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Decisions that tighten or ease rules for forming a company, obtaining residency or citizenship, or restricting individual liberties: short digests from pre-selected sources.

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  1. Easing Individual liberties

    South Africa Names Gender Apartheid. Now It Should Act.

    Click to expand dens in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, November 21, 2025. © 2025 Misper Apawu/AP Photo At South Africa’s National Women’s Day commemoration on August 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke, among other things, about the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.

    Source · Human Rights Watch

  3. Mixed Individual liberties

    Constitutional Flaws of California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

    The California Billionaire Tax Act (Proposition 40), which imposes a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires’ net worth, is vulnerable to numerous constitutional challenges, any of which could invalidate the tax in whole or in part.

    Source · Tax Foundation

  4. ID Easing Individual liberties

    Indigenous Farmer in Indonesia Acquitted in Coal Mining Case

    Click to expand mining company because they caused potholes, traffic snarls, and serious accidents. On April 16, 2026, the Tanah Grogot district court acquitted him after he had spent 10 months in police detention.  © 2026 Yulia Adiningsih Indonesia’s Supreme Court on August 5 upheld the acquittal of Misran Toni, an Indigenous Dayak farmer known as Imis, who was participating in a coal mining protest and….

    Source · Human Rights Watch

  5. US Mixed Residency / nationalityIndividual liberties

    Technology Expands ICE’s Capacity for Abuse

    Click to expand h is being used as an ICE detention center, on May 27, 2026 in Newark, New Jersey. Santiago/Getty Images Representatives Delia Ramirez and Hank Johnnson, both members of US Congress, held a shadow hearing on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of technology on July 15.

    Source · Human Rights Watch

  6. GB Easing Individual liberties

    New UK Prime Minister Should End the Assault on Protest Rights

    © 2026 James Willoughby/SOPA Images via Reuters Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. The government controversially issued this designation in 2025, and although the group successfully appealed the designation in the High Court, that ruling was reversed by the Court of Appeal in June.  Sinc….

    Source · Human Rights Watch

  7. Mixed Individual liberties

    Freedom In Focus: Elections Abolished in Nicaragua

    zevans@freedom… sident Daniel Ortega in 2021. Argueta l Ortega boldly declared the elimination of elections in Nicaragua , saying, “Forget it; there won't be elections here again.” Referring to the opposition and other regime critics, the 80-year-old dictator asserted that they would never again have the opportunity to take control of the governmen.

    Source · Freedom House

  8. Easing Individual liberties

    Bangladesh: Fair Trial Concerns at Tribunal

    Click to expand er 17, 2025. © 2025 Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) – Bangladesh authorities are failing to uphold international legal standards at the country’s International Crimes Tribunal, Human Rights Watch said today.

    Source · Human Rights Watch

  9. ID Mixed Individual liberties

    Indonesia: Environmentalists, Indigenous Leaders Unjustly Prosecuted

    Click to expand ing company during a media interview in Sei Gawing village, Kapuas regency in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan Province, February 12, 2026. © 2026 BAY ISMOYO / AFP via Getty Images Indonesian authorities are wrongfully prosecuting environmental defenders who protest deforestation and pollution as well as Indigenous leaders who defend their land rights.The Prabowo administration has intensified the cr….

    Source · Human Rights Watch

  10. Easing Individual liberties

    Nepal: Government Actions Threaten Judicial Independence

    Click to expand etitions and applications in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 19, 2026. © 2026 Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Geneva) – Recent actions by the government of Nepal that threaten the independence of the country’s judiciary are a source of serious concern, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today.  In particular, political pressure has….

    Source · Human Rights Watch