Category: Human Rights
Hong Kong Protests: Still Defiant a Year Later
Almost a year ago, protests against a Chinese bill allowing criminal suspects to be extradited from the Hong Kong territory to Chinese territory escalated, leading to a period of political
Read MoreCash Bail: Americas’ Equity Dilemma
As it stands today, the aggregated penal systems of the United States hold more non-convicted individuals awaiting trial than any other country in the world. According to the Prison Policy Initiative,
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter: The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Anti-Black vigilantism
On May 7 2020, a white former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son, Travis McMichael, were arrested in Brunswick, Georgia and charged with murder in the shooting death of
Read MoreThe Mozambican Conflict: Cabo Delgado’s Civil War
In May 2018, a group of 10 people, including children, were beheaded in the Montane village of Mozambique. The preparators behind this violence? An Islamist group known as Jamaat Ansar
Read MoreCutting Up Traditions: FGM Criminalised in Sudan
Every year, big and small steps are taken in an effort to improve the quality of life of the world’s citizens in order to secure that their human rights are
Read MoreA milestone for international law; Germany opens first war crime trials against the Syrian regime
It was the first of October 1945 mere months after the Second World War had ended that the allied forces came together in the German city of Nuremberg to write
Read MoreCommitment: About the ICC and war crimes in Afghanistan
On the 5th of March 2020, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave the Prosecutor the green light to commence an investigation concerning alleged war crimes committed
Read MoreThe EU’s white paper on Artificial Intelligence: Pushing for progress while keeping Pandora’s box locked?
Over the last couple of days, several high ranking Silicon Valley executives — including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — paid visits to Brussels. In the build-up to this week’s announcement,
Read MoreThe origin of the EU’s migration problem – or how Europe learned to stop worrying and forget solidarity
Yesterday, the interior ministers of the EU were meeting in Zagreb to yet again negotiate about a common policy on the distribution of migrants. The stakes could not be higher
Read More#MeToo: How one tweet shook up the world
“If you have been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” This is the tweet Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, posted on the 15th
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