Kenya’s flood evictions may violate the law – scholar: Recent floods in Kenya have left at least 270 people dead, displaced more than 200,000 and destroyed property, infrastructure and livelihoods across the country. In Nairobi, hundreds of people in informal settlements were left homeless and thousands were displaced. And now, the government has been evicting …
Manston holding facility: does the UK’s treatment of asylum seekers violate the law?: A woman held at the Manston holding facility in Kent is taking legal action against Home Secretary Suella Braverman. The asylum seeker claims that she was held unlawfully in “egregiously defective conditions” at the centre. Her case is supported by the organisation …
Widows in Nigeria are sometimes treated badly: culture is no excuse to violate rights: Widows in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Photo by Aminu Abubakar/AFP/Getty Images Nigeria is home to about 15 million of the world’s 258 million widows. Widowhood in an ethnically and religiously diverse country like Nigeria, with three major ethnic groups …
Ukraine: British POWs sentenced to death after ‘show trial’ which appears to violate Geneva Conventions: Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner with Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, who were captured after the siege of the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Image taken from footage of the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Two Britons …
We tested claims that limiting alcohol advertising in South Africa would violate rights: In December 2020 South Africa announced a new ban on alcohol sales. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images The lockdown restrictions introduced in South Africa to curb the initial spread of COVID-19 in March 2020 were the tightest in the world. …
Did Ethiopia’s attack on Tigray violate international laws?: Demonstration in Montecitorio Square, Rome, Italy, on November 12, 2020 calling for the end of the government's military actions in the northern region of Tigray. Photo by Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images In Ethiopia, the national army claims to have taken “complete control” of Mekelle, the capital …
Face mask rules: do they really violate personal liberty?: Several hundred people assembled in London’s Hyde Park in July 2020 to protest rules making face masks mandatory in shops and supermarkets to help control the spread of COVID-19. This was not an isolated event. Similar protests have occurred in many places around the world in …
Hong Kong: does British offer of citizenship to Hongkongers violate Thatcher’s deal with China?: China has reacted angrily to an offer by the UK government to allow all Hong Kong citizens with a British National (Overseas) passport the right to come and live in the UK and give them a pathway to citizenship. China alleges …
Russia doesn’t just violate international law – it follows and shapes it too: Russia is often seen as a persistent violator of international law. From recent allegations of the state-sponsored poisoning of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury to the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and from the incursion of Russian forces into Georgia in 2008 to …