Countries: Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Source: UN Children’s Fund As the first major hurricane of the year causes widespread damage, UNICEF and partners have pre-positioned life-saving supplies and stand ready to provide services to families in the Caribbean Basin.

Country: Haiti Source: UN Children’s Fund More than 300,000 children are now internally displaced in the country, a 60 per cent increase since March, rendering them more vulnerable to violence and disrupting their access to services.

On 27 June 2024, in a ruling much-anticipated by the securities industry and other similarly regulated industries, the Supreme Court (the Court) held in SEC v. Jarkesy that when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeks civil penalties against a defendant based on claims of securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment […]

Country: Sudan Source: UN News Centre The attack comes against the backdrop of a worsening humanitarian crisis, driven by the ongoing war in Sudan between rival militaries that has left the country teetering on the brink of famine.

In May 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM or the Agency) issued a final rule updating its renewable energy and right-of-way (ROW) policies.1 BLM is one of the largest landholders in the United States, with significant landholdings west of the Mississippi River in particular, and the final rule signals the […]

Global law firm K&L Gates with its Singapore office K&L Gates Straits Law LLC has advised the shareholders of B2B research and data provider Vanda on its sale to software services investor FPE Capital. Vanda is a global independent research company that provides tactical macro and strategic investment analysis to […]