Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 22 July

M23 rebels have summarily executed at least 44 people and raped at least 61 women and girls since March 2013 in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo...
Human Rights Watch has documented not only that Rwanda is allowing its territory to be used by the abusive M23 to get recruits and equipment, but that the Rwandan military is still directly supporting the M23...  This support is going to a rebel group that has forcibly recruited child soldiers... Dispatches: The ICC fugitive Omar al-Bashir, abruptly left Nigeria on his jet plane without even finishing his lunch on day one of a two day African Union meeting... Local activists in Nigeria were alarmed at the visit and stood with the victims of the Darfur conflict, voicing their outrage in the media. In less than a day a remarkable video statement by an 11-year-old Yemeni girl denouncing child marriage and its horrific effects is approaching 3 million views on YouTube... South Sudan also faces widespread child marraige... Syria’s humanitarian blackmail is a war crime... In Vietnam you can be arrested for holding  “human rights picnics.” President Obama should stand  up for the victims of the intensifying crackdown on free expression in his July 25 White House meeting with President Truong Tan Sang... Dispatches: A damaging scandal for Italy emerged around the illegal deportation of the wife and daughter of a Kazakh opposition politician...