On 4 December, the MEMORIAL Human Rights Center reported at its Internet resource, “On November 29, a round table discussion was held at the Sakharov Center in Moscow on the topic “Human Rights and the Problem of “Prohibited Organizations” in Russia”. The reason for the discussing of this topic was the July judgement in the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ufa, in which 21 defendants received up to 24 years…

The Turkey-U.S. Joint Working Group will meet in Washington on January 8 to discuss the U.S.' withdrawal from Syria, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Friday. Çavuşoğlu announced that there were three joint working groups between Turkey and the U.S. “We are going to discuss the U.S. withdrawal from Syria, and how to coordinate it together in these meetings,"

Malaysia Rejection on ICERD (International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) on December 8, known as action 812, was also becoming debate in Indonesia the neighboring country.

Tanzania’s government has signed into law the Public Service Social Security Act 2018, which has resulted into chaos, frustrations, and more outcry among workers. The new Act joins all pension funds into two major entities; the Public Service Social Security Fund (PSSSF) and National Social Security Fund (NSSF), and introduced two new tricky benefits, the survivor’s benefits and unemployment benefits. The Act also specifies retirement age as 60 for compulsory…