The Global Government Affairs team of X Corp. (formerly Twitter) announced on Tuesday the resumption of its operations in Brazil after the country’s supreme court ordered the company’s reinstatement. Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), had instituted the ban on X on August 30 for the failure of the company to [...]
Amnesty International on Friday raised concern about the ongoing coercion of Ukrainian teachers in Russian-occupied territories to teach the Russian-imposed curriculum to school-going children. The report portrays the resumption of schooling in the occupied territories as Russia’s attempt to justify its aggression by indoctrinating students with a propagandized curriculum. The Russian curriculum in the occupied [...]
An Indonesian Manpower Ministry official on Friday said that Indonesia is working towards better oversight in employment after Indonesia appeared in a US Department of Labor report among countries producing goods by means of child labor and/or forced labor. According to the report, Indonesia is producing nickel used in the manufacture of Electric Vehicles(EV) by [...]
A group of South Sudanese lawyers filed a petition on Monday with the Constitutional Court of South Sudan to challenge the decision of the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit to extend the transitional period by two years and postpone the general elections from December 2024 to December 2026. Speaking to reporters after submitting the [...]
Iran marked two years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising on Wednesday, with rights organization Amnesty International issuing a statement commemorating the anniversary and highlighting human rights abuses that have occurred in the protests’ aftermath. The “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began as a response to police brutality against women after Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old [...]
Constant Mutamba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister of Justice, has been poisoned, according to a statement from the Ministry of State on Saturday. The minister underwent medical tests that morning after scientific police suspected poison exposure in his office. During their investigation, the police discovered a white powder on office furniture and equipment, [...]
The former governor of Lebanon’s central bank (BDL), Riad Salameh, was arrested on Tuesday over alleged corruption. This occurred after he appeared before the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation concerning the embezzlement of BDL funds amounting to over $40 million. The embezzlement is alleged to have occurred during the dealings of BDL and [...]
The Supreme Court of Kenya delivered a judgement on Tuesday issuing an order staying a Court of Appeal which rendered the country’s controversial Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional in its entirety. The seven-judge bench posited that the order was necessary due to public interest, among other reasons. The Supreme Court while delivering this judgement, analyzed whether [...]
