The rare earth minerals are seen as the basic riches of earth’s crust which is defined as an accumulation of peculiar atom attributes. As little as this amount of input is sufficient for generating an electromagnetic energy equal in magnitude to that produced by oil and coal when subjected to industrial processing. Rare earth minerals are at the position of prominence …

On 8 March 2022, the European Commission presented its proposal for an EU Directive to fight violence against women, based on the wording of the Istanbul Convention. The scope of such a Directive is to set a common approach on the topic, which would later bring to the harmonization of European national legislations. The Directive would comprehend the criminalization of …

With the just published draft agreement for the COP28 meeting in Dubai on climate change fails to ask countries to eliminate coal, oil, and other fossil fuels on a gradual basis despite this. The critics say that some of the wording in the document has been manipulated by the so-called oil rich countries with an intention of deemphasizing the need to …

Although the Israeli-Hamas war is a conflict based on a territory, Palestine, the diaspora of Palestinians and Jews spread several protests even abroad. Thousands of people marched in the Belgian and German capitals on Sunday 10 December to protest soaring antisemitism. Similarly, previous marches in Paris drew tens of thousands of people, including political figures, like Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne …

The African continent is showing a particular deterioration in the protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and other identities’ (LGBTQ+) rights. Most African countries have already imposed restrictive policies against LGBTQ+ communities, while others are worsening now their conditions. Same-sex relations are illegal in more than 30 African countries altogether, constituting half of the total 69 countries banning these …

Mass incarceration refers to the extensive prison population and the systematic increase of this population. The United States has consistently had a high rate of incarceration on a global scale and a criminal justice system which upholds such high incarceration rates which places the United States well below international human rights standards. Indeed, the United States has the highest incarceration …

Recently, a heated debate has been taking place in England over whether the country should withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The topic has gained momentum following Brexit and the quest for more state sovereignty that Brexit ignited. Crucial to the debate is the Rwanda plan for tackling immigration, which the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seems very …

            The region of Latin America finally saw the same breathing room after the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections, where President Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva got elected, beating the one-term right-winged president Jair Bolsonaro, who was responsible for some of the most political atrocities in Brazil, only seen in the country during their dictatorship in the 1960’s.             With the newly elected President …

The principle of universal jurisdiction rests upon the idea that a state can exercise jurisdiction over crimes to which it has no territorial, national or other connection with on the basis that the alleged crimes committed are of such gravity to the international order that the responsibility to end impunity for such crimes goes beyond borders. Universal jurisdiction is rooted …

In today’s times global warming is increasing at a very quick pace from the melting glaciers and increasing temperatures around the world. Such immense climate disruption gives no room for future geopolitical strains that could impede rapid collective efforts which could affect the international security and co-operation worldwide. During 2021, a UN body called Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its …