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 …

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been at odds for more than a decade over a dam that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the Nile River’s primary tributary. In this regard, In an indirect reference to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) at the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on …

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 …

In 2009 Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and the Democratic Constitutional Rally were dominating the political life in Tunisia by using threats of terrorism and religious extremism as one of the means to put pressure and to dissuade peaceful dissent coming from other parties, in order to install an effective policy of terror, when Ali was elected, he designed laws with …

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 …

In 2015, the International Law Commission (ILC) added Jus Cogens to its agenda. The essence of jus cogens, the method of identifying the peremptory norms, and the compilation of a “illustrative list” of such norms were among the particular legal topics indicated for investigation in the accompanying mandate. Special Rapporteur Dire Tladi emphasized in his initial report that the study …

Climate change poses a life-threatening hazard to both humans and the environment. Its negative consequences jeopardize complete enjoyment and achievement of all human rights. Despite this, the UN Human Rights Council lacked a defined framework to address climate change comprehensively. In this sense, on 8 October, 2021, the UN Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 48/13. This resolution has a significant importance …

The first thought that comes to mind when thinking of the Kashmir region is conflict, located in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, it borders China to the northeast which became active in the area around the 1950s and gained control of most of the eastern part in 1962, Tibet to the east, India to the south, Pakistan to …

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 12 Octobor 2021 issued a historic judgment in the case of J.C. and Others v. Belgium (application no. 11625/17) by a majority (six votes to one). It is concluded that there had been no violation of Article 6 § 1 (right of access to a court) of the European Convention on Human …

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 …