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October 3, 2023 The Daily Brief

No Safe Place for Your Face?

The Dangers of Facial Recognition Tech; What China Doesn’t Want You to Talk About; Education at Risk for Palestinian Refugee Children; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Please Support Our Work!

Pedestrians walk across a crossroad as a big electronic screen supported by face-recognition system shows the image of a jaywalker at the intersection in Nanjing city, east China's Jiangsu province, July 4, 2019.
October 2, 2023 The Daily Brief

The World Lets Saudi Arabia Get Away with Murder

An Anniversary of Butchery; Historic Court Case Looks at Ethnic Profiling in France; No, Syria Is Still Not Safe; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Help support our work!

Candles lit by activists protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are placed outside Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul. © 2018 Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo
September 28, 2023 The Daily Brief

Where Ships Go to Die

Shipbreaking in Bangladesh; EU Arrogance and Abuse; Egypt on Notice for Using Child Soldiers; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Weekly Quiz!; Support Our Work!

Workers dismantling a ship without adequate protective equipment in Chattogram Bangladesh.
September 27, 2023 The Daily Brief

The International Misery Fund

Who Pays the Price for IMF-imposed Austerity?; Wrongly Imprisoned and Isolated in Uzbekistan; Good News from Brazil; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News; Support HRW!

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September 26, 2023 The Daily Brief

An Inspiration for Justice

Progress in Guinea; Arrested for Showing Compassion in Poland; Panama Update: Rising Sea Levels; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Thanks for Your Support!

Inside of the courtroom in Conakry where a domestic trial is ongoing for crimes committed during the 2009 Stadium Massacre.
September 25, 2023 The Daily Brief

Karabakh Crisis

Ethnic Armenians Facing Grave Risks; Shhh… Don’t Mention US Torture; Kyrgyzstan: “We Won’t Act Unless He Kills You”; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Support Our Work!

A local government worker, right in red, tries to reassure residents during shooting in the vicinity, in Stepanakert/Khankendi, Nagorno-Karabakh on September 21, 2023.
September 21, 2023 The Daily Brief

Dealing with Difficult Allies

Biden Meets Central Asian Counterparts; France Ignores Shootings, Shoots Messenger; Another Vicious Attack in Cambodia; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Please Help Support Our Work!; Quick Reminder.

Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Kazakhstan's Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Rashid Meredow and Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov participate in the US-Central Asia (G5+1) foreign ministerial meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Astana, Kazakhstan, February 28, 2023.
September 20, 2023 The Daily Brief

Europe’s Dedication to Failure

When You’re in a Hole, Stop Digging; Damning New UN Report on Ethiopia; Algeria’s Civic Spaces Under Attack; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Thanks for your support!

People sit on the ground of the overcrowded migrant reception center on Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea, on September 16, 2023.
September 19, 2023 The Daily Brief

If Daily Brief Readers Ran the World…

Your Feedback from Yesterday; When Will Spring Come for Belarus?; South Africa’s Rape Scourge; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Help Defend Human Rights!

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau speaks prior to a vote on a resolution aimed at fighting global warming, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, March 29, 2023.
September 18, 2023 The Daily Brief

What Would You Prioritize?

Ordering the World’s List of Problems; Rejecting Truth and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka; Update: EU Parliament Votes on Sex Work; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News; Support Our Work!

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