The Parliament of Ghana passed an extreme anti-gay bill on Wednesday, which is set to tighten laws against members of the LGBTQ+ community. Ghana’s 275 members of Parliament unanimously passed the bill, known as the 2021 Promotion of Appropriate Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill. The bill is set to criminalize the promotion, advocacy, funding [...]

Kenyan Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki announced Wednesday that Kenya is delaying plans to reopen its border with Somalia due to a wave of attacks linked to al Qaeda militants. Earlier in May, Kindiki announced plans to re-open Kenya’s Mandera border crossing with Somalia after a ten-year shutdown. The announcement comes as the number of refugees [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Wednesday announced that an Ottawa man accused of “advocating a violent far-right ideology” was arrested and faces both terrorism and hate propaganda charges, which the RCMP states is a first for Canadian law enforcement. The accused is alleged to have helped to produce three “terrorist propaganda videos” for the [...]

United Kingdom (UK) Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced Wednesday that UK Special Forces are the focus of an inquiry into allegations of “unlawful activity” in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013. The independent inquiry, which Wallace commissioned in 2022, addresses allegations that the response by Royal Military Police investigating whether unlawful killings had been carried out [...]

The United Nations (UN) has called on the Iranian government to stop executing individuals who were sentenced to death for participating in anti-government protests Wednesday. The UN fact-finding mission urged Iranian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of the press to report on the protests. The [...]

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK) filed a joint application Tuesday instituting proceedings against the Islamic Republic of Iran before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) claiming that Iran has violated its obligations under the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (otherwise known as the Montreal [...]

Amnesty International Tuesday urged Cameroonian authorities to look into human rights violations committed in Anglophone regions of Cameroon. According to their report, armed separatists and the military have been accused of killing, torture, rape and destruction of property. Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, Samira Daoud commented: We call on Cameroonian authorities [...]

Activist groups filed a complaint on Monday with the US Department of Education against Harvard University, challenging its legacy admissions policy. The complaint comes days after the US Supreme Court rejected the use of race in college admissions, known as affirmative action, upending years of precedent. The lawsuit alleges that applicants who have relatives that [...]

After seven nights of protests in France over the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, French police have arrested a total of more than 3,000 protesters. The protests began after a police officer shot and killed Merzouk, whose parents are from Algeria and Morocco, during a traffic stop on June 27. On Monday, French [...]

Thousands of Australians gathered on Sunday in support of the Yes vote for the upcoming Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum later this year. The rally was organised by the campaign group Yes23, which is run by Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition. The group reported that over 20,000 people were in attendance at events across Australia, [...]