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Over the past ten days, numerous media outlets, YouTube videos, Substack newsletters, and podcasts have eloquently articulated numerous reasons to condemn President Trump’s authoritarian takeover of D ...

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This post argues that the current deadlock calls for an unusual Royal Commission to cut through parliamentary paralysis, provide an evidence-based assessment of post-Brexit realities, and prepare the ...

If the decision survives a legal challenge, it could pave the way for proscription to be used in relation to a broader range of groups in future. The organisation Palestine Action was founded in 2020 ...

Despite Commissioners effectively being appointed by the Indian Government, the ECI developed a strong reputation for ...

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The latest ignominy involves the brazen attempt, by the Republican leadership of the State of Texas, to gerrymander (i.e., redesign) the state’s congressional districts to give the GOP control over an ...

A new July 2025 investigative report highlights the devastating weaponized sexual and reproductive violence unleashed during the 2020-2022 Tigray conflict in Ethiopia in which the Tigray People’s ...

On 25 June 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its Decision on Kovačević v. BiH. This ruling could completely change the legal assessment of strict ethnic ...

Mass expulsion of this kind is often termed ethnic cleansing. In legal terms, it constitutes a crime against humanity. When conducted with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, ...