International Law

The new powers assumed by the far-right Italian government will expedite the push-back of migrants to countries with documented histories of human rights abuses, all under the ambivalent eye of the EU.

COVID was an unprecedented event from a human rights law perspective: never before had the international framework been challenged by a truly global emergency.

Much has been written about Rwandan genocide. Less has been revealed about how powerful states and international institutions chose to ignore the bloodshed as it developed. This is how it happened.