Keep checking this space over the week as it is updated with the most recent human rights news from around the world.
- Over 200 people have died in Haiti following a Cholera outbreak. Aid groups are attributing the outbreak at least in part to the horrendous living conditions of the over 1 Million Haitians still living in tent cities following January’s earthquake. [BBC]
- Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court dismissed a government appeal, ruling that the permanent presence of police units on university campuses is unconstitutional. In the past, the university police have been used to suppress political demonstrations [BBC]