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Georgia's parliamentary speaker, Shalva Papuashvili, finalised the contentious "foreign agents" bill on Monday, sparking significant opposition and weeks of protests from critics who argue it threatens media freedom and jeopardises Georgia’s European Union aspirations. Papuashvili's endorsement followed the ruling Georgian Dream party's dismissal of President Salome Zourabichvili's veto. The legislation mandates that media outlets, NGOs, and other nonprofit entities must register as 'pursuing the interests of a foreign power' if over 20% of their funding originates from abroad. Venice Commissi...
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A Georgian parliament committee rejected on Monday the president’s veto of the "foreign agents" law which has sparked massive protests for weeks. The move sets up the possibility of a vote of the full legislature on Tuesday to override President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto of the measure, which she and other critics say will restrict media freedom and obstruct Georgia’s chances of joining the European Union. The law would require news media and non-governmental organisations that get more than 20% of their budget from abroad to register as “carrying out the interests of a foreign power.” Oppon...
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An international ocean court has just delivered a “historic” legal opinion outlining countries’ obligations in the face of climate change. The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) - a UN court on maritime law - found that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions can be considered a marine pollutant. It said countries have a legal obligation to implement measures mitigating their effect on oceans. ITLOS’s expert opinion was requested last September by a group of nine small island states in the Pacific and Caribbean threatened by rising sea levels: the Commission of Small Island S...
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Last month, Switzerland became the first country in the world to be sentenced by an international court over climate inaction. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) backed a group of older Swiss women concerned about the impact of climate change on their health. It ruled that the government’s lack of action had violated their fundamental human rights. The landmark ruling could have major implications for international environmental law, sparking numerous questions about the intersection between climate change and human rights. And, in the wake of the unprecedented verdict, calls to enshrin...
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Washington (AFP) - TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a legal challenge against the United States on Tuesday, taking aim at a law that would force the app to be sold or face a US ban. This comes around two weeks after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving TikTok 270 days to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the country. The video-sharing platform argues that this was unconstitutional. "For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent, nationwide ban, and bars every American from participating in...
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Illustration by Minority Africa, used with permission. This story was written by Mzizi Dawa and originally published by Minority Africa on April 22, 2024, and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Sabel, a gay man living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, uses pseudonyms to engage with other LGBTQ+ people online. Despite feeling somewhat anonymous, the fear of being arrested is ever-present. “Online, we are free to express our identities under anonymous names, but people have and are still being arrested, so a Virtual Private Network (VPN) provides ...
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Vice President Delcy Rodríguez introducing the Law Against Fascism in the National Assembly of Venezuela on April 2, 2024. Photo by The National Assembly of Venezuela. Open License. Last Tuesday, April 2, from the podium of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez presented, on behalf of Nicolás Maduro, a proposed Law against Fascism that hides in its 30 articles the total legalization of censorship, repression, and the curtailment of the right to protest. The law is considered a legal strategy to minimize the last freedoms of citizens in the face of the presidential el...
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Tbilissi (AFP) - Le parti au pouvoir en Géorgie a organisé lundi un rassemblement en réponse aux manifestations massives auxquelles ont participé des milliers de Géorgiens dénonçant un projet de loi sur "l'influence étrangère" considéré comme liberticide par l'opposition. Lundi soir, plusieurs milliers de personnes ont rejoint un rassemblement organisé devant le parlement par le parti du Rêve géorgien. "Nous exhortons les patriotes de tout le pays à se rassembler et à dire non aux révolutions financées par l'argent sale, aux attaques contre l'Eglise ... à la propagande LGBT, à la propagande de...
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The Italian city of Milan is proposing a new law to ban ice cream after midnight, in an effort to protect the "peace and health" of residents. A legislative starting paper has been filed by the city's local government. If passed, the new law could come into effect next month and last until November – something which local vendors will not be best pleased about, considering they are accustomed to selling gelato late at night as part of Italian culture. The proposal would ban all takeaway food, including pizza and drinks, after 12.30am on weekdays and 1.30am on weekends and public holidays - all...
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