News Clips- May 26, 2017

On Wednesday, after eight weeks of protests, the death toll in Venezuela rose to 56 people. [LA Times]
On Wednesday, anti-government protesters in Brazil set fire to a ministry building, and in response, President Michel Temer gave the army policing power to restore order. [Reuters]

On Wednesday, a bombing in Somalia, claimed by al-Shabaab, killed five and injured six civilians. [Reuters]
On Tuesday, two United Nations peacekeepers were killed in Mali. [Washington Post]
On Monday, at least 22 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester, Britain. [Guardian]
On Friday, a United Nations report concluded that soldiers in South Sudan responsible for killing more than 100 civilians between July 2016 and January 2017 may be liable for war crimes or crimes against humanity. [Newsweek]

On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court in Taiwan ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, allowing Taiwan’s legislature two years to amend its laws. [Washington Post]
On Monday, 100 men were arrested in Indonesia in a raid on a gay sauna. [Guardian]
On Friday, 27 men were arrested in Bangladesh based on suspicions that they are gay. [Washington Post]

On Wednesday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights created three new thematic units: the Unit on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Unit on Memory, Truth, and Justice; and Unit of the Rights of Older Persons. [IACHR Press Release]
On Wednesday, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights launched guidelines for the proper investigation of unlawful killings. [OHCHR Press Release]
This week, a panel supported by the United Nations publicly released a draft of a treaty that would ban the possession and use of all nuclear weapons. [Guardian]
On Friday, the European Parliament passed a resolution requesting a United Nations-led investigation into the killing of protesters in Ethiopia. [HRW]

On Wednesday, at least 30 migrants drowned when 200 people fell out of a boat on the Libyan coast. [Reuters]
On Friday, the United Nations International Organization for Migration estimated that 3,000 migrants were rescued during attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea. [UN News Centre]