International Law
The Unfinished agenda of 2016’ Global Politics and expectations of 2017
The unstoppable flow of new issues in international relations (IR) always pushes aside present and past crises. The entrance of these modern day challenges...
United Nations: A new era?
Antonio Guterres, former prime minister of Portugal, who also chaired the UN’s refugee agency for 10 years, took over as the United Nations’ new...
Slavery is not dead: A View on Contemporary Human Exploitation
When thinking about slavery, people have the tendency to view it as “past history” and many will probably argue that slavery was definitively abolished...
World Policy for Migrants and Refugees
«There is no doubt that Mankind is once more on the move. The very foundations have been shaken and loosened, and things are again...
DMCA Abuse: How corporations are using US copyright law to harass and silence individuals
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was unanimously passed by the United States Senate on 12th October 1998, and signed into law by President...
The Wholesale Co Opting of International Human Rights Organizations By Big Banks/Business
One does not have to look very far into the money trails of the various mainstream “human rights organizations” scattered throughout the world, to...
Failure of international humanitarian law in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, various ethnic conflicts emerged in the post-Soviet space, such as Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the...
Elite impunity and the Chilcot Report – Will Tony Blair ever go to jail?
What stands out in the British Iraq Inquiry (Chilcot) report is the sidestepping of the war crime issue. But then it was carefully placed...
IT law – a challenge of dispute resolution
IT law or cyber law or internet law, is evolving in giant steps. On its way, it has many challenges to meet and a...
Privacy i(n)t context
The right to privacy, or the right to respect for private life, as the European Convention on Human Rights guarantees it, has been affected...