News Clips- June 2, 2017

On Wednesday, a court in Bahrain ordered the dissolution of the last major opposition group in the country. [Washington Post]
This week, it was reported that labor activists investigating alleged abuses at a Chinese factory producing Ivanka Trump shoes were detained or missing. [Guardian]
On Friday, hundreds of Palestinians protested Israeli troops across the West Bank and Gaza to support the prisoners’ hunger strike that began in April. [Times of Israel]

On Thursday, the United Nations peacekeeping camp in Mali was attacked. [Washington Post]
On Tuesday, a car bomb claimed by ISIS killed 13 people in Baghdad, Iraq. [Washington Post]
On Friday, monitoring groups reported that airstrikes in Mayadin, Syria resulted in dozens of civilian deaths. [Washington Post]

On Thursday, 44 migrants died of thirst in Niger after a vehicle on its way to Libya broke down. [Al Jazeera]
On Friday, the International Organization for Migration estimated that an average of 10,000 migrants fleeing West Mosul arrive in transit zones daily. [UN News Centre]

On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly elected Miroslav Lajčák, Slovakia’s Foreign Minister, as its next president. [Washington Post]
On Tuesday, the United Nations Human Rights Council authorized a three-member team to investigate alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. [Al Jazeera]
On Friday, the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, announced a trust fund to implement community assistance in Kosovo. [UN News Centre]
On Friday, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights ruled that Kenya violated the Ogiek indigenous people’s rights to land, religion, culture, development, and non-discrimination. [Reuters]