International Law
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...
Poles Saving Jews in Bangkok: History Lesson for Humanity
Polish, Israeli and Thai diplomats, academics and students gathered together to listen and learn about the courage of Polish people saving the Jews during...
The Genocide Convention: An Unused but not Forgotten Standard of World Law
9 December is the anniversary of the 1948 Convention on Genocide, signed at the UN General Assembly held in 1948 in Paris. The Genocide...
Baby Steps: Trying to Reach Nuclear Global Zero
Non-nuclear weapon states have become increasingly disgruntled over what they perceive as the nuclear weapon states’ unwillingness to seriously commit to nuclear disarmament. ...
A Disturbing Double-Standard:A Human Rights Criticism of the JCPOA
Critics of capital punishment have long claimed that the utilization of such measures are inhumane and disregard certain human rights. One state at the...