The Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ rights group, is launching a $15 million commitment to help President Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 elections.
The Edible Oil Manufacturers Association of Kenya has opposed the new proposed tax measures contained in the 2024 Finance Bill, arguing they will have to increase cooking oil prices by 80 percent. The Bill seeks to impose a 25 percent excise duty on vegetable oils, which the association describes as a “potential humanitarian crisis that…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has thrown his weight behind the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) prosecutor’s decision to request warrants of arrest for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prosecutor, Karim Khan KC, also requested arrest warrants for Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and three senior Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in…
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 953 food baskets to the most needy and displaced families in Al-Buhaira locality in the Nile River State in the Republic of Sudan. 5,480 individuals benefited from the aid as part of the second phase of the project to support food security in Sudan for…
Major banks operating in Thailand and Vietnam aren’t doing enough to address the environmental and human rights consequences of their investments in large-scale hydropower dams along the Mekong River, according to a new report. The report, by Fair Finance Asia, a network of more than 90 civil society organizations led by Oxfam…
The first trial in France of officials from the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad opened on Tuesday, with three top security officers to be tried in absentia for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.The Paris Criminal Court will hear cases against three officials for their role in the deaths of two French Syrian…