European Union are calling on the EU to stop blocking the wider manufacture of vaccines globally - as the EU, UK, US and other countries are still doing and thus prolonging the pandemic.
Men in Uzbekistan who engage in consensual same-sex sexual conduct face arbitrary detention, prosecution, and imprisonment as well as homophobia, threats, and extortion, Human Rights Watch said today.
Houthi forces have indiscriminately fired artillery and missiles into heavily populated areas in Yemen’s Marib governorate since February 2021, causing mass displacement and exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
Nearly 43,000 foreign men, women, and children linked to ISIS remain detained in inhuman or degrading conditions by regional authorities in northeast Syria, two years after they were rounded up during the fall of the Islamic State “caliphate.”
Top UN officials have called for an end to attacks against civilians in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, highlighting in particular calling out reports of rape and other sexual violence.
The full impact of creating laws and policies that forced hundreds of thousands of Africans to be enslaved in the United States, a gross human rights violation, has never been fully examined, accounted for, or assessed at the national level. The push for reparations is now gathering renewed steam.