In 2027, Canadians 18 years and older with mental illness who are deemed to meet age and other eligibility criteria could potentially access doctor-assisted death in Canada.
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The draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values contains serious inaccuracies and could have far-reaching consequences if adopted.
Military regimes have shifted from presenting themselves as temporary ‘corrective’ interventions to becoming personalised systems of rule.
The landmark case, known as Tickle v Giggle, has been going for years. Today the Federal Court found transgender woman Roxanne Tickle had been discriminated against.
Human rights and the rights of nature are the two missing links in the international community’s efforts aimed at achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs).
MEPs have backed plans to detain irregularly present migrants outside the EU, as part of the new Returns Regulation.
The Pakistani strike on a drug addiction hospital raises serious concerns about the enforcement of international humanitarian law.
Infrastructure reflects political choices.
Afghanistan says at least 400 people were killed in a Pakistani strike on a hospital on Monday – the latest in a deadly year for medical staff and patients worldwide.
Legal frameworks that only regulate formal psychiatric facilities are written for a system the majority will not use.
Housing policy should take note of what a home really means to people.
Forty years of data suggests atrocities are on the rise globally.
Private use of AI porn may not be illegal, but it doesn’t make it morally right. Here’s why.
Civil-society organisations are changing Ghana’s accountability landscape.
After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian obligations.
After the regime ‘disappeared’ their children, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Maya relentlessly demanded justice – and exposed the atrocities of a dictatorship.
Iranian universities have long been places of reform and political imagination – as well as targets of censorship and repression.
Africans everywhere should show interest in the outcome of the African Union’s elections for its human rights institutions.
Canada’s expulsion of thousands of Japanese Canadians 80 years ago offers lessons in a world of sharpening borders, insecurity and talk of who does and does not belong in a national community.
Cultural and creative industries account for 3.39% of global GDP and 3.55% of jobs.
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