Turkey has withdrawn from a convention to protect the rights of women.
Public banks around the world are working towards the public good during COVID-19. The Canada Infrastructure Bank, however, seems focused on privatizing critical public services instead of ensuring vital infrastructure across the country is built or maintained, like this project to repair the
bridge spanning the Halifax harbour in 2017.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Canada doesn’t have many public banks. The best known, the Canada Infrastructure Bank, seems intent on privatizing critical public services instead of working towards the public good.
Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled Belarusian opposition candidate, speaking at the EU parliament on September 21.
Stephanie Lecocq/EPA
Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
‘We don’t recognise this illegitimate referendum’
Murad Sezer/Reuters
This referendum is the first time in the democratic history of Turkey that an election has been seen as illegitimate by not only domestic contenders, but by international observers as well.
Despite all the EU’s good intentions, many of Europe’s Roma people still live in poverty.
EPA/Zoltan Balogh