The first draft resolution of the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was released on Tuesday. The draft is divided into eight sub-topics focusing on each issue the countries have decided to focus on. The draft aims to ensure that all the 200 nations who [...]

In June 2021, the Hungarian Parliament passed certain amendments to several acts, which curtailed the dissemination of information concerning homosexuality and sex reassignment (“H&SR”) among minors and school-goers. Inter alia, the legislation: (1) bans the availability of any material portraying or promoting H&SR or any other forms of deviation from one’s sex assigned at birth [...]

Previously known as Facebook, tech giant Meta has found itself at the center of several recent scandals. The release of the Facebook papers revealed that the company knew, among several issues, about the mental health impact of Instagram on girls and the spread of misinformation during the latest US presidential election. From its decision to [...]

President Joe Biden signed the RENACER Act on Wednesday, which calls for increased sanctions against the Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega. The RENACER Act passed Congress with strong bipartisan support on November 3. The bill was introduced in the Senate on March 25, but activity on the bill accelerated in November during the run-up to Nicaragua’s [...]

The New Zealand government on Thursday introduced the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill to repeal portions of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act of 2010, which together form the mandatory sentencing regime called the three strikes law. The three strikes law was enacted to deter habitual offenders by threatening them with progressively longer mandatory jail [...]

The UN Security Council announced new sanctions on Tuesday against three Houthi leaders for threatening the peace, security and stability of Yemen. The sanctions subject them to a global asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo. The three leaders sanctioned are Yusuf Al-Madani, Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer, and Muhammad Abd Al-Karim Al-Ghamari. [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case with critical implications for the Highway Beautification Act. City of Austin v. Reagan Advertising considers whether the Austin city code’s distinction between on-premise signs, which may be digitized, and off-premise signs, which may not, is a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under the First [...]

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Wednesday voided Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam’s school mask mandate. Petitioners, including parents and school districts in Pennsylvania, and respondent, Beam, each requested relief. The court granted the petitioners’ application and denied the respondent’s. On August 31, 2021, Beam issued an order directing the use of face coverings [...]

The US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Wednesday. On July 29, 2021, Governor Abbot issued Executive Order GA-38, preventing any “governmental entity, including a county, city, school district and public health authority” from requiring “any [...]

The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions Wednesday against two members of the Cambodian Ministry of National Defence, Chau Phirun and Tea Vinh, for their involvement in corruption in Cambodia. While Chau Phirun is the Director-General of the Defence Ministry’s Material and Technical Services Department, Tea Vinh is the Commander of [...]