On March 22, the situation in Myanmar became increasingly tense, as the Biden administration and the EU both imposed a new round of sanctions on the military regime that recently came to power. While the OWP and myself in particular have covered the situation’s development before, I feel it is
On Sunday, February 14th, protests in Myanmar escalated further, as the military junta in control of the government deployed more armoured vehicles. These largely civilian-filled protests were sparked when the Myanmar military overthrew the previous democratic government and jailed former leader and Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi. These
This Monday, January 19th, President Andrés Obrador of Mexico clarified his stance on the current diplomatic scuffle between the U.S. government and the Mexican government. He stated that the new Biden administration would understand Mexico’s position on the Cienfuegos situation and that relations would be “very good”. The Cienfuegos situation
On October 28th, news broke out that Chinese authorities had sentenced citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison. Zhang’s “crime”? Her documentation of Wuhan residents’ desperation at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. This documentation contradicted state media depictions of how the government was handling the pandemic
Monday December 21st, 2020, Antoine Rolland from Reuters published a short article titled, “Russia, Rwanda send military support to the Central Africa Republic to quell election violence.” While this article was titled a “3 Minute Read” and was thus relatively short, it was able to provide some useful insight into
On December 14th, Reuters published a short “one minute read” titled “Suspected Russian hackers breached U.S. Department of Homeland Security sources.” The article argues that this breach was part of a massive Russian hacking campaign to penetrate the U.S. departments of Treasury and Commerce. As the hackers were able to
On December 7th, the United States levied sanctions against 14 members of the Chinese government and their immediate family in response to Beijing’s infringements on Hong Kong’s democratic rights. Despite the 1977 One Country Two Systems treaty, China has increasingly been taking authoritarian steps to control Hong Kong’s government. Formerly
Earlier this Monday, on November 30th, Reuters published a story detailing a concerning update in the state of relations between the protestors and government, in Nigeria’s recent police brutality protests. According to multiple allegations, including the personal testimony of one Onomene Adene, protestors of the Nigerian government’s SARS police unit
On November 23rd 2020, news broke out of Cairo from reputable news sources NPR and Reuters, that Gasser Abdel Razek, one of the three heads of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was consistently held in solitary confinement by Egyptian Officials. This news came from Gasser’s legal team after Gasser
On November 16th, 2020, the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz stated his support for the Rule of Law clause in dictating how joint EU Covid Relief funds are spent in neighboring nations. Kurz argues that “the principles of rule of law are an absolute necessity.” It is important to recognize, however,
According to a report on November 9th, 2020 from Reuters, Nigerian Immigration Authorities have recently returned a passport to one Modupe Odele. Odele was a lawyer, who arranged for the legal defenses for protestors in the recent October Nigerian police brutality protests. The returning of Odele’s passport and the subsequent
Recently, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, the highest court in the country, imposed a near total ban on abortion, sparking protests throughout the nation. As of October 30th, the Polish government banned abortions due to fetal abnormalities increasing the government’s already restrictive policies towards abortion. This action is an invasion of the
As of earlier this week, according to a short report from the Reuters Staff, Russia has proposed a set of de-escalation arms control measures since the collapse of the INF nuclear arms control treaty. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was a 1987 Cold War-era treaty that prohibited putting land-based
According to multiple reports from Reuters, This Week in Asia, and US News, Australia has recently announced it will be joining the United States, Japan, and India in India’s annual navy training drills. These training drills, known as “Malabar,” will be held in the Bay of Bengal as a symbolic
According to an exclusive report from the British Newspaper, The Telegraph, two British citizens have accused an official from the United Arab Emirates and frontrunner for the new head of Interpol, Nasser Ahmed Al-Raisi, for being responsible for their torture. According to multiple reports from the likes of Bioreports, Al
