The Daily Brief

June 20, 2023 The Daily Brief

Myanmar Junta Blocking Aid to Cyclone Victims

Cyclone Mocha’s Victims Denied Help in Myanmar; Automated Neglect in Jordan; A Victory for Native Children’s Rights in the US; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Quote of the Day: Sudan.

Local residents walk past damaged buildings after Cyclone Mocha in Sittwe township, Rakhine State, Myanmar, May 16, 2023.
June 19, 2023 The Daily Brief

The EU’s Moral Meltdown

Mass Drownings and Persecution of Rights Defenders; Good News: Ontario Ends Immigration Detention; Post-World-Cup Labor Abuses in Qatar; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Update: Russia Continue; Quote of the Day: Democracy.

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June 16, 2023 The Daily Brief

US Hospitals: Charity Care or Profiting off the Poor?

Health Care Subsidy Numbers Don’t Add Up; Save Darfur. Again.; 50 Years on, the Crime Continues; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Weekly Quiz!; Listen: Banning Books, Banning Truth in the US; Quote of the Day: Mass Drowning on EU Border.

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June 15, 2023 The Daily Brief

Under Water, Under Occupation

Russia Blocks Rescues and Aid after Dam Destruction; Islamist Armed Groups Wreaking Havoc in Burkina Faso; Jailed for a Song in Uzbekistan; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Update: Another Avoidable Mass Drowning; Quote of the Day: The Right to Seek Asylum.

The flooded town of Oleshky, Ukraine, after the June 6 destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, June 10, 2023.
June 14, 2023 The Daily Brief

Damaging Internet Shutdowns in “Digital India”

India Leads the World in Internet Blackouts; Rwanda-Backed Atrocities in Congo; Kyrgyzstan Moves to Control Civic Space; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: Haiti.

Women working at a job site in a village in Rajasthan under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), September 2022. NREGA is the Indian government’s income security program in rural India.
June 13, 2023 The Daily Brief

Fighting the US Increase in Child Labor

Child Labor on the Rise in the US; The Critical Minerals in Electric Cars; Save Maria Kalesnikava; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Daily Brief in the News: The EU’s Policy of Suffering; Quote of the Day: Jordan.

Workers house harvested burley tobacco in a barn in Shelbyville, Kentucky, US, August 20, 2020.
June 12, 2023 The Daily Brief

EU Doubles Down on Suffering

The Inhumanity of the EU’s New Border Deal; A Victory for the Right to Vote in the US; Fighting Corruption in Honduras; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: Kyrgyzstan.

The Closed Controlled Access Center for asylum seekers on Samos, Greece, October 21, 2021. The hotspot was created in 2021 with EU funds. 
June 9, 2023 The Daily Brief

Philippines’ “War on Drugs” Is a War on Justice

Six Years in Pretrial Detention for Highlighting Police Killings; Ignoring the Descendants of Germany’s Forgotten Genocide; Faithfully Working to End Israel’s Apartheid; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Weekly Quiz!; Listen: Vietnam; Quote of the Day: Corruption in Honduras.

Supporters of former senator Leila de Lima outside the Hall of Justice in Muntinlupa City, Philippines, May 12, 2023.
June 8, 2023 The Daily Brief

Saudi Butchery and Global Golf

The PGA’s Hole-in-One for Hypocrisy; A Blueprint for One-Party Rule in Poland; Angolan Police Kill Fuel-Price Protesters; Take Note: Other Key Stories; UPDATE: Human Rights Hero Oleg Orlov in Russian Court; Quote of the Day: India.

Golfers walk on the 16th hole during the LIV Golf Invitational at the Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Saudi Arabia.
June 7, 2023 The Daily Brief

Nigeria Finally Admits Deadly Airstrike

Airstrike Victims Deserve Justice; Good News: Brutal Belarus Fails at UN; Plastics Pollution and Fossil Fuels; Take Note: Other Key Stories; Quote of the Day: Ukraine Dam Collapse.

Mass grave in Doma LGA, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, where 31 people who died from the airstrike are buried. Photo taken on March 14, 2023.