On 29 April 2026, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed alarm at Israel’s “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law,” urging its immediate repeal, and situating the rolling back of a long-standing de facto moratorium on executions within a broader framework of racial discrimination. CERD’s statement is significant per se, but also…

Debates on the Chagos Archipelago have long been framed through questions of territorial sovereignty and decolonization, largely as a bilateral matter between the UK and Mauritius. Human rights dimensions have not been absent, as Chagossian claims have appeared in domestic courts, before the European Court of Human Rights, and in several UN mechanisms, but they have not always…