On 17th December the Taliban government in Afghanistan announced that all local and international N.G.O.s were to stop female employees from coming to work. Government representatives have claimed that this was brought on by some N.G.O.s not adhering to the regime’s interpretation of the Islamic dress code for women. Non-compliance
Over the last several weeks, Polish students and activists have been gathering in public to protest a controversial bill that is currently being proposed in the government that seeks to limit access to quality sexual education and anti-discrimination classes in school. On December 15, President Andrzej Duda came out and
Bulgaria, Hungary, and Croatia are on the firing line as recent reports and footage have emerged of illegal refugee pushback centres being created along their borders. Here, instead of international protection seekers being transferred to processing, they are detained, beaten, and then forced back to where they came from. These
The People’s Republic of China has announced the loosening of their zero-Covid policy, which saw strict restrictions being in place over the last three years. This comes in response to protests over the weekend which proved to be the largest demonstration of mass discontent since Tiananmen Square in 1989. However,
On 14 November 2022 the supreme leader of Afghanistan, Hibatullah Akhundzada, ordered the full implementation of Sharia law in the country. The effects of this have been instant, and on 23 November three women and eleven men were publicly flogged in the Logar province for “moral crimes” which include adultery,
The protests that erupted after the brutal death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, who died while in the custody of Iranian “morality” police, have now resulted in Iranian authorities turning to the death penalty in an attempt to quash calls for change. Since 13 November, the Islamic Revolutionary
Kunti Kamara, an alleged former commander of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy, stood trial at the Paris criminal court in France. Proceedings started on the 10th of October and continued until November 2nd, with Kamara condemned to the maximum sentence of life in prison for aggravated acts
