The Pegasus spyware is a system designed to invigilate the users’ activities via smartphones and mobile devices. Currently, due to increasing tensions regarding unfair use of the system, the security and data protection of citizens have been challenged. Among the Pegasus data leakage scandal in Poland recently and the Pegasus Project Investigation, doubts have been raised in regard to …

            Mr. Gabriel Boric has been elected the new Chilean president in the recent presidential elections held in November. The leftist candidate has beaten the far-right opponent, José Antionio Kast, in an attempt to revolutionize the Chilean economy and to introduce the new wave in the domestic politics, with the younger generation central to the change.             After years of …

South Korea’s President Moon’s mandate is coming to an end, so it’s time to draw conclusions when it comes to his time in office, on one hand, the economy is currently spiraling, relations with Japan are hitting rock bottom, and Moon’s signature policy of deténte with neighboring North Korea is going nowhere, on the other hand, Moon has been globally …

On the 21st of November 2021, regional and municipal elections took place in Venezuela, granting twenty-one over the twenty-three regions to the government’s party. Despite the general opinion of the international observers that the elections went smoothly, this election only highlighted more the major issues in Venezuela. Does a smooth election means a democratical one? For the first time since …

What’s happening in Afghanistan under Taliban rule is being analyzed and looked upon by the entire international arena, it appears that the newly installed government is committing widespread and serious human rights violations against its subjects, but to pay the highest price have been women based on the recent statements from the Human Rights Watch and the San Jose State …

Since a few months, the tension between China and Taiwan increased drastically, which did not help to ease the US-China’s relationship. Mid-2020 China started to send daily military aircraft flyover near Taiwan’s coasts. It raised international concerns on a potential and imminent attack by China over Taiwan, and by normalizing such threat over Taiwan, China is trying to keep its …

The rise of the far right in the last decade is of significant relevance as it has been accompanied by a significant increase in the violence perpetrated by individuals belonging to it. While a few years ago Europe was concerned about jihadist attacks, the balance has shifted in favour of attacks perpetrated by the extreme right, with worrying data from …

The seven years of conflict taking place in Yemen led to the worst humanitarian crisis. Around three hundred thousands people have died, including sixty percent of them from indirect causation to the conflict. A great majority of the population is relying on international aid and assistance. However, due to the war being at its full swing, the already non sufficient …

On the 10th of December 2021, the US Supreme Court gave its decision on the case Whole Women’s Health, giving the right to pro-abortion activists to fight the Texas Heartbeat Act back to a federal court, but allowed meanwhile the remain into stay of the Act. The next day, the California governor reacted to this decision stating on his twitter …

In winter 2022 will take place the Winter Olympics in Beijing. However, in the last few days state’s leaders from the different parts of the world announced a political boycott of this Olympics. It is linked, among others, to the genocide of the Uyghurs perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which has been highlighted and unofficially found by …