Governments should redouble efforts to end violence against children and women; deadly bomb attack against girls' school in Afghanistan; Covid-19 disaster in India today and looming in Nepal; land rights activist killed in Thailand; brutal treatment of protesters in occupied East Jerusalem; and how some rich governments are prolonging the pandemic... 

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Governments in the Middle East and North Africa should outlaw the violent discipline of children, Human Rights Watch says today, introducing an index categorizing countries in the region based on their laws and policies.

Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty on violence against women, which now faces an unprecedented backlash in the European region.

Violence, especially against women and girls, is a major problem in Afghanistan. The death toll in a bomb attack targeting schoolgirls in Kabul on Saturday has risen to 85. Last week, HRW published a report about the need to better protect women and girls in the country.

Covid-19 has hit India and, increasingly, Nepal very hard, with thousands of people dying on a daily basis.

The authorities in Thailand should immediately investigate the killing of Somsak Onchuenjit, a lawyer and land rights activist. Successive Thai governments have failed to prevent or adequately respond to attacks against human rights defenders who represent landless farmers.

Hundreds of people were injured when Israeli security forces confronted Palestinian protesters in occupied East Jerusalem.

And did you know there are still countries that are prolonging the pandemic? And that you can act to end this?