Healthy Environment: A Human Right and Customary International Law
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial organ of the UN, is discussing one of the most important ...
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Exploding Pagers Signal a New Age of Hybrid War
This week, thousands of pagers believed to be held by members of Hezbollah exploded in Lebanon and the Syrian capital, ...
Can International Law Provide Reparation for Climate Change Damage?
Imagine your home being swallowed by the sea, or relentless storms destroying your community. This is the reality for many ...
UN Declares a Clean and Healthy Environment as a Fundamental Human Right
On Friday, a resolution by the UN General Assembly was passed effectively declaring access to a clean and healthy environment ...
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Is a Crisis of Humanity, not Migration.
At the time of writing, news cycles have been saturated with stories of refugees clamouring at the borders of Europe ...
The universal validity of human rights
The international community must recognise democratic freedoms and social justice as basic principles in order to secure lasting world peace. Only ...
Berkeley to Beirut: Fighting for Refugees 7,000 Miles Away
“I decided to apply to law school during the revolution in Egypt. That’s one thing that got me very interested ...
Culture and Laws Prevent Social Justice for Women and Girls in North Africa
This past month, outrage flooded social media after a video of Alaa Chebbi, TV host of the popular Tunisian show ...
Europe’s Flight from the Refugee Crisis
70 years after the founding of the United Nations, the world is on the verge of collapsing under its own ...
