Stop Selling Arms to Saudi Arabia: Daily Brief

When is enough finally enough for the United States and the United Kingdom, and will these countries stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia? Last week’s deadly airstrike on a bus filled with children in Yemen by the Saudi-lead coalition should be the tipping point. 

When will hundreds of children who were taken away from their parents by the Trump administration be reunited? Deported parents describe their agony in a new report by NPR, based on an interview with HRW-researcher Clara Long. 

Sexual abuse of children is disturbingly common in Pakistan, with 141 cases reported in the city of Lahore alone since January 2018, according to a government report.

Will Russia bring home children who lived in areas in Iraq and Syria that were once ruled by 'Islamic State' extremists?

A woman in Indonesia is at risk of getting a 1.5 year prison sentence because she complained about the volume of loudspeakers at a mosque. Blasphemy, apparently...  

HRW has welcomed Tajkistan's recent decisions to allow two children of exiled dissidents to leave the country and reunite with their families abroad. Is change on the way for human rights in the country?

More than 100 lawyers and advocates have sent a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, expressing concern over the country's policy of detaining and denying entry to human rights advocates.

"My job is not to defend governments, they can do that themselves, my job was to defend the rights of everyone else, individuals."
Check out this Al Jazeera interview with Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the outgoing United Nation's High Commissioner for Human Rights.