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Easy media stereotypes rather than clear evidence attributes performance enhancing drug supplies to organised criminals.
Japan has never apologised for many of the things it did during World War II – and nor does it tell its schoolchildren about them.
The Dublin laws means states can return migrants to the country where they first arrived in Europe.
France’s policy towards migrants has been to make them invisible – and criminalise their support networks.
Set up between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Nuremburg Trials founded an entire legal system the world now takes for granted.
Capital punishment is unfairly imposed, innocent people are regularly condemned and it is patently ineffective in deterring crime. So why to states retain the death penalty?
Not only does capital punishment not deter crime but it’s more expensive than keeping a convicted murderer in prison for life.
Months after the Minsk II agreement set out a plan for peace, Ukraine is slipping backwards into violence and recriminations.
For the last 30 years, politics has been dominated by a succession of bright young things. Could Corbyn change that?
Andrzej Duda’s Law and Justice party is more anti-Russian and eurosceptic than its main rival.
A dedicated group of forward-looking experts have crunched the numbers on human progress. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
The ten candidates who made it onto Fox News’s debate stage ranged from the serious to the seriously off-base.
By declining to stop an unfair trial and a batch of death sentences in Libya, the world’s court has yet again proved its fecklessness.
As British prime minister from 1970 to 1974, Heath took the UK into Europe.
The dogged commitment to peace that set in after the atomic bombings of Japan is in danger of disappearing for good.
The former PM is by far the biggest name to get caught up in the paedophile inquiry.
The US Supreme Court is bitterly divided over the death penalty. One reason for that is all the convictions based on coerced confessions
Landlords will be able to evict illegal immigrants without a court order, under new proposals.
Abolition has become a political football – and many politicians see the advantage of supporting it.
Rio 2016 promised much, but with just one year to go Brazilians are still waiting for it to deliver…
What happens when a non-EU migrant arrives on British soil.
By legalising the controversial measure, even practices at Guantanamo might soon be able to come in from the cold.
Persecuted for generations, the Yazidis have weathered their latest storm with astonishing resolve.
If anyone other than Jeremy Corbyn is to become the next Labour leader, they will have to address the party’s fatalism about 2020.