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Kenyan security forces abducted, arbitrarily arrested, tortured, and killed perceived leaders of the anti-Finance Bill protests between June and August 2024.

Daily Brief, 05 November, 2024

The new prime minister of France, Michel Barnier should put promotion and protection of human rights at the heart of his national and international policies, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to him yesterday.

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on October 27. The new Diet should open an inquiry into the country’s troubled criminal justice system.

Daily Brief, 04 November, 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, during a speech in Kisangani on October 23, proposed steps to change the country’s constitution, including floating the idea of a change to presidential term limits. Tshisekedi had previously pledged to “scrupulously respect constitutional obligations.”

In June my colleague and I went to Doha, Qatar to speak with Palestinian patients and their family members who had been evacuated from Gaza. The medical professionals treating them told us that these were the most complex trauma cases they had ever seen. There is a humanitarian imperative for other countries, with robust, sophisticated healthcare systems and available beds like Denmark to take in Palestinians from Gaza who cannot receive the care they need in Gaza or in Egypt.

Gen. Sri Rumiati served as a policewoman in Indonesia for decades, but her life’s work became centered around protesting a policy of the state security forces. When she was summoned for military service, she was shocked to learn that she was required to take a virginity test. The Indonesian military and police held the

Türkiye’s parliament should reject a proposed legislative amendment that seeks to expand the definition of espionage in such a vague manner that it could criminalize legitimate work by human rights defenders, journalists, and other civil society actors in the country, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today.