According to a report on Monday, the Burundi Interior Ministry issued an order last week withdrawing permits from a prominent human rights group and four other non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons (APRODH) , a major human rights group in the area, as well as the other [...]

The Chinese Communist Party announced on Monday that the Chinese government has punished more than one million officials for corruption. The statistics were released when the highest-ranking members of the party met for the Sixth Plenum of the 18th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Additionally, they announced that 409 alleged fugitives have been [...]

South Korean President Park Geun-hye proposed on Monday to amend the country’s constitutional provision that restricts presidents to one term in office. In a speech to the legislature, she called for a special committee of the National Assembly to debate the issue. Currently, South Korean presidents can only have a single five-year term, and Park [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called into question Tunisia’s use of house arrests under a November 2015 state of emergency decree. According to the release, at least 139 people have been put under house arrest in what the government has called a means to fight against terrorism. Human rights advocates are concerned with the [...]

The government of Cambodia formally exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy, president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) , after the cabinet ordered the nation’s immigration officials to prevent him from entering the country. Rainsy has lived in self-imposed exile in France since 2015 and is wanted for defamation, forgery, and incitement charges in [...]

An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed former president Mohamed Morsi’s 20-year prison sentence. The prison sentence arose from a conviction for the killings of protesters during 2012 demonstrations. In addition to Morsi, several other senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood were charged in April 2015 for kidnapping, torture, and the killings of the protesters. Morsi [...]

Trustees of Haji Ali Dargah , a mosque in Mumbai, India, told the country’s Supreme Court on Monday that they will begin to allow women to enter the inner sanctum of the mausoleum. The court permitted the mosque a period of four weeks to make the change, which the trust says is needed for structural [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized South Africa Monday for its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The rights group called the move a blow to the country’s post-apartheid reconstruction and the country’s stated commitment to justice for atrocity crimes. Richard Dicker, International Justice director at HRW said: South Africa’s withdrawal would [...]

The Venezuelan National Assembly ] declared on Sunday that there is a breakdown of constitutional order and that the government had staged a coup by blocking an attempt to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power. The movement was blocked when the president’s supporters stormed the chamber where the emergency legislative session was taking place. The [...]

The Iraq Parliament approved a law “Forbidding the import, manufacture and sale of all kinds of alcohol drinks.” Until this time, alcohol has been made readily available in shops, bars, restaurant and hotels in Baghdad and in some of the provinces of Iraq, and it was not unusual for young people in Baghdad to be [...]