The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 was brought into law to prevent crimes against people belonging to lower castes and tribes in India. In a recent ruling this year, the Indian court said that the act was being “rampantly misused”. If therefore stopped the automatic arrests and registration of criminal cases under the law and also made it mandatory for a preliminary inquiry to be conducted by police within seven days of an alleged incident before taking any action.

Afrocentrism (also Afrocentricity) is a cultural ideology or worldview that focuses on the history of people of African descent. It is a response to global (Eurocentric) attitudes about African people and their historical contributions and it revisits their history with an African cultural and ideological focus.

Recent probe results of the mass killings in Wang Kelian in 2015 shook the world, and revealed startling new evidence, which suggests a massive, coordinated cover-up. One of the biggest revelations was that the human trafficking death camps had been discovered months earlier, but police only announced the discovery on May 25. The in-depth investigation was sparked by a number of burning, unanswered questions that dogged the team, among them about why the initial discovery of these death camps were kept secret and who gave the order to sanitise and destroy the crime scene and, why. One shocking discovery was that the authorities, particularly the Perlis police, knew the existence of these jungle camps in Wang Kelian in early January 2015, but had allegedly chosen not to do anything about them until half a year later.

The Malaysian Parliament dissolved today and the General Election is expected to be held soon. The election centers primarily on two political coalitions: the Barisan National (BN) and the Pakatan Harapan (PH). The BN, lead by PM Najib Razak has historically held majority seats on the parliament since Malaysia's independence in 1957. The government formed by the BN has had allegations of corruptions and electoral fraud. The leading opposition candidate expected to become Prime Minister if BN loses, is the former Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. #Undirosak is a campaign that calls for voters to spoil their votes in response to the PM candidates fielded by both political coalitions.

The ‘Shitty Media Men” list is an open source list where women who work in media can share stories of harassment for the purposes of helping other women avoid these men.

Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact, often with the exception of members of prison staff, for 22–24 hours a day, with a sentence possibly ranging from days to decades. It is employed as a form of punishment beyond incarceration for a dangerous prisoner

The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing conflict between two main factions. On one side is an alliance of the Zaidi-Shiite Houthis, a northern movement that has been fighting the government since 2004, along with troops and militias loyal to a former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. On the other side are supporters of the government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who was overthrown by the Houthis in early 2015. The war intensified in March 2015 when a coalition of 10 states led by Saudi Arabia launched a campaign of airstrikes against the Houthi-Saleh coalition. Riyadh's declared objectives are to roll back the Houthis and reinstate Hadi. The Houthis are reportedly an Iranian proxy, leading the intervention to be framed as an effort to counter Iran's influence. Despite Saudi’s denial, the airstrikes have killed tens of thousands of civilians, and wounded and displaced millions.

Amidst a nuclear threat by North Korea, USA President Donald Trump has threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” for any new provocations. “Fire and Fury” has been defined as USA’s foreign policy attitude and strategy to be confrontational and hostile/aggressive towards North Korea