The Pegasus spyware is a system designed to invigilate the users’ activities via smartphones and mobile devices. Currently, due to increasing tensions regarding unfair use of the system, the security and data protection of citizens have been challenged. Among the Pegasus data leakage scandal in Poland recently and the Pegasus Project Investigation, doubts have been raised in regard to …

The seven years of conflict taking place in Yemen led to the worst humanitarian crisis. Around three hundred thousands people have died, including sixty percent of them from indirect causation to the conflict. A great majority of the population is relying on international aid and assistance. However, due to the war being at its full swing, the already non sufficient …

On the 10th of December 2021, the US Supreme Court gave its decision on the case Whole Women’s Health, giving the right to pro-abortion activists to fight the Texas Heartbeat Act back to a federal court, but allowed meanwhile the remain into stay of the Act. The next day, the California governor reacted to this decision stating on his twitter …

In winter 2022 will take place the Winter Olympics in Beijing. However, in the last few days state’s leaders from the different parts of the world announced a political boycott of this Olympics. It is linked, among others, to the genocide of the Uyghurs perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which has been highlighted and unofficially found by …

After the recent breakout of Belarus border crisis, involving Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, the Council invited the Commission to adopt a proposal providing concrete measures to ensure an immediate and appropriate support to the Member States concerned. The proposal in question should be in line with EU law and international obligations, including the respect for the fundamental human rights. Since …

A recent scandal has been sweeping across China concerning the coming 2022 Winter Olympics, the hosting country’s vice premier Zhang Gaoli who is the face of China’s organizing efforts ahead of the said event, has now found himself at the centre of an explosive #MeToo scandal that had the world calling for a boycott of the Games, what happened is …

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 …

The area between Poland and Belarus is often overlooked, but in recent times the border the two countries share has become more and more of a melting point, for what concerns their relationship it has had good and bad times during the last 26 years, periodically Warsaw played an important intermediary role in improving EU–Belarus relations, in spite of this, however, the bilateral …

One of the most dramatic humanitarian crisis that has hit Asia in a long time is the one concerning the Rohingya minority of Myanmar, whose population suffered gross human rights violations in the last years. However, Myanmar is also a member of ASEAN, an international organization of ten South-East Asia countries, and in 2007 the member states reunited in Jakarta …

The already six-year long war in Yemen does not seem to envisage an end in the near future. Charged for having been involved in the 2018 Saudi Arabia-led coalition air attack that led to the killing of Saleh al-Samman – then the armed group’s top civilian leader – this month nine men have been shot to death in Tahrir Square …