Luxembourg: Luxembourg has refused to grant a licence for Russian state-backed network RT to broadcast a German-language channel from the country, the authorities said.The Luxembourg Department of.
Luxembourg has refused to grant a licence for Russian state-backed network RT to broadcast a German-language channel from the country, the authorities said.
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An escalating row over democratic values is threatening to reopen parts of the old Iron Curtain fault line between western and eastern Europe, as Poland and Hungary defy European Union pressure to toe the blocâs political line.
A long-simmering showdown, pitting the populist-right governments in Budapest and Hungary against a clutch of western European leaders and the Brussels bureaucracy and parliament, has come to a head in recent weeks, and become impossible to ignore.
The stoush strikes at the heart of the EUâs identity as a promoter and exporter of democratic values and the rule of law, forged almost three decades ago when it brought the former Soviet-bloc countries rapidly into its fold.
International and African LGBTQ organizations have called for a redirection of aid after an in-depth investigative report alleged government and private foreign investments unknowingly fund conversion therapy practices in East Africa.
The investigative report conducted by United Kingdom-based openDemocracy revealed organizations funded by major international aid agencies USAID, PEPFAR, UK Aid, and Global Fund inadvertently are supporting conversion therapy.
Undercover reporters allegedly found staffers secretly offering referrals to so-called conversion therapy services provided by third-party operators in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
OpenDemocracy published its findings in a series of articles June 30.
Efforts to cure homosexuality are inherently degrading and discriminatory, said Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh, Africa director at the International Commission of Jurists human rights organization, in response to the openDemocracy s reporting.