On 1 September 2004, more than a thousand people were taken hostage in School No. 1 in Beslán, North Ossetia. Three days later, at least 334 of…

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.

On 14 February 2026, in a joint statement, the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands publicly accused the Russian Federation of assassinating the opposition…

The ICJ Advisory Opinion of 23 July 2025 on states' obligations in respect of climate change is, for many reasons, pathbreaking. Some of such features pertain to international…

The judgment of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Ukraine and the Netherlands v Russia addresses a number of significant questions in…

While the ripples of Verein KlimaSeniorinnen continue to spread in the academic world, with discussions about potential implications for the future jurisprudence of the ECtHR, on January…

On 31 January 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”, “the Court”) ruled on large-scale environmental pollution caused by the illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste…

On March 22nd, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled a landmark decision on the protection of the right to a healthy environment in the…

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…

In July 2022 the ECtHR published its judgement in the case Safi and others v. Greece, pronouncing on what came to be known as the…