It cannot be stressed enough that the EU is a “Union of law” where the rule of law has been the paradigm of the European model and the structure of the common Europe since its foundation. The Treaty on the European Union (TEU) enshrines the rule of law as one of the fundamental values of the EU thereby making it …

Monday’s military makeover of power in Sudan which threatens to destroy the country’s fragile transition to democracy, has been severely denounced by the US, EU, and UN, contrarily to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE who have rejected an over-criticizing behaviour. Instead, they called for calm and dialogue.  What happened Monday’s military coup in Sudan is only the last crisis in a turbulent …

With its entry into the European Union in 2004, Poland accepted the Acquis Communautaire in its entirety. However, recognizing the body of common rights and obligations that are binding on all EU Member States, dose not only indicate the mere acceptance of the EU’s legal foundations, but it implies that Member States become committed to the application as well as …

On October 10th, 2021, parliamentary elections were hold in the war-scarred country Iraq, the fifth since the US-led invasion and overthrow of ruler Saddam Hussein in 2003 that gave rise to a complex multi-party system characterized by opposing groups mainly defined by sect or ethnicity. This years’ elections were expected to be an answer to the most compelling issues that …

Nine months into his presidency, Joe Biden is in political trouble. After four years of chaos under Donald Trump’s mandate, in 2020, after a successful electoral campaign, Joe Biden was elected president of the United States of America as the most voted candidate among young people between the age 18-24 as well as 25-29, a clear sign that the younger …

The Guinean military’s overthrow of President Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 is the country’s third coup d’état since its independence in 1958, an outcome of autocratic overreach, erosion of democratic norms, systemic corruption and economic mismanagement (Devermont, 2021). Alpha Condé, the first peacefully and democratically elected president of Guinea, began to govern the country in 2010, and was re-elected …

This year, Egypt was ranked 166th out of 180 countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index (RSF, 2021b). This comes as no surprise given the country’s consistent status as one of the world’s top jailers of journalists. Indeed, in 2020, Egypt had the third highest number of jailed journalists globally, with at least 27 journalists in prison (CPJ, 2020).Yet, …

22 June 2021 On June 20, 2021 Armenians voted in snap parliamentary elections that was held as a result of political crisis erupted after ethnic Armenian forces lost a six-week war against Azerbaijan in November 2020 and ceded territory in and around the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh (BBC 2021, Armenia Election). Following the preliminary results, Armenia’s acting Prime Minister Nikol …

08 June 2019 Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action,Recalling that the Beijing Platform for Action, pursuant to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, supported the process initiated by the Commission on the Status of Women with a view to elaborating a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the …

08 June 2019 Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 44/128 of 15 December 1989 The States Parties to the present Protocol, Believing that abolition of the death penalty contributes to enhancement of human dignity and progressive development of human rights, Recalling article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted on 10 December 1948, and article 6 of …