Neglect in US Nursing Homes During Pandemic: Daily Brief
Pandemic exposes need for improvements in US nursing homes; refugee camp fencing cost lives in Bangladesh blaze; new government in Libya should put rights first; #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar; onslaught on rights and democracy in Turkey; landmark UN Resolution promotes justice in Sri Lanka; don’t arm robots in policing; and Japan needs an equality act before the Olympics.
Potential neglect and prolonged isolation may have caused serious harm to many people in nursing homes in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic. Check out this new Human Rights Watch report, published today.
Barbed wire fencing trapped thousands of refugees while a massive fire spread through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on March 22. At least 15 people, including 6 children, were killed in the fire, and over 50,000 people were displaced.
The newly confirmed Government of National Unity in Libya should commit itself to significantly improve human rights conditions and ensure that elections planned for December 2021 are free and fair.
The Myanmar military junta’s designation of the group representing Myanmar’s elected government as an “unlawful association” raises the risks of arrest for anti-coup activists and journalists reporting on the group.
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is dismantling human rights protections and democratic norms on a scale unprecedented in the 18 years he has been in office.
A new UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka is a victory for victims of abuses to help them obtain information, accountability, and justice.
Elected officials and local authorities across the United States and around the world should consider replicating an innovative legislative proposal that would prohibit police from arming robots used in their law enforcement operations.
And Japanese political parties should work together to submit and pass a bill to protect against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, before the Olympic Games begin.