Ontario Superior Court Justice Edward Morgan on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Canadian company Barrick Gold of committing human rights abuses against Tanzanian mine workers. Justice Morgan granted Barrick Gold’s application for forum non conveniens (inconvenient forum), agreeing that Tanzanian courts would be better suited to handle the case. The justice rejected the plaintiff’s submission that [...]
Six environmental activists have been released from police custody in Cambodia on Monday after they were detained over the weekend for trespassing in the Vern Sai Siem Reap National Park. This comes following the detention of Ouch Leng, Prum Mao, Mon Mab, Ot Latin, Tat Udom, and Heng Sros near Talat commune, Sesan district, Stung [...]
Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CES) has listed India as a cyber threat to the nation for the first time in its National Cyber Threat Assessment (NCTA) on Wednesday. The CES, which releases the NCTA biennially, has said that India has joined states such as China, Russia, Iran, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as [...]
Protesters picked up arms in the ongoing cost-of-living protests in the French colonial holding of Martinique on Wednesday, the local government said. According to the Prefecture of Martinique, protesters set up seven barricades during the protest and targeted firefighters and police officers on three occasions with automatic rifle fire as the authorities attempted to dismantle [...]
The United Kingdom announced that it has joined with France and Algeria to call for an urgent meeting at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the humanitarian situation in Gaza, while the Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the UK was considering sanctions on Israeli cabinet ministers. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the [...]
Aaron Carr, the director of the Housing Rights Initiative (HRI), announced a mass civil rights complaint against 203 real estate companies in California for illegally discriminating against Section 8 renters. Section 8 renters refer to those eligible for rent subsidy under the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Vouchers program. The [...]
Speaker of the Republic of Georgia’s parliament Shalva Papuashvili announced on Thursday that he signed into law a bill defining marriage as between a man and a woman and prohibiting the promotion of same-sex relationships in schools, according to local media. The legislation states that Georgia recognizes family values of the union of a man and a woman, [...]
California became the fifth state in the US to ban universities from admitting students based on family connections or donations after Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had signed AB 1780 into law. The law, proposed by Democratic state assemblyman Phil Ting, would prevent independent institutions of higher education from giving preferential consideration for legacies [...]
Canada’s federal government announced on Monday that it would commit CAD 250mn (USD 186mn) to address the growing problem of encampments and homelessness across Canada. Provinces will be required to match the government’s investment cost to qualify for the grants. The funding builds on the existing Reaching Home program, which aims to allocate $3.7 billion [...]
Hungary may seek to file a lawsuit against the European Union for border protection costs, Gergely Gulyás, Hungarian minister for the Prime Minister’s Office, announced this Thursday. Gulyás claimed that Hungary spent the equivalent of 2 billion euros on Schengen Zone border protection without recompense from the European Union. The minister said that Hungary was [...]