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March 31, 2023

Feeling the Heat

The small Pacific island of Vanuatu successfully convinced the United Nations to ask the world’s top international court to decide on countries’ obligations to address climate change, a move seen as a major milestone in advancing international climate law, the Washington Post reported. The UN General...

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March 30, 2023

Financial Walls

The European Union this week defended its record of helping migrants in Libya as “essential” against accusations by United Nations investigators that the bloc was facilitating crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses in the war-ravaged North African country, Africanews reported. On Monday, investigators released...

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March 30, 2023

Curtains, Please

Myanmar’s military government dissolved the pro-democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi this week, a move that comes as the junta prepares for general elections more than two years after a coup that ousted the civilian leader, Bloomberg reported. The country’s election commission said the National...

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March 29, 2023

No Free Pass

The Philippines will sever contact with the International Criminal Court (ICC), the country’s president announced Tuesday, after the Netherlands-based tribunal rejected an appeal by the government to stop investigating former President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on drugs, Al Jazeera reported. The ICC resumed its investigation in...

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March 29, 2023

Defiance and Fury

Anti-government protests in Kenya turned deadly this week, sparking worries of escalating violence for Kenyans who are already grappling with soaring inflation and unemployment, Agence France-Presse reported Tuesday. Police and protesters clashed in the capital Nairobi and the western city of Kisumu as demonstrators took to...

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March 29, 2023

Word Smiths

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador this week defended the insertion of phrases and words in grade-school textbooks that many teachers have long considered to be ungrammatical, the Associated Press reported. His comments came after copies of new textbooks posted on social media showed a number...

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March 28, 2023

The Blink

The Israeli government temporarily backed off from a planned judicial reform Monday, just hours before it was to go to a vote after protesters threatened to shut down the country in one of the largest strikes in years, Reuters reported. “Out of national responsibility, from a...

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March 28, 2023

What Time Is It?

Lebanon’s government reversed a last-minute decision to postpone daylight savings, with the initial move not to put the clocks forward on Sunday having caused mass confusion and split the population of the small Middle Eastern country into two different time zones, the BBC reported. Prime Minister...

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March 28, 2023

A Savior, Saved

The Rwandan government released former hotelier and opposition leader Paul Rusesabagina, famous for saving hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide and the inspiration for the film, “Hotel Rwanda,” who had been jailed for years for “terrorism,” CBS News reported. Officials announced that Rusesabagina’s sentence was...

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March 27, 2023

The Name Game

India’s parliament expelled opposition leader Rahul Gandhi from the legislature over the weekend, after a court convicted and sentenced him to two years in prison in a case linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s last name, the Wall Street Journal reported. The case against Gandhi stems...

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March 27, 2023

Symbolic Expulsion

Jordanian lawmakers voted this week to recommend the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in protest against comments by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich about Palestinians, Al Jazeera reported. Last week, Smotrich caused a furor during a private memorial service in France, where he said that Palestinians...

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March 24, 2023

Marianne’s Fury

Strikes and protests hit France Thursday for the ninth consecutive day, disrupting travel and schools, as more than a million people demonstrated against changes to the pension system pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron earlier this week, the Associated Press reported. In Paris and elsewhere, police...

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March 23, 2023

Welcome, Peace

The Ethiopian parliament agreed Wednesday to remove the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step to advancing a peace process following the two-year civil conflict in the country’s north that killed hundreds of thousands, Bloomberg reported. Lawmakers approved...

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March 23, 2023

Scrapping the Bottom

Lebanese riot police clashed with protesters in the capital Wednesday, the latest unrest to grip the beleaguered nation amid an economic collapse and a plummeting local currency, the Associated Press reported. Authorities fired tear gas at demonstrators – many of them retired soldiers and police officials...

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March 23, 2023

Don’t Tell

Uganda passed a law on this week making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ, handing authorities broad powers to target gay Ugandans who already face legal discrimination and mob violence, NBC News reported. While more than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relations, the new law...

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March 22, 2023

Green Light

A Swedish court ruled Tuesday that hundreds of climate activists, including well-known advocate Greta Thunberg, can sue Sweden’s government for having an “insufficient climate policy,” Al Jazeera reported. In November, Thunberg and 600 other young activists in a group called Aurora brought a class action lawsuit...

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