France’s fertility rate hits a historic low of 1.62 children per woman in 2024.
The country recorded just 663,000 births, down 2.2% from 2023 and a staggering 21.5% drop since 2010.
(INED France)
A Jamaican man who raped a woman cannot be deported from the UK because he’s bisexual.
Judges ruled he might face discrimination in Jamaica, where anti-LGBTQ+ laws & violence are common. The decision was based on human rights protections under the European Court of Human Rights
The Taliban have decreed that Afghan women are forbidden to:
Go to high school or university
Work in the civil service
Attend a protest
Go abroad
Drive a car
Travel alone
Ride in a taxi
Speak in public
Speak loudly inside your house
Sing
Read the Quran aloud in public
Speak to a male doctor
Play sport
Go to the gym
Go to the park
Wear bright clothes
Wear high heels
Look at men they don’t know
Show their faces in public
Own a smartphone
The Afghan Taliban have decided to ban women from being visible in the windows of their homes.
The Taliban authorities deemed it problematic that so many women could be seen by outsiders when they were cooking in their homes.
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announces a ban on 324 types of firearms.
Legal gun owners will have an amnesty until October next year
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