The post office is preparing for a «last moment» of customers dropping off paper and £50 banknotes this week before they can no longer be used in shops or to pay for shops. You can still receive paper notes from companies or others until September 30, 2022. Focus on these important security features to […]

Some countries where polygamy is legal are not signatories to the ICCPR, including Qatar, Oman, Malaysia, Brunei, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan and the United Arab Emirates; so that the ICCPR does not apply to these countries. [152] The Department of Justice Canada has argued that polygamy is a violation of international human rights law. […]

However, PDEA has arrested illegal drug traffickers who have sold psilocybin mushrooms in the past, among other illegal substances. [68] [69] International psychedelic laws are beginning to change. Nations around the world have begun to turn the final pages of the decades-long global war on drugs. And while for most countries this means less […]

A movement to reform the articles began, and invitations to a convention in Philadelphia to discuss changes to the articles were sent to the state legislatures in 1787. In May of that year, delegates from 12 of the 13 states (Rhode Island did not send any representatives) met in Philadelphia to begin the reorganization […]

Many tanka women gave birth to children with foreign men. Ernest John Eitel mentioned in 1889 how an important change had taken place among Eurasian girls, the descendants of illicit unions: instead of becoming concubines, they were usually raised respectably and married to Chinese husbands from Hong Kong. Some believed that many Eurasians born […]