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Weeks have gone by since the World Cup ended. Its aftermath has sparked a broader conversation about who football's biggest tournament belongs to and how it should look in 2030. One postscript to that conversation comes from Mexico.

Fears about the economic fallout of artificial intelligence have brought tax policy into the spotlight. Governments could find themselves desperate for more revenue to support millions of potentially laid off workers at exactly the same time that they are

If you visit Dili, the capital of Timor Leste, you should visit the Chega Centre, a former prison, now a human rights museum, in the Balide neighbourhood. Built during Portuguese colonial rule, Indonesian authorities used the Comarca prison to detain East

Four human rights groups (the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute) filed a lawsuit in US federal court challenging the Trump administration's sanctions against ICC pr

As Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with To Lam, Vietnam's president and general secretary of the Communist Party, in Canberra this week, he shouldn't forget that he is dealing with one of the region's most repressive leaders.

The Bulgarian government between 2018 and 2023 licensed exports of surveillance equipment to countries that were likely to use it for internal repression or to commit serious human rights violations.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on September 17, 2025 signed the country's first law to protect children's rights online.

Italy's new draft law on sexual violence represents a serious step backward from a consent-based approach to addressing sexual abuse. Rather than consolidating consent as the basis for assessing sexual violence, the revised text shifts the burden back ont

Chinese authorities harassed several dozen Chinese film directors and producers, as well as their families in China, causing them to pull films from the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York City.