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The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump’s executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
A legal expert assesses whether failing to provide adequate PPE is a breach of human rights during this pandemic.
The International Court of Justice ordered Myanmar to protect its Rohingya minority and preserve any evidence relevant to the genocide charges against it. But compliance is not guaranteed.
There is a strong framework of international laws and conventions that defend free speech, but Uganda continues to limit freedom of expression especially when the people criticise their president.
How Australia treats migrants with health conditions and disabilities is discriminatory, obscure and unfair, as the UN will hear later this month.
A group of 37 countries, including North Korea, Russia and Saudia Arabia, signed a letter in support of China’s human rights record.
When faced with US rejection of international criminal justice, today’s supporters of the ICC often invoke the country’s Nuremberrg leadership. However, this notion is based on a distorted image of the 1945-46 trials.
Before 1945 and the United Nations Charter, human rights simply did not exist in international law.
The UN’s new rights focus has the potential to overhaul the punitive nature of the war on drugs.
Tech firms should be forced to reassess how they impact society under existing EU law.
In the context of accelerating geopolitical, technological and environmental change, we need to radically reassess how we perceive airspace legally.
Allowing the police unfettered use of vast databases of information will begin to tilt the balance of power towards totalitarianism.
A legal loophole could grant computer systems many legal rights people have – threatening human rights and dignity and setting up some real legal and moral problems.
Technology can transgress all kinds of legal frameworks.
Although human rights victories are beyond doubt cause for celebration, often we are blinded to the potential of alternative paths of action.
A standard element of international humanitarian law since 1899 should guide countries as they consider banning lethal autonomous weapons systems.
The UN has repeatedly criticised Ireland’s laws. It’s time to change the Constitution.
A new report from Amnesty International reveals that while the number of countries that impose the death penalty is shrinking, there is still a long way to go before it is abolished altogetehr.
Facebook is realizing it has broad obligations to society. Here’s how it could start meeting them.
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Law, researcher in international law, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Law, Adelaide University
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor, American University School of International Service
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
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Head of the Department of Anthropology and Associate Professor, University of Malta
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Research officer, Macquarie University