Myanmar Women Detained in Grim Conditions: Daily Brief
Investigate violence by Colombia police; concern over missing Turkish-Kyrgyz educator; Afghan interpreters risk attacks from Taliban; discriminatory rule hampers religious freedom in Indonesia; new Ecuador law could silence sexual violence survivors; and aid workers killed in South Sudan.
Women detained in Myanmar prisons have reported beatings, few toilets, lack of water and sanitary pads, and other forms of gendered harassment and humiliation by police.
Colombian police beat, sexually abused, and even used live ammunition on protestors in April. These are not isolated incidents. In-depth police reforms are required to prevent further incidents of police violence.
Kyrgyz authorities should investigate the disappearance of educator, Orhan İnandı. If forcibly returned to Turkey, İnandı risks torture and arbitrary detention.
As troops withdraw from Afghanistan, US and other foreign forces should accelerate the resettlement of Afghan interpreters and other employees of foreign forces who are at risk of attack from Taliban forces.
In 2006, the Indonesian government issued a discriminatory rule that gives majority religious groups in an area the power to stop minority religious groups from building houses of worship. This rule continues to limit freedom of religion and belief.
If passed, a new Ecuador bill could silence survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and, severely undermine free speech.
And finally, two humanitarian workers have been reportedly killed in South Sudan. Aid workers have long been frontline casualties in the country’s conflict.