The shooting of a
young protester
By Christopher Giles and Jack Goodman
“Police came forward with trucks. Protesters drew back. We were watching from the side of the road.”
Burmese protester Mya Tha Toe Nwe describes the moment just before her sister was shot in the back of the head on Tuesday in Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw.
Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
The young woman’s shooting has become a defining moment in Myanmar’s fight for democracy following the military coup last week
Fight to vote: the escalating attack on US voting rights
Officials are using Donald Trump’s baseless claims about fraud, embraced by many Republicans, to justify the need to tighten voting laws
Two weeks ago, I wrote about a report from the Brennan Center for Justice that tallied up 106 bills pending across 28 states that would make it harder to vote. This week, the Brennan Center updated that tally, finding there were now 165 pending bills in 33 states to impose voting restrictions.
This only further confirms what has already been clear for months: after an election with record turnout, there is an unmistakable effort to make it harder to vote in America. Officials are using Donald Trump’s baseless claims about fraud, embraced by many other Republicans, to justify the need to tighten voting laws.
Women’s rights activist charged for taking part in Polish abortion protests
Marta Lempart charged with insulting a police officer among other alleged offences
A woman’s rights activist involved in protests against the widely criticised near-total abortion ban in Poland has been charged.
In recent months Poland has been rocked by the largest protests since the collapse of communism after the government unveiled plans to further tighten already restrictive abortion laws last October - with demonstrations erupting again last month after the court’s justification for the original ruling was enshrined into law.
Marta Lempart, a leader of the Polish Women's Strike, which has led mass nationwide protests against the ban, told The Associated Press on Thursday she was formally read the charges at the district prosecutor's office in Warsaw a day earlier.
Opinion: AU's new leaders may spell more of the same
The African Union's new leadership has some fresh faces. But it will be hard for the newcomers to overcome the AU's lack of political will to solve the continent's crises, writes DW's Mimi Mefo Takambou.
Changes in leadership are a rare phenomenon in many parts of Africa.
So, whenever this happens, we Africans get excited about what the new leadership could bring to our continent, which has been stuck for so long in a morass of economic stagnation, unemployment and conflict.
That's why, like many of us, I've been closely watching the African Union's elections for a new chairperson and new heads of the commission.
Mori to resign over sexist comments; Kawabuchi, 84, tipped to replace him
The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori, will resign over a sexist remark that sparked an outcry, two sources said on Thursday, while the former prime minister said he could not let the controversy drag on.
Mori's resignation would be bound to raise new doubts over the viability of holding the postponed Games this year.
The sources, who have knowledge of the matter, said Mori would be replaced by former Japan Football Association president and mayor of the Olympic village, Saburo Kawabuchi.
‘French Muslims will suffer’ under separatism rules, critics say
Civil rights groups, academics and experts raise alarm ahead of key vote on controversial bill.
On October 2 last year, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a law against what he called “Islamist separatism” aimed at tackling “radical” movements in the country.
He described Islam as a religion “in crisis” globally, as he sought to boost support for measures intended to regulate how the faith is practised in France.
Critics say the proposed law further stigmatises France’s 5.7 million-strong Muslim community – not only those individuals it supposedly targets – and forms part of a wider crackdown on civil liberties.
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