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Mexico City Congress Opens Public Deliberation on Citywide Care System Law

The process aims to turn care needs into enforceable policy with concrete fixes and long-term funding.

DWP Bank Checks Delayed With Trial Rollout Due This Year

Brazil Sets Phased Expansion of Paternity Leave to 20 Days by 2029

Telangana Passes Law to Register Gig Workers and Fund Welfare With 1–2% App Levy

Japan Weighs Buyer Penalties in Review of Prostitution Law

Cabinet Clears Plan to Broaden Legal Definition of Transgender Persons

States and Cities Press Berlin After Integration Course Access Is Cut

Russia Files Bills to Tighten Migrant Rules: Exit-or-Patent at 18 and Income Test for Work Permits

FA Probes Man United Co-Owner Ratcliffe Over 'Colonised' Migration Remark

Groceries and Essentials Benefit Is Now Law With Spring Top-Up and Five-Year Boost

Pauline Hanson Backs LNP Rebel as Queensland Abortion Gag Survives Challenge

France Sets 'Zero Tolerance' Social-Fraud Plan With Benefit Suspensions on Serious Suspicion

Supreme Court Plenum Backs Cassation Overhaul to Shift Justice-of-the-Peace Reviews to Regional Presidiums

Caixa Pays January Bolsa Família to NIS Ending in 7

Maternal Capital to Rise Feb. 1 in Russia With LNR Implementing a 5.6% Increase

Duma Advances Job-Protection Bill, Previews Wider Benefits Plan for SVO Veterans

Italy Backs Draft Caregiver Law With €400 Monthly Benefit Starting in 2027

Spain’s Gender-Gap Pension Supplement Now Mostly Goes to Fathers

Russia Sets 2026 Pension Changes: 7.6% Indexation, Early January Payouts, 270-Month Funded Pensions

State Duma Passes Law Allowing Employers to Add Volunteer and Charity Support to Collective Agreements