The United Nations on Monday urged all countries to respect international law safeguarding international civil aviation, following US President Donald Trump's announcement to 'completely shut down' ...

Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should intensify efforts to protect the court and human rights ...

Raida Condor (R), mother of Amaro Condor, one of five students killed by a military squad during a raid at a university campus in 1992, accompanies relatives of victims of the armed conflict in Peru ...

Ukraine's suspension of the Mine Ban Treaty poses a serious risk to international humanitarian and human rights law.

The United Nations’ human rights chief has urged countries to act on what he called Israel’s “blatant disregard” for international law. “States must not – cannot – accept blatant disregard for ...

The Grand Chamber judgment delivered unanimously on July 9, 2025 in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia represents a transformative moment in international human rights law. The ruling does far ...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, which govern the rules of war, have been adopted by nearly every state. The fundamental underlying principles they espouse – including ...

What can international human rights law accomplish in the absence of credible international courts? That is the question posed to the world by the Uyghur Tribunal, an “independent people’s court” in ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that by the end of 2020, at least 82.4 million people in the world have been displaced because of persecution, violence, human rights ...

In 2017, the Trump Administration imposed its policy of zero-tolerance immigration enforcement on the southern border. This policy resulted in the forcible separation of families and the prolonged ...