Tanzania has just taken a huge step toward eliminating child marriage. Now, a man who marries or impregnates a school-age girl faces up to 30 years in prison. Sex with underage girls was already ...(more)
Even as it cast its vote in favour of a UN Human Rights Council resolution urging states to give space for the growth of civil society, India has announced it will not abide by the clauses that c...(more)
A court has slapped a 2-year ban on journalists who triggered the closure of the Maldives' only newspaper when they resigned en masse and set up an independent online publication over an own...(more)
While is U.K. was busy separating from the European Union, Africa wants to become more unified with the introduction of an all-Africa passport. The idea, first approved in 2014, will launch at th...(more)
Thousands of demonstrators in Hong Kong demanded the resignation of its unpopular leader over China’s alleged abduction of 5 local booksellers. The men, who had specialised in tabloid-style boo...(more)
India abstained during the voting for the resolution which created a watchdog for LGBT rights at United Human Rights Council – but it joined the Islamic bloc in voting in favour of six amendmen...(more)
Recent legislation is a form of collective punishment towards Jerusalem and its youth, rights groups say, adding, 'the way they are being searched is humiliating'. The 'stop-and-fr...(more)
More than half of Russians would like to see the restoration of the Soviet Union, according to a poll released Tuesday. Although 58 percent of respondents said they would like to see a new social...(more)
French purists have never taken kindly to having English thrust upon them, and have seized upon Brexit as a chance to rid themselves of English, at least at EU headquarters. The disdain for the E...(more)
Clerics in Pakistan have legalised marriage with a transgender person. A transgender person with “visible signs of being a male” can marry a woman or a transgender with “visible...(more)
First Lady Emine Erdogan of Turkey invited dozens Syrian refugees to Iftar, during Ramadan. Since Syria’s civil war broke out in 2011, around 400,000 people have died, 5 million refugees have f...(more)
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, formed in 1964 to fight a right-wing government, and the Colombian government will end their hostilities and begin a slow process of mending the coun...(more)
For the first time in almost three millennia, Rome’s top official will be a woman. At just 37 years old, lawyer Virginia Raggi has taken up the helm of one of the world’s oldest cities and pl...(more)
Twelve thousand prison inmates will be able to work toward a college degree with the help of federal Pell Grants starting next month. The new grants called Second Chance Pell Grants will be made ...(more)
In May 2015, the citizen platform Barcelona en Comú came into power by building a platform that could bring together individuals and citizens’ movements in a coordinated way, so their voice co...(more)
More than 5,000 stateless Rohingya people of Baw Du Pha 2 camp on the outskirts of Sittwe in Myanmar are living in apartheid-like conditions. Humanitarian workers say the biggest issue they face ...(more)
Zipline, a San Francisco-based startup, will use drones to drop blood and other life-saving medical supplies to hospitals in remote areas of Rwanda. More than 300,000 women die each year in the ...(more)
An NGO, Four Paws, sent a mission to Gaza Zoo to carry out an evaluation of the health of the surviving animals and the state of their cages and to convince the zoo owner to allow the remaining t...(more)
It has been revealed that the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had decided to ban Potassium Bromate as a food additive four years ago but never implemented its decision. Potas...(more)
Five private hospitals in Delhi, including Fortis Escorts Heart Institute and Max Super Specialty Hospital, were fined over Rs 600 crore for refusing free treatment to the poor, the prime conditi...(more)
Illegal immigrants from Mexican border are being quietly transported to Phoenix and released without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, by the Department of Homeland Securit...(more)
The North Korean President was seen clutching a cigarette in his right hand while visiting a children’s camp in Pyongyang. The revelation comes just two months after he appeared to have kicked ...(more)
The Lendi irrigation project between Maharashtra and Telangana, that will irrigate 49,000 hectares of land, has been languishing in an unfinished state for the past 30 years. The delay is because...(more)
Thailand is the first Asian country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. Elimination of transmission is defined as a reduction of transmission to such a low level that i...(more)
At least 25 persons sustained injuries when police brutally lathi-charged protesters who demonstrated outside Manipur Bhawan in New Delhi against three controversial bills, that tribals feel infr...(more)
The Oregon Supreme Court passed a landmark ruling which ensures that any animal can be seen as a legal “victim” in a case, affording animals more basic rights to protect them from abuse. The ...(more)
A cooking class conducted by the organization Über den Tellerand (“Looking Beyond the Plate”) that works with refugees became a two way opportunity for both Berliners and the refugees in the...(more)
Papua New Guinea, ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world, has had mounting political tension with thousands of students at the University of Papua New Guinea boycotting classes dem...(more)
Odisha has become the first Indian state to give transgenders social welfare benefits, including a pension, housing and food grains. These are benefits usually given to the most impoverished - an...(more)
India's 2012 Socio-Economic Caste Census data reveals 40% of single-women household heads do not own land and do manual labour. Interestingly, Odisha's 2014 policy says landless single...(more)
Young Somali female journalist, Sagal Salad Osman, who works for state run media SNTV, was killed in Mogadishu; and is the second journalist to be killed in six months after Hinda Haji Mohamed wh...(more)
South Africa’s parliament has approved a bill allowing the government to expropriate land in the public interest. The new measure will allow a compulsory purchase of lands and give more ownersh...(more)
Lecturers in many private engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu are scouting for students, failing which they are threatened with pay cuts. Recently, a private college in Chennai fired around 100 fa...(more)
Switzerland has voted by an overwhelming majority of 78% to reject proposals for a universal basic income, according to projections based on a partial count of the vote. One of the key issues in ...(more)
The Supreme Court has observed that factum of delay in lodging FIR in Section 498-A cases has to be dealt with sympathetically keeping in mind the mental condition of the close relations of the v...(more)
The World Bank is switching to more precise descriptions of economies, instead of ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ economies to classify countries. India has been classified under lower-middl...(more)
Taking serious note of the strike adopted by junior doctors in State Medical Colleges in the state which resulted in death of a number of people, the Allahabad High Court has held that Doctors ha...(more)
A Turkish court found a former Miss Turkey competition winner, Merve Buyuksarac, guilty of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, handing her a suspended sentence of 14 months...(more)
With Euro 2016 Football Championship in less than two weeks, labor strikes in oil refineries and nuclear power plants, fuel shortages, and violent protests against the government’s proposed lab...(more)
A crackdown is underway in Russia against social media users who post things that run against the official narrative. At least 54 people were sent to prison for hate speech last year, most of the...(more)
The Dalai Lama who is perhaps the world’s most famous refugee himself has said there are too many migrants pouring into Europe, warning against the continent becoming Arabised, and claiming the...(more)
The Speak Out Challenge, the largest youth speaking event in the world, disqualified British-Palestinian Leanne Mohamad after receiving a complaint about her speech, which went viral after her re...(more)
Women in Iran are cutting their hair short and dressing as men to avoid the harsh morality police.Pictures emerge on social media of women defying strict laws in Iran where penalties are imposed ...(more)
The debate over the EU referendum has sparked a public “battle of the balconies” between neighbours in north London. This image taken in Gospel Oak after a resident decided to take on his nei...(more)
India may have benefited from cheap oil, but global oil price collapse has caused a 27 percent slump in remittance from Indians working abroad. Most of India's remittances come from the oil...(more)
In a move for alternative sentencing for positive change, a judge of Iran has sentenced criminals to buy and read five books, including a saying from the hadith (a report on the life and sayings ...(more)
Mukesh, a Dalit activist from Jharkhand, has been using activism and journalism to bring out unreported stories of corruption and prejudice in marginalised rural areas of Jharkhand. Although his ...(more)
The High Court of Jharkhand, in a landmark order in a Suo motu Public interest litigation asked the State to start rain water harvesting throughout the State, at least in all the Government Build...(more)
The Russian government will give away free land to anyone willing to farm it. In Russia's Far-East Federal District, areas of land, 2.5 acres in size, will be given to any Russian citizen th...(more)
Since the end of the war, in 1975, more than forty thousand Vietnamese have been killed by U.X.O. While most of the victims used to be farmers working their fields, these days, with more of the c...(more)
The United Nations announced their first humanitarian fund "Education Cannot Wait," for the education of refugee children, which hopes to reach many of the estimated 20 million school-age refugee...(more)
Awards would lose their sheen and cease to be coveted and perceived as indicative of the excellence of the holder thereof if they are conferred on persons not deserving thereof or if selection th...(more)
Thousands of people took to the street across Ireland today and lay down on the streets in solidarity with Palestinians calling for an end to violence in Gaza. Palestine Solidarity Campaign, hos...(more)
President Dilma Rousseff was removed on alleged misuse of budget funds to account for social programs. For the golpistas (supporters of the coup), the fact that 73% of the beneficiaries are black...(more)
A government agency in the Netherlands has opened empty prisons to accommodate the influx of migrants seeking asylum. As the country’s crime rate and prison population have steadily declined fo...(more)
Delhi High Court has held that for issuing passport, there is no legal requirement for insisting upon the father’s name of the Applicant; taking notice that families of single parents are on th...(more)
As part of a strategy to prevent terrorism, FBI is enlisting religious leaders, social workers, and community leaders, who would keep an eye out for potential radicals. Civil-liberties groups and...(more)
The Afghan government halted work on the multi-million-dollar project to bring electricity from Turkmenistan after a ethnic minority group staged protest against what they see as their marginaliz...(more)
Activists from a women’s rights NGO, who visited villages in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, following reports of mass sexual violence and assault on adivasi women by security forces and police in the a...(more)
Activists backed by Catholic church want parliament to allow terminations only when needed to save a woman’s life, and to increase the prison sentence for people who perform unauthorised aborti...(more)
Belgian police have warned citizens not to use Facebook’s new Reactions, to protect their privacy. In February. They say that the site is using them as a way of collecting information about peo...(more)
Instead of addressing the allegations, a Thai pineapple company brought a case of criminal defamation and computer crimes against Andy Hall, after a report he wrote which alleged worker abuse and...(more)
Animals have far more sensitive hearing so firework displays can leave pets with “acoustic stress”. People of the town of Collecchio in Italy are doing something about it. The local g...(more)
Hunters from around the world flock to Costa Rica to hunt the country’s jaguars and pumas for sport, or to capture the cats and sell them on the black market as pets. Earlier, an amendment was ...(more)
On Sunday, May 8, Germany hit a new high in renewable energy generation. Thanks to a sunny and windy day, around 1pm the country’s solar, wind, hydro and biomass plants were supplying about 55 ...(more)
In an attempt to dissuade illegal immigration, the Obama administration, despite criticism from immigrant advocates, is planning to deport Central American mothers and children found to have ente...(more)
That the highest ranks of the Indian government are under pressure from the United States to modify the country’s patent policies is clear. If that pressure transfers down the ranks, and affect...(more)
There are no openly gay politicians in the Philippines, and the Liberal Party's Geraldine Roman is set to be the predominantly Catholic nation's first public transgender politician.Thro...(more)
In the case Vasant vs. Naik, the High Court rejected the contention that a married daughter has obligations only towards her husband's family and not to her own parents. “In the instant ca...(more)
Pag-asa Island is in the West Philippine Sea occupied by Filipinos. Chinese vessels have been reportedly dumping chemicals in the surrounding waters of Pag-asa Island and harming the marine life....(more)
It’s a big victory for some 1,200 people of Lippa village in Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh. After a seven-year struggle, the villagers have become the first grass-root people in the ...(more)
Nigeria decided to shift its educational focus toward technology and engineering. So a group of Nigerian comic book creators founded Panaramic Entertainment in 2007, with a mission "to tackle the...(more)
While it is yet to take a final call on allowing commercial cultivation of genetically modified hybrid mustard, India appears in favour of planting of GM pulses. The Group of Secretaries has reco...(more)
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that turn flavoured nicotine liquid into an inhalable vapour. The US government has unveiled new federal rules that include a ban on the sale of e-cigare...(more)
Bolivian President Evo Morales’ visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez focuses not only on bilateral agreements but also South America’s independence history, The two South Ame...(more)
The village of Riace in Calabria had seen its population drop to 400 since the 1990s, Now, people from 20 different nations live in Riace. Bakeries and workshops have re-opened. There is even a s...(more)
A third of Navajo tribe members lack clean water. New deals are enabling them to take some of what's theirs. Now there is an opportunity to secure legal rights to some of their water and muc...(more)
Mariss Mayer is entitled to severance benefits valued at $54.9 million in case she is terminated without cause. But Marissa Mayer stands to make millions coming or going. Mayer was already paid $...(more)
The Michigan water crisis started in 2014 when the city switched water sources from Hudson River to Flint River, and thousands of residents suffered from lead poisoning and pneumonia. Sasha Bell,...(more)
The India government has banned the import of foreign breeds of dogs for commercial purposes. The import of dogs will now be allowed only for defence and police forces, research and development o...(more)
China passed a new law restricting the work of foreign organizations and their local partners, mainly through police supervision. More than 7,000 foreign nongovernment groups will be affected, an...(more)
The Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court, has directed the State Government to authorise a 50 percent water cut for liquor industries, breweries and distilleries in the area with immediate effec...(more)
As 175 countries signed the Paris climate change deal at U.N. headquarters, there were protests against the exclusion of indigenous people from the international push to tackle global warming.Glo...(more)
Drinking water is an over exploited source for cultivation of cash crops like sugarcane and BT Cotton. Hence these crops need to be banned and replaced with food crops like oil seeds, pulses, mai...(more)
"Nothing has moved" since 1987 when the Law Commission had recommended increase in the number of judges from then 10 judges per 10 lakh people to 50. T S Thakur broke down in front of PM Narendra...(more)
Princess Basmah Bint Saud, of Saudi Arabia, spoke out against chemtrails and geoengineering, describing the ongoing geoengineering program as a weapon of mass destruction; a method of slow poison...(more)
Peruvian potato farmer Maxima Acuna de Chaupe has halted U.S. mining giant Newmont Mining Corporation’s US$4.8 billion plans. Acuna's 60-acre plot is where the company's local joint-v...(more)
Sao Luiz do Tapajos, the mega-dam project in Brazil's Amazon basin, which would have flooded an area the size of New York City and displaced Indigenous communities, has been suspended. This ...(more)
The recent surge in rhino poaching due to a stimulated consumer demand among newly-wealthy consumers in Vietnam and China had resulted in a controversial proposal to open international trade in r...(more)
Researchers are pinpointing the genes that lie behind the varied beaks of Darwin’s finches – the birds whose facial variations are a classic example of Charles Darwin's theory of...(more)
Survivors of an earthquake that killed 570 people and shattered Ecuador’s coast clamoured for food, water and medicine on Thursday as aid failed to reach some of the remotest parts of the quake...(more)
A former senior director at a British firm says that it employed mercenaries from Sierra Leone to work in Iraq because they were cheaper than Europeans and did not check if they were former child...(more)
The life of a bank manager changed for the worst after he was accused of molestation in 2011. Police and media hunted the man Percy Joseph all these years. His family suffered in silence. Now, it...(more)
A US grand jury has slapped two companies of the Tata group — Tata Consultancy Services and Tata America International Corp — with a $940-million fine in a trade secret lawsuit filed against ...(more)
Stranger are the times that even a stranger gets identified easily. A Russian photographer has proved how easy it is to track down people on social media using facial recognition software. Yegor ...(more)
A newly elected female MP in Iran is to be barred from entering the next parliament apparently because she is alleged to have shaken hands with an unrelated man during a trip abroad. Minoo Khaleg...(more)
Panicked members of the elite are reported as buying luxury bomb-proof underground survival bunkers, fearing mass civil unrest might happen at some point. The company behind the construction of t...(more)
In a bid to discourage ostentatious marriages, Pakistan’s Punjab province has passed a law banning the serving of more than one dish, display of fireworks as also dowry, during the wedding ...(more)
Local officials used 10,000 litres water to build a make-shift helipad close to the airport at Belkund village, where Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse landed for reviewing the drought situation in ...(more)
Low-wage workers across the U.S. held protests in more than 300 cities on Thursday, marking the largest action to date in the growing nationwide fight for a $15-an-hour minimum wage. The Fight fo...(more)
For the first time in U.S. political history, every presidential candidate — of both parties — supports states’ rights to do as they please with regard to marijuana legaliz...(more)
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), representing 48 big pharma companies, is one of the largest and most influential lobbying organizations in Washington, according to S...(more)
In the high hills of Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh, there is a cluster of villages that share a border with China. Reaching these places is a challenge. They require at least a da...(more)
On March 2, security officers at Parliament House came across an unusual situation. Outside the main gate was an autorickshaw, painted white, bearing a diplomatic number plate and flying the flag...(more)
A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, an independent organisation in the US, has warned that India’s plans to import 12 nuclear reactors from ailing American eq...(more)
Dog bites man may not be a news story - but in nine western American states, it's grounds for a constitutional case.The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has allowed a lawsuit by a wom...(more)
What about postman not only bringing you the letters but also singing couple of your favourite songs.This is precisely what Philippine Postal Corporation tried out, which became an instant hit. T...(more)
An African American man who spent nearly 40 years behind bars in the US state of Ohio for a murder he did not commit will receive $1 million from the state for his wrongful imprisonment. African ...(more)
Apple supplier Foxconn, also a manufacturer of products for Sony, Microsoft, and other giants, laid off 60,000 employees, reducing the workforce from 110,000 to 50,000 due to the introduction of ...(more)
Eight years ago, when America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were still raging at full force, the Pentagon’s annual budget for those conflicts amounted to $1 million for each troop who was ac...(more)
Pakistan has directed its TV and Radio channels to "immediately stop" airing advertisements marketing contraceptives and family planning products, in light of complaints received from public. Con...(more)
The Bombay High Court has held that a change of surname by a person does not change his caste and does not disentitle him from claiming reservation. The Vacation Bench allowed the writ petition w...(more)
The High Court of Rajasthan has held that Family court can admit the evidence in the form of Pin Hole camera with a hard disk memory on which a recording was done, as Primary evidence and Section...(more)
As the government continues with its blind focus on highways, Indian cities are crying out for waste disposal and water supply infrastructure. At Rs. 58000 crore, allocation for the transport min...(more)
The High Court of Kerala has in a public interest litigation, filed by Kerala River Protection Council has issued a interim direction, banning the burning of the plastic and rubber waste in pub...(more)
Venezuela's economy has plunged with the price of the crude oil exports, and its people have reverted to bartering whatever they have on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram. With food and toile...(more)
Threats and harassment have driven journalists into exile amidst Burundi’s political crisis, leaving social media to fill the void. Social networking has become essential for self-protection fo...(more)
The High Court of Kerala, has held that only a husband can be an aggrieved person to file a complaint of adultery. The Kerala High Court in a judgement upheld the contentions of the revision peti...(more)
In Germany no-one is allowed to be married to more than one person at a time. Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants to stop the ambiguity that allows local authorities to tolerate polygamous and und...(more)
Code to Inspire is Afghanistan’s award-winning first all-girls coding school. CTI’s coding program is free of charge, and women are able to use what they learn to enter the country’s existi...(more)
The Duke of Cambridge has become the first member of the British Royal Family to appear on the cover of a gay magazine. The duke invited the magazine to bring members of the LGBT community to Ken...(more)
Indonesia’s medical association rejected the presidential decree authorizing punishment of convicted child molesters with chemical castration, saying that chemical castration doesn’t guarante...(more)
A new UK startup will delve into the intimate details of people’s private lives by strip-mining data from their social media profiles; then sell info to anybody willing to pay. Score Assured, a...(more)
A new Senate report says the Red Cross lied to Congress in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and used far more donated money on its own overhead costs than previously acknowledged. The Red Cr...(more)
The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea of a 92 year murder convict, who had filed a Special Leave Petition before the apex court seeking exemption from surrendering before police considering his ...(more)
Investigation into the killings of 3 civil rights workers during Mississippi’s “Freedom Summer,” was closed after 52 years as no new evidence came forward. The 1964 killings of James Earl C...(more)
Colombian indigenous leader and three-time elected governor, María Nidia Becerra Jacanamejoy, 29, has dedicated her life to environmental activism, focusing on protecting indigenous lands from m...(more)
The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro begin Aug. 5 and Brazil has everything going wrong. The government is continuing PR efforts, but the Brazilian citizens spare no energy to make their outrage k...(more)
Evidence of verbal and physical abuse uploaded to social media after Brexit, shocked Allison, an American woman living in London, to start the now popular SafetyPin campaign. She's asking pe...(more)
Two women, Noor Huda Roslan, 40, and Nenney Shuhaidah Shamsuddin, 41, have been appointed as judges of Malaysia’s Islamic Shariah High Court for the first time in the history of the judiciary o...(more)
At least 34 demonstrators have been dealt charges since mass anti-corruption protests broke out in 20 cities across Macedonia, according to local activists. Because protesters have used paint-fil...(more)
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