Here’s What Happened Around The World In September 2024
Here’s what happened around the world in September 2024
Here’s what happened around the world in September 2024
A zoo in Thailand welcomed Moo Deng, a baby hippo whose name means “bouncy pork” and looks distressed all the time
On July 10, the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand’s Chon Buri province welcomed a female pygmy hippopotamus.
As is the zoo’s common practice, it held a naming contest for the newborn baby hippo.
Moo Deng has since taken social media by storm, going viral on X for looking distressed all the time.
The zoo has taken to sharing videos and photos from her daily life, and people online are enjoying watching her grow.
People have even started to turn Moo Deng’s hilariously relatable expressions into cute illustrations and memes.
This French woman who found out her husband drugged her and invited other men to rape her asked for a public trial
This French woman who found out her husband had been drugging her and getting men to come over to rape her for years asked for the trial to be public and people are praising her for her bravery.
71-year-old Gisèle Pélicot was drugged by her husband and raped at least 92 times by 72 men between 2011 and 2020 without her knowledge.
Her husband of 50 years, Dominique, would allegedly mix sleeping and anti-anxiety pills into her food or drinks and then invite different men to their home to rape her when she became unconscious.
Thailand became the third country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage
Thailand has legalized same-sex marriage.
On Tuesday Sep. 24, Thailand’s king signed the bill into law after it was overwhelmingly passed by the country’s parliament in June.
The new law changes the definition of marriage to one between two individuals, instead of between a man and a woman.
It also grants LGBTQ couples the same rights as heterosexual couples including being able to adopt children, inherit property and consent to medical treatment for their partner.
Women in Afghanistan are singing to protest the Taliban banning them from speaking aloud in public
Afghan women are sharing videos of them singing to protest against new Taliban laws that bans women’s voices in public.
The new laws were issued on Wednesday, Aug. 21, by the Taliban's "morality" ministry, and require women to cover their entire bodies, including their faces, in public to prevent "temptation.”
Women are banned from wearing "thin, tight, or short" clothing and must cover themselves fully in front of "non-Muslim" men to avoid "moral corruption."
The Taliban has also made it illegal for women to speak, recite, or sing in public, saying that women’s voices are "intimate" and should not be heard by others.
Women in Afghanistan are now posting videos of them singing as a new form of protest to the latest attack on women’s rights despite the risks of being punished.
Young people in South Korea sued the government for not doing enough to fight climate change and won
In a win for climate justice, South Korea’s top court found that the country isn’t doing enough to protect future generations from the effects of climate change, violating their fundamental human rights.
The case first began in 2020 when Youth 4 Climate Action, a group of young people who led the Korean chapter of the global school climate strike movement, filed its first lawsuit against the government for not taking enough action to protect them.
On Aug. 29, the constitutional court unanimously ruled in favor of the young people, finding the government had violated their rights.
The court found that without concrete plans for reducing carbon emissions after 2030, the government was burdening young people to find solutions for carbon neutrality instead of allowing them to live or be born into a healthy environment.
Vietnamese car drivers protected scooter drivers from the wind during a massive typhoon that killed over 500 in the region
Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm to hit Vietnam in decades, has wreaked havoc in the northern part of the country, killing at least 179 people, injuring more than 760, and leaving 145 missing.
The typhoon made landfall on Saturday, Sept. 7, with winds reaching up to 149 km/h (92 mph). The powerful storm triggered heavy rains and landslides, causing significant destruction across several cities and provinces.
A video garnering attention on social media showed two car drivers helping a scooter driver cross an overpass as strong winds made it difficult to balance the two-wheeler.
A far-right party won a German regional election for the first time since Hitler’s Nazi Party in World War II
A far-right party has won in a regional election in Germany for the first time since Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party in World War II.
The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD picked up the most votes in the eastern German state of Thuringia on Sunday, Sep. 1.
The party won almost a third of the vote at 32.8%, leading in front of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the main center-right party.
Founded in 2013, AfD’s ideology is anti-immigration, anti-Islam and carries a German nationalism sentiment.
It also has a large neo-nazi following.
This Ugandan runner who competed in the Paris Olympics died after being set on fire by her boyfriend
This Ugandan runner who competed in this year’s Paris Olympics has died after being set on fire by her boyfriend.
33-year-old Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished 44th in marathon at the Paris Olympics in August, was attacked outside her house in Kenya on Sunday, Sep. 1.
Her boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, reportedly poured 20 liters of petrol on her, setting her on fire during an argument when she returned from church.
Cheptegei suffered extensive burns over 75% of her body.
Māori people in New Zealand have named this 27-year-old woman as their new Māori Queen
Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, 27, has been crowned New Zealand’s new Māori Queen after her father, King Tuheitia, died in hospital after heart surgery.
Ngā is the second-ever queen in the history of the Kīngitanga, the Māori King Movement , following her grandmother, Te Atairangikaahu, the first Māori Queen.
The Tekau mā-rua, the Kīngitanga advisory council, selected Ngā, the youngest child and only daughter of Kiingi Tuheitia, as his successor.
Ngā holds a master’s degree in Tikanga Māori, the study of Māori practices and customs, and is known for performing kapa haka, traditional Māori song and dance.
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