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Daily Brief Nov 5, 2021 Time to act against Myanmar"s junta abuses; a day for youth and citizen engagement at COP26; Syrian torture continues; UN report fails to give full picture of devastation in Ethiopia"s Tigray; Singapore plans to execute a man with disability; and vaccine inequity persists amid European Covid fourth wave.
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