Japan’s parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid rising public concern over cyberbullying sparked by the suicide of a reality television star who had faced social media abuse.

Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe on Sunday accused the United States of being a “bully” and “hijacking” countries around the region, during a combative speech in which he said his country would “fight to the very end” to stop Taiwanese independence.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed an unprecedented $150 million contribution from the World Bank to provide critical livelihood and life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable rural populations in Afghanistan, while boosting local food production and smallholder resilience. Some 19.7 million people, almost half […]

Countries: Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime Measures are under way to dismantle the human trafficking networks operating within the Dzaleka Refugee Camp, identify and rescue their victims, and bring those responsible to justice, says UNODC.

In 2017, Washington’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program was enacted to provide partial wage replacement to employees on leave for specified family and medical reasons. The state-administered PFML fund provides qualified employees with the following maximum leave amounts per calendar year: (a) up to 12 weeks of paid […]

K&L Gates, including counsel Lorenzo Fratantoni, recently assisted manufacturing non-profit organization Cooperativa Alice in its corporate restructuring process, leading the organization to successfully avoid a forced liquidation imposed by the Ministry of Economic Development due to significant losses. For 30 years, Cooperativa Alice has been facilitating the social reintegration of hundreds of incarcerated women […]

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Photo: Pixabay/sergeitokmakov  Trillions upon trillions of pieces of plastic, large and small, pollute our oceans, posing a grave threat to marine ecosystems. Worse still, up to 13 million metric tons of plastic waste continues to end up in the oceans each year: anything from large floating debris to microplastics. Some […]

Russia-Ukraine conflict renders food supply precarious in Africa (Eco-Finance Agency)  Jun 12, 2022 May 31, 2022 pfowlkes Sun, 06/12/2022 – 14:40 Russia-Ukraine conflict renders food supply precarious in Africa (Eco-Finance Agency)  Russia-Ukraine conflict renders food supply precarious in Africa (Eco-Finance Agency)  Global In the News Markets Eco-Finance Agency published an […]