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Germany's parliament passed a new law on Friday, easing legal procedures for changing names and gender identity. The 'Gender Identity Act' was widely supported by the ruling 'traffic light' coalition of Olaf Scholz, though debates were fiery and emotional. The final vote count was 374 in favour with 251 against. Before the new legislation - which comes into effect on 1 November - those applying to legally change gender needed the approval of two psychiatrists “sufficiently familiar with the particular problems of transsexualism.” A court would then decide if the legal change was allowed. Now, ...
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San Francisco (AFP) - Google on Friday said it is testing removing links to California news sites for some users in the western US state as legislators mull making the online search giant pay for connecting people to news. The Silicon Valley tech firm is preparing for the possible passage of the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) that would create a "link tax" for connecting users in the state to news articles, Google Global News Partnerships vice president Jaffer Zaidi said in a blog post. The CJPA was passed by the California Assembly in June of last year, and is currently being c...
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In a landmark decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that climate change violates the right to respect for one’s private and family life. This is the main legal basis through which the court has previous rule on environmental cases, but an “historic” one regarding the climate crisis, observers say. The case was brought by an association of older Swiss women concerned about the impact of global warming on their health, who claim the Swiss government is not taking enough action. The ECHR ruled by 16 judges to 1 that the KlimaSeniorinnen (Swiss Elders for Climate Prot...
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Croatian retailers are displeased with a law that prohibits shopping on most Sundays, saying it is threatening small businesses and driving layoffs in a crucial sector of the economy. The Trade Law, which was passed last year, allows retailers to choose only 16 Sundays per year when they can open their stores. While unions seem to be satisfied with it, many entrepreneurs in wholesale and retail trade are not. The five large shopping centres in Zagreb say Sunday revenue tends to be higher, and that the non-working Sundays imposed this year could hurt them to the tune of €50 million euros. Owner...
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After news that J.K. Rowling was daring the police to arrest her, authorities have said that the Harry Potter author did not break the law with tweets criticizing Scotland’s new hate speech law and referring to transgender women as men. Reacting to the news, Rowling posted on X: "I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women - irrespective of profile or financial means - will be treated equally under the law.” Rowling opposes the law, which came into force on Monday 1 Apr...
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March for Visibility of Transgender People in Skopje, North Macedonia, March 29, 2024. Photo by Vančo Džambaski from the photo album ‘Marching Boldly’ on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED). Transgender people in North Macedonia are refusing to be silenced, and they took their concerns to the streets in a March for Visibility of Trans People in Skopje on March 29, organised by the civil society organization TransFormA. The march took place ahead of International Transgender Day of Visibility (often referred to as TDOV or Trans Day of Visibility), an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to ce...
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Feature image of malnourished puppy via Canva Pro. In April 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the black dog of Embacadere, a town on the outskirts of Trinidad’s southern city of San Fernando, pierced the hearts and minds of Trinidad and Tobago social media users after a video of three men brutally performing its hanging emerged on Facebook. Outrage was swift and widespread, with many activists calling for harsh punishment over what they felt was a needlessly cruel and despicable act. It was not, however, the only one. The websites and social media channels of any local animal N...
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A screenshot from Comment Robot's public Weibo profile page. Fair Use. “Comment Robot” (评论罗伯特), an AI Chatbot, has sparked quite some amusement and rage on Weibo since December 2023, as it has kept poking many Weibo users with humorous, heart-warming, but sometimes inappropriate or even offensive comments. When it first emerged in early December 2023, some users with very few followers were puzzled as to why their Weibo updates had caught the attention of a “Big V” – Weibo's official verified user and opinion leader with many followers – who had zero connection with them online. After local me...
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How much of our legislation comes from the European Union? It’s been a lingering debate for many years now with multiple Eurosceptic and even Europhile politicians claiming the EU imposes 80% of its laws on member states. The problem with quantifying the amount of laws is finding accurate and recent figures. Previous studies that looked into this found the EU’s influence to be significantly less: more like 20-25%, according to this French study from 2009. Most studies do maintain that while the EU heavily regulates some areas, the answer is not that straightforward. That's because, in some are...
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