Within days of Donald Trump’s second election as president of the United States, aides were concocting plans for mass deportations that look in many ways to be the spear-tip of a wider assault on ...
Simón Gómez Guaimara is a PhD candidate at Complutense University of Madrid and holds a Master’s degree in international law from the London School of Economics. He worked as the coordinator of human ...
In 2020, the IACtHR held that states may denounce human rights treaties, but only within limits consistent with the protection of fundamental rights. Chirinos Salamanca implicitly extends that logic: ...
Few will dispute that the work of a human rights defender should take into account the cultural and social realities of a particular region. Yet, human rights campaigns often fail ...
Climate cases turn on not only law and science but also judicial temperament: how judges perceive harm, risk, and responsibility over time.
Los casos relacionados con el clima no solo dependen de la legislación y la ciencia, sino también del criterio de los jueces: ...
Una cultura arraigada de control estatal militarista amenaza cualquier acción significativa en materia de derechos humanos en Rusia.
The UK government has proposed a series of measures that would weaken legal protections for the right to privacy. Rights groups and industry experts must continue to push back. End-to-end encryption ...
Now is the time for Mexico to address the anti-Black racism, xenophobia, and other forms of discrimination that impact Black migrants in the country. In September 2019, African migrants who were ...
Who speaks for nature’s rights? The question needs careful consideration, or we risk in protecting nature to further disenfranchise the already marginalized. Many years ago, in Wild Law, Cormac ...
Structural power imbalances in the UN system have prevented it from halting Israel’s ongoing war crimes against Gazans. Individual states and civil society must step in to prevent further aggressions ...
Recent legislation in India has introduced new legal and bureaucratic hurdles for transgender people, particularly those facing additional discrimination based on their minority religious and ethnic ...