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Human Rights Watch Daily Brief, 3 September

Syria, Cluster Bombs, the G20 and Russia, child marriage in Afghanistan, Germany, Mali, NSA

After a series of meetings between US President Obama and Congress, House leaders backed the president on a military strike against Syria. In the case of any military intervention, protecting civilians should be top priority.

While the world focuses on military intervention in Syria, there is not enough funding to stem the suffering of the now 2 million Syrian refugees. 

Just in the last two weeks, M23 fighters executed two local chiefs, shot and stabbed to death a boy, shot dead at least three other men, and shelled neighborhoods killing at least seven civilians and wounded more than 40. Yet Rwanda still supports them.

In India, a high-profile spiritual guru was arrested for his alleged sexual assault of a child.

Indonesia’s religious affairs minister, Suryadharma Ali, is still coddling those responsible for rising religious intolerance.

Hungary’s war on the homeless intensifies as it criminalizes what the homeless do to survive – like picking through garbage for food. 

Dennis “The Worm” Rodman, the eccentric former Detroit Pistons basketball star, flew into Pyongyang for the second time in a year to talk sports with his “friend” Kim Jong Un, the North Korean dictator.

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