Just a few days before the 2022 Men’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar, accusations of the violation of LGBTQ+ rights came to the surface by the Human Rights Watch. The organization reported six incidents of beating and five incidents of sexual harassment of LGBTQ+ people while under police custody between 2019 and 2022. All detainees complained about their treatment in …

In the summer of 2022 climate crisis became more real than ever, with heat waves, droughts, and floods striking one after the other. Extreme heat all over the world led to wildfires and droughts, Hurricane Lan hit the US and the Caribbean with catastrophic force, while Pakistan experienced severe flooding following record-breaking monsoon rainfalls. Global warming has fueled environmental degradation …

Since criminals are moving their operations to the metaverse, the police are equipping themselves to deal with this evolution of crimes. The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has launched its ‘Global Police Metaverse’ in hopes of training its forces to deal with crime in the virtual world. The event has raised curiosity about national security and tech law enthusiast about …

The multidimensional nature of cultural heritage makes it an essential tool in the hands of Iraq’s political and religious actors to advise their political and social agendas. Cultural heritage, as the country’s second-biggest source of revenue after oil production, has been heavily manipulated for the private gains of the powerful, diminishing its immense value as a public good equally accessible …

At this point, there is a lot to be said against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Yet Brazil’s president has surprisingly good chances of re-election. Bolsonaro’s governing record is poor. This is the conclusion one must come to if one uses internationally recognized criteria. Since 2019, when he took office, the concentration of income and wealth has worsened, poverty has increased, …

Turkey recently enacted ‘disinformation laws’ which essentially give authority to the Turkish Government to control, restrict and/or reprimand online free speech. While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government has always been on the wrong side of controversies regarding free speech, putting it into law is concerning, especially in the days leading up to the 2023 Elections. Disinformation laws have been …

“الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام”, “The people want the downfall of the regime.” These words, with their multiple translations and even more numerous implications, quickly spread from the roads of Tunisia across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, becoming the slogan of the Arab Spring. 11 years later, in the country that ignited the spark of the regional upheaval, …

India’s respected Congress Party elects a new chairman. The new leader will not come from the Gandhi clan. But it is questionable whether this will bring about the new beginning that has been longed for. Rahul Gandhi is trying to attract attention with a long march through India. In five months, the 52-year-old opposition politician from the Congress Party wants …

Right now in Iran, there are two momentous historical events happening. First, equipped with the slogan “women, life, freedom”, Iranians are contributing another chapter to the global history of feminism. This is not the first time that a phalanx of Iranian women is spearheading a movement with global significance. Even in the so called “Islamic” revolution in 1979, women played …

Tens of thousands of Czechs demand the resignation of the government and an end to Russian sanctions. Vladimir Putin does not control them. But then who does ? “Nonviolent revolution” is what the organizers call their protest event. They are demanding the resignation of the conservative-liberal government under Petr Fiala, an end to EU sanctions against Russia, and the start …