In power for 16 years, Hungary’s outgoing prime minister Viktor Orbán was notorious for abusing his government’s veto power to taint the European Union’s foreign policy with the same anti-rights, ...

The Ghana Police Service occupies a very central position in maintaining public order and the protection of life and property in Ghana. In order to discharge this mandate, the police are granted ...

Human Rights Watch mourns the loss of Jimmy Carter, who made trailblazing contributions to the human rights movement during his US presidency and long afterward. Carter created a foreign policy agenda ...

Human trafficking is now a global epidemic, representing a serious infringement of human rights that impacts millions of individuals worldwide. This illicit practice exploits victims through coercion, ...

Fawzia Koofi is a former Afghan MP, the first ever female Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, and a veteran human rights advocate whose career embodies the fragile yet essential relationship ...

The law granting special powers to armed forces was upheld, but courts emphasized that such powers are not absolute.

INTRODUCTIONThe last installment of this treatise dealt with human rights vis-à-vis the Nigerian legal system focusing on its challenges as well as civic responsibility and the power of citizen action ...

United Nations member states unanimously adopted the sustainable development agenda in 2015. It aims to ensure development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of ...

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Partha Konwar is Associate Project Officer (Communications) at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable ...