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Fathers don't take nearly as much parental leave as mothers do, which can lead to women having to sacrifice their career prospects in order to look after their children. EU rules are meant to help with this, but results have proved mixed. Belgian Socialist MEP Maria Arena has written a report with suggestions on how to improve the situation. MEPs debate the report on 12 May and vote on it later that day.

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Pakistani authorities should conduct a prompt and impartial investigation into the killing of human rights activist Khurram Zaki and appropriately prosecute those responsible, Human Rights Watch said on May 10. Zaki, 40, had been publicly critical of extremist cleric Abdul Aziz and militant sectarian groups.

Afghanistan’s government should immediately halt further executions and impose a moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said on May 10. The executions by hanging of six Taliban prisoners on May 8, 2016, were the first capital sentences carried out by President Ashraf Ghani since he took office in 2014.

Thai authorities charged eight Facebook users with sedition and computer crimes for mocking Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha online.

A United States Border Patrol Agent who shot an unarmed Mexican child in the back across the border should not escape justice if the shooting was unlawful, Human Rights Watch said in a friend-of-the-court brief.

Participants and the 2016 session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye.

In a harrowing incident of honor killing a 16-year girl, Miss Amber, from Makol village near the town of Dunga Gali, distrct Abbottabad Khyber Pakhtun Khuwa (KPK) province was burned alive on 29th April 2016 for helping her friend elope. Because of her help her friend was married The incident caught media attention after a picture of charred body inside a burnt vehicle began to go viral on social media. An investigation was conducted after the civil society raised its concerns. Upon investigation it transpired that the victim Amber was burned alive on the orders of a so called Jirga (an illegal judicial system of tribal customs) to teach the girls around the area a lesson. The Jirga had decided that in order to stop ‘love marriages’ in the area, the helper girl must be punished to set an example for other girls. According to the Dunga Gali Police the Jirga was headed by Sardar Pervez, a local government councilor and a “notorious” leader of whom the entire village is afraid.