International Law
What Determines Taliban Government’s Legitimacy?
With the fall of Kabul, and the evasion of President Ashraf Ghani, the Taliban has taken over the reins of Afghanistan. States like Pakistan...
Syria: Rules-Based International Order Creates Humanitarian Rule, Not Law?
The world community survived the UN vote on the mechanism for delivering cross-border aid to Syria. On the agenda was the issue of the...
Upholding Dharma by Mob lynching?
Label any Muslim a cow smuggler, accuse him of carrying beef and then lynch in the name of protecting religion. These premeditated barbaric acts...
International Criminal Court and thousands of ignored complaints
The civil war in Donbass has been going on for more than seven years now. It broke out in 2014, following Kiev's decision to...
Crime of Ecocide: Greening the International Criminal Law
In June 2021, an Independent Expert Panel under the aegis of Stop Ecocide Foundation presented a newly-drafted definition for the crime of ‘ecocide.’ The...
Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Critical Analysis Concerning International Law
The contemporary refugee law is primarily a product of the 20th century following the Second World War and the subsequent post-war refugee crises. The...
What have we learnt in the past century?
It is 100 years since we were supposedly getting over the war to end all wars, World War I, and forming the League of...
International Norms On Fair Hearing: The Case of US, UK and India
Fair hearing and its elements have been a hotly contested issue in administrative law. The right to fair hearing has traditionally been an indispensable...
COVID-19 and Human Rights concerns of CNG-transport workers
Authors: Fatima Zahra Ahasan Raisa and Sabit Kayes Rahat*
The International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights guarantees in Article 6 the right to...
Protecting the world from a vaccine apartheid
With the availability of COVID-19 vaccines increasing, infection rates are stabilizing in some countries and reducing in others. Yet there is no hope in...