Voters in Switzerland Sunday overwhelmingly rejected an initiative attempting to impose a complete ban on all kinds of experimentation on humans and animals. The initiative also included a ban on the import of any new products that were developed using such testing. About 44 percent of the eligible voters participated in the referendum. According to [...]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a Nigerian rights group, has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammed Buhari at the Federal High Court (Lagos) over the government’s failure to publish a copy of the agreement recently signed between the federal government and social media giant Twitter. The rights group joined Alhaji Lai Muhammed, the [...]

The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq (FSC) Sunday barred former foreign minister and Kurdish politician, Hoshyar Zebari, from representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraq’s presidential race, citing outstanding corruption allegations against him. Zebari said that, although he respects the judiciary, the decision is an “injustice.” Zebari has been a frontrunner in Iraq’s ongoing [...]

Tunisia President Kais Saied on Sunday issued a decree replacing the country’s judicial independence watchdog with his own council and giving himself near-unilateral power over the appointment and dismissal of judges. Protests followed shortly after as citizens denounced Saied’s most recent step toward authoritarianism. In July, Saied dismissed the sitting prime minister and suspended parliament, [...]

In a joint statement released Saturday, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japan Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and South Korea Foreign Minister Eui-yong Chung commented on a range of international affairs, including North Korea’s recent ballistic missile test. The statement follows a joint meeting in Honolulu which sought “to reaffirm the critical importance of [...]

Myanmar’s military junta Saturday pardoned more than 800 prisoners on Myanmar’s 75th Union Day, a day which marks the country’s independence from British rule. State news agency Global New Light of Myanmar (GNLM) reported that the State Administration Council Chairman has withdrawn criminal proceedings against Arakan Army members and 46 subordinates in accordance with Section [...]

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted an injunction on Friday ordering the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protesters to end the blockade at the Ambassador Bridge in the City of Windsor, which has disrupted cross-border transportation between the US and Canada. Chief Justice Geoffrey Morawetz gave the injunction order earlier in the day and it came [...]

Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency in the Canadian province of Ontario Friday following substantial economic losses stemming from the so-called Freedom Convoy’s anti-vaccine mandate protests. in Ottawa and other locations, including the Ambassador Bridge linking Canada and the United States. Ford warned that there would be “severe” consequences for those partaking in [...]

The Universidad de Navarra (University of Navarra) in Spain published in a presentation Friday its findings in one of the nation’s first investigations into sexual abuse of minors within the Catholic Church . The report released by the northern Spanish region found 58 cases of sexual abuse by Catholic institutions since 1948. Allegations of sexual [...]

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on Friday that it is increasing its emergency response in Myanmar as the coup d’état reaches its one-year anniversary. The increased emergency response comes as the number of people displaced by the conflict in Myanmar reaches 800,000. UNHCR predicts that displacements will increase at a greater rate than previously. [...]