Olympics Should Benefit Human Rights: Daily Brief
- Olympics host Japan should address serious rights issues
- Mass protests against regime in Cuba
- New details of alleged torture in Saudi Arabia
- Garment workers’ rights should be protected during pandemic
- Tragic news from Georgia
- Some positive news: Montenegro bans denial of genocide in Srebrenica.
Japan should address serious rights issues in the country as host of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, says Human Rights Watch in a new guide for reporters who cover the event. The Olympics begin on July 23 and are advertised as celebrating “unity in diversity” and “passing on legacy for the future”...
Thousands of people in Cuba have taken to the streets over the weekend to protest against the regime in the country.
New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in prisons in Saudi Arabia.
Garment workers in Sri Lanka are entitled to work in safety and be properly paid even when they fall sick or need to quarantine
Recent climate-change-exacerbated heat waves in the western Canadian province of British Columbia have left hundreds dead. What should the government do? Read this comment by HRW's Ellen Spannagel.
There's terrible news from Georgia, after anti-LGBT violence rocked the capital Tbilisi last week.
And there's some positive news regarding the genocide in Srebrenica, that was commemorated on Sunday.