Protect Education in Afghanistan: Daily Brief
Peruvian advocate wins HRW fellowship; Pakistan could have first woman in Supreme Court; Russia persecutes Crimean Tartar community; people with disabilities and older people at risk in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana; sex-for-aid allegations in Mozambique.
Explosive weapons were used to attack 40 schools in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021.
Great news! Bryan Russell, a Peruvian human rights advocate, is the 2021 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership in Disability Rights.
If confirmed, Justice Ayesha Malik will be the first woman to be appointed to Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
Russia continues to persecute Crimean Tartar community members. Recently, Nariman Dzhelyal, a deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar representative body Mejlis, was detained without access to food, water or his lawyer.
Hurricane Ida made landfall in the southern US state of Louisiana last week, leaving thousands displaced, without access to water or power. Among those most at risk during the storm and in its aftermath have been people with disabilities and older people.
Humanitarian workers are alleged to have traded sex for aid from people displaced by armed Islamist groups in the northern Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique.