More than 100,000 children were forced to become soldiers in state and non-state military organizations in at least 18 armed conflicts throughout the world, according to the advocacy group Child Soldiers International. According to the UN, the majority of these children were under the age of 15, with 40 percent of them being girls. The United Nations has identified 14 …

The terrorist group and self-proclaimed Islamic State, ISIL, also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS, has repeatedly committed fundamental violations of children’s rights in the Middle East, and more specifically in Iraq and Syria, the cluster currently controls large areas in which millions of individuals live and it has declared itself a “State” therefore it is …

“The scenes of a toddler lying dead in the mud and the body of a boy washed up on a Turkish beach are tragic evidence of the world’s failure to fulfil its obligations to the world’s children” (UN News, 2017). Because of countries’ lax commitment or unsuccessful strategies of children’s rights protection, approximately 1 billion children see their basic human …

Human rights are presently being violated in large numbers by entities other than the state, especially multinational corporations, as the wind of economic globalisation blows throughout the globe (MNCs). Unfortunately, many states, particularly developing ones, do not control the operations of multinational corporations for a variety of reasons, resulting in a regulatory vacuum. In this sense, one of the prominent …

Although the effects of an uncontrolled global climate warming and the impact over world’s environments and habitats that would follow are well covered by the scientific community, decision-makers should also be concerned over the impact that the unavoidable future we might be walking towards will have over the most vulnerable part of the world’s population: children. The literature regarding the …

The area between Poland and Belarus is often overlooked, but in recent times the border the two countries share has become more and more of a melting point, for what concerns their relationship it has had good and bad times during the last 26 years, periodically Warsaw played an important intermediary role in improving EU–Belarus relations, in spite of this, however, the bilateral …

The news of the last few days have been focused on one thing and one thing only: COP26, it has been the title of newspapers, broadcasts, podcasts, and every other digital-based tool available on the market, making it impossible for the public to ignore what is probably one of the most crucial gatherings in the last decade and that is …

One of the most dramatic humanitarian crisis that has hit Asia in a long time is the one concerning the Rohingya minority of Myanmar, whose population suffered gross human rights violations in the last years. However, Myanmar is also a member of ASEAN, an international organization of ten South-East Asia countries, and in 2007 the member states reunited in Jakarta …

Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia have been at odds for more than a decade over a dam that Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the Nile River’s primary tributary. In this regard, In an indirect reference to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) at the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on …

Monday’s military makeover of power in Sudan which threatens to destroy the country’s fragile transition to democracy, has been severely denounced by the US, EU, and UN, contrarily to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE who have rejected an over-criticizing behaviour. Instead, they called for calm and dialogue.  What happened Monday’s military coup in Sudan is only the last crisis in a turbulent …