On Sunday, United Nations officials said Afghan repatriation is set to continue on Monday with reduced cash incentives for Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan. The cash incentive, which was initially $400, was cut in half to $200 in order to facilitate voluntary Afghan repatriation. Despite these cuts many refugees are continuing to register for repatriation. [...]
A report on discrimination and how it is handled in British prisons was published on Sunday, showing that only 1 out of 100 complaints of discrimination by prison guards are won by the prisoner. The report, which was written by the two rights organizations Prison Reform Trust and Zahid Mubarak Trust , concludes that the [...]
The Egypt Court of Urgent Matters on Sunday struck down a ruling by the Egypt High Administrative Court regarding the transfer of two uninhabited Red Sea islands from Egypt to Saudi Arabia. The Egyptian government transferred the two islands , Tiran and Sanafir, to Saudi Arabia in April 2016, based on the belief that they [...]
Legislation which would have prohibited “sanctuary cities” in the state and banned abortions where a heartbeat is detectable failed to meet the necessary procedural deadline in the Iowa Legislature Friday. First, the sanctuary city legislation would have required counties, cities, and public colleges to enforce federal immigration law. Despite the legislation, no current Iowa cities [...]
On Friday, Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, expressed his discontent with Israel’s latest decision to build settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and repeated his previous calls for a two-state solution to resolve the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In particular, a spokesman for Guterres said the UN official “condemns all unilateral actions that, like the [...]
President Donald Trump on Friday released an executive order instructing the Commerce Department and the US Trade Representative to study causes of the US trade deficit in advance of Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s visit next week. Trump urged , “e’re going to investigate all trade abuses, and, based on those findings, we will take necessary [...]
Paraguay’s Senate on Friday approved a constitutional amendment lifting Paraguay’s one-term rule for presidents. Put in place by Paraguay’s 1992 Constitution following long-term dictatorship, the current rules limit the president to one five-year term. Current president Horacio Cartes is seeking to lift the one five-year term limit, a measure supported in the Senate by 25 [...]
FIFA announced Friday it has completed its internal investigation regarding allegations of criminal misconduct, bribery, and corruption in world football. The investigation began after the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) and US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced they began investigations into the issues back 2015. FIFA conducted a 22-month investigation compiling more [...]
Human rights group Reprieve has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for District of Columbia against the US government for allegedly placing them on a “kill list” to be targeted for a deadly drone strike. Former Al Jazeera Islamabad bureau chief Ahmad Zaidan and freelance journalist Bilal Kareem claimed that they were erroneously [...]
On Friday, twenty-two members of the so-called Sunflower Movement were acquitted of charges related to their 2014 occupation of the Legislative Yuan. The activists were protesting plans to pass a trade deal with China. The protesters entered the Legislative Yuan on March 18 of 2014 and stayed until April 10. The protesters acquitted include Tsay [...]
