“This cause … is the cause of all humanity”. The steel letters of this quotation from Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan hang on the wall...
Behind the guise of legality, numerous injustices have disregarded human dignity. Yet, in modern society, we often dangerously misinterpret justice and legality as synonymous. One such...
“Nothing is of greater importance than the conservation of human life.” – Former U.S. President Calvin Coolidge Introduction Human rights are pivotal in shaping the COVID-19...
After a summer of high-profile protesting in England amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic on a range of social and political issues, this article will reflect on...
With over 100 days since the outbreak of coronavirus and over a month since the World Health Organisation has declared it a Pandemic, the world is...
The UN General Assembly’s recent vote to elect Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela to the Human Rights Council (HRC) was in many ways symptomatic of wider issues in the field of...
Amidst an era of wide and profound natural degradation, Lake Erie, situated on the US-Canadian border, last week joined the growing list of natural sites worldwide...
Women do not exist solely to be chattels, or vessels, or adornments. In the year 2019, this should hardly need to be said, but here we...
The law of human rights is rather difficult to fathom and is often portrayed in the media as ‘protecting the wrong people’. In Gäfgen, the applicant...
The mass migration from Venezuela to Colombia has led to immigrants being targeted at the border by sex traffickers. Particularly vulnerable, poor Venezuelan women make easy...