Commemorating the Tulsa Race Massacre: Daily Brief
Reparations needed for legacy of slavery and racism in the United States; intellectual property of Covid-19 vaccines should be shared; it's time to update US approach to Israeli rights abuses; ex-Chad dictator’s victims denied reparations; Kenyan labor rights activist in solitary confinement in Qatar; sponsors of Olympics back LGBT non-discrimination act for Japan.
This week, people in the United States are commemorating the centennial of the 1921 race massacre, which destroyed the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as calls for reparations for slavery and racism are gaining steam.
Did you know that the European Union and EU member states are still on the wrong side of history when it comes to equitable Covid-19 vaccine access?
When will the United States update its approach to Israeli human rights abuses?
Victims of the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, have not received a cent of reparations ordered by the African Union-backed Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal in 2016.
There's news from Qatar, and it is not good.
Major corporations have endorsed Japan’s proposed Equality Act, which would protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from discrimination. Very welcome news, just a few weeks before the country hosts the Summer Olympics. But will the government in Japan act now, as it should?