Daily Brief, 8 November, 2023.

This is the story of María, a Venezuelan migrant who tried to make a living in Ecuador first before risking everything to come to the US through the Darién Gap. The security situation in Ecuador pushed her to make the decision of bringing her two young children and her mother through the Darién Gap to reunite with her in the US.

The EACOP oil pipeline had devastated thousands of people's livelihoods in Uganda and risks locking in decades of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to the global climate crisis.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has devastated schools and kindergartens throughout the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report and video released today. Since February 2022, over 3,790 educational facilities have been damaged or destroyed, according to Ukrainian government figures, severely interrupting access to education for millions of children. The 63-page report, “Tanks on the Playground,” documents the damage and destruction of schools and kindergartens in four Ukrainian regions during the first months of the fighting. Most of the damage to educational facilities resulted from aerial attacks, artillery shelling, rocket strikes, and, in some cases, attacks using cluster munitions – causing significant damage to roofs, the collapse of walls, and major debris in classrooms. Russian forces frequently looted and pillaged schools they occupied, a war crime.

It is within the Israeli authorities power to turn on the water supply and ensure that there's fresh drinking water available to hospitals and to families, to civilians who are living under bombardment at the moment.

Collective Punishment of Palestinians is a War Crime

Tirana Hassan's address to the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights on Israel, Palestine and international humanitarian law.