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The European Union should press the Vietnamese government to release all political prisoners and detainees; end repression of freedom of speech, association, and assembly; and take steps to end police brutality, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 28. The EU and Vietnam will hold their 7th annual bilateral human rights dialogue in Hanoi on December 1, 2017.

The Bangladesh government should agree to new trials meeting international standards for members of the former Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) accused of mutiny and murder, including 139 whose death sentences were upheld on November 27, 2017, by the High Court, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 28. The court also upheld life sentences for another 146 people.

Elli Scambor (r), Managing director of the Institute for Masculinity Studies presenting in the panel discussion at the MenEngage expert meeting, Vienna, 24 November 2017.

The United Nations is calling for greater action to address gender-based violence and its prevention in Syria.

“Gender-based violence continues to undermine the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims in Syria,” Panos Moumtzis, the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator (RHC) for the Syria Crisis,” said in marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Saturday. “It’s imperative we do more.”

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has called for the interior ministry to investigate and shut the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), a leading human rights group, Human Rights Watch said. The statement appeared linked to the politically motivated prosecution of political opposition leader Kem Sokha and the dissolution of his Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP).

The horrific attack by armed militants on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai region during Friday prayers is a grim reminder of the dangers facing Sinai residents on Nov 24, Human Rights Watch said.

Moderator Dragoljub Duško Vuković (c) discusses about protection of children from harmful media content during a workshop, Podgorica, 23 November 2017.

Ukrainian police educators and officers participate in a group exercise during a capacity building event on preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence. The event was organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Kyiv on 22 and 23 November 2017.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian should publicly urge respect for human rights in meetings with China’s new leadership, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 23 in a letter to the foreign minister. Le Drian is visiting China for the first time as foreign minister from November 24 to 27, 2017.

Saudi Arabia’s new counterterrorism law includes vague and overly broad definitions of acts of terrorism, in some cases punishable by death, Human Rights Watch said on Nov 23.