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Deze verandering weerspiegelt zowel de transformatie van de VS in het Trump-tijdperk als het toenemende zelfvertrouwen van China op het wereldtoneel.

Politici uit Mississippi dreigen het district van Bennie Thompson, de enige Democraat van de staat in het Congres, opnieuw in te delen. De beslissing van het Hooggerechtshof die de Voting Rights Act (VRA) effectief uitholde, "was red meat (voer) voor de Republikeinse wetgevers in het zuiden", aldus het lid van het Amerikaanse Huis van Afgevaardigden, Bennie Thompson. Conservatieve wetgevers in Mississippi, waar Thompson zowel de enige zwarte als de enige Democratische vertegenwoordiger in het Congres is, hebben de gelegenheid aangegrepen om hem expliciet aan te pakken door te dreigen het tweede congresdistrict dat hij vertegenwoordigt, te hertekenen. Lees verder...

• Activisten beweren dat het gebruik van wetten om internetvrijheden in te perken deel uitmaakt van een goed gedocumenteerde geschiedenis van het neerslaan van dissidenten • Toen de mediaregulator van Gabon in februari grote sociale mediaplatforms voor onbepaalde tijd schorste, met een beroep op veiligheidszorgen tijdens anti-regeringsprotesten, werd dit het gesprek van de dag – letterlijk. • Binnen enkele weken na de aankondiging nam het gebruik van Virtual Private Networks (VPN's) om de beperkingen te omzeilen sterk toe in het Centraal-Afrikaanse land.

• Ben Jealous, former executive director of a major civil rights organization, is challenging what he describes as a "disheartening" decision to terminate his employment. • Jealous oversaw multiple rounds of layoffs during his two-year tenure and reportedly sparred with staff over organizational direction and policy priorities. • His removal represents a significant leadership transition within the advocacy group and reflects internal tensions over management strategy.

Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’Cambridge University’s business school is seeking to provide “leadership development” and “innovation management” to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry despite concerns over its government’s record on human rights and climate change, the Guardian has learned.Cambridge’s leadership has approved a proposal by the university’s Judge business school to form a “memorandum of understanding” with the ministry for services and training, after an initial introduction by the UK’s Ministry of Defence. Continue reading...

Organizers, including Selma foot soliders, say ruling is latest chapter in long battle over Black disenfranchisement in USThe supreme court’s recent decision to gut the Voting Rights Act is an affront to everyone who marched, bled and died to make that law possible, civil rights activists said.“When we look at the supreme court’s action against the Voting Rights Act, it’s really a kneecap – a way to discriminate, to silence voters who fought so hard for this right,” said Sheyann Webb-Christburg, who, at eight years old, marched with civil rights leaders in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Continue reading...

Families under pressure to stay silent amid internet blackout as executions reportedly surge with 24 killed in MarchMiddle East crisis – live updatesIran is carrying out near-daily executions of prisoners in secrecy and, in some cases, refusing to hand the bodies of the dead to their families, according to rights groups and sources close to the relatives of the dead.Many families only learn of executions after they have been carried out, with some facing harassment and pressure not to speak publicly on the personal impact of the state killings, the sources said. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Voters remain split on issues critical to EU, such as support for Ukraine and dependence on Russian energyMore than three-quarters of Hungarians who voted for Péter Magyar in last month’s election want his government to do more to address the climate crisis, and more than 70% want him to protect LGBTQ+ rights, a poll has found.Magyar’s opposition Tisza party won a supermajority in the vote, bringing an end to Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power. The new prime minister will be sworn in on Saturday, weeks after the results set off celebrations in Budapest and Brussels. Continue reading...