Last week, like many other scholars and activists, I was due to participate in RightsCon, the leading conference on human rights in the digital age.

In a landmark ruling, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday delivered its much-anticipated merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (nos.

This is a short post to flag to readers that on Wednesday next week, 9 July, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will be…

In March 2023, the United Nations General Assembly requested an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on states’ responsibilities under international law…

The dangers caused by the proliferation of misinformation – or ‘fake news’ – via social media platforms and instant messaging services are not easy to counteract. By the…

In the early hours of Wednesday morning on 31 July 2024, it was confirmed that Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, who had traveled to Tehran for the inauguration…

In September last year, a Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Wieder and Guarnieri v. the United Kingdom (nos.

The interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia is currently pending on its merits before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. It…

Yesterday, the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, stood up in Parliament and formally accused the government of India of committing a targeted killing on Canadian…

Why and What to Justify Extraterritorial human rights obligations are contentious. In the UK, for example, the ECtHR’s findings that armed forces deployed abroad have human…