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Eleni Polymenopoulou | November 11, 2025 The Arch of Triumph in Palmyra, Syria, taken in 1996. (Before its destruction by ISIS in 2015). CC BY-SA 4.0 A special category of human rights defenders (HRDs) has emerged over the recent years: cultural rights defenders (CRDs). This has followed the acute interest…
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By: Tamuka Chekero and Alois Muzenje | Date: November 7th, 2025 South Africa’s legal and constitutional frameworks formally enshrine healthcare as a universal human right. Section 27 of the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to access healthcare services, including reproductive care, sufficient food and water, and social security, while obligating the state…
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By: Bruno Kayala Mbuyi, Maxime Kitengie Kiabu | Date: October 28th, 2025 Cette réflexion tente de justifier les postures des États membres de la Confédération du Sahel (Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger), à propos de leur retrait collectif du Statut de Rome instituant la Cour Pénale Internationale. Il faut d’ores et déjà…
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By: Bhavya Johari | October 23, 2025 North Korea’s employment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forge military identification documents represents a critical inflexion point in state-sponsored cyber warfare. The September 14, 2025 disclosure that the North-Korean state-sponsored Kimsuky Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group employed ChatGPT to create deepfake South Korean…
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By: Alexandr Svetlicinii and Xue Wang | October 21, 2025 As Washington continues its practice of using sanctions as foreign policy tools, the target countries are building up their anti-sanctions arsenal. China’s 2021 Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law (AFSL) is one such example. Aimed at counteracting foreign sanctions against Chinese persons and…
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By: Dewan Alif Ovi | October 16, 2025 Introduction On 20 June 2025, Bangladesh officially ratified the UN Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (the 1992 “Water Convention”), marking its status as the first country in South Asia and the 56th worldwide to become a…
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By Sanya D. Kishwar, Naman Vijaywargi, and Alfia Sarwar Ali | October 15, 2025 Introduction Climate, but more importantly in today’s context, climate change, has seldom been restricted or bound within national borders. Increasing temperatures, the warming of the oceans along with destruction of entirely fragile ecosystems affect all countries,…
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By: Harsh Raj | Date: October 7, 2025 Introduction: Terror Brightens a Diplomatic Flashpoint After the brutal terrorist attack by Pakistan-based militants on the Indian civilians in Pahalgam on April 22nd, 2025, India has announced that it has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, the same Indus water treaty…
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By: Dr. Yi-Sheng Liu | Date: September 26, 2025 The right to housing has long been recognized in international human rights law. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) affirms that everyone has the right to “an adequate standard of living … including adequate food, clothing and…
