Climate Action Needed Now: Daily Brief

Millions of people around the world want government leaders to take concrete action to save the planet. Many participated in protests over the weekend, including Glasgow, host city of the UN climate change conference #COP26. 

Did you know that people with disabilities comprise an estimated 15 percent of the global population, and are at increased risk of adverse climate impacts – including threats to their rights to the highest attainable standard of health, food, water, sanitation, and an adequate standard of living?

The regime in China should immediately and unconditionally release Zhang Zhan, an activist wrongfully imprisoned for reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. Her family says she is in desperate need of medical care.

Indonesia's President Joko Widodo claims that his country is a moderate Muslim country, but is it really? Read this Project Multatuli comment by Brad Adams, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division.

There's a news update from the NGO-scandal in Israel and Palestine, as an investigation by Front Line Defenders has exposed how organizations that defend human rights of Palestinians have been targeted with Pegasus spyware. The authorities in Israel have also escalated surveillance of Palestinians with a facial recognition program in the occupied West Bank.

There's positive news from Singapore, as the High Court in the country has granted a stay of execution on Malaysian death row inmate Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, pending a hearing at the Court of Appeal over his death sentence.

And make sure you tune in on Tuesday for a special conversation on disparities in global Covid-19 vaccine access. You can register here.