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Source: United Nations News Across agencies, the United Nations is implementing artificial intelligence tools to help promote peace, security, and human rights. The U.N. is also using AI to detect land mines, assess disaster damage, identify suspicious financial transactions, and monitor radioactive contamination. But as technology advances, the U.N. is emphasizing equity, human rights, and ethic…

[Natia Navrouzov is a lawyer and the Executive Director of Yazda, a global Yazidi organisation that has documented ISIL’s crimes since 2014 and supports survivors of the Yazidi genocide through legal, psychosocial, and advocacy work] On 20 March 2026, the Paris Assize Court convicted Sabri Essid of genocide and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed against the Yazidi community in...

[Fadel Abdulghany is executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights and author of The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Failure of the International Community and Undermining the Independence of the Judiciary in Syria and Pathways to Its Reform.] For six years, Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria was the world’s largest and most troubled detention site linked to the Islamic …

Utkarsh Raj, B.A.LL.B., Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, Prachi Sahu, Department of Humanities (Grade 12), Vedic International School ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the constitutional validity of the marital rape exception preserved under Section 63, Exception 2 of India’s Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), the statute that took effect on July 1, 2024 and supplanted the colonial-era Indian P…

Shakshi Dubey & Raghav Maheshwari, IMS Law College, Noida, India ABSTRACT This research examines whether an acquittal following wrongful prosecution, by itself, is sufficient to restore the constitutional rights, dignity, reputation, and social standing of an individual who has undergone a wrongful prosecution. It contends that while an acquittal brings criminal liability to an end, it seldom…

Two former organizers of Hong Kong’s massive vigils to remember the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown will hear their verdict on Friday, in a national security trial under a Beijing-imposed law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent

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[Rafael Braga da Silva is an international criminal and human rights lawyer] The symbol of the red cross against a white field has become common in modern media. It has been used in books, movies, videogames, toys and costumes throughout. Its meaning usually deemed obvious: a red cross on a white field equals health, healing, recovery. It is ubiquitous visual...

Piyusha Pradhan, Advocate, Odisha, India Simran Sahoo, Ph.D. Scholar, KIIT School of Law ABSTRACT This paper explores the continued status of women in India within the context of the overall cultural climate that reveres women, including the worship of goddesses as well as the national icon Bharat Mata, but at the same time considers the long-term trends of oppression and subordination of women. …

Mahmood Ahmad, Research Scholar, Department of Law, C.M.P Degree College, Prayagraj, University of Allahabad Tooba Tarique, LL.M., Shibli National College, Azamgarh, Maharaja Shuheldev University Azamgarh ABSTRACT Drug consumption presents one of the most complex challenges at the intersection of criminal law, public health, and human rights. In India, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substanc…

Brazil’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday to significantly expand the scope of the country’s landmark law to protect women from violence

Every year on August 2, the Congolese community around the world observes a day of remembrance for the victims of the genocide perpetrated against the people of eastern DRC for economic gain.