According to research findings presented in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in August of 2018, more than 40,000 foreign citizens from 80 countries have been associated with Da’esh between 2014 and 2018. Among them, 13 per cent are women, and 14 per cent are children, which means that 1 out of 4 Da’esh affiliates are women and …

Rape is one of the most severe human rights violations. This crime has devastating consequences for its victims; in fact, it causes long-term, often life-long psychological suffering and distress to those who suffer it. Unfortunately, reality shows how this horrendous act is often used as a weapon of war. Today’s conflicts, in fact, most often target civilians, causing them the …

For more than two years now, in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, a well-organized campaign of ethnic cleansing has been taking place, while some are referring to genocide. According to a report that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have released, responsible for this action are new administrators in the area along with officials and security forces from the neighboring …

For many years, the depiction of migration as a phenomenon was based on a male approach, as it was assumed that males migrate more than women, primarily because of financial reasons, while the woman remained in their homelands or they followed men as family dependents. That is why women’s migration is poorly documented and not adequately addressed. In the last …

Not all human rights are absolute rights. Needless to say, there are certain human rights that are non-derogable under any circumstances, even in times of war or other emergencies. According to article 15(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (1), such rights that cannot be suppressed are: the right to life (except in respect of deaths resulting from …

Climate change is a situation that can hardly be disputed nowadays. The ongoing warming of our planet as a consequence of extensive deforestation and the extensive use of fossil fuels has brought about changes in nature which in turn will bring dangerous changes to human livelihoods. One of the main effects of the increased temperature is the melting of the …

The mafia is changing. Not only in Italy, but in the rest of the world as well. It is interesting, but at the same time shuddering, to realize how organized crime is infiltrating our daily lives without us paying attention. It is considered important to talk about such a topic in this moment given the important developments that have taken …

Although the discovery of 215 graves of children found on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia shocked the international community, came as no surprise to the surviving indigenous people of Canada. When few weeks later, 715 unmarked graves were found at a similar residential school in Saskatchewan, the worst fear was confirmed; The Canadian state has …

This week many UN-appointed experts of human rights requested the heads of various social media to change their business model for enhancing accountability in relation to online hate speech. The CEOs of, among the others, Twitter, Meta and Apple were called out by name to address discriminative posts while being at the same time in line with international standards for …

On December 15, 2022, Dominic Ongwen was sentenced by the Appeal Chamber (AC) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to 25 years of life in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, movement of which he was a senior commander (1). Ongwen’s case is unique in that the ICC found …