Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
Human Rights Defenders and Civil Society
- Civil society organizations called for the release of Bahraini Human Rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, ahead of the start of his trial this week. [FIDH Press Release]
- Evan Mawarire, the organizer of recent protests in Zimbabwe, has been charged with inciting public disorder. [The Guardian]
- A pride parade scheduled to take place in Beersheba, Israel was cancelled after an Israeli court found participants in the parade would be at risk of violence. [Washington Post]
- Civil society has called for respect of human rights in counter terrorism measures after the attack in Nice, France on Thursday that left 84 dead. [FIDH Press Release]
Conflicts and Humanitarian Crises
- Fighting in the capital of South Sudan, Juba, broke out again despite calls from the UN Security Council to end the fighting. [Al Jazeera]
- For the first time in a year the Colombian border opened for 12 hours, allowing tens of thousands of Venezuelans to enter the country and buy basic necessities and food that are currently unavailable in Venezuela due to the ongoing economic crises. [Al Jazeera]
- The Ugandan army has entered South Sudan to provide a passage for its citizens trapped in Juba to return home. [Al Jazeera]
Human Rights Bodies’ Activities and Domestic Litigation
- The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that China arbitrarily detained Phan Phan-Gillis, an American citizen. [New York Times]
- The Ecuadoran govermnet rejected an order from the Supreme Court of the United States that would require Ecuador to pay a US oil company $96 million dollars. [Telesur TV]
- The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held this week that France violated the right to prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment where a child migrant was held for 18 days in administrative detention. [ECtHR Press Release (French)]
- The Supreme Court in El Salvador overturned a law that previously granted amnesty to military for actions taken during the country’s civil war. [Washington Post]
Migrants and Refugees
- The European Union finalized its new EU system for asylum and refugee resettlement that should standardize treatment of refugees across the EU. [The Guardian]
- During a recent meeting hosted by UNHCR, the United States and Mexico agreed to identify and document asylum seekers and increase efforts to find alternatives to detention. [The Guardian]