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House of Representatives (Libya)

House of Representatives (Libya)

National legislature

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Indonesia passes domestic workers protection law after 22 years

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Enacted the PPRT law

For 22 years, Indonesia's roughly 4.2 million domestic workers—nearly 90% of them women—have cleaned, cooked, and raised other people's children with no legal status as employees. On April 21, 2026, the country's Kartini Day holiday honoring women's rights, the House of Representatives passed the Domestic Workers Protection Law (UU PPRT), a bill first introduced in 2004 that had stalled across five parliamentary terms.

Updated Apr 22

Libya signs first unified state budget in 13 years as US brokers fiscal reunification

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Signatory to unified budget agreement

Libya has not had a single national budget since 2013. For 13 years, two rival governments—one in Tripoli, one in the east—spent the country's oil wealth through separate, competing channels with no shared oversight. On April 11, 2026, representatives of both legislatures signed a US-mediated agreement on a unified 190 billion Libyan dinar (roughly $30 billion) budget covering all four categories of state spending: salaries, development, subsidies, and operations.

Updated Apr 11