The Syrian conflict has been a tragic stage for sectarian violence, foreign interventions, and mass human suffering. Yet, amidst the widespread atrocities, one crisis remains underreported and insufficiently condemned by the international community: the ethnic cleansing of Syria’s Alawite minority. Despite targeted killings, displacement, and systemic persecution, raised violently in the last couple of weeks, both the Syrian government and …

One sector of the global economy is conspicuously absent from countries’ efforts in developing a plan to halt climate change: the world’s militaries. War and climate change are often discussed as separate crises, but they are deeply interconnected. The military is one of the world’s largest institutional emitters of greenhouse gases, yet its role in global carbon emissions is rarely …

The Amazon rainforest, often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” has become the center of an intense and often contentious struggle involving Indigenous communities, national governments, and powerful corporations. The Amazon basin reaches nine Latin American countries, spreading for more than half in Brazil, followed by Peru and Colombia. However, globalization has led numerous powerful corporations to take …

            The European Parliament recently approved a complete overhaul of their migration and asylum policies after long debates which raised certain questions all around the globe. The European Union (EU) had changed its approach on the migration and asylum seekers through these changes while trying to uphold human rights. This framework of newly voted policies and laws aims to incorporate Member …

            The widespread destruction and conflict continue in Gaza. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) had been asked by the South African government to investigate and look into the situation that had been growing. Fundamentally, country of South Africa inquired the ICJ about Israel if they are committing genocide in Gaza towards the Palestinians or not? Related to that, Israel responded …

In November 2023, the Supreme Court of Russia ruled that the international LGBTQI+ movement will be officially designated as an extremist organisation. Namely, from now on, such movement officially took part in the “blacklist” of terrorist groups which will make it legitimate to subject LGBTQI+ members to arbitrary prosecutions, as well as any activist in support of their basic human …

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni opened the new year of 2023, on the very 1st of January, with the adoption of a new decree (Italian Decree-Law 1/2023) which imposes relevant obstacles to the work of NGOs that provide search and rescue of migrants at sea. Over the past years, the Italian government attempted on multiple occasions to contribute to the promotion of the …

Largely thanks to young people in Poland, Donald Tusk and his coalition defeated the far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party that had governed Poland for eight years. During those eight years, Poland had joined other countries, especially Hungary, in the process of undermining the democratic foundations of their governing systems. This phenomenon gave rise to what is referred to as …

Just weeks before a scheduled presidential election in Senegal, President Macky Sall abruptly cancelled it on February 3rd, triggering a constitutional crisis and dealing a blow to democracy across West Africa. The has unsurprisingly been met with widespread opposition and by many described as a de facto “constitutional coup”.  Senegal, historically viewed as a pillar of stability and democracy in West …

            The long-established superpower of the United States has seen much criticism over the last few years that, in a way, is challenging their supremacy over the international community. Ever since Donald Trump’s election, US politics went from assertive to chaotic, where their internal struggles undoubtedly translated into the international landscape, allowing other countries to change priorities in their diplomatic games …