War criminals and dictators should not go unpunished – that was the idea when the International Criminal Court, short ICC, in The Hague began its work in 2002. But since 2015-2016 it is in crisis: several African countries have declared their withdrawal. Their argument: only Africans would be sentenced. Summer 2015: The central African country of Burundi is drowning in …

In Europe, the past months have been regarded as showcases of the extents of humanitarian and governmental solidarity, as millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine were welcomed across the continent. Such openness towards Ukrainians, however, bitterly highlights the hypocrisy inherent in the differences in treatment of asylum-seekers of other provenances, of which the latest refugee policy of the …

While the UN Security Council tried to prevent a war against Ukraine, Russia’s President Putin unapologetically sent his troops. The UN Security Council has no significant influence because of the veto power of individual members. Many are therefore pushing for a reform. The powerlessness of the UN Security Council has again been obvious in the Ukraine crisis. Just as the …

In the current article I want to talk about Taiwan, because the actual situation is not good at all and unfortunately, the future doesn’t seem like a bright one. At the time being, all the diplomacy and all the efforts are directed to the ukrainean conflict. Ukraine, which untill now has been a neutral country in all the chapters, in …

In Singapore, there are 32 offenses that could potentially warrant death sentences, 4 of these call for the mandatory death penalty, in fact, judges are not able to take into consideration mitigating circumstances when sentencing Murder, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, and possession of unauthorized firearms, ammunition or explosives. However, since an amendment to the law in 2012, the mandatory death penalty …

Jamal Khashoggi was about to launch a campaign to discredit the use of the social network Twitter by the Saudi regime, when he was assassinated in Turkey. A New York Times investigation reveals how the social network has been infiltrated by the Saudi secret services and how troll farms, paid by the government, crush all attempts at criticism via this …

Over decades, Vladimir Putin has been holding tight – quasi strangling the presidency in Russia. It begs the question, what has this ‘president’ being doing for so long? The answer might sound simplistic but causing trouble would fit comfortably into a spontaneous answer. Where shall one begin, from backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War; Salisbury’s poisonings …

The core of children’s human rights abused The situation in Afghanistan changed drastically in August 2021 after the take over by the Talibans. Nonethless, the living conditions and basic fundamental rights of children were endangered beforehand. However, the US presence for twenty years had some benefits such as the adoption of a new constitution and the establishment of a liberal …

Children’s detention in Iraqi prisons and Syrian camps Since four years ISIS’s attacks have decreased, however the number of Children detained in Iraqi prisons increase drastically. The main reason relies on the fact that children are treated as criminals, since the minimum age to engage criminal responsibility is nine years old. In addition of the extreme young age of the …

It’s nothing new that the African continent is more vulnerable to crises than other parts of the world (the Western world in particular). This is also true for the most talked-about problem of climate change, which challenges countries that have few means to respond either because of a lack of money or because of their unstable socio-political conditions. According to …