Plus: Nigerian president vows action after rapes in camps for Boko Haram displaced; how did Saudi land a seat on UN human rights body?; Canada's cruel isolation; US blocks rifles sales to Philippines; UN peacekeeper chief in South Sudan sacked; clearing Calais; & Afghanistan's migration crisis...

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In human rights news around the world today: Yezidi's in Mosul, Iraq; Gambia Crackdown Threatens Upcoming Elections; Amnesty International's Moscow Office Sealed Shut; All Aleppo Is Aching;

Plus: Nigerian president vows action after rapes in camps for Boko Haram displaced; just how did Saudi Arabia land a seat on UN human rights body?; Canada's cruel policy of isolation; US State Department blocks sales of 26,000 military assault rifles to the Philippines; UN peacekeeper chief in South Sudan sacked; clearing Calais; & Afghanistan's migration crisis...

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