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Moria Refugee Camp, Greece, Oct 2019

A South Sudanese refugee child prepares a meal at Jewi refugee camp in Ethiopia.

A child looks out at a bus near the Turkey-Greece border, at Pazarkule, in Edirne district in Turkey on 29 February 2020.

Rohingya refugee children wade through flood waters surrounding their families' shelters following an intense pre-monsoon storm in Shamlapur makeshift settlemen in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the opposition Future Forward Party on February 21, 2020, on politically motivated allegations, seriously damaging the country’s return to genuine democratic rule, Human Rights Watch said on Febuary 22. The court ruled that the party took an illegal loan from its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, and imposed 10-year political bans on 16 of its executive members.

Tajik authorities have detained a prominent independent journalist, apparently for his writing, Human Rights Watch said on Febuary 21. Daler Sharipov, who has been detained since January 28, 2020 for “inciting religious discord,” faces up to five years in prison if convicted. He has often criticized the government and reported on sensitive topics.

Australia should avoid dealings with Myanmar that play down its military’s egregious rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Human Rights Watch urged the Australian government to immediately end military ties with Myanmar.

The renewed military offensive in Idlib by the Syrian regime and its backers, causing enormous human suffering, is unacceptable. The EU calls on all actors to cease hostilities immediately.

In the latest effort to pressure local law enforcement agencies to join its detention and deportation machine, the Trump administration now plans to send elite law enforcement tactical units into so-called “sanctuary cities” across the nation.