The Independent Expert Panel (IEP), formulated for articulating the definition of the term “ecocide”, proposed a definition to construct a cornerstone international crime of ecocide that demonstrates ...
With ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Matthias Goldmann, professor of International Law at EBS University of Business and Law in Germany, about the relevance ...
“Fools, visionaries, sufferers from delusions, neurotics and lunatics have played great roles at all times in the history of mankind…Usually, they have wreaked havoc.” – Sigmund Freud, Thomas Woodrow ...
Human Rights Watch welcomes the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity, submitted to the UN General Assembly in 2019 (the “Draft Articles ...
When the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded earlier this month that Israel’s war on Gaza amounts to a genocide, it was not alone. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, ...
Charles J. Moxley, Jr. co-chair of the New York State Bar Association. The threat of nuclear war is with us again—in a way those of an older generation will recall from the Cold War. With Russia’s ...
Governments violate religious freedom by engaging in torture, according to a report by the U.S. Commission on International ...