The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on Friday that it is increasing its emergency response in Myanmar as the coup d’état reaches its one-year anniversary. The increased emergency response comes as the number of people displaced by the conflict in Myanmar reaches 800,000. UNHCR predicts that displacements will increase at a greater rate than previously. [...]

Approximately 1.5 million Ukrainian citizens have been displaced during the country’s conflict with Russia, the UN estimated Thursday. The Ukraine-Russia conflict has been ongoing from 2014. Many residents of towns, which have been damaged as a result of the conflict, have had to flee their homes and livelihoods. Over 4,000 displaced families are now living [...]

Germany announced it arrested Russian national Ilnur N. on Thursday for alleged involvement with Russia’s foreign intelligence service. According to German prosecutors, Ilnur used his position as a research assistant at a Bavarian university to share information with locally stationed Russian senior intelligence officers. Germany alleged that Ilnur engaged in three such meetings and shared [...]

European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski Thursday called for additional restrictions on political advertising to be included in a group of new legislation adopted by the European Commission. The legislation concerned is the “Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transparency and targeting of political advertisements.” Wiewiórowski’s opinion explained [...]

The European Commission stopped Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings from acquiring Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Thursday in a bid to prevent the creation of an anti-competitive market. The Commission found that merging the two companies, both based in South Korea, “would have created a dominant position by the newly merged company and reduced competition in [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday issued a final decision that a complaint concerning a bakery’s refusal to fulfil an order for a cake advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights is inadmissible. The dispute arose in 2014 following a third unsuccessful attempt to legalize same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland. Gareth Lee ordered and paid for a [...]

UNICEF sounded the alarm Friday over surging numbers of child casualties amid armed conflicts. “From Afghanistan to Yemen, and Syria to northern Ethiopia, thousands of children paid a devastating price as armed conflict, inter-communal violence, and insecurity continued,” the organization said in a statement.  UNICEF reported that in conflicts around the world, grave violations of [...]

US President Joe Biden has proclaimed January 2022 to be National Stalking Awareness Month and announced that a task force will be established to address digital stalking. The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC) defines stalking as “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel [...]

The United Kingdom and Australia Friday signed a new free trade agreement. This is the first UK trade agreement to be negotiated and signed since their formal withdrawal from the European Union in 2020. The trade agreement will remove the majority of tariffs on goods exported from the UK to Australia. The tariffs removal will “unlock £10.4 billion [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed in a report published Thursday that separationist fighters have systematically targeted education facilities amidst significant armed conflict. The report, entitled “They Are Destroying Our Future:” Armed Separatist Attacks on Students, Teachers, and Schools in Cameroon’s Anglophone Regions, investigated the safety of education in Cameroon based on interviews with students and [...]