IBA Global Insight

3 weeks ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

Following repeated scandals revealing the widespread use and abuse of non-disclosure agreements, the UK government has given the green light to ban their use in England’s higher education sector, whilst also considering a broader ban to prevent their misuse by employers more widely. The implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 was put on hold following the country’s 2024 summer general election and the government will introduce a revised version later this year.

3 weeks ago | ibanet.org | Rebecca Root

A cross-border operation to free thousands of people from scam ‘centres’ situated at the Thai-Myanmar border has highlighted the challenges of bringing these criminal enterprises to justice.  In February, the Thai government and armed groups in Myanmar – with support from China – released around 7,000 trafficked individuals from compounds on the border where they’d been forced into conducting criminal activity, such as fraud, online.

3 weeks ago | ibanet.org | Ruth Green

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2018. Trump White House Archived/Flickr.comDonald Trump’s second presidential term, with its dizzying array of executive orders, policy revocations, funding cuts, tariff threats and withdrawals from international bodies, has sent both the country and the world into a tailspin. As the US relinquishes its leadership role on the world stage, China and Russia are filling the resulting vacuum.

3 weeks ago | ibanet.org | Alice Johnson

In February US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to halt enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The White House announced that the pause will last for 180 days while the Attorney General reviews ‘guidelines and policies governing investigations and enforcement actions under the FCPA’. Nicola Bonucci is a Member of the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee Advisory Board and former Director of Legal Affairs at the OECD.

4 weeks ago | ibanet.org | William Roberts

Then-presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point Action, in Las Vegas, 14 October 2024. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaUS President Donald Trump has begun his second term in autocratic fashion, pushing US constitutional limits and attacking civil society and the legal profession. Global Insight assesses how the country has begun the essential task of protecting its democracy and rule of law.