Countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Nigeria Source: Save the Children A surge in attacks by armed groups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Nigeria in the past six months has forced nearly 36,000 people into the driest parts of Niger, exacerbating a severe hunger crisis, said Save the Children.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa said Tuesday the Philippine government has ordered her news organization Rappler to shut down.

Rapid acceleration of digitalization in rural communities in Asia and the Pacific is critical for regaining momentum towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), government policy makers agreed at the conclusion of a one-day event on the subject, convened today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). More […]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS One of the earliest modern environmental, social, and governance (ESG) cases decided by the Supreme Court, Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), turned on Article III standing.1 There, the Supreme Court held that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and other government entities had standing […]

Singapore – Lawyers from K&L Gates Straits Law LLC, the Singapore office of global law firm K&L Gates, with support from the firm’s London office, have assisted Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) with conducting a comparative review of the legal policy framework of pre-trial detention across the 54 Commonwealth Member […]

A recent New York Times exposé has shown that, for many rural communities in the Congo, the logging industry is often the only way to survive, even as people are becoming increasingly aware of how vital these carbon-absorbing trees are in the fight against climate change. But the Democratic Republic […]