Taiwan’s Executive Yuan approved draft amendments to several laws against sexual harassment on Thursday amid a recent surge in high-profile allegations of sexual harassment on the island. In recent months, the #MeToo movement has gained momentum in Taiwan, with many female victims standing up against perpetrators of sexual harassment. The movement launched in May when [...]

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held a foreign ministers meeting on Wednesday in the capital city of Indonesia to form a consensus over how to deal with the situation in Myanmar. Ministers condemned the junta’s continued human rights violations and reaffirmed ASEAN’s commitment to bringing about reconciliation.  In a statement issued after the [...]

South African authorities extradited Mozambique’s former Finance Minister Manuel Chang to the US on Wednesday to face corruption charges. Chang faces faces US criminal charges for his role in a $2 billion fraud and money laundering scheme that nearly crashed Mozambique’s economy and victimized individuals in the US. Chang together with 19 others—inclusive of state security [...]

The Ukrainian armed forces confirmed Thursday they received cluster munitions sent by the US. Tavria Region defense spokesman Valery Shershen confirmed the delivery to Radio Free Liberty in Ukraine amidst international condemnation of the US’s decision to provide the weapons. Following US President Joe Biden’s July 7 announcement that the US would provide Ukraine with [...]

A Pennsylvania federal jury on Thursday found the gunman responsible for the shooting deaths of 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania eligible for the death penalty. Robert Bowers now faces an additional trial in which the same jury will determine whether he should be sentenced to death or given life [...]

The Intelligence and Security Committee of the UK Parliament released a long-awaited report on China on Thursday, referring to China as a “security threat.” The wide-reaching report details what the Committee, chaired by Conservative Party MP  Sir Julian Murray Lewis, regards as China’s extensive interference with UK academia, politics, technology and industry. The report concludes that [...]

A UN report published this month found that racism from health care providers is likely contributing to higher rates of pregnancy-related deaths among people of African descent in North and South America. The analysis, led by the UN Population Fund (UNPF), made three key findings: 1. Afrodescendent women and girls in the Americas are disadvantaged [...]

A UN refugee and human rights official expressed concern on Tuesday over the expulsion of sub-Saharan migrants to the Lybian desert after the migrants killed a Tunisian individual. Maya Sahli Fadel—who serves as the Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants in Africa as well as the commissioner in charge of [...]

The European Parliament narrowly passed its proposed Nature Restoration Law as part of the European Union’s (EU) European Green Deal on Wednesday. The plan, proposed by the European Commission, sets targets for increasing biodiversity and improving the health of ecosystems across the EU. These include restoring wetlands and grasslands, increasing forest cover and protecting threatened [...]

Maine Governor Janet Mills signed L.D. 1964 into law on Tuesday, requiring employers to give most employees up to 12 weeks of paid time off for family or medical reasons. The bill is part of a larger supplemental budget that Mills also signed into law. Effective starting in 2026, the law implements a paid family [...]