Russian opposition politician and Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Yashin said he has been barred from running in the upcoming Moscow City Duma elections for supporting jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. Yashin said the Moscow electoral commission cited a recent law that bars anyone associated with a terrorist or extremist organization from running for public office.
Source: The Moscow Times
Legal experts from across the globe have drawn up a “historic” definition of ecocide, intended to be adopted by the international criminal court. The draft law defines ecocide as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts”.
Source: The Guardian
The Spanish Cabinet approved a draft bill extending LGBTI rights that also bans conversion therapies, makes it easier for lesbian couples to register as co-parents and gives trans people access to assisted reproduction. The document, which still needs to undergo review and secure parliamentary backing, would also allow people 16 and over to legally change their name and gender on their identity documents without undergoing hormone therapy or securing medical reports indicating “gender dysphoria.”
Source : El Pais
Amid high tension between east and west over democratic values, the European Union's presidency passes to Slovenia, led by a nationalist who has a history of crossing swords with the EU executive in debates over democracy. Prime Minister Janez Jansa clashed with Brussels over media freedoms in the run-up to Slovenia's six-month stint leading the 27-nation bloc.
Source: France 24
EU countries gave the final seal of approval to a law to make the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions targets legally binding. Negotiators from Parliament and EU member states reached a deal in April on the climate law, which sets targets to reduce net EU emissions by 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels, and eliminate them by 2050.
Source: Reuters
Home Secretary Priti Patel is pushing forward with legislation next week that would permit the U.K. to send refugees and migrants abroad for processing — a move similar to a law that Denmark passed in early June allowing it to send asylum seekers outside Europe while their applications are reviewed.
Source: Washington Post
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning to publicly compare the goals and actions of the USSR with those of Nazi Germany in World War II, as well as to deny the decisive role of the Soviet people in the victory over fascism. The changes were made to the law "On Commemoration of the Victory of the Soviet People in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".
Source: Kommersant
Slovenian voters overwhelmingly rejected changes to the country’s water management law. According to a near-complete count of ballots released by election authorities, about 86.5% of people voted against the amendments approved by Prime Minister Janez Jansa’s government that ecologists claimed threaten the environment and water quality.
Source: AP News
Spain has joined a handful of countries where terminally or seriously ill people can end their lives legally, provided they fulfill certain criteria and get doctors' approval. The reform came after years of campaigning by supporters.
Source: DW