On March 13, 2021, Mahn Win Khaing Than, ousted Speaker of the House of Nationalities and Myanmar’s current acting vice president, took to Facebook to express his deep concerns for his country. “This is the darkest moment of the nation, and the moment that the dawn is closed … this
A 105-page letter was released by a London Queen Counsel, an expert in law, on the “very credible case” proving there is an ongoing Chinese genocide. The letter, also known as a legal opinion, outlines the human rights violations and abusive activities being inflicted onto the Uighurs, a Muslim group
Another Peruvian leader has been accused of corruption. Alberto Fujimori, known to control with an “iron fist,” faces a 25-year sentence for charges of human rights abuse and ordering death squad killings during the Peruvian Civil War. Fujimori’s daughter, Keiko Fujimori, is running in the 2021 presidential election, despite her
Oman’s Sultan Haitham has declared an end to the former succession system created by the sultanate’s predecessor. The event’s announcements came on the anniversary of the leader’s succession, along with the proclamation of a new crown prince and Basic Law of the State, to allow for the modernization and transformation
The South American country, Colombia, has announced its plans to repeat the previous year’s widespread coca eradication for 2021. With the use of a banned herbicide, glyphosate, manual eradication will be replaced with aerial spraying and will wipe out 321,237 acres or more of coca crops. Coca leaves are used
Loujain al-Hathloul, a women’s human rights activist, was sentenced to be imprisoned for five years and eight months after her latest trial, on December 28, 2020. Al-Hathloul has been detained since May 2018, arrested after advocating for women to have the right to drive and for the abolishment of Saudi
In Nigeria’s Katsina state, more than 300 schoolboys from the Government Science secondary school were abducted by the jihadist group, Boko Haram. The event occurred on 11 December 2020, and a week later, 344 boys were released in the neighbouring Zamfara state. Some of the missing pupils have still not
For the ninth year in a row, the Japanese Defense Ministry has requested for an increased defense budget, hitting an all-time high at $52 billion for planned military expenditures. The 2020 budget will see an 8.3% increase relative to 2019’s, according to CNN. Japan’s fast-track pace to increase the budget
The Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security have extended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) until October 21, 2021. The program allows immigrants to live in the U.S. with temporary citizenship and work authorization and was originally set to expire on January 4th, 2021. However, Category 4 hurricanes Eta
A joint statement released on November 30, 2020, summarizes the future steps the Egyptian Public Prosecution and Italy’s Public Prosecution in Rome have decided to take regarding the case of Giulio Regeni, a former Cambridge student whose body was found in Cairo, Egypt on February 6, 2016. Egypt’s prosecution team
Turkey recently accused German soldiers on the Hamburg frigate of violating international law. This accusation followed an incident on November 22, 2020, when the soldiers on the Hamburg frigate ran an examination of a Turkish vessel’s cargo, the Roseline A. The Hamburg’s German forces suspected the vessel of violating
Two weeks ago, the small European country of Moldova, located between Ukraine and Romania, saw its second round of elections come to a close, with pro-E.U. candidate Maia Sandu winning 57.7% of the vote. Sandu’s win came as a shock to many Moldovans. Their socialist-concentrated parliament has been led by
Crowds of Evo Morales’s supporters gathered in Villazon, Bolivia on November 9, 2020, to welcome Morales’s return from exile, the former Bolivian president crossing the border from Argentina to reenter his home country. Nearly 2,000 supporters assembled to greet Morales, chanting “Evo! Evo!” as his presence reignited collective gratitude and
On October 2nd of 2020, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, voiced his continued plans of integrating secularism into France to combat separatism present in the Republic. The speech was given in Les Mureaux, a town close to where the beheading of a teacher occurred, Samuel Paty after he openly talked
