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Interviews with former torturers in Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq reveal what it takes to be a torturer – which could help explain how to reduce the number of people who get tortured around the world.
Britain is ‘opening up’ after months of COVID-19 restrictions. But it could also be opening itself up to court action for breaching international human rights laws.
The Malawi court’s decision provides a roadmap for future challenges to the death penalty in other southern African countries.
Everyone from human rights experts to famous cricketers are expressing their disgust at the federal government’s India travel ban. Its legality depends on what laws you are looking at.
With the COVID-19 vaccine soon to be rolled out in Australia, there are situations where proof of vaccination may be required.
In a country where judicial review is not constitutionally guaranteed, hate speech legislation could shackle freedom of expression and limit citizens’ rights to express themselves.
Uganda must overhaul its national legal framework on the use of force and firearms during law enforcement.
Despite the government agreeing in principle to the royal commission’s recommendations, nothing is set in stone — including findings of fact.
Given its natural resources and people, Nigeria should be a prosperous nation, but after 60 years of self governance, the country now ranks as the world poverty capital.
Those lefty do-good lawyers Johnson and Patel are so concerned about are a vital part of parliamentary democracy based on the rule of law. This is precisely why they continue to denigrate them.
The court prosecutes genocide, torture and grave wartime abuses worldwide. Trump’s executive order imposes on its lawyers and judges the kind of sanctions usually used on foreign terrorists.
A legal expert assesses whether failing to provide adequate PPE is a breach of human rights during this pandemic.
The International Court of Justice ordered Myanmar to protect its Rohingya minority and preserve any evidence relevant to the genocide charges against it. But compliance is not guaranteed.
There is a strong framework of international laws and conventions that defend free speech, but Uganda continues to limit freedom of expression especially when the people criticise their president.
How Australia treats migrants with health conditions and disabilities is discriminatory, obscure and unfair, as the UN will hear later this month.
A group of 37 countries, including North Korea, Russia and Saudia Arabia, signed a letter in support of China’s human rights record.
When faced with US rejection of international criminal justice, today’s supporters of the ICC often invoke the country’s Nuremberrg leadership. However, this notion is based on a distorted image of the 1945-46 trials.
Before 1945 and the United Nations Charter, human rights simply did not exist in international law.
The UN’s new rights focus has the potential to overhaul the punitive nature of the war on drugs.
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Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development, University of Reading
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Senior Lecturer in Law, researcher in international law, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Professor of Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
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Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney
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Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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Professor, American University School of International Service
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Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
