In a recent meeting at the EU Parliament, the global effort to turn “ecocide”, the systematic destruction of the environment, into an international crime on par with genocide and crimes against humanity, was advanced, as a provision is likely to be adopted by the full parliament later this month.
As China positions itself to become the world leader in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) over the United States, Lucas Irwin writing for justsecurity.org suggests a research scheme called “Thousand And One Talents”, that would be run as a joint initiative between America and its allies, to maintain a Western alternative in A.I.
For the first time first time, The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled on compulsory vaccination against childhood disease and has backed the Czech Republic in its requirement for mandatory pre-school vaccinations, finding that while the Czech policy interfered with the right to a private life, there was a need to protect public health.
The globalized network of radical Islamist groups depends and thrives on a complex support infrastructure based in Western countries and often operating in plain sight, including banking entities, law firms, lobbying groups, volonteer associations and youth movements.
Henri J. Barkey explores how Turkish President Erdogan has transformed the Turkish judiciary into a weapon with the aim to stifle any dissent or criticism of him or his policies with the ultimate aim of eliminating all restraints on executive power.
Writing in The American Mind, John Fonte analyses the history and effect the globalist and progressive liberal agenda has on America’s future.
In a recent meeting at the EU Parliament, the global effort to turn “ecocide”, the systematic destruction of the environment, into an international crime on par with genocide and crimes against humanity, was advanced, as a provision is likely to be adopted by the full parliament later this month.
Facebook has announced a new corporate human rights policy, covering all of the social network and a fund to support human rights defenders that will strive to respect human rights as defined in international law, including the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
Top CEOs and executives from businesses including Levi Strauss, LinkedIn and Delta met over a ZOOM summit to discuss a plan to get tougher on state legislators over new voting restrictions by withdrawing campaign contributions and retracting investments.
As China positions itself to become the world leader in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) over the United States, Lucas Irwin writing for justsecurity.org suggests a reasearch scheme called “Thousand And One Talents”, that would be run as a joint initiative between America and its allies, to maintain a Western alternative in A.I.
Politico has obtained a draft of rules written by the European Commission that would ban certain uses of “high-risk” artificial intelligence systems and limit others from entering the bloc if they don’t meet the set standards, as well as fining companies that do not comply up to €20 million.
For the first time first time, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on compulsory vaccination against childhood disease and has backed the Czech Republic in its requirement for mandatory pre-school vaccinations, finding that while the Czech policy interfered with the right to a private life, there was a need to protect public health.
Politico reports that after nearly ten years, the Istanbul Convention, which was intended to « protect women against all forms of violence » and was signed by the 45 Council of Europe member countries, is today causing division as Eastern and Western Europe enter a culture war concerning the definition of gender.
The globalized network of radical Islamist groups depends and thrives on a complex support infrastructure based in Western countries and often operating in plain sight, including accounting and banking entities, law firms and lobbying groups, as well as youth movements and voluntary associations.
The leader of Somalia’s homegrown al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab issued a video message calling on the Islamist group to prioritize attacks in US and French targets in Djibouti, the Horn of Africa country whose geostrategic location affects the Red Sea choke point for global commercials.
Prominent Islamist conservative clerics and the local Taliban in Pakistan are creating a climate of hate and pressure to silence the women's rights group, Pakistan Women's March, using the country's media and courts to smear the activist group as foreign intelligence agents and "blasphemers" against Islam.
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