The October 7 attacks changed Israel and its policies on the national security threats forever. In an unprecedented move by the Israeli legislators, Israel Knesset approved “the Al Jazeera Law”, which this law would allow the communication minister to act on to shut any foreign news/media outlet that might deemed as a security threat to the state, as understood from …

After Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago, over three dozen nations, primarily led by Western powers, imposed extensive economic sanctions on Russia in an attempt to undermine its ability to sustain the ongoing war in the long-term. The sanctions covered different sectors including energy, commodities, finance, technology, travel, and shipping. However, as we have witnessed, Russia has been …

Following a UN General Assembly resolution voted in 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is currently holding hearings on the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices in what is referred to as “occupied Palestinian territory”.  The ICJ is expected to provide a non-binding assessment on how Israeli policies, such as Jewish settlement and annexation in the West Bank and …

            The long-established superpower of the United States has seen much criticism over the last few years that, in a way, is challenging their supremacy over the international community. Ever since Donald Trump’s election, US politics went from assertive to chaotic, where their internal struggles undoubtedly translated into the international landscape, allowing other countries to change priorities in their diplomatic games …

The promotion of international justice and accountability is a pillar of international law and the world order that we know today. The advances made in the second half of the 20th century are significant, with the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo War Crime Trials paving the way to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda …

After years of threatening predictions of a comeback of the far-right, we are now witnessing its rise to power. Arguably, Italy, with its previously understated new PM Giorgia Meloni, paved the way to what seems to be a now-inevitable shift in politics. Interestingly, countries that were not initially on the radar have been swiped by a wave of extreme nationalism. …

The World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the major suppliers of the foods needed to feed millions throughout the world. But new funding cuts have worried observers about the organization’s future in conflict-torn countries such as Yemen and Syria. And if the WFP were to withdraw from these countries, food security would suffer an enormous setback.  The World Food Programme (WFP) …

On 8 March 2022, the European Commission presented its proposal for an EU Directive to fight violence against women, based on the wording of the Istanbul Convention. The scope of such a Directive is to set a common approach on the topic, which would later bring to the harmonization of European national legislations. The Directive would comprehend the criminalization of …

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has imposed many rounds of ever-tighter sanctions against Russia and its currently debating about its 12th round. Some people claim these sanctions have not worked. Yet, the European Union was ready to dismantle any allegation. According to the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, within a year, the European sanctions …

The principle of universal jurisdiction rests upon the idea that a state can exercise jurisdiction over crimes to which it has no territorial, national or other connection with on the basis that the alleged crimes committed are of such gravity to the international order that the responsibility to end impunity for such crimes goes beyond borders. Universal jurisdiction is rooted …