Articles Tagged with France

Hundreds of activists on Saturday formed a human chain outside a main plenary hall at the United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, to highlight the urgency of addressing climate change and to protest slow progress on climate action. The protesters aimed to draw attention to the slow progress in negotiations regarding financial commitments for [...]

Gabon witnessed a significant political moment on Saturday, as a referendum on a new constitution that will reintroduce democratic civilian government was approved by 91.% of voters. The ruling junta asserted that the new constitution will break the nation’s 55-year cycle of dynastic rule. The new constitution introduces significant changes including a presidential term limit [...]

Georgian demonstrators rallied in protest Sunday over parliamentary election results which saw the “Russian friendly” Georgian Dream Party win the majority vote by 53.93 percent. The election was initially disputed and deemed “illegitimate” by President Salome Zurahishvila and the opposition parties until the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) confirmed Georgian Dream’s victory on Saturday. Critics of [...]

Venezuela on Saturday released 107 protesters who were detained for demonstrations over the presidential election in July, according to Alfredo Romero, director of the local rights group Foro Penal. According to the group, 50 people were freed from the Tocorón prison in the state of Aragua and dozens more from at least three other prisons. [...]

A New York statute sealing certain criminal records took effect on Saturday, one year after Governor Kathy Hochul signed it into law.  The Clean Slate Act automatically seals criminal records for individuals’ convictions after they complete any resulting “incarceration, parole, probation, or post-release supervision” and avoid subsequent criminal convictions. Under the law, criminal records for [...]

Amnesty International revealed on Thursday that the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are using armored carriers from the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) which incorporate French military technology. The group highlighted the potential breach of the UN arms embargo on Darfur and called on all countries to cease supplying weapons to the conflicting parties in Sudan. [...]

Houthi authorities in Yemen have launched criminal prosecution against 12 detained individuals while denying them due process rights, with some facing charges that carry the death penalty, according to a Human Rights Watch report published on Thursday. Among these detainees are UN and former US embassy staff. According to the group’s documentation, these individuals, detained [...]

A US federal appeals court on Friday temporarily lifted a lower court’s blocking of a Louisiana law mandating public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit limited the trial court’s earlier ruling, ensuring that the order applies to only the schools of the school [...]

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.   When asked whether the government would be sending any help to the miners still remaining underground, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said, “We are [...]

The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced opposition figure Lee Jae-myung to a suspended one-year prison term for making false statements before the 2022 presidential elections, according to a news release issued by South Korean member of parliament Lee So-young. The court found that Lee Jae-myung violated the Public Official Election Act (POEA) by [...]