Europe’s military response to Putin’s air provocations shows that its defences are in place. What remains missing is political confidence ...

This year’s Václav Havel Prize must signal the Council of Europe to turn praise of courage into action against autocrats, even within its own ranks ...

Gaza has become the harshest test of international humanitarian law since Rwanda — yet the world’s most vital protection framework remains unused ...

Europe’s proposed visa restrictions for Russians are fuelling a hostile view of the West — and playing straight into Putin’s hands ...

Emin Abbasov is Chair of the Independent Lawyers Network (ILN), an Azerbaijan-based non-profit and non-governmental organisation established in 2020 by human rights lawyers to support and advance the ...

Maria Dahle is Director of Human Rights House Foundation, an international non-governmental organisation that establishes and supports Human Rights Houses — coalitions of local independent civil ...

Natallia Satsunkevich is a Board Member of Human Rights Centre Viasna, a Belarusian human rights organisation that aims to provide financial and legal assistance to political prisoners and their ...

Dr Charles Webel is currently professor and guarantor of the School of International Relations and Communications at the University of New York in Prague. He is also at present Fulbright Specialist in ...

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where she contributes to the institute’s work on peace and security. As a Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellow, her current work explores ...

What does the US provocation in the Caribbean Sea signal — a new drug war, a show of force in its own ‘backyard’ or a rehearsal for regime change? A new dimension in the fight against drug cartels? A ...

Ninety years after its invasion of Ethiopia, Italy continues to honour the perpetrators of crimes it should instead confront ...

In this sense, starvation is caused not only by bombs and tanks but also by tables, lists, barriers and rejections. Further, the rhetorical formula that Gaza started the war serves as a moral alibi ...