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The Italian government should firmly reject a proposal to fine shipmasters up to €5,500 for every person they rescue and take to Italy, Human Rights Watch said on May 16. Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has proposed this and other problematic anti-rescue measures in a decree to be examined by the government starting on May 16, 2019.

Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to safety in Cox's Bazar

17 humanitarian and human rights NGOs denounced threats to press freedom on May 15, 2018, after three French journalists were summoned by the French intelligence services for investigating the presence of French weapons in the conflict in Yemen.

Iranian authorities are holding at least eight activists and journalists arrested during a Labor Day protest on May 1, 2019, Human Rights Watch said on May 15, 2019. The authorities should immediately and unconditionally release all those detained for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly.

China should not forcibly deport seven detained North Koreans who face a grave risk of torture and other abuses if returned to North Korea, Human Rights Watch said on May 14, 2019. The authorities should grant asylum to the members of the group or allow them to travel safely to a third country.

Liberian citizens called on President George Weah in a video released on May 14, 2019 by an array of local and international groups to support a war crimes court to bring justice for atrocities committed during Liberia’s civil wars. On May 15, 2019, Liberia’s Independent National Human Rights Commission will hold a conference to assess progress on the recommendations made by Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Children in Lebanon described being slapped, hit and beaten at school with electrical cables, rubber hoses, belts, sticks and rulers. In surveys, 20 to 70 percent of schoolchildren said they suffered corporal punishment.

The United Nations Security Council’s decision to hold an informal meeting on Cameroon on May 13, 2019 gives momentum to international efforts to address the human rights crisis in the country’s Anglophone regions.

Qatar’s decision to arbitrarily strip families from the Ghufran clan of their citizenship has left some members still stateless 20 years later and deprived of key human rights, Human Rights Watch said on May 12, 2019.

Mural, which reads "Reconciliation with the victims", symbolizes the cultural manifestation of reintegrating ex-members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Caquetá, Colombia.