FIFA has been handed a letter supported by over one million petition signatures — and custom-designed football shirts — demanding that it provide compensation to migrant workers who suffered horrific human rights abuses while working on the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar. more
Courts have reduced the sentences of hundreds of criminals to relieve overcrowded prisons, daily De Standaard reports. According to the newspaper, more than 294 convicts have been released for this reason in the last six months.more
Spanish prosecutors on Friday charged Barcelona with corruption over payments the club made to a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee through a company owned by him.more
The British capital city government and Shout Out UK have launched a major campaign to help underrepresented communities in London regain their voting rights. It has been pointed out that many Londoners are not registered in the electoral system or do not have any valid ID. The problem may also concern many Poles.more
‘It’s a remarkable thing to think about,’ says Will Cathcart as he confirms that messaging app would refuse to comply with orders to weaken encryption.more
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg is politicised and sometimes at odds with British values, Suella Braverman has said. The home secretary was speaking to the BBC one day after acknowledging her plan to stop small boat crossings could be challenged in the Strasbourg court.more
The majority of German citizens are in favor of limiting the right to strike in the area of critical infrastructure such as railways, air traffic or energy and water supply, according to a survey conducted by the Insa institute on behalf of the economic wing of the opposition CDU party.more
Prosecutors will accuse Spanish soccer club Barcelona of corruption because of its payments to the vice president of the refereeing committee, the daily newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday.more
The White House backed legislation introduced on Tuesday by a dozen senators to give the administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats.more
In its "Women, Business and the Law Index" report released Thursday, March 2, the World Bank says that women who are just entering the workforce will manage to retire before they have the same rights as men.more
More than 3,000 illegal migrants have entered the UK via the English Channel since the beginning of the year, more than double the number in the same period last year, GB News reported on Monday.more
The South Korean government has introduced a draft amendment that would extend the maximum working week from 52 to 69 hours to allow companies greater flexibility. Koreans are already considered one of the most working nations in the world.more
The British government will present new regulations to stop the influx of illegal immigrants to the UK, reports the British "The Sun". The bill prevents anyone who comes to the UK illegally from applying for asylum. They are then to be expelled "as soon as possible" to a "safe third country".more
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday announced a new policy against sexual harassment. The catalyst for the changes was the "abhorrent cases" that occurred during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, told reporters yesterday.more
Boris Johnson, as prime minister, appears to have misled parliament four times with his explanations for events held in Downing Street during the Covid restrictions, a British House of Commons committee wrote in a preliminary report released yesterday.more
Universities are calling for Government-imposed controls on staff and salaries to be lifted on foot of research indicating that the sector in Ireland faces some of the greatest restrictions anywhere in Europe.more
The parents of a disabled teenager who died as a result of morbid obesity were sentenced yesterday by a court in Swansea, Wales, to 7.5 and 6-year prison terms. Kaylea Titford, 16, weighed 146 kilograms at the time of her death.more
At least 729 people on the UK's sex offender register disappeared from the police's sight between 2019 and 2021, largely because they changed their name and failed to tell them what they were required to do, the BBC has revealed.more
The Dutch government today forwarded to parliament a bill criminalizing the exploitation of labor migrants. Penalties are to include accommodation in poor conditions and underpayment of wages.more
Britain and the European Union have reached an agreement on changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced yesterday afternoon in Windsor.more
Motorists are set to be slapped with a new set of driving rules and changes this year, with some alterations expected to impact thousands of Britons. The rules include an expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), benefits for electric car owners, and adjustments to fuel duty.more
A new law increasing the legal age of marriage to 18 has come into force in England and Wales. Previously people could get married at 16 or 17 if they had parental consent and there was no law against ceremonies for younger children which were not registered with local councils. more
The current ban on evictions is “creating a new form of homelessness”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Mr Varadkar has also promised the Government will make an announcement on whether it plans to extend the ban before the Dáil’s St Patrick’s Day recess, on March 9th. The current ban on evictions is due to expire at the end of March.more
