In its 2025/2026 report, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International calls out the "predatory behavior of the powerful" ...

Following a period of relative post-Cold War peace, the beginning of the twenty-first century has seen a tremendous increase in the number of conflict events around the planet. As of late 2024, the ...

A UN spokesperson tells Anadolu that religious symbols must be protected under international law, saying such acts may amount ...

Human rights and the rights of nature are the two missing links in the international community’s efforts aimed at achieving ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. Mary Robinson speaks at the D'Alemberte and Palmer Lecture in ...

Reform vs reinvention: what’s next? The legal theories in laws give multiple explanations and define laws in different ways according to their own time and social norms. International law is no ...

Autonomous weapons systems present numerous risks to humanity, most of which infringe on fundamental obligations and principles of international human rights law. Such systems select and engage ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide the following comments on the “[Draft] Policy on Cyber-enabled Crimes under the Rome Statute (March 2025)” (hereafter “draft policy”) of the ...

The UN Special Rapporteur for health rights on Wednesday urged Chile to modify its constitution to comply with international human rights standards by ensuring universal health rights, arguing that ...

The world is witnessing the largest number of violent conflicts since the Second World War, with an estimated one quarter of the global population living in conflict-affected countries. Organized ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an attorney who writes about ESG policy, laws, and regulations. In September, the European Law Institute held its annual ...

“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind…Usually, they have wreaked havoc.” – Sigmund Freud, Thomas Woodrow ...