Nepalese officials announced Thursday that there will be a third gender option in the next population census, marking the first time the LGBTQ+ community has been included in the population statistics as a minority group. The Central Bureau of Statistics will publish the survey in 2021, which campaigners believe will grant better access to healthcare [...]

A report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday says that at least 138 Salvadorans deported from the US since 2013 were subsequently killed, usually within a year of reentry. The report also identifies more than 70 instances of deportees facing sexual violence, torture or other abuse. The deaths were confirmed through official records, [...]

The District Court of The Hague ruled Wednesday that Netherland’s System Risk Indication (SyRI) violates the European Convention on Human rights. SyRI had been developed to allow government authorities to share information about welfare recipients to curb abuse. The government outsourced the program to a private organization, “The Intelligence Agency.” The organization uses an algorithm [...]

Thirty Afghan media outlets called on the government in a protest letter on Tuesday to stop “severe limitations in access to information.”  They also called on the international community as well as media support organizations to safeguard the flow of government-related information, press freedom and democracy. The media outlets claim that the worst institutions to provide [...]

A shareholder of renewable energy company Pattern Energy sued the company and its directors and officers on Monday for selling shares too cheaply to a Canadian pension fund. Pattern Energy is a publicly-traded company that has a portfolio of renewable energy projects, and it has a 29 percent stake in a privately-held renewable energy development company [...]

The Chinese telecom Huawei on Monday urged the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to finalize its designation of the company as a national security threat. The FCC voted unanimously in November to designate Huawei, as well as ZTE Corp, national security risks because of their ties to the Chinese government and its military, as [...]

The Iran Judiciary Spokesperson on Tuesday announced Iran’s plans to execute an alleged CIA spy. The spokesperson identified the spy as Amir Rahimpour, an Iranian national. Iran alleges that Rahimpour “received big sums of money as his wage and tried to provide the US intelligence service with nuclear information.” The spokesperson reported that the Supreme [...]

Malawi’s constitutional court on Monday nullified the 2019 presidential election results. A five-judge panel unanimously agreed to the nullification, citing widespread anomalies and irregularities in the election results. In May 2019 Malawi reelected President Peter Mutharika with 1,940,709 votes, 38.57 percent of total votes. His opposition, Lazarus Chakwera, followed with 1,781,740 votes, 35.41 percent of [...]

A judge with the Pietermaritzburg High Court in South Africa issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former president Jacob Zuma. The ex-president was scheduled to appear for a pre-trial hearing but did not show up. Zuma’s lawyer, Daniel Mantsha, presented a doctor’s note from a South African military hospital, certifying that Zuma had received two [...]

An appeals court in Canada on Tuesday dismissed a recent complaint from First Nations peoples seeking to delay expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The project intends to add capacity for delivery from Alberta’s oil sands to the British Columbia coast, and four First Nations’ groups had sued to prevent the project from going forward. [...]