Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:50:15 -0500 FROM THE FIELD: Survival in Yemen against all odds Fawaz, just 18-months old, suffered from severe acute malnutrition and was on the brink of death. In war-torn Yemen, he was one of hundreds of thousands of children, more likely to die, than survive.
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:00:12 -0500 ‘Maintain calm’ and ‘exercise patience’ UN envoy urges, as Nigeria heads to polls As Nigerians get ready to head to the polls on Saturday, the Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), described the pre-election period as “largely, peaceful and participatory”, and called for that spirit to prevail through election day and beyond.
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:23:56 -0500 UN and partners appeal for $920 million to meet ‘dire needs’ of Rohingya refugees With more than 745,000 Rohingya having fled violence in Myanmar to settle in Bangladesh, joining roughly 200,000 others already sheltering there, United Nations aid agencies and partners launched an appeal on Friday to help meet their “dire needs".
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 13:01:42 -0500 Biggest ever UN aid delivery in Syria provides relief to desperate civilians The biggest UN humanitarian convoy yet to operate inside Syria has successfully distributed aid to 40,000 desperate people in a hard-to-access desert camp near the country’s southern border with Jordan, the Organization announced on Friday.
Ukraine: Law Liberalizing Currency Regime Comes into Effect (Feb. 15, 2019) Ukraine’s Law on Foreign Exchange and Foreign Exchange Transactions (Foreign Exchange Law) was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian legislature) on June 24, 2018, and took effect on February 7, 2019. (Law on Currency and Currency Transactions (Foreign Exchange Law), June 24, 2018, No. 2473-VIII, GOLOS UKRAINI [VOICE OF UKRAINE] (official publication […]
Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:30:25 +0000 Germany: State of Brandenburg Passes Act on Gender Parity in Politics (Feb. 14, 2019) On January 31, 2019, the German state of Brandenburg became the first state in Germany to pass an act on gender parity in politics (Parity Act). The goal of the Parity Act is to counter the current underrepresentation of women in the Parliament of Brandenburg, where they make up 38.6% of parliamentarians, […]
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:30:54 +0000 Egypt: New Constitutional Amendments Proposed (Feb. 13, 2019) On February 5, 2019, the General Committee of the Egyptian Parliament approved a petition signed by 120 members of the House of the Representatives to amend some articles of the Egyptian Constitution of 2014 and add some new ones. (Nour Ali, General Committee of Parliament Approves Proposed Constitutional Amendments by Two-Thirds Majority, […]
Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:30:46 +0000 China: Rules on Blockchain-Based Information Services Issued Requiring Authentication of Users’ Real Identities (Feb. 12, 2019) On January 10, 2019, China’s cyberspace information regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), issued the Administrative Provisions on Blockchain Information Services, a set of rules governing blockchain-based information services. The Provisions will take effect on February 15, 2019. (Administrative Provisions on Blockchain Information Services (Jan. 10, 2019, effective Feb. 15, 2019) […]
Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:30:50 +0000 Germany: Federal Court of Justice Prohibits Uber Black App (Feb. 11, 2019) In a decision published on January 29, 2019, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), Germany’s supreme court for civil and criminal cases, held that booking cars for hire with professional drivers through the app Uber Black, the luxury chauffeur service, is prohibited. (BGH, Dec. 13, 2018, Docket No. I ZR 3/16, ECLI:DE:BGH:2018:131218UIZR3.16.0, […]