When Chilean streets erupted in 2019 demanding the resignation of the President, many political analysts predicted that the country would be pulled into years of political struggle and instability as it has in many Latin American nations post dissent. However, the Chileans decided to break this cycle by voting to create a new Constitution. The Constituent Assembly was created with …

The role of the internet in advancing the conversation around human rights is unparalleled. Since its inception, the internet has done more for human rights than many international assemblies and instruments. At the same time, the internet has been used as a tool to manipulate facts and theories, which has harmed many movements. However, it can be widely regarded as …

Obama’s digital strategy in the elections of 2008 changed the way political campaigning would be run in the future. Obama went from a relatively unknown senator to the President of the United States using social media as an integral part of his campaign strategy, focusing on 15 social networks. His aim was not only to reach a broader audience but …

On the 16th of September 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22 years old woman, was pronounced dead after being in a coma for a few days in a hospital in Teheran following her detention by Iran’s so-called morality police. Mahsa Amini was arrested for breaking the country’s hijab rules after revealing too much of her hair beneath her hijab. Witness and …

During the past several decades, globalization has played a significant role in the rise of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, as the ease of international travel and the advances in technology and communications erased geographical boundaries in the movement of goods. Besides the in-person antiquities trade, the globalization of technology and the rise of cryptocurrencies have introduced an additional …

Official reports estimate that globally 736 million women, since the age of 15, have experienced physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. The situation is even more alarming if we consider that it is almost one in three women worldwide. Most violence against women is intimate partner violence, ranging from 27 percent of women aged 15 and …

Giorgia Meloni could become head of government in Rome this Sunday 25th of September. Are the worries about Italy turning away from Europe justified ? Almost 3 weeks ago, the election program of the right-wing conservative party “Fratelli d’Italia” (Brothers of Italy) was published. In recent polls, the party led by Giorgia Meloni has a 25 percent approval rating and …

In August 2022, The Malaysian Court of Appeals overturned a landmark 2021 High Court Ruling that allowed Malaysian Women married to Foreigners to pass down their citizenship to their children born aboard. The Court of Appeals, by overturning the decision in this case, have denied women the right automatically bestowed on Malaysian men. This discriminatory provision in the Federal Constitution …

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights published its assessment on human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. Authored by Michelle Bachelet, the report attest to large-scale arbitrary and discriminatory human rights violations against members of Uyghur and other minority communities in China. The report concluded that these violations carried …

2022 marks twenty years of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. On July 1, 2022, the statute came into force with signatories from all corners of the globe, with a vision of international legal order and to fight impunity. It became the first permanent court of criminal jurisdiction to prosecute crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes …