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Launch of Special Advisory Council for Myanmar

Stranded Rohingya
The United Nations refugee agency called for the immediate rescue of a group of Rohingya refugees adrift in their boat in the Andaman Sea without ..

UNESCO holds conference on how judiciary can protect journalists

Chile indigenous rights
Chile’s state-run Institute of Human Rights says excessive and “illegitimate“ use of force and abuse of rights of children are being carried out by security ..

Amnesty releases report on abuses in Northern Mozambique

BANGLADESH/FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
About 300 student activists rallied in Bangladesh’s capital Monday to denounce the death in prison of a writer and commentator who was arrested last year ..

YEZIDI RIGHTS
More than 5,000 Yezidis were killed when ISIL swept through their ancestral region of Sinjar in 2014.

INDONESIA/ASEAN MEETING ON MYANMAR
ASEAN members are arranging to hold a special foreign ministers meeting (virtual) Tuesday to discuss the political crisis in Myanmar, ASEAN diplomatic sources said FRI. ..

Caster Semenya takes case to European Court of Human Rights

OPPOSITION LEADER ATTACKED IN CHAD
At least two people were killed early Sunday in a dawn raid by Chadian security forces on the home of opposition leader Yaya Dillo Djérou. ..

HONG KONG/DEMOCRACY ADVOCATES
The 47 people charged Sunday with conspiracy to commit subversion under the new national security law will appear in court Monday.
