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 …

Signing on to International Human Rights Instruments is often considered to be an important indicator of compliance with human rights around the world. Many countries are criticized on the global level for their failure in signing, ratifying, or acceding due these documents. However, signing on a piece of paper brings about little difference when it comes to human rights violations. …

India recently elected its first President, who is a member of the tribunal community, and the second women President. While her appointment as the 15th President of the Republic of India has contributed to breaking the glass ceiling for entry for women into the highest level of a political career, the election of a woman belonging to a Scheduled Tribe …

Ignoring calls for clemency from families and the international community, the Burmese junta executed four men for the first time in more than three decades. This marks a new threshold in the repression carried out by the Burmese army since the coup of February 1st, 2021, led by General Min Aung Hlaing, which threw the Southeast Asian country into a …

The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution no, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal human right. The historic decision mirrored the Human Rights Council resolution in 2021. Declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right aimed at reducing environmental injustice, which often discriminates against women, children and indigenous communities. This …

When South Sudan achieved independence in 2011, its conditions led to hopes for the possibility of positive development for the new nation. The act of self-determination concretised in a remarkably peaceful secession from the parent State of Sudan, combined with a richness in natural resources such as oil and gold, however, were not sufficient to counterbalance some of the structural …