The 31st of August 2021 marked a turning point in both the international arena as well as the “special relationship” between the United States of America and Afghanistan, before this ground-breaking swift in foreign policy, much progress was made in the area such as the ratification of multiple international human rights instruments, alongside the Geneva Conventions and the creation of …

Millions of individuals around the world suffer from malnutrition. Most of them come from countries that are linked directly with conflicts, as conflicts affect the food availability and accessibility by having a great impact on agricultural production, mainly through the destruction of infrastructure. Besides that, conflict causes security malfunctions related to the access to the markets and thus, as a …

Nine months into his presidency, Joe Biden is in political trouble. After four years of chaos under Donald Trump’s mandate, in 2020, after a successful electoral campaign, Joe Biden was elected president of the United States of America as the most voted candidate among young people between the age 18-24 as well as 25-29, a clear sign that the younger …

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 …