Hundreds protested religious intolerance in Brazil on Sunday due to a recent rise in discrimination against minority religions, including recently appointed Human Rights Minister Macaé Evaristo. This year alone, complaints of religious intolerance in Brazil surged by 80% according to a government complaint service cited by local media. Religious freedom is enshrined in Chapter I [...]

Police in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu detained over a 100 striking workers planning on marching in Chennai on Monday. The workers, who are employees of Samsung Electronics, were protesting low wages and working conditions. The planned march would allegedly disturb public peace, according to senior police officer K. Shanmugam, who was quoted by [...]

As Afghanistan grapples with the aftermath of the Taliban’s return to power, the country faces the daunting task of rebuilding its political institutions from the ground up. The failures of the previous centralised, autocratic system have laid bare the urgent need for a fundamental rethinking of Afghanistan’s governance model – one that is rooted in [...]

Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X (formerly Twitter), called the government of Australia fascists on Friday for introducing a bill that would impose fines on social media companies that fail to prevent the spread of misinformation online. Joining a global movement to regulate global social media platforms, Australian Communications Minister Michelle Rowland [...]

The Government of Canada announced the expansion of sanctions against Iran due to involvement in “terrorism and systematic and gross human rights violations” on Sunday, effectively barring anyone who has served as a senior government official in Iran since 2019 from Canada. This measure enhances the previous sanctions against the Iranian regime which were implemented [...]

Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) reported on Friday that reporters from at least 13 media outlets in Hong Kong have been subjected to both online and offline harassment as part of a systematic and organized campaign. During a press conference, HKJA chairperson Selina Cheng stated that at least 15 journalists, along with their family members [...]

Former US President Donald Trump is safe after US Secret Service agents shot at a man pointing an AK-47-style rifle through a fence while the ex-president was golfing at his course in West Palm Beach, Florida, authorities confirmed during a press conference Sunday. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said that his office received a [...]

Botswana’s former president Ian Khama appeared in a magistrate court in Gaborone on Friday to face charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property, after returning from three years in exile. This comes only one month before the general election in which his former vice president and now rival, President Mokgweetsi Masisi, [...]

Italian prosecutors in the city of Palermo requested a six-year prison sentence on Saturday for Matteo Salvini, the country’s deputy prime minister and leader of the League party, who is accused of kidnapping migrants and abuse of office. In 2019, then-Minister of the Interior Salvini prevented a vessel of the Spanish NGO Open Arms carrying [...]