Human Rights

On 26 May 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) delivered its judgment in J.B. v. Greece (no. 54796/16). The case concerns the potential removal of a Syrian national from Greece to Türkiye under the EU-Türkiye Statement of 18 March 2016, following the rejection of his asylum claim on safe third country grounds. The…

Ceuta, a Spanish city on the North African coast with a population of approximately 80,000, experienced an unprecedented mass influx of people during the last week of July. Around 70,000 people, mostly Moroccan nationals but also persons from other countries, entered the territory irregularly. Although the precise causes remain uncertain, the immediate trigger appears to…

The TotalEnergies climate case, whose merits were partially decided by the Paris Judicial Court in June, illustrates how associations may be the gateway through which rights-based climate cases survive. In that case, local governments and NGOs originally brought claims together against the French oil giant. They argued that TotalEnergies’ statutorily-required due diligence plan was incomplete because it…

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is the United Nations commission with primary responsibility for the application of the three drug conventions. At its 68th session in 2025, it adopted Resolution 68/6 on the establishment of an independent expert panel to review the implementation of those…