China has been earning accolades for their fight against climate change and environmental degradation. The Paris Agreement was a crucial turn for China in regulating its environmental policy. Today, China is international recognition for its efforts to tackle the environmental issue within. However, the Chinese Government, through their foreign direct investment, has managed to vex havoc in other parts of …

The Erdogan government is currently under extreme pressure since its economy is still in trouble with high levels of unemployment and the financial crisis creating a great amount of tension within Turkish society and the opposition parties blaming it on the refugees. It is also still dealing with its own Kurdish community and under such context Erdogan has chosen now …

In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were approved by the United Nations and all over the world people started talking about the Agenda 2030. Within this plan of actions and purposes that governments have intended to achieve by the end of 2030, there is a specific goal that aims to combat climate change and its impacts. The Goal …

According to the UN definition “climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns [that] may be natural. […] But since the 1800s, human activities have been the main driver of climate change, primarily due to burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas.” Climate change has led to a progressive increase of Earth’s temperatures and, above all, …

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the event that marked 2022 like no other. The declaration of war by the Russian president shocked the world and pushed it (especially the West) into a new order and redistribution of power. The invasion was characterized as a follow-up to the invasion and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula a few years ago. Indeed, …

Last two or even three decades we have been witnessing a huge increase in the use of technology. Despite all benefits, it additionally urges a big deal to regulate such a wide sphere as cyberspace. Nowadays, among other things, the most threatening or even wild matter is the legal regulation of cyberspace by international law. This article is concerned with …

The new ‘immigrant’ prime minister of the United Kingdom is garnering both praise and criticism for his new immigration policy. As understood, praise comes from within for his decision to set an annual quota for refugees coming to the United Kingdom. However, the international community is scrutinizing Sunak’s quota against customary international law and the Refugee Convention. Sunak’s five-step immigration …

Representatives of the Ethiopian government and of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed a cessation of hostilities agreement on the 2nd of November 2022, raising hopes for thousands of people facing a humanitarian catastrophe that began two years ago. The African Union welcomed the deal, saying that “the agreement marks an important step in efforts to silence the guns, and …

While looting antiquities is not a new phenomenon, nowadays the illicit flow of cultural objects is ranked as the third-highest-grossing annual criminal trade worldwide, after drugs and arms. According to the 1999 United Nations Global Report, the yearly value of illicit antiquities trafficking is estimated at around 7.8 billion, behind drugs (160 billion) and arms (100 billion). Thus, it is …

On May 2020, Chinese and Indian troops engaged in an open confrontation in a territory of the disputed border in the Himalayans which both countries claim as being theirs. For 40-days, the two sides engaged in a tense standoff, and on June 15, 2020, violent clashes ensued between the armed forces of both super-powers, with both sides using blunt weapons …