Targeted Sanctions on Myanmar Military: Daily Brief
US and UK announce targeted sanctions on the Myanmar military’s businesses; boycott of Xinjiang cotton gets people in China asking questions about abuses; unprecedented education crisis facing Syrian refugee children in Lebanon; Russian-linked landmines in Libya; crackdown in Bangladesh; abusive measures to prevent Covid spread in Argentina's Formosa; restricting voting in the US state of Georgia; anti-Asian violence in the US; don't arm police robots; teams protest Qatar's rights record at World Cup qualifiers; and it's time to treat the global pandemic like a global pandemic.
The US & UK governments imposed targeted economic sanctions on the Myanmar military’s largest business conglomerates. It's a good start.
For years, the word “Xinjiang” & the abuses there were taboo on the Chinese internet. This week, authorities relaxed censorship to let people slam clothing brand H&M over its pledge to stop using Xinjiang cotton, leading many in China to ask, "What's happening in Xinjiang?"
There is an unprecedented education crisis for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. The upcoming ministerial conference in Brussels on Supporting Syria and the Region has an opportunity to help.
Buried in a new report by the United Nations Panel of Experts on Libya comes disturbing news about recent transfers of internationally banned antipersonnel landmines. The report shows that antipersonnel mines manufactured in Russia were likely brought into Libya in the 2018-2019 despite an arms embargo.
Governments joining the celebrations to mark the 50th founding anniversary of Bangladesh and to honor the birth centenary of independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 26, 2021, should know that Bangladeshis are enduring an escalating crackdown on human rights by the Awami League-led government.
Authorities in Argentina’s northern province of Formosa have employed often abusive and unsanitary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19, Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins University’s centers for Public Health and Human Rights and for Humanitarian Health said today.
The US state of Georgia has passed a sweeping new law restricting voting access.
The attacks in Atlanta, killing six women of Asian descent, brought a sense of outrage, fear and sadness. It reminded us of the spikes in violence against the Indian community in New Jersey in the late 1980s.
Elected officials and local authorities across the United States and around the world should consider replicating an innovative legislative proposal in New York that would prohibit police from arming robots used in their law enforcement operations.
Germany's national football team protested against human rights abuses in Qatar before their World Cup qualifier against Iceland. Norway's team did the same before their match against Gibraltar. The Netherlands coach is also drawing attention to the issue.
As many EU member states are facing a deadly "third wave" of Covid-19, leaders from the EU, US, UK and other nations continue to block wider manufacturing of approved vaccines globally, thus prolonging the pandemic worldwide.