Enormous Betrayal in Afghanistan: Daily Brief

Thousands of Afghans still hope for evacuation; new report on deaths of thousands of migrant workers in Qatar; justice needed for Sri Lanka's disappeared, and for ethnic cleansing campaign in Myanmar; Biden shouldn't soft-pedal Ukraine on human rights; telecommunications decree curtails free speech in Cuba; and Congress in Brazil should reject an anti-indigenous rights bill.

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Thousands of Afghans who are fearing persecution by the Taliban are still hoping to be evacuated out of Afghanistan, as the United States-led multinational airlift is about to wrap up. 

 

A new report by Amnesty International puts the focus on the unexplained deaths of thousands of migrant workers in Qatar in the past years, as the country is getting ready to host the football World Cup in 2022.

Did you know that Sri Lanka has the world’s second-highest number of cases registered with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances? Since the 1980s, an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people from all ethnic and religious communities have “disappeared”...

Justice is also needed for the ethnic cleansing campaign by the Myanmar army against Rohingya Muslims, that began in August 2017. Read this op-ed by Shayna Bauchner, researcher in HRW's Asia Division.

United States President Joe Biden will meet his counterpart of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on August 30, a good opportunity to discuss human rights. 

A new decree and accompanying legislation announced by the Cuban government severely restricts freedom of expression online and threatens users’ privacy.

And Brazil’s Congress should reject a bill that would prevent or hinder many Indigenous peoples from claiming their right to traditional lands, violating their rights under international law.