The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a press release On 16 September 2021. It is announced that Armenia had initiated a proceeding against Azerbaijan based on violations of the Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) before ICJ (France 24, 2021). Also, A week after Armenia filed an application against Azerbaijan at the ICJ, Baku filed a separate complaint …

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found on Tuesday, 21 September 2021 that Russia was responsible for the assassination of former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko (Carter v. Russia, no. 20914/07, 21 September 2021). He died in 2006 after being poisoned in London with a rare radioactive substance. His death occurred after drinking a cup of green tea, which was …

The Guinean military’s overthrow of President Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 is the country’s third coup d’état since its independence in 1958, an outcome of autocratic overreach, erosion of democratic norms, systemic corruption and economic mismanagement (Devermont, 2021). Alpha Condé, the first peacefully and democratically elected president of Guinea, began to govern the country in 2010, and was re-elected …

The already six-year long war in Yemen does not seem to envisage an end in the near future. Charged for having been involved in the 2018 Saudi Arabia-led coalition air attack that led to the killing of Saleh al-Samman – then the armed group’s top civilian leader – this month nine men have been shot to death in Tahrir Square …

It is evident that Covid-19 changed the global order by which over 219 million people have been infected, and more than 4.5 million people have died. The Covid-19 vaccination is viewed as a way back to normality, an escape from the existing constraints that prevent us from shaking hands and hugging beloved ones (McMillan, 2021). While millions of people wait …

Poland is a European Member State since its adhesion in 2004 to the European Union and for half a decade, the Polish government has been reshaping the country’s judicial system incurring in multiple and repeated violations on the most basic tenets of the rule of law, namely, the judiciary independence. Currently, Poland is embroiled in a legal struggle with the …

Prior to the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic attacks on September 11, 2001, the U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet announced that a new task force would be launched, including airborne, sailing, and underwater drones (A.P., 2021). In this regard, Navy officials refused to reveal the specifications of systems that would be used in the newly established task force. However, it …

On the 31st of May 2021, China announced its 3-child policy in an attempt to address the challenges associated with it ageing population. The decision comes weeks after the release of the latest census results which predicts a rapidly ageing population and decreasing population of economically active (The Economist, 2021). Indeed, last year, China’s births fell to their lowest in …

In recent weeks, major legal-political shifts have taken place in Afghanistan’s environment. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has now gone, with its security forces mostly abandoned, and the elected president Ashraf Ghani fled from the country. Now, following the US withdrawal, Taliban fighters dominate most of the country and have declared to restore the so-called “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” which …

The most restrictive and radical abortion legislation seen in half a century in the US came into effect last week (1Sept.) in Texas after the US Supreme Court declined to intervene. The law, introduced as Senate Bill 8 or SB8, prohibits abortions when embryonic cardiac activity is detected which can occur at six weeks, before many know they have become …