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The Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip should halt planned executions. Three men were put to death on the morning of May 31, 2016, as the first step in a declared plan to kill 13 convicted criminals. The executions came after a number of highly publicized murders.

The Sudanese authorities deported at least 442 Eritreans, including six registered refugees, to Eritrea in May 2016, Human Rights Watch said on May 30. Sudan denied the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) access to identify those who wanted to claim asylum and also denied the agency access to 64 Ethiopians still in detention who risk deportation.

Delegates at the 2016 International Labour Conference should initiate a process to develop a binding, international convention to protect human rights in global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on May 30. Governments, employers, and workers from around the world are meeting in Geneva for the annual labor summit, starting on May 30, 2016, to discuss how to ensure “decent work” in global supply chains.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.

UNHCR is deeply concerned about the plight of some 165,000 displaced persons reportedly massing near the Syrian town of Azaz in northern Syria.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on May 27 to update privacy rules to prevent broadband Internet access service providers from recording and sharing their customers’ every move online.

Ahmed, 13, in Trabia, Italy, on May 19, 2016. He lives at Rainbow, a government administered center for unaccompanied boys, that provides them with shelter, food, education and legal help.

The Sri Lankan government ratified the Convention against Enforced Disappearance but in the same week created an Office of Missing Persons without promised consultations with families of the “disappeared,” Human Rights Watch said on MAY 27. The government should honor its pledge to hold meaningful consultations with the affected families and nongovernmental representatives about the missing persons’ office and the other transitional justice mechanisms.

UNHCR staff in Iraq distribute emergency kits to newly-displaced families from Falluja.