The Employment Court of New Zealand on Monday ordered the University of Auckland to pay damages of NZ$20,000 for breaching its contractual obligations to protect Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles’s health and safety due to public harassment over her commentary during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Over the course of 2020-2022, Wiles, a microbiologist and science communicator, experienced physical [...]

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior told the Sindh High Court on Monday that its ban on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was legitimate in light of national security concerns and that it did not violate Article 19 of the Pakistani Constitution. The Ministry explained to the High Court that X’s presence in Pakistan without [...]

Human Rights Watch reported on Monday that Iranian security forces employed lethal force against predominantly Kurdish border couriers that passed rugged terrain to transport goods between Iraq and Iran. Kurdish border couriers interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that Iranian security forces shot them and killed their relatives, and beat them in detention. A border [...]

Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) Police Commissioner Michael Murphy issued a Public Disorder Declaration for Alice Springs on Monday following several civil disturbances over the weekend, including the assault of four off-duty police officers on Sunday morning. The declaration includes a restricted movement provision that creates a curfew for all residents and visitors to the town [...]

As of June 21, 2024, the prison population in England and Wales had almost reached its limit, standing at 87,395, according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice. This is stark in itself, but the size of the crisis is exacerbated further when pitted against a “usable operational capacity” of 88,778. This leaves less [...]

Russian missile attacks on Ukraine killed dozens of people, injured hundreds, and damaged the country’s largest children’s hospital, UN and Ukrainian officials announced Monday. A wave of deadly strikes occurred during the early hours of Monday morning. Numerous commercial and residential buildings along with vehicles in large cities including Dnipro, Kramatorsk, Kryviy Rih, Kyiv and [...]

Berlin police said released a police report on Sunday detailing damage by unknown persons to a Jewish memorial in Steglitz and said that an investigation was ongoing. Police said that at around 4:10pm on Saturday, officers noticed paint smeared on the monument on Hermann-Ehlers-Platz. The mirror surface of the monument was damaged with “political content,” [...]

The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) ruled on Sunday that a strike notice by ship and dock foremen at western Canadian ports violated the Canada Labour Code, effectively averting a disruption to port operations. The decision came within days of the BC Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) filing their request for interim relief after the International [...]

Police in Queensland, Australia shot a man outside Kirwan Police Station and he later died, Queenland Police confirmed in a statement released Sunday. According to the statement, the 46-year-old Canbrook man approached Kirwan Police Station at around 10pm on Saturday and threatened officers with a knife. Following unsuccessful attempts at deescalation, “olice shot the man [...]

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged the international community on Sunday to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghans in and outside the country in light of the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), at least 18 million and over 3.5 million Afghans needed urgent humanitarian assistance and were displaced [...]